Holizz: 200 Questions

Usable GUI Design (Google cache incase it's still Slashdotted). An interesting little article on usability.

And here's a meme I found via Richy (I have no idea but they're a friend of Neil's and he did it.

I like questionnaires. But it's just a yes/no one. Strong (usually rendered as bold) is a yes ... or I have something to say about it.

Bought everyone in the pub a drink

Swam with wild dolphins

Climbed a mountain

Taken a Ferrari for a test drive

Been inside the Great Pyramid

Held a tarantula

Taken a candlelit bath with someone

Said ‘I love you’ and meant it

Hugged a tree

Done a striptease

Bungee jumped

Visited Paris. I spent Christmas up the Eiffel tower with my mum and had Vietnamese (maybe?) for tea.

Watched a lightning storm at sea

Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise

Seen the Northern Lights

Gone to a huge sports game

Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa. Hasn't the tower been closed-off since it's leaning dangerously?

Grown and eaten your own vegetables. I'm not sure if alfalfa is a vegetable or not. Davina (mum) grew some potatos this year.

Touched an iceberg

Slept under the stars

Changed a baby’s diaper

Taken a trip in a hot air balloon

Watched a meteor shower

Gotten drunk on champagne

Given more than you can afford to charity

Looked up at the night sky through a telescope

Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment

Had a food fight

Bet on a winning horse

Taken a sick day when you’re not ill

Asked out a stranger

Had a snowball fight

Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier. I scanned my arse on my own scanner.

Screamed as loudly as you possibly can

Held a lamb

Enacted a favourite fantasy. I tend to do stuff rather than dream about it.

Taken a midnight skinny dip

Taken an ice cold bath

Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar

Seen a total eclipse

Ridden a roller coaster

Hit a home run

Fit three weeks miraculously into three days

Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking. Depends on the definition of fool. I've certainly done it when others may have thought me a fool.

Adopted an accent for an entire day. I spoke in an American accent for a while. It was fun.

Visited the birthplace of your ancestors. My mum visited her old house in Liverpool when I was very young.

Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment. All the time. My life is the best.

Had two hard drives for your computer. I did indeed. I can't seem to get my BIOS to accept the other hard disk now.

Visited all 50 states

Loved your job for all accounts

Taken care of someone who was rather drunk. It's great fun.

Had enough money to be truly satisfied. I'm satisfied. And my money situation's not too bad right now. Oh you meant satisfied with how much money I have? Or is there a suggestion that to be satisfied one needs money?

Had amazing friends

Danced with a stranger in a foreign country

Watched wild whales

Stolen a sign

Backpacked in Europe

Taken a road-trip

Rock climbing. That's where I got the scar on my forehead. I was two, I believe. Stupid excuse for a father.

Lied to foreign government’s official in that country to avoid notice

Midnight walk on the beach. I probably have been. The beach at Towyn was nice. Maybe not quite midnight but me and Davina often sat in the car at night and ate chips while watching the sea.

Sky diving

Visited Ireland. This Summer. Good fun.

Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love

In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them. That's what happens when there's no tables left. I'm talking of cafés really, I rarely eat in restaurants.

Visited Japan

Benchpressed your own weight

Milked a cow

Alphabetised your records. No, but I put them all in an ... Access database. I wrote some accompanying ASP too, I believe. That was a similar and possibly related prject.

Pretended to be a superhero. Underpants on the Outside---my first real role-playing game. Good fun.

Sung karaoke. Probably.

Lounged around in bed all day. It may have been Wednesday or Thursday that I was ill and slept most of the day. Good fun.

Posed nude in front of strangers. Many times and many strangers.

Scuba diving

Got it on to “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye

Kissed in the rain

Played in the mud

Played in the rain. Probably. Most likely a running-based game.

Gone to a drive-in theater

Done something you should regret, but don’t regret it. “Accept no ought other than own” is a paraphrased moral injunction of Gestalt Therapy. If I ought do something, I do it.

Visited the Great Wall of China

Discovered that someone who’s not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog. Something like that. My mum found my ex-friend Dan's journal (it's like a blog but it's a called a journal---things were simpler in my day) via my journal and Dan wrote about the pills various people took one night in Rios. My mum found it and she complained at me. But it wasn't too bad, mostly annoying.

Dropped Windows in favor of something better. Linux in various guises for about a year now.

