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Audience Potpourri Participation!

1. DVD or VHS?
   DVD
2. Best Literary/Movie Villan: Voldemort (Harry Potter) or Sauron (LoTR)?
   Sauron
3. Meat: rare or well-done?
   Rare (ish)
4. High Speed Internet-Cable or DSL?
   Cable
5. Women: 1-piece bathing suit or Bikini?
   1-piece
6. To be fair—Men: Boxers or briefs?
   Boxers
7. Beer or Liquor/Wine?
   Liquor
8. Coke or Mountain Dew?
   Water
9. In honor of my 10/18/03 nuptials: Morning or Afternoon/Night Wedding?
   Morning
10. Carpet or Hardwood Floors
    Carpet
11. American cars or foreign?
    American (duh, I live in Detroit)
12. Cutest TV Twin: Mary-Kate or Ashley Olsen?
    Sharp stick in the eye.
13. Coffee: Caffeinated or Decaf?
    Caffeinated
14. Thought-Provoking Question of the Week: Computers: Do they make life better or worse? Why?
    In general? Better. Biggest Library Yet.

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1. Surf sites at random, or have a set list of regular reads?
   I have a core set of bookmarks and RSS feeds that lead me madly off in all directions.
2. Do you visit mostly blogs, or news or other sites?
   It’s probably about 50-50 now. I primarily read blogs in my aggregator(s), so most of the time I’m looking at something in a web browser it’s a non-blog.
3. Do you go online every day, or just a couple of days a week?
   Do people ask drug addicts if they take days off? Let’s be serious here.:)
4. Do you allow comments on your blog, or not?
   Yes. I think it’s pretty much an essential part of a real weblog, though some disagree.
5. Do you shop online at all, or at regular stores?
   Both.
6. Have you ever done online bill-paying/banking, or not?
   I check my account activity online, to make sure no one’s robbing me blind.
7. Which news site do you prefer… MSNBC.com or CNN.com? Or do you prefer some other one?
   I’m not terribly enamoured of either, but I guess CNN sucks slightly less. RSS feeds from places like the NYT and the BBC are preferable.
8. Live chat rooms, or message boards?
   Gawd, I hate chat rooms. I don’t really like message boards much, either. You get involved in a thread and forget to check back on the progress, and the email notifications are a nasty hack. Call me old school, but I’m still a fan of a good mailing list.
9. Instant messaging or e-mail?
   Two different things. I like the asynchronous nature of email. IM replicates the interruption-based telephone culture, which I was never a big fan of, but at least you can turn off your IM client.
10. Yes or no: have you ever met, or at least talked on the phone with, another blogger? If not, would you want to? Why or why not?
    Well, many of the blogs I read are written by people who I knew in “real life” before weblogs ever happened. That said, there are folks I correspond with regularly, who I met via blogging, who I would probably enjoy sharing a beer or a plate of cheesy poofs with.

:: Dave Walker 10:05 (EST/EDT) [+]

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1. Newspapers or magazines?
   Magazines — depth over timeliness
2. Books-on-tape or regular books?
   Regular books, though books-on-tape are good for long commutes
3. Paperback or hardcover?
   Paperbacks are a better for for my budget, but a nicely bound hardcover book can be a thing of beauty.
4. Fiction or non-fiction?
   These days, nonfiction. That can change (and has changed, several times, in the past.)
5. Sci-Fi/Fantasy or romance novels?
   I have never, consciously, read a romance novel.
6. Borrow from library or buy books (either new or used)?
   I’m a big fan of used books.
7. Subscribe to magazines or buy on newsstand?
   Subscriptions are just wasted money, as I find I almost never get around to reading the magazines I subscribe to.
8. Current best-sellers or classic literature?
   The “classics” I guess — this goes back to the used book question.
9. Read books once, or re-read favorites every so often?
   There are certain books I try to re-read every 10 or so years.
10. Here in the U.S., we have two hot best-sellers…former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s memoirs, and the new Harry Potter book (coming out June 21). If you had to read one, which one…Hillary or Harry? Why?
    Hillary’s — she is our future president, y’know. ;)

:: Dave Walker 20:13 (EST/EDT) [+]

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I can’t promise I’ll do this every week (I’m bad with schedules), but I thought I’d try out This-or-That Tuesday, just for giggles.

I wonder why they don’t use an ordered list (<ol>) for the list of questions? That is, after all, what it was designed for.

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:: Dave Walker 12:09 (EST/EDT) [+]

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