A trans­mis­si­ble ques­tion­naire has come my way from Eli Neiburger. Tit for tat, I sup­pose. He can scroll down to my ear­lier entry and fill one of mine out.

Four jobs I’ve had:

1. Proof­reader at an aca­d­e­mic print house
2. Founder and CNO (Chief Knowl­edge Offi­cer) of a paused dot­com (not dead, just wait­ing until the stars are right.…)
3. Machine learn­ing & genetic algo­rithms engi­neer­ing consultant
4. Mol­e­c­u­lar biology/​astrobiology grad­u­ate research assis­tant (grad school is a stretch, I know, but that’s what it said on the trickle of stipend)

Four movies I can watch over and over:

1. Ghost in the Shell [the first movie, and sub­ti­tled, please]
2. Some Like it Hot
3. Night­mare Before Christmas
4. The Adven­tures of Bucka­roo Ban­zai Across the Eighth Dimension

Four places I’ve lived:

1. Fairview Park, Ohio
2. Hanover, Penn­syl­va­nia
3. Via­nen, Zuid Hol­land, NL
4. Ann Arbor, Michigan

Four TV shows I love:

1. Baby­lon 5
2. Lost
3. Cana­dian Antiques Road­show (they’re so mod­est!)
4. This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Four places I’ve vacationed:

1. Lon­don
2. Van­cou­ver
3. Under­ground in the Keweenaw Peninsula
4. The Mojave Desert

Four of my favorite dishes:

1. Pot stick­ers
2. Barbara’s ad hoc cre­ations (always dif­fer­ent, always good)
3. Potato pan­cakes, fam­ily style [link to archive forthcoming]
4. frites met saté saus

Four sites I visit daily:
This one’s harder than the orig­i­na­tor might expect. I use Shrook to read feeds, so I visit scant blog sites as such. I’ll answer literally.

1. news​.google​.com
2. my​.ebay​.com
3. Dis­trib­uted Proofreaders
4. NOAA

Four places I would rather be right now:

1. More or less any­where in the Mojave Desert
2. Any really good–but also warm–flea mar­ket, first thing in the morn­ing after everybody’s set up… and also, also! with no other shop­pers. And a wad of cash I can burn through. Not mine. Yeah.

   Well—almost any­where at all, with a big wad of cash not mine. That would do.

3. Las Vegas (either NM or NV, take yer pick)
4. Santa Fe, NM

Four blog­gers I am tagging:

1. Alex Mal­let
2. Bar­bara
3. Branko Collin
4. Nic McPhee

Four books (or series) I love:

1. Lois McMas­ter Bujold’s Vorkosi­gan books
2. Inter­minable in-​​joke-​​laden Love­craft pas­tiches (go to Robert M. Price’s list, and scroll down to “Fic­tion Antholo­gies Edited”
3. Kage Baker’s Com­pany books (though she’s on the spot to wrap it all up well, now, after that last one)
4. W. C. Hazlitt’s Dic­tio­nary of Faiths and Folk­lore (forth­com­ing from Project Guten­berg, someday)

Four games I can (and do) play over and over again:

1. Rob­o­Rally
2. Set­tlers of Cataan
3. Scrab­ble
4. Sid Sackson’s “My Word” (not the card game, which was from Waddintgon’s)