7 posts tagged “qotd”
If you could eat only 3 foods for the rest of your life, what would they be?
Submitted by formance.Three? Ha! I laugh at you foolish and wasteful gluttons! I need but two foods to make me happy. Beer and Cheese. Mind you, I may resort to some mashupification and cook me up some beer cheese, but at the end of the day it is still goddamned beer and cheese.
How many email addresses do you have? What are they for?
I have a bit of an issue with email addresses and recently set about assigning uses to them. I still have no ability to stick to these ascribed uses because the addresses are in the hands of various people who are unfamiliar with my rules and, ergo, are involuntarily violated. My accounts are as follows:
There you have it. Seven email accounts. Three of which get very little use and should be put out of their misery. I have the feeling this is not an uncommon problem and would love to know how people address this kind of issue. Many of the best email power-users I know use a single account despite receiving many magnitudes more email than the average user. It is the power of smart folders, tags, and filters along with some freaky mojo that makes this possible. It is something that I cannot grasp.
- Work email - This is straight forward, it is given t me by my company and it is where my co-workers and customers send me email. Unfortunately work also assigned me a Dell Laptop and I do 95% of my work on my own Mac laptop. That means that basically, the work email address is simply a forwarding intermediary to my personal email account that is assigned to work.
- My Personal Work email address (see above). This is also used for other personal activities that I deem to be work that are not part of my job. Maybe it is better described a s my Professional Personal Email, but that seems oxymoronic.
- My Personal Personal Email address. This is the one that I use for personal activities and fun. It is where my friends should contact me.
- My joke address - Basically, this is a throw away account that I use for nefarious purposes. It is frequently laden with spam to the extent that it cannot be used for much else. It also appears with the alias 'Cooter' when received, so it is not business appropriate (learned that the hard way).
- My Spam address - I use this when signing up for anything on the web (software betas, newsletters, services, e.g.) where there is a good chance of spam. If I do not know a company's full background and their ethics, I use this address. Ironically, it gets no spam.
- My website address - this is the address associated with my main website. It appears on the Whois record and in all of the "mail" links on the site. This is basically a maintenance account that is used for convenience to other people. It gets little use.
- My secondary website address - See above. It is used for web business, but has a better alias, and is easy to use on the go. For some reason it is not fond of email clients and again gets little use.
What are your top 10 most-played songs currently?
Which band or artist which is no longer performing or alive would you have loved to have seen?
Submitted by Rev Stan.
I completely and totally regret not having seen Nirvana. I had tickets at the Rosemont in Chicago for 1994, but chickened out because, having just moved there, I had no idea how to get to the venue and had heard that it was in a bad neighborhood. A few weeks later Kurt Cobain killed himself, on the day before my 19th birthday no less. I was devastated and went into some weird teenage funk. Nowadays, I can't believe I missed such a great opportunity.
How well does your name Google? Who are you up against? (Celebrities, etc.)
Submitted by Matt Blank.
If you could eat anything you wanted, and not have to worry about gaining weight/being unhealthy/inhumane, what would you totally pig out on?
Submitted by Jay.
Cheese, Cheese, Cheese. Oh and beer. Beer and cheese. Maybe some beer cheese. I have a bit of a problem with both. I have a new goal of making a weekly visit to the local boutique cheese shop and sampling a variety of new cheeses. Sad. I know.
Have you noticed a climate change in the area where you live over the past few years?
I used to think that I had noticed a climate change here in the midwest, but anymore, I am amazed at how accurately I can predict what is going to happen. Around mid-December everyone is stunned at how mild the winter is and then by February we're lamenting how brutal the winter has been. I think it was that one really brutal December that made all the others seem so balmy. Now if someone could just do something about the second winter that comes in April, that would be nice.
