11 posts tagged “qotd”
For those of you who don't also browse around in my neighborhood, do go read AmyH's good Dad story :-)
Now, for my Dad, if you had a Vox, you could tell the story about my reaction to not being allowed to have bubble-gum ice cream ;-)
How do you eat your pizza: folded, flat or with a fork and knife?
Submitted by danimass.
Knife and fork. With sauce on the side, 'cause the MO is allergic to tomatoes. (Can you even imagine? It still astounds me.) And what's with this folded thing? I just saw some commercial on tv claiming you should fold your pizza. That sounds totally lame. Pizza crust is suppose to have substance. It's bread, after all! Sustenance! You know, loaves and fishes and stuff.... Practically its own food group, almost in the same league as beer. You wouldn't fold your beer, would you? Well, enough said.
[Okay, yeah, that made no sense. So sue me. Go write your own damn blog posts.]
What's your musical horoscope? (Put your music player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.) Inspired by Stephanie.
What's your motto?
"All that glitters is good."
And it's even true ;-)
What was the last game you played?
That would have to be Settlers. And I almost won, dammit, on my birthday, dammit, but I was a bit too tipsy, dammit, so the MO pulled it out, dammit, and ridiculed me the whole time for holding a victory point in my hand, dammit. I sure could use a poker face....
What was (or is) your favorite subject in school?
Oh, this is an easy one. Math, hands down. I was the dork who did all the geometry problems instead of just the even or odd ones that were assigned. I skipped ahead in my algebra book. Sailed through calculus. Picked my major in college based on which engineering discipline had the most interesting-looking math classes (Industrial, that would be).
I did get sidelined by programming, though, although I don't remember really loving it til grad school. Seems to me that math and programming are really similar, though. Logical steps, breaking big problems down into little problems, nifty tricks here and there.... Being neat and tidy helps, too, although that trait doesn't necessarily carry over into the physical world, as the MO and my officemates will attest.
And the fact that the MO was a math major and actually really understands the esoteric stuff and routinely uses integrals and derivatives in his daily job? Sexy. Very sexy....
If you could be on any reality TV show, which one would you pick and why?
Oooh, not I, I am afraid of the camera (otherwise What Not To Wear would be a shoe-in ;-) but I think the Mad Oilman could kick butt in Hell's Kitchen....
Soda? Cola? Pop? What do you say? Any other regional words that set you apart?
Question submitted by Gladys.
"Coke" which means any non-alcoholic carbonated beverage. Then, if necessary, you qualify with "diet" or "sprite" or whatever. Pepsi need not apply.
What's the most extreme weather you've been in? A memorable storm? Heat wave? Or something else?
Hurricane David travelled right across Jupiter, FL, when I was in 7th (?) grade. We filled the bathtubs with water and put plywood on the windows and just waited. I don't really recall much about the storm itself. I remember hearing that other neighborhoods had so much water that people were going about in canoes, and I was disappointed that didn't happen near our house. (It's wonderful to be a kid ;-) We did go outside as the eye of the storm passed over, and that was a neat, if eerie, experience.
Apparently I also read some stupid essay that I wrote about hurricanes for local tv. My parents insist it happened, although that memory (along with most of the rest of middle & high school ;-) is so deeply repressed that I couldn't really say that I remember it.
