Which yet-to-be-released movie are you excited to see?
The new Indiana Jones flick. It had better not suck.
What role did you play in your school play?
Even though I was active in my high school's drama club and competed in acting events at speech & debate tournaments, I appeared in only one high school theatrical production. It was a non-speaking tourist role at the beginning of Guys & Dolls. Exciting, huh?
Pax tagged me. Here are the rules:
- Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
- People who are tagged, write a blog post about their own 8 random things, and post these rules.
- At the end of your post you need to tag 8 people and include their names.
- Don’t forget to leave them a comment on their blog and tell them they’ve been tagged, and to come back and read your blog for the whole story.
So. I must now think of eight at least marginally interesting things to share about myself.
1. I met Pax, whom I love madly, online. This was in the old days, long before the Internet as we know it. We were members of a local electronic BBS called Th' Ogre. He had a C-64 with a 300-baud modem, and I was stylin' with a 20-pound laptop with a 20MB hard drive and a 2400-baud modem. If you have to ask what a baud rate is, you are too young to matter.
2. I attended two different high schools, and my school mascots were owls (Marshall, Missouri) and kewpies (Hickman High, Columbia, Missouri).
3. I like sweet wines. Bring on the Pink Catawba!!
4. I am a PT Cruiser fanatic. My Ténèbre is a 2005 in midnight blue, and after 46,000+ miles together, she's still a fun little car.
5. I was well into adulthood before I could eat tapioca pudding because when I was a child, my brother told me that the tapioca beads were weevil eggs. I believed him. I didn't even know what a weevil was, but it sure sounded bad.
6. I have visited the following foreign countries: Canada, France, England, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Mexico.
7. As long as spiders exist, I cannot believe in a benevolent God. Malevolent, perhaps.
8. "Eight, eight, I forget what eight was for!"
I am probably tagging people who have already been tagged, but what the hell: Patricia Volonakis Davis, Megan, Majicke, Manon-It-All, snoringKatZ, Emjay, Flamingo Dancer, and andria.
Grab your helmet, check the air in your tires, and hop on your bike because in many U.S. cities, May 12 - 16 is Bike to Work Week! Six Apart has a lot of biking enthusiasts, so we're very excited to support this event by encouraging all of our employees to bike to work this week. San Francisco's Bike to Work Day is tomorrow, Thursday, May 15th, and New York's is Friday, May 16th.
Six Apart is helping out its employees by providing maps (shaded according to steepness - a must in SF!) to help everyone plan out his/her route, as well as finding first-time riders buddies to commute with. We're also supporting ALL SF riders who pass the front of our office by handing out coffee, juice and snacks from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. tomorrow morning. If you're in our neighborhood, look for the sign that says "Six Apart Supports Bike to Work Day" and stop by to say hi and get energized!
Improve your health, financial status, productivity, and happiness by joining thousands - maybe even millions - of commuters around the country who are hopping on their bikes to get to work. Visit the Bike to Work Week website to find out more about events in your area.
Support the two-wheeled way of life with the "Passing Left" theme found in "Photo-Based" in the Design Area. Planning on cycling to work this week? Let us know in the comments!
As we mentioned last week, we had to postpone the maintenance that was due to occur on Thursday, May 8th.
We have rescheduled the maintenance for tonight, Tuesday, May 13th, starting at 6:00 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time (that's 1:00 A.M. UTC/GMT). We'll be taking Vox offline for a bit in order to move the service to a brand new home in some bright, shiny new server racks. We don't expect to be offline for more than an hour or two, but we apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.
Again, thank you for your patience as we continue to invest in Vox's infrastructure!
Tonight, starting at 6:00 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time (that's 1:00 A.M. UTC/GMT), we'll be taking Vox offline for a bit in order to move the service to a brand new home in some bright, shiny new server racks. We don't expect to be offline for more than an hour or two, but we apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.
Thank you for your patience as we continue to invest in Vox's infrastructure!
Update: we've postponed tonight's maintenance, and will let you know when we reschedule. Thanks for your patience!
Last week, we announced the winners of the HP "What Do You Have to Say? Theme Design Contest and promised you we'd make the winning themes available on Vox in the coming weeks. After a little more thought, we decided you shouldn't have to wait a second longer to use these creative and inspiring designs on your blogs, so we made them available for you today. Who says good things only come to those who wait?
Iron Man took the top spot at the box office this past weekend with 104.2 million dollars in ticket sales. Did you see the flick? What did you think? (Or, if you didn't see it - do you plan to?)
I don't plan to see it. The Transformers were enough for me.
I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.
Not sure who is the author.
