in the spirit of continuing one of my favorite tags:

i found this list of parlor-ish questions via a friend. apparently the question-writer held a party where a bunch of strangers answered/asked these of each other, which uh, sounds hella uncomfortable given the nature of some of these questions, but a lot of these would be interesting with close ( Read more... )

What's a recent trend in your field (or topic of study, or art form, or whatever) that you think is nonsense?I was thinking about this while reminiscing over an old job I had-I worked closely with a dude who'd been a DC-area public school teacher for several years before becoming a programmer, and he was comparing the latest nonsense javascript ( Read more... )

made these questions up on the spot at a gathering earlier this week, and the answers actually ended up being surprisingly fun ( Read more... )