So… nothing major happening this week, so I decided not to have a topic. These are just random questions.. And when I refer to Q’s, I am referring to Questions.
Thanks this week to Nicole, Susan,BobB, Z (little Man), EilyQ, and some other guy.
Here come the Q’s (hopefully only in one way):
1. New Radicals: Why?
2 answers… Radicals have to be new, and this is his “ask not what your country can do for you” but subtler… he also can’t just say what Kennedy did.. Because plagiarism is a thing that hovers over Biden’s head.
2. Is the rise of the sea shanty (which I love) another outburst of white identity, like the interest in Vikings a few years ago?
Yes. Yes it is. There are very few musical genres that culture accepts that white people created whole cloth. I think the sea shanty is one of those (although, I am positive that it was most likely stolen from some other culture).
3. Why aren't there more Persian restaurants in town?
Mainly because people are still afraid of Iran and how we are culturally supposed to dislike them. I was surprised at how many “Greek” restaurants in Columbus are actually Turkish.
4. If you could eat at any restaurant in the world, expenses paid, where would you go?
Oooh, I have no idea… There are so many restaurants that I have absolutely loved… It would be to get Shrimp and Grits at Rivage Atlantique or at Tupelo Honey or BBQ at Costa’s Famous Bar-B-Que.
5. What was the best thing that happened to you last year?
For me, personally, it was getting the new job. I loved the job that I just left, it was amazing, and the people I worked with are amazing. I miss them every single day. This new job is taking some time to get used to, but it is allowing me to do different things and to breathe.
6. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
Ok… this is the 3rd time I have gotten this one. I might need to put it on the FAQ.
This is my answer from October 30, 2009: “1 cord, at best, but that is only if the woodchuck has thumbs. without thumbs the woodchuck would just look sullenly at the wood.”
This one is from April 26, 2005: "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" requires a definition of the verb "to chuck."
And here is the math worked out from my answer on April 1, 2020.
A cord of wood is 2000 to 3000 lbs and a woodchuck is about 8.5 lbs and 16 inches long or so. Let’s state that “to chuck wood” is to move a piece of wood a full body length in one fluid motion. So for an animal that weighs 8.6 lbs to move an item 16 inches through the air, I would imagine that the item in question would need to be no more than 1 lb in size (and that is being generous). I’m going to limit that weight to ½ lb for repetition’s sake (the equivalent of a 200lb person throwing something 10lbs). So let’s say on average we give the woodchuck in question a typical labor job where the worker has to do an 8 hour shift with a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks. So that is 7 hours of time just chucking wood. Let’s say that a woodchuck can chuck some wood every 5 seconds over the course of a shift. So, let’s see how many throws a woodchuck could do in one shift. 5,040 chucks a shift with a total of 2,520lbs of wood. Next time someone asks… 1 cord of wood.
Please stop asking this one. I have figured it out.
7. You watching anything interesting on the streaming services?
I have been watching the new Cosmos: Possible Worlds series on Disney+. This one is about finding life on other planets, and it dropped this past year and things were such a dumpster fire that no one noticed. I also binged the hell out of Eco-Challenge on Amazon Prime.
8. What was for dinner tonight?
I made the kids cook. Eily had Korean BBQ beef tips over rice and Zane had Philly cheesesteaks. They each made their own dinner, it was a miracle and not even Christmas. I had a little bit of both of their food.
9. What is your favorite indoor COVID thing to do? What was it in the before times?
What do I do the most? Watch dumb YouTube videos, but what is my favorite? Hmmm… playing Mario Kart 8 on the Nintendo Switch with the kiddos. And the favorite indoor activity in the before times would be cooking.
10. How are your feet doing?
For those of you who don’t know, my feet basically fell apart in May/June of 2019. The road to recovery was slow and painful, but they are doing much better now. That being said, today they are a tad sore. Sore enough that I might wear a compression arch support to bed tonight. I know, super sexy. Hey, ladies… I’m single.
11. Okay… odd D&D character idea. Go!
Ummm… let’s see… A misanthropic morose gnome warlock whose patron is a jovial being of limitless humor. The gnome is exasperated by her patron’s incessant need for cheer.
12. If you could draw on any comic book, what book would you draw?
I would draw my own. I, however, don’t have the 6 months of 40 hrs a week of intense drawing that would take me to get “up to snuff” (if I actually could) to be able to fulfill that dream. Otherwise I would probably like to do a book focusing on some c-list or d-list character… maybe Ambush Bug from DC. What he does when all the a-listers go take on the super villains.
13. Will we make it to Alpha Centauri (or some other “close” habitable planet) or will we all die beforehand?
We will get to a planet outside of our solar system eventually, but we do not have the technology to get there in a reasonable amount of time without serious upgrades to engine technology.
14. Will aliens eventually come destroy us?
Nope, we have nothing space-fairing aliens would want. There is more water on one of Jupiter’s moons, so water isn’t a reason, and better mineral deposits in the asteroid belt. And we are sooooo far away that using us for food makes no economically viable reason. At best we will meet aliens if they want to meet.
15. How’s the sleep going?
Terribly. I stay up way too late and get up way too early. My direct supervisor and one of my co-workers are located in Bangalore, India, so we have some stupid early meetings. Being a night owl and having these early worm meetings is going to be a rough transition.
16. Do you think this country (the US) is righting itself?
I think we are in a 4 to 8 year pause. We are not addressing the push towards fascism, we are treating the symptom and not going after the underlying root problem of white supremacy.
17. If you had to choose an era not of your current one to have lived your life, what era would you choose?
If not a future one, the one closest to this one that we are in. Shit was dirty and nasty in the past. Hygiene has only gotten better… and sometimes leaps and bounds better.
18. How has the pandemic affected you in a positive way?
Weight loss. I’m not getting crazy fit, but I am better off today than I was prior to March of 2020.
19. How has the weight loss felt for you?
I have more energy which has allowed me to not be dead from not enough sleep.
20. What song do you want to play every time you walk in a room?
None, it would get tiresome. Until you really think about it, you don’t realize how many times you go into a room. Maybe something like Straight Cold Player by Lenny Kravitz. It would need to have a wicked baseline.
To recap:
4 interviews going on right now
Hopefully have one ready to go in 2 weeks
I hope things go well tomorrow
I would love to take a trip soon
No idea where I would like to go
I need to be drawing more
I drew the “There’s always a bigger fish” for Eily because she is starting to like Star Wars stuff now
I am waiting on some markers to be delivered to be finished up
The Star wars love by his sister makes Zane unhealthily excited
Okay, it’s time to format this badboy and get it posted
Have a great weekend everyone