{"id":591,"date":"2004-06-17T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-17T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=591"},"modified":"2004-06-17T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-17T19:03:00","slug":"many-trivial-questions-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Many Trivial Questions Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <font COLOR=\"#990000\">many-trivial-questions meme<\/font>, snarfed from<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/aliza250.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">aliza250<\/a>, who snarfed it from <lj user=\"lonebear\", and worked on during digressions during\n\t\ta telecon. Some questions have been omitted, simply because I didn't feel they\n\t\twere appropriate for a public context. <\/p>\n<p><!--more [The Gory Details]--><\/p>\n<p>About Me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Name:<\/i> Daniel Faigin<\/li>\n<li><i>Birthplace:<\/i> Los Angeles vicinity, Calif., USA. I&#8217;m a native Californian, and proud of it!<\/li>\n<li><i>Current Loc<\/i>: Work near the airport, live in the San Fernando Valley, Calif.,<br \/>\n\t\t  USA<\/li>\n<li><i>Height:<\/i> Just right, but getting shorter as I get older<\/li>\n<li><i>Handed:<\/i> Left <\/li>\n<li><i>Heritage:<\/i> Eastern European Jewish (Pale of Settlement<br \/>\n\t\t  (Vitebsk), Odessa), plus a little bit of Alsace-Lorraine, France<\/li>\n<li><i>Nationality:<\/i> US citizen<\/li>\n<li><i>Profession:<\/i> Computer Security specialist. See my<br \/>\n\t\t  <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.cahighways.org\/aboutme\/resume.html\">resume<\/a> for<br \/>\n\t\t  specifics.<\/li>\n<li><i>Weaknesses:<\/i> I&#8217;m lazy, impatient, and have excessive<br \/>\n\t\t  hubris.<\/li>\n<li><i>Strengths:<\/i> I&#8217;m lazy, impatient, and have excessive hubris. Let<br \/>\n\t\t  me explain. <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.wall.org\/\">Larry Wall<\/a> has often said that<br \/>\n\t\t  the<br \/>\n\t\t  <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.maths.adelaide.edu.au\/~cmc\/tutorials\/perlintro\/x175.html\">best<br \/>\n\t\t  properties of a programmer<\/a> are laziness, impatience, and excessive hubris.\n\t\t  <\/li>\n<li><i>Fears:<\/i> Not being listened to; always being &#8220;outside&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><i>Perfect Pizza:<\/i> Chicken, spinach, and good feta cheese. Either<br \/>\n\t\t  that, or a simple thin-crust cheese pizza, so hot that the cheese actually<br \/>\n\t\t  slides off as you eat it. <\/li>\n<li><i>Goals:<\/i> Happy at work, happy at home. A good life for my<br \/>\n\t\t  daughter.<\/li>\n<li><i>Bedtime:<\/i> (sheepishly) between 10:00 <font SIZE=\"-1\">PM<\/font><br \/>\n\t\t  and 12:00 <font SIZE=\"-1\">AM<\/font>. I don&#8217;t get enough sleep, I&#8217;m sure.<\/li>\n<li><i>First thought on waking up:<\/i> Is it already 4:50 <font SIZE=\"-1\">AM<\/font> (I normally get up at 4:50 <font SIZE=\"-1\">AM<\/font>; when<br \/>\n\t\t  I sleep in, I sleep to 6:30 <font SIZE=\"-1\">AM<\/font>)<\/li>\n<li><i>Best Physical Feature:<\/i> I&#8217;m a guy&#151;don&#8217;t ask me :-). I&#8217;m<br \/>\n\t\t  sure my wife has some opinions.<\/li>\n<li><i>Most Missed Memory:<\/i> My childhood. Seriously. I really don&#8217;t<br \/>\n\t\t  remember much before the age of 12<i><sup>ish<\/sup><\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Preferences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Pepsi or Coke:<\/i> Kosher L&#8217;Pesach Coke, i.e., no high-fructose<br \/>\n\t\t  corn syrup.<\/li>\n<li><i>McDonald&#8217;s or Burger King:<\/i> Feh.<br \/>\n\t\t  <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.inandout.com\/\">In-N-Out Burger<\/a> rocks.<\/li>\n<li><i>Adidas or Nike<\/i>: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newbalance.com\/\">New<br \/>\n\t\t  Balance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i>Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea:<\/i> Feh! Give me real tea. Iced<br \/>\n\t\t  Darjeeling. <\/li>\n<li><i>Chocolate or vanilla:<\/i> Chocolate, dark.<\/li>\n<li><i>Cappuccino or coffee:<\/i> Feh! Coffee belongs only in ice cream or<br \/>\n\t\t  covered in dark chocolate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you&#133;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Cuss:<\/i> When appropriate.<\/li>\n<li><i>Sing:<\/i> When the mood strikes me. For certain albums I can&#8217;t<br \/>\n\t\t  help myself: <i>Hairspray<\/i>, <i>Two Gentlemen of Verona<\/i>, most Jewish<br \/>\n\t\t  music, <i>Peter, Paul, and Mary<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li><i>Do you think you&#8217;ve been in love:<\/i> Yes. I&#8217;ll note that the<br \/>\n\t\t  style of love changes as you get into a relationship. I&#8217;ve experienced the<br \/>\n\t\t  gamut, from crushes to a mature, enduring love and respect.