15 posts tagged “qotd”
What time is your alarm clock set for? Do you use the snooze button?
My alarm is set for 7:30am.
I have never gotten up at 7:30am ever.
I hit snooze for *at least* an hour, tumble out of bed, stumble to the kitchen, make myself a cup of ambition, then head into work for 10am.
How well does your name Google? Who are you up against? (Celebrities, etc.)
Submitted by Matt Blank.
At the current moment, searching Google for "rod", I'm position number 5, behind rods.com, two wikipedia pages (A-Rod and rod) and A-Rod's page at espn.com.
I am quite proud of this fact.
What word(s) do you always make a typo in?
I have a total mental block on the name Micheal. Even trying to remember how to type it incorrectly for this post required going to Google and searching for both "Michael" and "Micheal" to see which one it would offer a spelling correction for.
I also have trouble remembering which letters need to be double in "Occassionally".
We know you never slack off at work, but if you did, what would you do?
When I worked in a library as a teenager, I discovered a very handy secret for slacking off at work: Grab a few sheets of paper, then just walk around looking concerned. Everyone assumes you're in the middle of something and leaves you alone.
What is your favorite board game?
Submitted by I'm Unique.
Not board games, but my two favourite card-games-which-require-you-to-buy-a-special-deck-of-cards are Mille Bournes (French card game based upon driving a car. No, really.) and Phase 10 (rummy on steroids).
Oh, and I quite enjoy Risk, but in my entire life, I've only once ever played it on a board with dice and stuff -- Usually, I've played on a computer, most recently in the splendid Mac OS X version iConquer.
What's your favorite heartbreak song?
Submitted by esta86.
Do You Love Me Now? by The Breeders.
A gutwrenchingly accurate capture of that emotion -- and it reminds me of my first girlfriend, who loaned me Last Splash in the first place.
You loved me before
Do you love me now?
In honor of Vox's launch tomorrow, what's your favorite feature or aspect of Vox?
I like answering the QoTD. I've tended away from "personal stuff" on my main site, because "the readership" is more likely to be non-friends interesting in links and techy stuff. (Indeed, the only really personal stuff on there is my Flickr photostream)
Having a wee hidey-hole across here to be completely self-indulgent is really quite satisfying.
How many computers do you have in your house?
Submitted by Foomper.
- smoking - Dell PC that's my Linux desktop PC. Mostly spends its day running Azureus transferring British TV shows and pre-release albums over the internet.
- blazing - Mac Mini that's my music server for SlimServer
- sputtering - Self-built file-server. A terabyte of RAID-5. Also acts as my web, mail and print server.
- raindelay - Joy's PC. A cheapy HP box running XP
- littlepapi - My work laptop. Spends most of its time here in the living room, so I can surf da web and watch TV. And, occasionally, work from home.
What are some of your favorite, forgotten albums that have stood the test of time?
Submitted by PeterGibbons.
For the porpoises of this meme, I'll define "the test of time" as albums that came out ten years ago, that I still love. It's hard for me to define "forgotten", since it's hard to know which of these were ever remembered at the time of release.
- The Boo Radleys - C'Mon Kids -- Not as commercial as the stonking chart-storming "Wake Up!", but still a great, great album.
- Menswe@r - Nuisance. They were overhyped chancers, sure, but their debut (and, apart from a Japan-only release, only) album is a superb fast blast of pure (br*t)pop.
- Drugstore - White Magic for Lovers. Gorgeous ethereal stringypop, with everyone's favourite chain-smoking Brazilian granny dwarf woman (TM Stewart Lee in Select Magazine) on lead vocals.
- Longpigs - The Sun is Often Out. Hell, I'd forgotten this until I happened upon it whilst raking through WinAmp yesterday.
Do you play any musical instruments?
The Piano. Badly.
Musical performance for me was always a rote-learning exercise. I had no feel. I just practiced, learned the technical places where my fingers should go, memorized, then played back. (I'm a similarly bad actor. I don't react to others' performances -- I just memorize what my reaction should be, and perform it at the appropriate moment.)
