23 posts tagged “qotd”
What was your very first job?
Submitted by Laurel.
I was a stockboy at some upscale clothier in my hometown. After school I would go and sort shirts, count inventory, make sure everything on the floor was in order.
Only two interesting things about that job: one, that I was such a goober when I applied for it -- I was a fifteen year old trying to stock shelves -- that I wore a tie and borrowed my dad's cell phone for the interview (in 1991). Two, that I eventually grew to hate it, and straight out of Office Space just stopped going. That lasted a week or two before I got busted.
Oh well.
i can say almost universally that i went to school with them. there are two people from high school and before whom i suppose i met more through church, and otherwise they are all from school connections.
What's the most memorable building you've lived in?
Submitted by Shelly.
That would have to be the Barn, an actual barn that my dad redid into a house. I lived there until I was about 7 1/2. It was a huge, open space and had an amazing amount of property around it, including a lake.
I'm trying to get back to posting here, since it's been a little while. I had mad computer issues but I think they've been resolved permanently, so now I just need to get a routine working and I can begin posting here again. But the A's are in the playoffs and all the games start at ten in the morning, so it's hard to get into the flow when I have to help my team.
What books are on your nightstand?
If I get through all three of these before Christmas, I'm an all-star.
Remember sniglets? Do you have any favorites? Have you ever made up your own word? (Now's as good a time as any.)
Querple. It means to actively not want to do something, and was formed because: 1) a friend and I tired of having to be so negative every time we were trying to express an idea, and 2) allegedly, nothing else rhymes with purple. I querple finishing this chore, but mom says I have to if I want to go out tonight.
What's the nerdiest thing about you?
Hmmm....
I get geeked out over opportunities to excel in proofreading?
That little tingle of satisfaction from emailing people relevant matters?
Fantasy sports spreadhseets?
Of the people I hang out with on a regular basis, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who's ever owned a domain name (or five?)
What magazines do you subscribe to, and why?
Esquire. Some would accuse me of metrosexual inclinations with this, but it really comes down to three things. The first is the monthly series (plus annual special issue) of What I've Learned, which is an interview with someone relatively famous and old about what they've learned in their lives. Occasionally cheesy, but really good. Next is the Chuck Klosterman column - he's one of my favorite writers and well worth the $7.99 annual subscription price alone. Third is the Funny Joke from a Beautiful Woman/10 Things Women Don't Want You to Know, cause I loves me some gratuitous partial nudity.
Wired. When I first read Wired I was amazed, it felt like I was reading the future. It doesn't do that for me anymore, but I do still read some cool stuff in there, and every once in a while they blow my mind still. Do you know we're less than two years away from commercial space flights (if you have $250K to spare)? I do, because I read Wired. You do, because you read me. Count on me keeping up the pace?
ESPN. I pay for Insider access on the website, and the Mag comes with it. If they'd let me pay $30 and drop the mag, I'd do it in a second. I don't have as much time for this stuff as I used to.
In the near future I expect I'll subscribe to Business 2.0 and maybe Inc, but not yet.
I don't subscribe to Vanity Fair or GQ, but I would like to; I often find amazing articles in there. I don't think I'll ever board the Rolling Stone again. I steal Time and Newsweek from friends or airplanes but there's no way I'd subscribe to that nonsense, which takes lack of objectivity to new heights. All I ever really liked about them were the political cartoons and statements taken out of context.
If you had a band, what would you call yourselves?
Gil 'Fuckin' Peternortonhowe, now that that idea's been presented to me.
What's your cell phone's ringtone? What made you pick it?
a selection from Air's Alpha Beta Gaga. My buddy Sebelius (read his taxi-driver story, it's one of my personal favorites. Brick killed a guy!) likes to fiddle around with making ring tones out of songs and made it for me; I like the tone and the fact that it doesn't sound like any of the other ringtones I had on the phone, and some people will recognize it from time to time which makes me feel cool. Cause if I'm not about cheap recognition, I don't know what I'm about.
