Meme

[pozorvlak]

I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions. No more, no fewer. Ask me anything you want. Then I want you to go to your journal and copy-and-paste this*, allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything. I promise to answer all questions truthfully, unless there is a really good reason why not; in which case, I will say so.**

* Conversation with my flatmate the other day:

FM: [discussion of how to achieve a particular effect in XY-Pic]
Me: Well, it sounds like the kind of thing you do once and then stick in a macro and forget about.
FM: I just copy-and-paste the code each time I need it.
Me: Nononono! Copy-and-paste is EVIL! Every time you copy and paste something, God kills a kitten!
FM: Good!! I hate kittens!!!
Me: Every time you copy and paste something, God kills a tango pianist!
FM (who is a tango pianist): Good! Less competition!
Me: Every time you copy-and-paste something, the chance that you are the tango pianist who is killed increases!
FM: Hmmm, maybe I'd better use macros more.

** I've been reading Lynne Truss' Eats, Shoots and Leaves recently, and thus have re-punctuated this meme. I've no idea why I haven't read the book before: I've been a fan of Truss's since she was the television critic for The Times, which must have been about fifteen years ago. If you can, get hold of Making the Cat Laugh, which is a collection of her Listener columns.

Comments

[antoniabaker.livejournal.com]

Ours is not to reason why...

What is the maximum you would be willing to spend on a space gun which shoots foam circlets?
http://www.shushhh.co.uk/index.asp?function=DISPLAYPRODUCT&productid=306

What is your favourite brand of mineral water?

Do you feel unmanly for being able to answer that question?

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

1) For me, or the show? Er, a fiver, maybe as much as a tenner if it was really cool.
2) Whatever's cheapest. Um, if you really want a brand name, Evian is fairly cheap and has nice bottles. My approach to bottled water is to buy cheap, large bottles (1.5-2l), then re-fill them with tapwater so I've got something to drink out of. One of my kitchen cupboards is a graveyard of plastic bottles: it's useful to have lots to go hillwalking with (I've needed almost five litres before now). But there are always times when I need a drink and don't have a bottle with me, so I keep needing to buy more :-(
3) Not really: see my answer :-)

[antoniabaker.livejournal.com]

okay i'll grant you that you drink mineral water in a very manly way :-)
I'm thinkng of getting some guns but they might be to expensive to be soley for the show, but if people want them themselves they can make a contribution to them and keep them afterwards. Five pounds would be more then ample if you're up for it?

[susannahf.livejournal.com]

1) What did you have for breakfast this morning?
2) What is your purpose in life?
3) Why am I doing this instead of getting some work done?

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

1) Tea. I didn't eat anything until lunchtime, so absorbed was I in my latest book, Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141017805). For lunch, I had a couple of tuna mayonnaise sandwiches on wholegrain bread. Normally, I will have either toast, Weetabix or porridge, as the whim seizes me.
After my tea, of course.
2) The pursuit of 1337th.
3) Laziness. The desire to socialise. Internet addiction. All of the above.