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)