Time for the -ologies
Yoinked from Chuck over on myspace, it's...
TECHNOLOGY
Q. Number of contacts in your cell phone?
A. 129.
Q. Number of contacts in your email address book?
A. I don't have an "address book" per se, but according to Gmail, I have sent E-mail to 406 E-mail addresses from it since 6/14/2004.
Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A. The background image on my laptop (which I'm currently using) is from the WorseThanFailure.com thread "If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times!", specifically the tiled version created by the user "Irrelevant". I used to have a hi-res image of the Enterprise (NX-01) that I got in the summer of 2001, but it was accidentally overwritten by an unrelated image. At work, my background of the moment is the cover artwork for Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Buried Age (the old version).
Q. How many televisions are in your house?
A. Total, about eight. Working, about four. Mine and working, just two.
BIOLOGY
Q. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
A. I'm dextral.
Q. Do you like your smile?
A. I rarely see my own smile, but when I do, I'm usually in a good mood. :-)
Q. What's your best feature?
A. My brain.
Q. Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
A. I've had baby teeth, wisdom teeth, the occasional splinter, and a metal pin removed from my body. Still intact are my appendix and tonsils.
Q. Which of your five senses do you think is keenest?
A. I wear glasses, have difficulty listening to somebody in a noisy area if they're facing away from me, and can't smell when it's time to change the cat litter. That leaves only taste and touch that aren't impaired, and I suppose they're about even.
Q. When was the last time you had a cavity?
A. Last year.
Q. What is the heaviest item you lifted last?
A. The heaviest item I lifted and the last item I lifted are different things, so you get two answers for this one. The last item was my cell phone, in order to count the number of entries. The heaviest was probably some piece of furniture or the other.
Q. Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
A. No.
MOUTHOLOGY
Q. What is your salad dressing of choice?
A. None. I don't eat salad.
Q. What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
A. Arby's or Popeye's Chicken.
Q. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
A. Pizza Inn.
Q. On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant?
A. Usually 15%, rounded up so that price+tip is a multiple of 25 cents. (I usually pay with a debit card at places where you pay after the meal, and I like to use round numbers where possible for ease of calculation.) Service more than about two standard deviations from average makes that percentage go up or down.
Q. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick off of?
A. Pizza.
Q. What are your pizza toppings of choice?
A. Pepperoni. Every once in a while I will have Canadian bacon, and there are a very few types of sausage pizza that I like (Tony's is one).
Q. What do you like to put on your toast?
A. Butter and cinnamon sugar.
Q. What is your favorite type of gum?
A. I rarely chew gum. When I do, it's whatever's available.
PERSONOLOGY
Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
A. At this point in my life, I'd rather not know.
Q. Is love for real?
A. It can be.
Q. If you could change your first name, what would you change it to?
A. I rather enjoy my first name, but if for some reason I were forced to change it, I suppose I might go with Rudi, which was my name in German class in high school.
Q. What color do you think looks best on you?
A. Well, a plurality of my shirts are blue, so I sure hope that looks good on me.
Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake?
A. Not that I can recall.
Q. Have you ever saved someone's life?
A. Not that I know of.
Q. Has someone ever saved yours?
A. Collectively and preventatively, I suppose several doctors have (e.g. if my 1993 broken leg hadn't been treated immediately, it might have eventually become gangrenous and killed me).
DAREOLOGY
Q. Would you walk naked for a half mile down a public street for $100,000?
A. I don't think so.
Q. Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100?
A. If he were cute. Or, come to think of it, as long as he were not too ugly. [The subjunctive "were" sounds wrong there, but I think it's required, since it's a hypothetical.] Make it $200, and I'd even kiss an ugly guy.
Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000?
A. No.
Q. Would you never blog again for $50,000?
A. I'd give it a good deal of thought.
Q. Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000?
A. I can't imagine why anyone would want to see me naked, except perhaps to make people want to scratch out their own eyes.
Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
A. No. Hot spices are of the devil.
Q. Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000?
A. Absolutely not.
Q. Would you give up watching television for a year for $25,000?
A. Hmm... most of my shows are available on-line, so I suppose I could do that. (Giving up television doesn't mean giving up computer. :-) )
DUMBOLOGY
Q: What is in your left pocket?
A: Nothing at the moment, since I take all of my pocket stuff out before I go to bed.
Q: Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie?
A: It's a fun little film, but I don't really understand why some people adore it to the extent they do.
Q: Do you have hardwood or carpet in your house?
A: Hardwood, except the master bedroom.
Q: Do you sit or stand in the shower?
A: In the shower, I stand. In the bath, I sit. I've never heard of someone sitting in the shower.