Started a business

Fallen in love and not had your heart broken

Toured ancient sites

Taken a martial arts class. It was good fun ... apart from the fact that it was crap.

Swordfought for the honor of a woman. What? I wouldn't fight in any physical capacity for my own honor so I'm not about to do it for anybody else.

Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight

Gotten married

Been in a movie

Crashed a party

Loved someone you shouldn’t have

Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy

Gotten divorced

Had sex at the office. Had what at the what?

Gone without food for 5 days

Made cookies from scratch

Won first prize in a costume contest

Ridden a gondola in Venice

Gotten a tattoo. It's got to happen sooner or later.

Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on

Rafted the Snake River

Been on television news programs as an “expert”

Got flowers for no reason

Masturbated in a public place

Got so drunk you don’t remember anything

Been addicted to some form of illegal drug

Performed on stage. I think the last time was a church school play for the `At Homes'. We ripped off The Meaning of Life by Monty Python. I was the guy whose leg had been stolen.

Been to Las Vegas

Recorded music. I played with a demo of Dance eJay. It was fun.

Eaten shark

Had a one-night stand

Gone to Thailand

Seen Siouxsie live

Bought a house

Been in a combat zone

Buried one/both of your parents

Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off. Oh yeah, loads of times. No waxing so far.

Been on a cruise ship. I think so. When I was rather young. One of my mum's cousins was working on it.

Spoken more than one language fluently. I think I was almost/slightly fluent in BSL back when I did it all the time. I was so good yet I failed. I did several weeks of a refresher course and gave it because it was boring as hell---the first teacher was the best.

Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone

Bounced a cheque

Performed in Rocky Horror

Read - and understood - your credit report

Raised children

Recently bought and played with a favourite childhood toy

Followed your favorite band/singer on tour

Created and named your own constellation of stars

Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country

Found out something significant that your ancestors did

Called or written your Congress person Member of Parliament…and confronted him…

Picked up and moved to another city to just start over to be with the one you love

…more than once? - More than thrice?

Walked the Golden Gate Bridge

Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking

Had an abortion or your female partner did

Had plastic surgery

Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived

Wrote articles for a large publication

Lost over 100 pounds

Held someone while they were having a flashback

Piloted an airplane

Petted a stingray

Broken someone’s heart

Helped an animal give birth

Been fired or laid off from a job

Won money on a TV game show

Broken a bone

Killed a human being

Gone on an African photo safari

Ridden a motorcycle. I tried to once. Under the instruction of the same father that let me go rock climbing on my own when I was 2. It didn't end up favourably.

Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100mph

Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced

Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol

Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild

Ridden a horse. I think I sat on one once. Maybe I rode it.

Had major surgery. I bilatteral orchidopexy's reasonably major.

Had sex on a moving train

Had a snake as a pet

Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon

Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing

Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours

Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states. It's not hard. US States: California (passed through Georgia without leaving the airport). Other countries: Republic of Ireland, France, Germany (Scotland and Wales if they count).

Visited all 7 continents

Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days

Eaten kangaroo meat

Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground

Been a sperm or egg donor

Eaten sushi

Had your picture in the newspaper

Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime

Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about. My mum is now happy about having GNU/Linux installed on her computer (just not right now).

Gotten someone fired for their actions

Gone back to school. Sure, I picked the kids up with Davina loads of times.

Parasailed

Changed your name. It's going to happen.

Petted a cockroach

Eaten fried green tomatoes

Read The Iliad

Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read

Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them.

…and gotten 86’ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you. What does that mean?

Taught yourself an art from scratch. Programming. In all the forms in which I am versed. Apart from the basics of C and C++---that was Bradford College's doing.

Killed and prepared an animal for eating

Apologised to someone years after inflicting the hurt. I believe somebody who bullied me in middle school once told me I used to bully them in first school. At least I hope I apologised.

Skipped all your school reunions

Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language

Been elected to public office

Written your own computer language. I once tried to write a Brainfuck interpreter in Python. It didn't quite work.

Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream. I said before, I don't dream: I do. I had a really good time duriung the last six weeks' holidays: I'd just spent every waking hour of every day writing (code, mostly) and reading and learning in any form. It was the best time I've ever had.

Had to put someone you love into hospice care

Built your own PC from parts

Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you

Had a booth at a street fair

Dyed your hair. Woo, great fun, etc..

Been a DJ

Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal. I never used LiveJournal, DeadJournal was fun though.

Written your own role playing game

Been arrested

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2004-11-27

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