Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Why must I be a teenager in love?
Not me, specifically. In fact, I’m not even interested in the answer, just the queries, to wit:
What are some of your favorite musical questions? Why?
20 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, music by Josh Millard
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Are you your name? What would be better?
Bring that I really only answer to my given name out of habit and not really because I find it terribly appealing or ‘attached’ me who I am, I wonder if others have the same feeling.
Further, if you could, what name would you choose that says ‘you’ in a better way?
14 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, identity by Kickstart
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Your dinner with Andre. Or whoever.
Classic chatfilter: who (living or dead, fictional or non-, go crazy) would you like to have over for dinner? Why?
4 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, communication, food by Josh Millard
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Guilty Pleasure Music?
What song(s) are you embarrassed that you listen to (and love)? Could be junk, top 40, misogynistic – it’s the idea that you’re repulsed by the fact that you love it.
10 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, culture, entertainment, music by filmgeek
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Who do you owe one to?
Sure, the US financial market is kind of collapsing, but let’s talk about more human debt. Who do you owe, and why? Did someone do you a solid? Is there any IOU in your life that you particularly value?
3 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, ethics, sociology by Josh Millard
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
What’s your most embarrassing eggcorn?
Language acquisition is an amazing, and amazingly complicated, process. We learn to speak essentially by accident, starting at an age when we’re not competent to feed ourselves or change our own clothes. Which is pretty awesome.
But it’s also a process prone to errors. We pick up phrases incompletely, or incorrectly, and then [...]
20 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, communication, language by Josh Millard
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
What movie would you like to have continue into a series?
Is there a movie you’ve seen recently that left you wanting? A movie that had you wishing you could put in disc 2 and continue to follow the characters?
3 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, culture, entertainment by vlachster
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Voluntary Groundhog Day
If you were given a chance to go back in your life with your current knowledge intact, would you? If so, to what age?
(You can take as a given that your current timeline would heal gracefully, that the people you currently know but might not given changes in the past will instead meet other people [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, identity, memory, metaphysics by maxwelton
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
What animal would you enter in an eating competition?
Name your critter champion and back up your answer.
Bonus question: given you pick, what constraints would you put on the contest to fix it in your favor?
4 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, food by Josh Millard
Monday, September 8th, 2008
OMG LHC BBQ
Even though we all know that the world is not going to end when CERN fires up the Large Hadron Collider on 9/10/08 at 700 GMT, what are your plans for your time between now and then? Is there anything you feel like you need to do before the world ends science begins?
(For the record, [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, death, ethics, metaphysics, politics, science, technology by Saffron
Friday, September 5th, 2008
How have your eating habits changed?
Everybody’s got to eat, every day. If you’re an adult, you’ve had on the order of tens of thousands of meals. So what’s changed for you over time? What about your eating habits has evolved, and when, and why?
6 Comments » - Posted in bigbig, food by Josh Millard
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Why are you voting for McCain?
For those of you voting for John McCain, what are your reasons for voting for him? How do you feel about Palin, and are you affected by the news stories about her experience and affiliations?
1 Comment » - Posted in bigbig, politics by WCityMike
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
What can’t kids do that you could do as a kid?
I’m thinking of Yard Darts (aka Lawn Darts, aka Jarts?) personally — though I think we only got away with that because my grandma had an old set sitting around from when they were popular.