39 posts tagged “qotd”
You crash your friend's car because you're driving too fast in bad weather. Everyone's okay, but the car has to go into the shop. Who pays the deductible?
I was told there would be no math.
Who's the most annoying person on TV?
What's a saying or phrase that's never made sense to you?
"im in yur X Yin' ur Z."
(See also http://twitter.com/sippey/statuses/86914852)
What kind of camera(s) do you own?
A Nikon D50 that currently has about 300 pictures from our trip to Florida on it that I need to go review and edit. And then the others are phones! My Dash and then a Nokia N73. The Nokia takes better photos than the Dash, but the Dash lets me delete my email. So that gets the SIM card most days.
What do you do while your Tivo buffers your favorite show?
Submitted by Sippey
Gee, thanks for asking! I do email. And then, right after I cross that magic 15 minute threshold, I get all antsy. Like I am right now. Like I have to stop what I'm doing right now and GO WATCH.
What's your musical horoscope? (Put your player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.)
Inspired by Stephanie.
- Spoon: Everything Hits at Once
- Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism
- The Afghan Whigs: Gentlemen
- Ben Folds: Landed
- New Pornographers: Execution Day
- Kelley Stoltz: Summer's Easy Feeling
- Talking Heads: No Compassion
- Ted Leo & The Pharmacists: Biomusicology
- Beck: O Maria
- Stars: Set Yourself on Fire
I'm unclear on how this is my "horoscope," however. Please advise.
We know you never slack off at work, but if you did, what would you do?
Nice try, Barak.
Congrats - TIME Magazine voted you "Person of the Year"! What's your acceptance speech?
"This is all Carl's fault."
What's on your Top 5 video games list?
Submitted by mileena.
1) Tempest: all time favorite. When I'm rich and famous I'm going to buy a Tempest arcade machine, since having the wheel is really the only way to play it.
2) That cartridge that Anil stuck in my GameBoy Micro and made me lose three months of my commute. The one with all those little micro three second games that come one after the other? It was awesome.
3) Riven! Grad school was all about Riven. (Is that what it was called? It was the one that was after Myst and had like four-hundred CDs.) It was more engaging than finance and macro.
4) Ms. Pac-Man. The place where my kids get their hair cut has a Ms. Pac-Man game. I catch up on my waka-waka when we're there.
5) The blogosphere! It's a game, right?
Do you listen to podcasts? Are there any you'd recommend?
Inspired by Alex.
Of course I'm sure everyone here listens to the podcasts that I've been making with authors who blog on TypePad. I don't listen to a ton, but do catch Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (The NPR News Quiz) via podcast since I can't catch it on the weekends, and last season I was listening to the Lost podcast from ABC on a regular basis... I'll listen to Merlin Mann because he talks so damn fast... I gave up on the Engadget podcast because I care less and less about gadgets (except for phones, I love phones), and there. That's enough about podcasts. You're already bored, I can tell.
