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

[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.