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A meme that's actually pretty good
Jan. 28th, 2006 12:21 amFrom Jesse.
Name a CD you own that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
I'm not much for purchasing actual physical CDs, so I'll interpret this as "album", and say Roses are Red, Violets are Blue by Trocadero. The tracks are hit and miss, but the hits are great: this is the band that did the soundtrack for Red vs. Blue.
Name a book you own that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
Easy. I will list two, one fiction and one nonfiction. The nonfiction one would have to be the programmer's guide to the PDP-11 (I don't know the exact title, and all my books are still packed). Why would anyone else have that? For fiction, I can probably say The Great Explosion by Eric Frank Russell, a book which has affected my way of looking at the world more than probably any other.
Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
Primer. Obscure and very difficult to find. Best time-travel movie ever made, though.
Name a place that you have visited that you think no-one else on your friends list has.
I could just say "Sioux Falls, SD" and be right (except maybe for Maureen) but I'll say Mission Control instead. Not the visitors' gallery, but the floor of the actual control room. Both the new one and the old one. The old one, by the way, is still there, exactly the way it was. The reason they had to build a new one is that they couldn't replace the consoles, and they couldn't build new computers to fit in the old consoles. Why couldn't the consoles be replaced? Because the first JSC mission control room (not actually the first, which was the MOCR at Canaveral) is the United States' smallest national park. It has to be maintained in the same condition it was during Apollo.
Name a piece of technology or any sort of tool you own that you think no-one else on your friends list has.
After pondering computer equipment or game systems for a while, I'll just say that I own a mint condition World War I memorial Colt .45 pistol, and you don't.
Name a CD you own that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
I'm not much for purchasing actual physical CDs, so I'll interpret this as "album", and say Roses are Red, Violets are Blue by Trocadero. The tracks are hit and miss, but the hits are great: this is the band that did the soundtrack for Red vs. Blue.
Name a book you own that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
Easy. I will list two, one fiction and one nonfiction. The nonfiction one would have to be the programmer's guide to the PDP-11 (I don't know the exact title, and all my books are still packed). Why would anyone else have that? For fiction, I can probably say The Great Explosion by Eric Frank Russell, a book which has affected my way of looking at the world more than probably any other.
Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
Primer. Obscure and very difficult to find. Best time-travel movie ever made, though.
Name a place that you have visited that you think no-one else on your friends list has.
I could just say "Sioux Falls, SD" and be right (except maybe for Maureen) but I'll say Mission Control instead. Not the visitors' gallery, but the floor of the actual control room. Both the new one and the old one. The old one, by the way, is still there, exactly the way it was. The reason they had to build a new one is that they couldn't replace the consoles, and they couldn't build new computers to fit in the old consoles. Why couldn't the consoles be replaced? Because the first JSC mission control room (not actually the first, which was the MOCR at Canaveral) is the United States' smallest national park. It has to be maintained in the same condition it was during Apollo.
Name a piece of technology or any sort of tool you own that you think no-one else on your friends list has.
After pondering computer equipment or game systems for a while, I'll just say that I own a mint condition World War I memorial Colt .45 pistol, and you don't.