<\/li>\n<li><i>Want to get married:<\/i> OBE, since 1985!<\/li>\n<li><i>Get motion sickness:<\/i> Rarely. Once on really choppy seas<br \/>\n\t\t  between San Pedro and Catalina.<\/li>\n<li><i>Think you&#8217;re attractive:<\/i> Some days, but there&#8217;s too much grey<br \/>\n\t\t  in my beard, and too much air in the spare tire.<\/li>\n<li><i>Think you&#8217;re a health freak:<\/i> No. I need to get back up to the<br \/>\n\t\t  <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nvymca.org\/\">YMCA<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><i>Get along with your parents:<\/i> My dad, yes. My mom&#151;well, we<br \/>\n\t\t  had our differences.<\/li>\n<li><i>Like thunderstorms:<\/i> Sometimes, but usually not.<\/li>\n<li><i>Play an instrument:<\/i> I play the Cassette Recorder \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the past month&#133;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Drank alcohol:<\/i> Nope, other than a little on Shabbat. When I drink<br \/>\n\t\t  too much, I talk more. This is not a good thing.<\/li>\n<li><i>Smoked:<\/i> Hell no.<\/li>\n<li><i> Done a drug:<\/i> Prescriptions and OTC only.<\/li>\n<li><i>Gone to the mall:<\/i> Yup. Bought lots of windows, and camp stuff<br \/>\n\t\t  for small and feisty.<\/li>\n<li><i>Eaten an entire box of Oreos:<\/i> No. <\/li>\n<li><i>Eaten sushi:<\/i> Yes, although alas it was from Trader Joes, as<br \/>\n\t\t  opposed to a real sushi place. I&#8217;m up for an expedition, tho&#133;<\/li>\n<li><i>Been on stage:<\/i> No. <\/li>\n<li><i>Been dumped:<\/i> Well, I&#8217;ve view <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/cahwyguy\/14340.html\">how the congregation is treating<br \/>\n\t\t  me<\/a> as dumping.<\/li>\n<li><i>Gone skinny dipping:<\/i> No<\/li>\n<li><i>Stolen anything:<\/i> No.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ever&#133;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Been trashed or extremely intoxicated:<\/i> No. <\/li>\n<li><i>Gotten beaten up:<\/i> Not really, although I was teased as a<br \/>\n\t\t  child.<\/li>\n<li><i>Changed who you were to fit in:<\/i> Probably, but it never worked<br \/>\n\t\t  so I gave up.<\/li>\n<li><i>Numbers and Names of Children:<\/i> One, currently 9&frac12;. I<br \/>\n\t\t  avoid plastering her name over the net, so she is variously referred to as<br \/>\n\t\t  <i>Small and Feisty (S&amp;F)<\/i> or <i>bitlet<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li><i>Describe your Dream Wedding:<\/i> Close to what we actually had,<br \/>\n\t\t  except without the discord between my mom and my wife.<\/li>\n<li><i>How do you want to die:<\/i> Painlessly, after leaving a full and<br \/>\n\t\t  good life. I want a lot of folks at my funeral, demonstrating that my life<br \/>\n\t\t  touched a lot of people in a good way (i.e., they&#8217;re not just there to make<br \/>\n\t\t  sure I&#8217;m actually gone).<\/li>\n<li><i>What do you want to be when you grow up:<\/i> Do I have to?<\/li>\n<li><i>Country would you most like to visit:<\/i> Australia. I&#8217;ve been to<br \/>\n\t\t  Israel and England, and would like to go back. I&#8217;d also like to see parts of<br \/>\n\t\t  Europe. I&#8217;m less interested in visiting Asia. Of course, there&#8217;s just so much to see<br \/>\n\t\t  here in America it&#8217;s amazing. Think about it: if you visit one state a year, it<br \/>\n\t\t  would take 50 years (OK, so it doesn&#8217;t take long to visit Rhode Island).<\/li>\n<li><i>Number of people I could trust with my life:<\/i> Don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;d<br \/>\n\t\t  hope 10-12.<\/li>\n<li><i>Number of CDs that I own:<\/i> Certainly over <strike>300<\/strike> 600, basically<br \/>\n\t\t  breaking down into musicals, folk, pop, Jewish music, jazz, and comedy.<\/li>\n<li><i>Number of piercings:<\/i> 0<\/li>\n<li><i>Number of tattoos:<\/i> 0<\/li>\n<li><i>Number of scars on my body:<\/i> A few minor ones. I&#8217;ve had no<br \/>\n\t\t  major surgery.<\/li>\n<li><i>Hospitalizations:<\/i> none. <\/li>\n<li><i>Number of things in my past that I regret:<\/i> Not getting to know<br \/>\n\t\t  my brother better. Other than that, I can&#8217;t regret too much, for things were<br \/>\n\t\t  different, I wouldn&#8217;t be where I am now.<\/li>\n<li><i>Last movie seen:<\/i> Harry Potter 3.<\/li>\n<li><i>Last book read:<\/i> <i>No Phule Like an Old Phule<\/i>, Robert<br \/>\n\t\t  Asprin<\/li>\n<li><i>Daily jewelry:<\/i> wedding ring, wrist or pocket watch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A many-trivial-questions meme, snarfed from aliza250, who snarfed it from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes","category-lj-xfer","tag-memes-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}