Q: Could you live with roommates?
A: Yes, and I currently do with two (or six, if you include the cats).
Q: How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
A: I own no thongs.
Q: Where were you born?
A. St. Joe's.
Q: What do you want to be when you grow up?
A: When I was a kid, I wanted to be an obstetrician. I think that only lasted a couple of years, ending shortly after my brother Doug was born. In my teenage years, I knew I wanted to do something in computers. Game programming was at one time my goal, but after talking to a friend who had worked on a few different games (including at least one of the Madden football video games), I lost a bit of interest in that particular area, preferring something less stressful.
Q: Who is number 1 on your top 8?
A: On MySpace, my brother Dan. LiveJournal doesn't have a comparable feature, since friends are listed alphabetically.
ULTIMOLOGY
Q: Last friend you talked to?
A: Joe.
Q: Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
A: At some point in the mid- to late 1980's. My parents weren't there when I got home after school, and I had forgotten my key, so I went to a neighbor's house to play with their kids. The parents called the police because they were worried about me, and a cop showed up and asked me a few questions. As far as I know, nothing ever came of it, so I guess the officer figured the situation was okay.
Q: Last person you called?
A: $Secretary at work, to let her know I was running a little late this morning.
Q: Last person you hugged?
A: Patches I. (Cats are people, too!)
Q: Last movie you saw?
A: BORДT: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
FAVORITOLOGY
Q: Number?
A: 1123.
Q: Color?
A: Blue.
Q: Season?
A: Duck. No, rabbit.
CURRENTOLOGY
Q: Missing someone?
A: Everybody I shoot at.
Q: Mood?
A: Feeling alright.
Q: Listening to?
A: The sound of the fan in my laptop, and Patches I eating her food.
Q: Watching?
A: My computer screen.
Q: Worrying about?
A: How much longer this meme is, so I can get to sleep.
RANDOMOLOGY
Q: First place you went this morning?
A: To the bathroom (don't most people?).
Q: What can you not wait to do?
A: Get back to blogging on a somewhat regular basis.
Q: Do you smile often?
A: Fairly often.
Q: Are you a friendly person?
A: I try to be, and most of the time it's an easy success.
Q: Now that the survey's done what are you going to do?
A: Finish reading my friend's list, maybe write a blog entry, then go to sleep.
davidh
TECHNOLOGY
Q. Number of contacts in your cell phone?
A. 129.
Q. Number of contacts in your email address book?
A. I don't have an "address book" per se, but according to Gmail, I have sent E-mail to 406 E-mail addresses from it since 6/14/2004.
Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A. The background image on my laptop (which I'm currently using) is from the WorseThanFailure.com thread "If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times!", specifically the tiled version created by the user "Irrelevant". I used to have a hi-res image of the Enterprise (NX-01) that I got in the summer of 2001, but it was accidentally overwritten by an unrelated image. At work, my background of the moment is the cover artwork for Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Buried Age (the old version).
Q. How many televisions are in your house?
A. Total, about eight. Working, about four. Mine and working, just two.
BIOLOGY
Q. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
A. I'm dextral.
Q. Do you like your smile?
A. I rarely see my own smile, but when I do, I'm usually in a good mood. :-)
Q. What's your best feature?
A. My brain.
Q. Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
A. I've had baby teeth, wisdom teeth, the occasional splinter, and a metal pin removed from my body. Still intact are my appendix and tonsils.
Q. Which of your five senses do you think is keenest?
A. I wear glasses, have difficulty listening to somebody in a noisy area if they're facing away from me, and can't smell when it's time to change the cat litter. That leaves only taste and touch that aren't impaired, and I suppose they're about even.
Q. When was the last time you had a cavity?
A. Last year.
Q. What is the heaviest item you lifted last?
A. The heaviest item I lifted and the last item I lifted are different things, so you get two answers for this one. The last item was my cell phone, in order to count the number of entries. The heaviest was probably some piece of furniture or the other.
Q. Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
A. No.
MOUTHOLOGY
Q. What is your salad dressing of choice?
A. None. I don't eat salad.
Q. What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
A. Arby's or Popeye's Chicken.
Q. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
A. Pizza Inn.
Q. On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant?
A. Usually 15%, rounded up so that price+tip is a multiple of 25 cents. (I usually pay with a debit card at places where you pay after the meal, and I like to use round numbers where possible for ease of calculation.) Service more than about two standard deviations from average makes that percentage go up or down.
Q. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick off of?
A. Pizza.
Q. What are your pizza toppings of choice?
A. Pepperoni. Every once in a while I will have Canadian bacon, and there are a very few types of sausage pizza that I like (Tony's is one).
