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1. What’s one thing that made you happy today?
After spending hours on porting item #1 to our new software version, item #2 took about 15 minutes. Yay for learning curves! (Ok, also bug fixes -- it's a pre-release version. :-) )
2. What’s one thing that drove you crazy today?
Having my Mac seize an audio CD and refuse to eject. 45 minutes and half a dozen reboots later it finally coughed up. Sheesh! For future reference, the trick is to hold down the left mouse button while booting, but it has to be a wired mouse. Um, what?
(Number 3 was redacted for complete irrelevance.)
4. Is there a TV show you never miss? What is it?
Historically, Babylon 5 and, later, LOST (the last 10 minutes of which does not exist in my world, thankyouverymuch). Of shows currently on the air, The Big Bang Theory. Though an important distinction: B5 always got watched on broadcast night; the others get/got watched within the week.
5. How do you get to work?
I drive via local roads (no parkway, yay).
6. Rake in the fall, or leave ‘em ‘til after the thaw?
Rake in the fall. I left them till spring once, thinking they would just turn into mulch and cease to be a problem. That didn't work so well.
7. What’s your favorite cheese?
I like rich, soft cheeses of the Brie/Camembert/etc family. I've had some excellent specimens that I can never find again (nor remember the names of) after the encounter. Oh well.
8. Who’s your favorite muppet?
I haven't watched any muppets since I was a kid, but I remember thinking that Oscar the Grouch got a bum rap and was clearly misunderstood. :-)
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Unlike the rest of the meme? ;-)
(#3 was "what is your favorite monster movie?")
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In mathematics there is the notion of degrees of infinity -- while anything that is infinite should by rights be in the same bucket, you'd probably agree that the set of numbers is "more infinite" than the set of numbers divisible by 2, for instance. It's something like that: at some level the questions are all irrelevant, but a question about a genre of movie I don't watch at all is even more irrelevant. :-) (I mean, I don't think they meant, say, Silence of the Lambs when they said monsters, though that villian is scarier than Godzilla...)
Picking at Nits....
"Monster movies" are usually a subclass of horror movies in general, but some comedies incorporate monsters, and you could stretch the definition to include those instead.
E.g., Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein, Love at First Bite, Ghostbusters, Scooby Doo, and Monsters vs. Aliens.
And playing off a later question, a lot of Muppets are considered "monsters"....
Re: Picking at Nits....
(And to correct my own nit before someone else does: where I wrote "divisible by 2" please read "evenly divisible by 2". Or for "number" read "integer"; your choice. :-) )