Question me(me)

[denny]

LJ can leave you feeling really close to people that actually you know surprisingly little about. So, here's your chance to ask me something you think you should know about me... something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

Comments

[snowyfeline.livejournal.com]

I don't really think I need to ask anything- I always feel relaxed enough to ask questions when I think of them.
however, youre a sweetie, part of my day to day life and sanity aid while i'm stuck here, a good friend and great to hug.
-squish-

[grandwazooo.livejournal.com]

Do you know that I am sitting next to a guy who you used work with at BT Tavistock St building B?

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Hah. No, I didn't know that... who?

[grandwazooo.livejournal.com]

Robert Wallace - he says you will know him as the guy who cost the company a lot of money....

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Is he the guy who had a personal plate that was A800 BOB or something like that?

[grandwazooo.livejournal.com]

he was the Ops managers son who caused about £15,000 worth of damage to the AS/400 drives.....

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I vaguely remember that... I didn't deal with those drives at that point though, they didn't trust the general tape ops with them - somewhat ironically. :)

Didn't he drop some tapes in a puddle and then put them in the drives anyway, or something like that? Not quite as good as the time they dropped a whole mainframe on the floor from a great height, but quite funny nonetheless.

[grandwazooo.livejournal.com]

He says that it was his colleague that dropped them in the puddle - but yup, thats the guy.

Dropped the whole mainframe? - I have heard of bouncing the system but that takes the piss.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

It slipped off a second storey loading bay after they withdrew the crane that had put it there. Bit embarrassing really, it was the only one of its type in the country at the time as I recall.

[grandwazooo.livejournal.com]

oops (sniggers)
Our computer room is on the 3rd floor adn we have a door in the side of the building for getting kit in and out - dropping a mainfram from that height would be worth watching :)

[pooloftrees.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember you telling me about this (sans names) when we were at uni...

[dryad-wombat.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I've thought and thought and come up with several questions that I would probably know the answer to if I met a person offline first. Here you are :)

- what's your handwriting like?
- where did you spend most of your early life?
- how many brothers/sisters do you have etc?
- are you vegetarian? Are there any things you hate eating?

[dryad-wombat.livejournal.com]

Those might all sounds really superficial, and that's because they are! I feel I know lots about you already, and what I know already matters far more to me than handwriting curiosity!

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I think that's the purpose of the meme really... it's the superficial trivia that we seem to bypass on the way to deep social intimacies with LJ :)

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

- what's your handwriting like?

Terrible. Used to be okay, but I never have any reason to write any more... if I need to make a note of something at work or at home, I use a text editor on my (always on) computer :)

- where did you spend most of your early life?

Hemel Hempstead, from age 2 to age 16.

- how many brothers/sisters do you have etc?

2 of each. Actually they're all my half-brother/sister - we're all related through my mum.

- are you vegetarian?

Nooooooooooooooooo! Need Meat!

- Are there any things you hate eating?

Peanuts make me sick almost instantly. Other nuts have a similarly unpleasant effect, strength of reaction determined by strength of taste. There are numerous foods I dislike for various reasons... the reasons other people find odd are usually the ones about 'texture'. For instance, eating sweetcorn feels to me like biting big whiteheads - pop, and then a flood of squishy stuff in your mouth. Ick. So I don't like sweetcorn :)

In general I think I'm quite a fussy eater. Reading the comments on my recent food-related posts will probably bear this out.

[dryad-wombat.livejournal.com]

Grin - interesting. Peanuts are apparently lethal to me (quite literally), and I'm allergic to sweetcorn/maize too. Which is a total pain because those two things seem to be in masses of things.

[missyasmina.livejournal.com]

Are you bi, or bi-sexual?
Rephrasing: Do you fall in love with boys/men like you do with girls?

(Dont know if that should be obvious or not, but Im curious. )

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I've never fallen in love with a boy so far. I wouldn't say it was impossible, but I think it's much less likely than me falling for a girl.

[pooloftrees.livejournal.com]

Since I know you IRL, it's difficult to come up with any questions, however since it is quite a while since I've seen you in person, I guess I can ask about current circumstances:

How are you finding London compared to Milton Keynes?

How is your leg doing?

What distro's are you running atm, and if still Debian, which version?

Ok, the last one isn't exactly about you, I'm just thinking about distros to play with atm...

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I like London... although to be honest, the bit I actually live in is (a) very similar to the street I lived in in MK, and (b) about an hour away from most of the useful bits of central London on the tube - so not that much closer to the big city than MK in terms of time spent on trains.

My leg isn't enjoying the onset of the cold weather very much. I'm currently waiting to hear a date for the surgery to remove the metalwork, after which things will be quite bad again for a while, but hopefully better in the long run.

Debian testing at home and on my workstation at work, RH ES3 and ES4 on servers at work. I hear the Debian installer is less horrible these days :)

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

What would be your ideal multiple-course meal?

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Breaded mushrooms with garlic mayo dip.
Medium-rare steak with chips and mushrooms. Garlic bread with cheese as a side order.
Chocolate fudge cake.

Okay, now I'm hungry.

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

*Makes note*
So, you like mushrooms and garlic, then? You'd probably enjoy one of Mum's standard Sunday breakfast components - garlic mushrooms! (And I'm not kidding...)