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:
- Proofreader at an academic print house
- Founder and CNO (Chief Knowledge Officer) of a paused dotcom (not dead, just waiting until the stars are right.…)
- Machine learning & genetic algorithms engineering consultant
- 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:
- Ghost in the Shell [the first movie, and subtitled, please]
- Some Like it Hot
- Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Four places I’ve lived:
- Fairview Park, Ohio
- Hanover, Pennsylvania
- Vianen, Zuid Holland, NL
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
Four TV shows I love:
- Babylon 5
- Lost
- Canadian Antiques Roadshow (they’re so modest!)
- This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Four places I’ve vacationed:
- London
- Vancouver
- Underground in the Keweenaw Peninsula
- The Mojave Desert
Four of my favorite dishes:
- Pot stickers
- Barbara’s ad hoc creations (always different, always good)
- Potato pancakes, family style [link to archive forthcoming]
- 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.
Four places I would rather be right now:
- More or less anywhere in the Mojave Desert
- 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.
- Las Vegas (either NM or NV, take yer pick)
- Santa Fe, NM
Four bloggers I am tagging:
Four books (or series) I love:
- Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan books
- Interminable in-joke-laden Lovecraft pastiches (go to Robert M. Price’s list, and scroll down to “Fiction Anthologies Edited”
- Kage Baker’s Company books (though she’s on the spot to wrap it all up well, now, after that last one)
- 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:
- RoboRally
- Settlers of Cataan
- Scrabble
- Sid Sackson’s “My Word” (not the card game, which was from Waddintgon’s)
“Machine learning & genetic algorithms engineering consultant”
Wow, that is news to me. I work in the same field now, as an RA and hopefully will get my Ph.D. on a related topic…
Tagging noted, response forthcoming.
Wow! I’m hoping that you can help me out with the rules of Sid Sackson’s myword!.
My father and I used to play this game when I was in my teens. I was just cleaning out my basement and I found an old yellowed copy of an unused game sheet. Not having much luck finding the rules on the internet until I found your site.
Do you have a copy of the rules that you can email me?
Thanks!!!
Maryann Morningstar