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Jan. 12th, 2006 07:43 pm
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Tagged by The Editors (thanks to [livejournal.com profile] glitter_ninja for alerting me; the notation below notwithstanding, I'd slipped a few days).

Four jobs I've had:
1. Algebra tutor
2. Intern who injects the deadly venom of the South American poison-arrow frog into a gas chromatograph
3. Chump who tries to get the other graduate students to show up at their hour staffing the Physics Question Center (my most spectacular professional failure)
4. 3D scientific visualization programmer

Four movies I could watch over and over:
1. Brazil
2. A Chinese Ghost Story
3. Metallica aka Space Odyssey aka The Captive Planet aka Sette uomini d'oro nello spazio
4. The Miracle Fighters

Four places I've lived:
1. Overland Park, Kansas
2. North Ridgeville, Ohio
3. Chantilly, Virginia
4. Cambridge, Massachusetts

Four TV shows I love to watch (Sam's recent forays into British TV are apparent here):
1. Doctor Who
2. QI
3. Black Books
4. SCTV (this list needed Canadian content)

Four places I've been on vacation:
1. Paris
2. Barcelona
3. Bridgeport, Nebraska
4. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Four blogs I visit (sort of) daily:
1. Pharyngula (change your bookmarks!)
2. Brad DeLong
3. The Poor Man Institute for Freedom and Democracy and A Pony
4. Uncertain Principles

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Pho
2. Grilled salmon
3. Raw tuna
4. Asparagus

Four places I'd rather be (if Sam can come along):
1. Boulder, Colorado
2. Florence
3. Someplace with a better commute
4. Boulder, Colorado

Four albums I can't live without, in the alternate universe in which people actually need specified items of recorded music to survive:
1. They Might Be Giants, Factory Showroom (yes! It is underrated!)
2. Talking Heads, The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads
3. David Amram, Triple Concerto
4. Interröbang Cartel, Needs More Wanger

Four vehicles I've owned:
1. 1996 Nissan Altima (or is it '97? I'll have to go check)
2. Wheels of my childhood: red three-speed Schwinn
3. The Tell-Tale Mountain Bike
4. BROWN CAR (I think I may have misidentified the make here, but never mind)


I tag nobody, because otherwise when will the madness end?

Update: I take it back: I tag The Claw! Because somebody has to!

Date: 2006-01-12 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com
...As for Boulder, my experience is limited to being there in the summer, but at that time of year it is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been, as well as having a Bay Areaish hippie/yuppie/nerd culture that I liked, though I'm sure it would irritate many for different reasons.

Date: 2006-01-13 05:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sirreality.livejournal.com
As someone who was there for four years (for the obvious reasons), Boulder is one of the few places in the world I could have seen a white guy in dreads driving a ford explorer blasting Paul Simon out his open windows.

Compared to Massachusetts, the winters are somewhat nicer -- more variety, both colder and warmer. Still quite beautiful.

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