random questions

[cellio]

Via _subdivisions_:
1. What’s one thing that made you happy today?
After spending hours on porting item #1 to our new software version, item #2 took about 15 minutes. Yay for learning curves! (Ok, also bug fixes -- it's a pre-release version. :-) )
2. What’s one thing that drove you crazy today?
Having my Mac seize an audio CD and refuse to eject. 45

Comments

[cellio]

No little paperclip-supporting holes on a Mac Mini, no. I looked. :-)

#3 was "what is your favorite monster movie".

[unique_name_123]

>(Number 3 was redacted for complete irrelevance.)

Unlike the rest of the meme? ;-)

(#3 was "what is your favorite monster movie?")

[cellio]

Unlike the rest of the meme? ;-)

In mathematics there is the notion of degrees of infinity -- while anything that is infinite should by rights be in the same bucket, you'd probably agree that the set of numbers is "more infinite" than the set of numbers divisible by 2, for instance. It's something like that: at some level the questions are all irrelevant, but a question about a genre of movie I don't watch at all is even more irrelevant. :-) (I mean, I don't think they meant, say, Silence of the Lambs when they said monsters, though that villian is scarier than Godzilla...)

Picking at Nits....

[dragonazure]

I think Silence of the Lambs is designated as a "thriller" as opposed to a "monster movie", but I think the definition could be stretched a bit to fit in the answer block.

"Monster movies" are usually a subclass of horror movies in general, but some comedies incorporate monsters, and you could stretch the definition to include those instead.

E.g., Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein, Love at First Bite, Ghostbusters, Scooby Doo, and Monsters vs. Aliens.

And playing off a later question, a lot of Muppets are considered "monsters"....

Re: Picking at Nits....

[cellio]

Oh, I hadn't considered humorous monster movies. Good catch!

(And to correct my own nit before someone else does: where I wrote "divisible by 2" please read "evenly divisible by 2". Or for "number" read "integer"; your choice. :-) )

[browngirl]

I always liked Oscar for his forthrightness. :)

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[cellio]

Yeah, exactly -- you don't have to guess where you stand with him or worry about nuance. I appreciate that. :-)