Q. What do you like to put on your toast?
A. Butter and cinnamon sugar.
Q. What is your favorite type of gum?
A. I rarely chew gum. When I do, it's whatever's available.
PERSONOLOGY
Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
A. At this point in my life, I'd rather not know.
Q. Is love for real?
A. It can be.
Q. If you could change your first name, what would you change it to?
A. I rather enjoy my first name, but if for some reason I were forced to change it, I suppose I might go with Rudi, which was my name in German class in high school.
Q. What color do you think looks best on you?
A. Well, a plurality of my shirts are blue, so I sure hope that looks good on me.
Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake?
A. Not that I can recall.
Q. Have you ever saved someone's life?
A. Not that I know of.
Q. Has someone ever saved yours?
A. Collectively and preventatively, I suppose several doctors have (e.g. if my 1993 broken leg hadn't been treated immediately, it might have eventually become gangrenous and killed me).
DAREOLOGY
Q. Would you walk naked for a half mile down a public street for $100,000?
A. I don't think so.
Q. Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100?
A. If he were cute. Or, come to think of it, as long as he were not too ugly. [The subjunctive "were" sounds wrong there, but I think it's required, since it's a hypothetical.] Make it $200, and I'd even kiss an ugly guy.
Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000?
A. No.
Q. Would you never blog again for $50,000?
A. I'd give it a good deal of thought.
Q. Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000?
A. I can't imagine why anyone would want to see me naked, except perhaps to make people want to scratch out their own eyes.
Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
A. No. Hot spices are of the devil.
Q. Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000?
A. Absolutely not.
Q. Would you give up watching television for a year for $25,000?
A. Hmm... most of my shows are available on-line, so I suppose I could do that. (Giving up television doesn't mean giving up computer. :-) )
DUMBOLOGY
Q: What is in your left pocket?
A: Nothing at the moment, since I take all of my pocket stuff out before I go to bed.
Q: Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie?
A: It's a fun little film, but I don't really understand why some people adore it to the extent they do.
Q: Do you have hardwood or carpet in your house?
A: Hardwood, except the master bedroom.
Q: Do you sit or stand in the shower?
A: In the shower, I stand. In the bath, I sit. I've never heard of someone sitting in the shower.
Q: Could you live with roommates?
A: Yes, and I currently do with two (or six, if you include the cats).
Q: How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
A: I own no thongs.
Q: Where were you born?
A. St. Joe's.
Q: What do you want to be when you grow up?
A: When I was a kid, I wanted to be an obstetrician. I think that only lasted a couple of years, ending shortly after my brother Doug was born. In my teenage years, I knew I wanted to do something in computers. Game programming was at one time my goal, but after talking to a friend who had worked on a few different games (including at least one of the Madden football video games), I lost a bit of interest in that particular area, preferring something less stressful.
Q: Who is number 1 on your top 8?
A: On MySpace, my brother Dan. LiveJournal doesn't have a comparable feature, since friends are listed alphabetically.
ULTIMOLOGY
Q: Last friend you talked to?
A: Joe.
Q: Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
A: At some point in the mid- to late 1980's. My parents weren't there when I got home after school, and I had forgotten my key, so I went to a neighbor's house to play with their kids. The parents called the police because they were worried about me, and a cop showed up and asked me a few questions. As far as I know, nothing ever came of it, so I guess the officer figured the situation was okay.
Q: Last person you called?
A: $Secretary at work, to let her know I was running a little late this morning.
Q: Last person you hugged?
A: Patches I. (Cats are people, too!)
Q: Last movie you saw?
A: BORДT: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
FAVORITOLOGY
Q: Number?
A: 1123.
Q: Color?
A: Blue.
Q: Season?
A: Duck. No, rabbit.
CURRENTOLOGY
Q: Missing someone?
A: Everybody I shoot at.
Q: Mood?
A: Feeling alright.
Q: Listening to?
A: The sound of the fan in my laptop, and Patches I eating her food.
Q: Watching?
A: My computer screen.
Q: Worrying about?
A: How much longer this meme is, so I can get to sleep.
RANDOMOLOGY
Q: First place you went this morning?
A: To the bathroom (don't most people?).
Q: What can you not wait to do?
A: Get back to blogging on a somewhat regular basis.
Q: Do you smile often?
A: Fairly often.
Q: Are you a friendly person?
A: I try to be, and most of the time it's an easy success.
Q: Now that the survey's done what are you going to do?
A: Finish reading my friend's list, maybe write a blog entry, then go to sleep.
davidh