10 posts tagged “qotd”
What's your motto?
Someone's always going to be unhappy with you, so you might as well prioritize being happy with yourself.
What's your middle name? Is there a story or history behind it?
Many of you already know this. My middle name is my place of conception, specifically a meadow near Lake of the Angels in the Olympic Mountains.
What's your favorite way to keep in touch? Phone, snail mail, email, text message, Vox, _____ ?
Email is still the best, although depending on communication styles IM is a close second ... with texting a near third.
Like most other nerds, I've developed a deep fear of the phone. I make my long distance friends schedule phone dates because otherwise I can't guarantee I'll want to talk to them when they call.
Funny story: once a local blogger friend confirmed a lunch date by searching google for "hey ariel meadow what time are we having lunch today?" She knew I'd see it in my referral logs (I did!) and get back to her. It was exceptionally clever.
What is your browser's default home page set to?
Submitted by Kelev T. Cat.
Gmail. It's my everything.
What's the nerdiest thing about you?
You tell me:
- I was in 4H for many years and recommend it highly for kids
- I take my sidekick into the bathroom with me just in case I get an email or text while peeing
- I encouraged guests at my anniversary campout to join my Flickr group and use a special tag to collect all our pictures from the weekend
- I once thought to myself, "What's the one concert I wish I could go to?" And my answer to myself was "RICHARD MARX!"
Without a doubt the book that had the biggest impact on my life was Changing Bodies, Changing Lives, which is basically the teenaged version of the infamous feminist book Our Bodies, Ourselves.
My mother gave me Changing Bodies, Changing Lives when I was 13, and it turned me into the most precocious, well-educated 100% virgin ever. At 14, I could tell you all about vas defrens, cowper's gland, and the clitoral hood. It would be years before I would have any opportunities to apply this knowledge, but it was awesome to be so empowered and well-educated during a time when many of my peers were still trying to figure out what was going on.
Growing up, I heard a lot of Drew Barrymore, but I think that's just body type and personality, really.
Currently, everyone's favorite seems to be Mena Suvari. I heard this most recently from a friend in LA who said, "You totally remind me of my friend Mena. YOU KNOW, MENA SUVARI."
..YOU KNOW.
Anyway, the connection is dubious, but perhaps if you squint, look at an old picture, and make it black and white, it could maybe work...we both have round faces and evil queen eyebrows, I guess. And if my friend's word is to be trusted, we're both spazzes.
PS: DO NOT MAKE FUN OF MY HAT. It was for a costume party I'd been to the night before this photo was taken. The photographer found it amusing.
Really, I'd slap it down on a bathroom remodel, but that takes more than an hour. But I think I could buy my brother-in-law's biodeisel VW Golf in less than an hour. He's selling it and I want it but hel-loooo $20k?
I'm gonna have to say J.C. Chasez's album. In case you don't know who J.C. Chasez is, he's the other member of N'Sync who released a solo album. I loved Justin Timberlake's Justified (no shame there -- ask Anil if you don't believe me!) so I figured I'd take Schizophrenic for a spin. I sort of like it, but Andreas (who has a pretty high tolerance for pop music, as long as it's well-produced) gets angry whenever a song comes up on shuffle.
The best lyrics on the album are without a doubt these: "Cause when I'm all alone/I lay awake and masturbate/I love to hear the sounds you make/Baby here I come/Baby here I come."
Update: Take a listen.
