Friday Fun: I've Been Tagged by the Four Things Meme

Alexander Kjerulf (Chief Happiness Officer) of Positive Sharing tagged me for the “four things you love/have done/couldn't live without/find yummy with chocolate sauce” list. It's been growing through the blogger community, apparently; my grandtagger was Mike Wagner of Own Your Own Brand and greatgrandtagger was No Dependencies.

Four jobs I’ve had

1. Phone operator in Kalispell, Montana in the late 1980s. Pay phones were $.10, you had to tell the operator your calling card number verbally, and the night shift was annoying but entertaining.

2. Java techwriter/course developer for Sun Microsystems' Sun Educational Services.

3. Technical writer for Great Plains Software in Fargo, North Dakota. Great people, great company. Thanks, Doug.

4. Fabric store clerk in Kalispell, Montana. Got paid under minimum (in high school) and the manager was later arrested for embezzling. Lessons learned: ask questions!

Four movies I could watch over and over

1. Dangerous Liasons (have also read the novel—in French—amazing stuff)

2. Anything in the Spinal Tap/Best in Show ouevre

3. When Harry Met Sally

4. The Princess Bride  (there's a definite Rob Reiner theme here)

Four places I have lived

1. Fargo, ND

2. Juneau, AK

3. Boulder, CO and surrounding areas (best place on earth ;> )

4. Rennes, France

Four TV shows I love to watch

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (of course I have all seven seasons on DVD)

2. House

3. Iron Chef, Japanese version (quote from recent show—“This chef wields the longest knife in all of Japan!”

4. Who's Line Is It, Anyway?

Four websites I visit daily

1. Creating passionate users

2. Newsforge.com

3. Linux-watch.com

4. Lifehacker.com

Four of my favorite foods

1. All the Thai curries and a whole lot of the other dishes—am heading to Thai House tonight in Westminster, Colorado, in the strip mall on the SW corner of  72nd and Sheridan. They have GREAT food.

2. My mom's recipe that she calls Hot Hamburger, nice beef curry she got in Norway from a Pakistani/South African couple

3. Pumpkin pie

4. Big breakfasts with eggs, pancakes, etc. All things syrupable.

Four CDs I can't live without

1. Lyle Lovett's Live in Texas, including "When It Happens to You."

2. Great Big Sea, most recently The Hard and the Easy.

3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical soundtrack for Once More With Feeling.

4. Sound track to O Brother Where Art Thou.

Here are categories I added:

Four Indoor Places I Would Spend a Rainy Saturday by Myself

1. Denver Fabrics

2. Any bookstore

3. At my computer playing online poker

4. My sewing room

Four Things I Would Choose If I Could Instantly Be Really, Really Good At

1. Swing dancing (give me this and I'll ditch the other stuff ;> )

2. Talking to anyone anywhere about anything.

3. Cook/chef/pastry chef/Asian cook expert (any or all)

4. Woodworking or general house building

And four bloggers I am tagging

The Librarian in Black , if she'll accept, because she has great stuff on tech and libraries which combined can change the world, and because I'd like to see what books and music she likes.

Kathy Sierra of Passionate Users, if she'll accept, because she helps users kick butt and we haven't been out for syrupables in a while.

Sam Hiser of PlexNex, OpenOffice.org, and many other things, if he'll accept, because he's enthusiastic, kind, and knowledgeable.

Miguel Guhlin of Mousing Around, if he'll accept, because stories are essential to learning and education is essential to everything.

Number five--sorry--Dan Batten of the Flying Yanks. Just for fun.

 

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Comments

[Alexander Kjerulf]

Thanks for playing, Solveig. Who knew we had so much in common: Skiing, syrupable food stuffs, Buffy and "Whose line is it anyway" are also very high on my list - though not all in the top-4.

[Solveig]

Oh, it's funny how much you and I have in common, and also Miguel who I tagged. Thai food, Buffy, Princess Bride, you and he both love Battlestar Galactica and Lost, etc.

Am going to start calling people right now to go skiing next week--gotta use up my Copper pass. (One of the benefits of self employment--midweek skiing with no crowds!)

[D.]

Once More With Feeling, clearly the best Buffy episode ever.

Big big fan of Whose Line Is It, Anyway?
The producer Dan Patterson has created a new show; Mock the Week which is another quality offering along similar lines. Only thing missing is the best bit of the format: the hoedown!

[Michael Wagner]

Great to learn of you via Alex!

I like it when Lyle does "Here I Am".

Make mine a cheeseburger.

Keep creating,
Mike

[Miguel Guhlin]

Gee, thanks!
http://www.mguhlin.net/blog/archives/2006/03/entry_1265.htm

Thanks, Solveig...I needed a relaxation point amidst all the work.

Take care,
Miguel

[Sarah Houghton (Librarian in Black)]

Ha! Fortunately, I was previously tagged so you can read all about it at: http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2006/01/tagged_by_the_4.html

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