Yeah, I haven't used this blog in forever. Here's a cat picture from my Centro.
What is your favorite ring tone?
Submitted by rach.
My favorite ring tone is the one I'm using right now - the opening 30 seconds or so from the Charlatans (UK) tune "Weirdo". It has an awesome build up effect from organs to a beat to guitars that gradually grabs more attention, and sounds a bit like James Bond.
My second favorite has been covered by Joi Ito.
What is your favorite board game?
Submitted by I'm Unique.
Candyland? No, um, does Connect Four count? Growing up I adored Scotland Yard but it turns out to be less fun once you've grown out of the indulged age that lets one demand to always be "Mr X".
In honor of Vox's launch tomorrow, what's your favorite feature or aspect of Vox?
In addition to the lovely big editor fonts, QoTD has had me writing more personal blog posts than anything else this year. It's fantastic inspiration on tap. All the design and photo/video sharing and social networking is very nice, but QoTD is the perfect example of how a really simple and technically trivial feature can make all the difference. I'd be fascinated to see what percentage of Vox blog posts are QoTD-derived; I'd guess that it's significant.
If you could watch any movie on the big screen right at this moment, what would it be?
Can I pick a trilogy? What am I saying - this is my blog, sure I can.
I pick the entire Indiana Jones trilogy. Man, I'd love to see that whole thing, back to back, in a really nice venue. And by really nice, I mean one of those theaters with tables and beer and food, and a big screen, and a nice sound system.
So, hopping from a bus today at my stop, I managed to rupture an achilles tendon. Hurts like a bitch, and it's going to need surgery ASAP. Until then, I can't walk, and have a splint on my leg as a souvenier from the emergency room. And now the WoW servers are down.
I am not happy.
What are your personal memories of September 11th?
I was staying with my friends Gayle & Lev in Portland, Oregon. Another friend was in town, and she came over to spend the night. Lev woke us up, calmly telling us that terrorists had crashed planes into the World Trade Center. I was still trying to work out if this was some weird joke when I turned to my friend to see her in tears.
There was much mailing, and seeing the net and various mailing lists go nuts, and I posted a really long message to one of them. I watched the TV with the others in the house. I tried to work out what would happen next.
The following day I had been due to fly to San Francisco, and back to London a day or two after. Instead, Quinn (who was also around, and also had to get back to SF) and I hired a car and had a post-apocalyptic roadtrip southwards. I'm certain that I saw a passenger jet fly past us at one point.
What are your personal memories of September 11th?
Car accident on the way to work, morning of. Startling, but not very damaging, triple rear-end at a light as the plane strikes were announced. Turning back around, 3/4 of the way to work, everyone sent home. Sitting at home somewhat shaken from everything, hearing from my cousin in the Air Force stationed in Japan. Messaging with LiveJournal friends, all scared. Walking from my apartment to downtown Ann Arbor, to get a drink amongst others, and watch the TV - something I never do. No contrails in the sky. Eerily quiet.
Today? I'm done being scared, and I'm pissed and defiant. The terrorists are pathetic. Our government is pathetic. More dead and wounded now than hurt and killed in the towers. Less safe than ever before. Hated too. Fuckers, all of them. I'd rather we'd showered the world with as many dollar bills as we've spent on bombs. Drained the swamps. Mended the wounds. Fed the hungry. Become beloved in the world. Too late for that now?
If you were about to spend the day browsing through YouTube for Muppets vids, good news! I've saved you the bother and done all the tedious grunt work to find the five best. Don't ask why. Yay!
Now, you may disagree over my choices, but only if you provide linked counter-arguments. Then, EVERYBODY wins! Yay!
How many places have you lived in your life?
Hendon, Hendon, Jerusalem, Hendon, San Francisco, Hendon, Finchley, Palo Alto, Chalk Farm. With a bit of luck, in a month's time: San Francisco again.
