6 posts tagged “qotd”
Have you ever Googled your own name? How did you feel about the results?
Submitted by elen.
I have googled my name. There is usually no/1 other people/person with my name who pops up, other then me. Which is funny, because I'm certainly related to a few. Most of the lnks and me and are convention related, which isn't surprising really.
Ha! Just looked again and there is a limerick, and really I'm sure people could think it was me but, wasn't while written by someone with my name. Everything else on the first page of results is me and all but one is concom/guest related (which is that I was nominated for a Sam for 'When Winter's Past' at Dixseption, which makes me all warm and fuzzy thinking about.
Looking at the second page the is one other person with my name, and one with my name contained in theirs that aren't me and lots of separated things, along with me a bit. This really appears to be it.
Yet I keep getting told a relation with my name is published under it. Ho hum.
What song or lyrics are stuck in your head at the moment? What album is it from?
Submitted by Lox Ly.
Well, as I have just completed watching season 2 of "Veronica Mars" I have currently got the song "Veronica" by Elvis Costello according to wp co-written with Paul McCartney. This song is played twice over the series, that I noticed, in kareoke and at a party. It's obvious why they put it in, and it's a fun song.
Randomly searching for it I found the/a video for it:
What was (or is) your favorite subject in school?
When I was in primary school I loved Maths, and English. For different reasons, but they were both brilliant. Secondary school I pretty much liked the same - although I really enjoyed Drama too, despite some bad drama experience and chemistry rocked, for the most part. DT was good for the brief while we did it. I made a clock!
I stopped being able to enjoy maths about halfway through secondary though, but English was still good.
Now I'm doing only English, Philosophy and Politics, and I genuinely enjoy all three subjects, and stragely now English is probably my least favourite. The problem now is that I really to decide on what I want to study and uni. For a good while I've been thinking about doing an English and Politics joint honours degree, but I don't know whether I could go to a good place and if that would be the right thing for me at all.
I've been looking at universities and degrees but I'm still lost. however much I enjoy English, I'm just not that great at the work. And I really ewnjoy Politics, but an entire degree in it would probably be too much. I don't really have any clue what else I could do that would really be interesting to me - and that's important, I have to be interested, otherwise I just won't do anything, and what's the point in that?
I've probably also become stuck on things I've done before, but I don't have much of a basis for many other things.
Hopefully, I will figure something out Real Soon Now, and until then, I guess I'll go back to the prospectuses (prospecti?).
:)
What was the first movie you remember seeing in a movie theater?
Question submitted by mainmor.
Well, I vaguely remember getting four of us in the back seat in order to see The Lion King when I was quite young, but this might just be a story I remember, and may not have even been that film.
That is my only real memory of cinema before I moved to Qatar. I remember the cinema very clearly. I'm pretty sure that in the two years I lived there they only showed about two films, one of which I believe was Space Jam. The one that I really remember first was that classic, The Brady Bunch Movie.
I remember the seats and being really near the back with my sister, even though we were quite possibly the only people there. I don't think I remember all that much of te film from then because I've seen it many times since and so my memories of the actual plot are probably more recent. Although thinking about it, Jan's single curler might be something I still rmember from then.
Having an older sister who was oh-so-brilliant sister, I did quite empathise with her plight. Plus, her name scans to 'Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.'
The attitude to films there was interesting. There weren't any real copyright laws there at the time, so the rental shop was full of copies, and so not bothering to give the films back was not much of a big deal. I know we certainly took We're Back (a classic film) and we meant to take Camp Nowhere, although we never got around to that. That was quite possibly the best film ever!
This, especially my first proper cinema experience, probably says a lot about me, but I'm not sure if it is good or bad...
Do you have any tattoos? If not, if you were going to get inked, what would you get?
Whenever the subject of tattoos comes up I always remember something my friend Dave once said. 'I wouldn't want to live in a bedroom decorated 20 years ago, so why would I want to live in a body that was?' That's really the main problem. If I really truly decided I wanted a tattoo, I would have to believe I would continue wanting it just as much in 30 years, and I doubt that will happen.
The only thing I've ever really wanted was the dragon design on a top I used to have. If was a chinese style dragon that I thought was very cool. I wouldn't want that now though, because it never actually meant anything to me anyway.
Besides, the way skin moves around you never know how such things will become distorted, anyway.
What are your favorite and least favorite words? Any reasons why?
Question submitted by Byrne.
This is normally, I think, a question I could answer easily. I'm sure I have in the past. I tend to like some words for the sound - I like serendipity both for sound and mean, for example, but while I like the word serenity for meaning and connections I am not a big fan of the actual word.
I frequently don't like short 'harsh-sounding' words. I think I would dislike the word fat whatever it meant. There are certainly some times where I do like such words though, but I cannot think of any at present.
Defenestration is an awesome word because mainly of it's meaning, and I like a lot of words of it's sort. English is really quite an impressively complicated language, and I'm very glad I'm not attempting to learn it, but I do love examining the intricacies of it.
There are I'm sure many other words/sorts of words I do like or dislike, but that's all for now :)
