Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Early Netiquette errors
What major or minor errors or faux pas did you make in your early days of using the Internet? Any embarrassing moments or behaviors?
I first got online in 1998. At one time I started noticing that a lot of search results I got were from some site called “wikipedia.” Being the naive little […]
4 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, communication, culture by IndigoRain
Monday, July 28th, 2008
WWHW (What Would Hunter Write)?
Hunter S. Thompson is done writing books, certainly, but if old Duke was still in the game and working on a book, what would he be writing about right now?
Fear and Loathing on/in/at/under x?
3 Comments » - Posted in bigbig by Josh Millard
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I mean, really, are you THAT important?
Does anyone really use the “high priority” flag on email other than spammers and jerks?
5 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, communication by 1f2frfbf
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Most essential items for a new household?
If you were moving out on your own for the first time, what is the most important (or top five, or top ten) household item(s) you would purchase for your new home?
I am assuming you already have the most basic supplies, such a some food, a first-aid kit, and anything you would pack for vacation […]
5 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, priorities by IndigoRain
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Your booger spec?
The booger retrieval and storage company is on line one. They have been keeping all those boogers you’ve picked over all these years, and want to know what form you want the mass pressed into for delivery and drop off in your driveway later this afternoon. What shall I tell them?
1 Comment » - Posted in bigbig, priorities by Meatbomb
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Everyone always talks about meeting your past self…
Everyone always talks about meeting your past self…but what would you warn/remind your future self about, if you were able to travel forward in time a number of years?
5 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized, bigbig, identity, scifi by Kickstart
Saturday, July 12th, 2008
What’s the vacation you wish you were taking?
To celebrate (and, well, apologize for) the fact that I’ll be out of town for a week on vacation and thus not updating the BBQ front page for a bit, here’s a sprawling thematic wish-fulfillment question:
What kind of vacation do you want? Where, when, why? What would you be doing, if anything? What would you […]
12 Comments » - Posted in bigbig by Josh Millard
Friday, July 11th, 2008
Dreams
What recurring dreams do you have? Do you ever have lucid dreams?
5 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, memory by IndigoRain
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Straight answers from God
If you could ask one question, big or small, of (your preferred, for this exercise, conception of) God, and get a straight, thorough answer, what would it be? Why that question?
4 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, communication, metaphysics, religion by Josh Millard
Monday, July 7th, 2008
What unreasonable change would you make to the world?
Imagine, for the purposes of this question, that you have found yourself elected King (or Queen) of the World. Imagine, too, that power corrupts, at least to a sufficient degree that you are willing and able to declare some world-changing fiat, on whim, purely for your own satisfaction.
It can be big or small. […]
9 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, law by Josh Millard
Friday, July 4th, 2008
What books have changed your life?
Taken from Lifehacker: What books have truly changed your life? I’m not talking about books that you thought were mind-blowingly excellent - I mean books that have changed the way you think or made you change your life.
8 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, communication by IndigoRain
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
You just won the lottery and I don’t care what you bought!
What I wanna know…how will you help others? How widespread will that help be?
Let’s assume a substantial, after all applicable taxes, amount of $30 million. Who will you help and how (with a smattering of ‘why’)? Just family or a multitude of impoverished people?
8 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, economics, ethics by Kickstart
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
A world without cars…
Imagine some economic/ecological/othertypical disaster strikes before we’re properly able to get out of our current petroleum culture. What might the world look like carless? Who would be worst off? Who would manage best? What unexpected effects might we encounter?
note: other things which likewise run on gas may or may not […]
3 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, culture, scifi by shmegegge
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Permalinks and the internet as an archive
I’ve found myself in a few discussions about just how permanent web content is, and how permanent it should be, and what folks expectations on that front are. It’s a big question, and I’m curious what sort of take you folks have on it.
What do you expect to stay around? What do you […]
7 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, communication, culture, memory, philosophy by Josh Millard
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Morals or ethics?
Philosophico-semantic cage match GO.