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Treachery…I mean tagging is afoot!
July 7th, 2007 • 5 comments chatter, meme
Seems I’m victim of this new meme and I’ve been tagged by toomanytribbles.
* we have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
* players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
* people who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
* at the end of your blog post, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
* don’t forget to leave them each a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
1. In my massive DVD collection, it’s quite obvious I rarely buy mainstream movies. I suppose I have about 30 DVDs of random mainstream movies and then everything else. The biggest space hogs in my rack? Campy horror and anime.
2. I have a nice collection of rare vinyl records and I own no turntable to play them on.
3. I made my first website in 1995 (on Geocities!) and have been blogging for 7 years. Back when it was just called “writing”.
4. I have been using IRC since 1995. Since then, I’ve taken up residence in two channels on EFnet for almost 8 years now. Out of roughly 40 regulars, I’ve only met one of them in real life. On the Binrev IRC network where I’ve been for 3 years, out of the roughly 30 regulars, I’ve met about 10 of them and drink with one of them regularly.
5. I met my girlfriend on a college-oriented community web site a little over 6 years ago. The site, and its functions, were a precursor to social networking as we know it today.
6. I remember when Firefox was called Phoenix. Slightly related, I also remember when the Mozilla “suite” was just the Mozilla browser and did not need a preloader just for it to quickly.
7. The longest I’ve ever been awake, continuously, was 108 hours (or 109, I really forget which) during my 2nd semester in college.
8. I love listening to Paris Hilton’s CD because it is so horribly bad.
I don’t know 8 bloggers who haven’t been hit by this yet so I’ll list the ones I know have not:
phreaknurse
verbal
Shalini (OK so maybe she’s done this already but frankly, he blog is the only one in my feed reader that I read, post-for-post every time. If I don’t check my feed reader for 3 weeks, hers is the only thing I do not “mark all as read”)
rightcoast
Culled from the Atheist Blogroll:
Inkblot Icon
One Fewer God
Strong Atheist
CHADMAC
What does your coffee mug say about you?
Reading through my feeds tonight, PZ had a post about his coffee mugs and what they may say about him which was inspired by his fellow Scibling David Ng‘s post about the same thing. David posited three simple questions about your mug:
1. Can you show us your coffee cup?
2. Can you comment on it? Do you think it reflects on your personality?
3. Do you have any interesting anecdotes resulting from coffee cup commentary?
3. Can you try to get others to comment on it?
(I believe the second #3 is either supposed to be #3b or #4)
So, what’s my mug? It’s a Starbucks 16oz write-on tumbler in the fashion of their paper cups:
This is my 4th tumbler from Starbucks and is the second one like this I’ve actually bought. I broke the first one by first giving it a nice drop kick in the dark when I dropped it and mistook it for a cat — no, I wasn’t trying to kick my cats — and I also dropped the top and broke its sealing arm. Does it reflect on my personality? I don’t really think so. If it spoke of my personality, it’d simply say that I’m a herd-following coffee guzzler that’s “hip” and likes to be in the “third place” according to Starbucks. Those who know me know that I’m anything but a herd follower and much prefer to do my own thing. I think the cup simply reflects on my fondness of convenience of coffee. For #3a, I’ve had quite a few comments made about the cup. A spry barista at Town Center’s new Starbucks commented on how “cute” and “awesome” it was that I had my order written on the cup, ready for them to prepare. She doesn’t realize that I got it because I’m tired of people mucking up what I want and prefer a more streamlined experience of getting my coffee. Most baristas love the fact that they don’t have to hear my psychobabble about my order and then have to transcribe it to their own shorthand. Now, there’s an easy formula for them to follow written right there: SFV S L (and I wrote Grande at the top so they know what size it is after being asked about 15 times “Is that a venti?”). This too makes it easier for them to ring me up although, most still get the price wrong. Down here, it’s $4.10 after tax and the paltry $0.10 cup discount. I only get $0.10 for trying to save the environment!?
As for others commenting on it, I get lots of looks at the local Starbucks from patrons and workers alike. Many people still comment on the “cool” aspect of having a cup that looks just like the regular cups. Shocking! I just like having an always available cup for whenever I want coffee, whether it’s at my office or out on the town.