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Crikey! Meme alert!

Karen told me to meme. I am to give you 8 random facts about me.

1. I live in a semi-detached house in England with my darling Karen and toddler Bernard
2. I am eighty feet tall
3. I am made entirely of titanium
4. I have rocket launchers for forearms
5. I have laser beams for eyes
6. I carry a satchel of kung po chicken on my knee.
7. I write computer software for a living
8. I do all sorts of things in my spare time

Of course, anybody who has read my About page will already know these things.

Now here are the rules:

1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules.
3. At the end of your blog, Chose people to get tagged and list their names. Or don’t. Who’s going to check?

If you are reading this and you have not already done this meme, then consider yourself tagged.

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Run for your lives! A mem!

Four jobs you’ve had in your life:

  • Barman
  • Website designer (but then who hasn’t?)
  • Desktop publisher (hey, that doesn’t mean that I was actually any good at it though)
  • Computer programmer

Four movies you could watch over and over:
Over and over, eh? Well, here are four movies that I like quite a lot. Not sure about “over and over” though.

Four places you’ve lived:

  • Lincolnshire
  • Warwickshire
  • Surrey
  • Berkshire

Four TV shows you love to watch:
Oh stop it with the unnecessarily passionate language. No-one really “loves” to watch TV shows, do they?

Four places you’ve been on vacation:

  • New York
  • Prague
  • Budapest
  • Dublin

Four websites you visit daily:

Four of your favorite foods:

  • Chilli con carne
  • Pistachio nuts
  • Opal fruits
  • Pizza

Four places you’d rather be:

  • The pub down the road
  • The pub across the road
  • The pub up the road
  • The pub on the other side of the roundabout

Four albums you can’t live without:
You’re doing it again. Stop it. I like these four, but I would find a way to soldier on if for some reason they were taken from me, never to return. Get some perspective.

Four magazines you read:
I can’t tell whether this is “read” in the present tense or past tense. So I’m opting for the latter, otherwise my answer would be a bit short. I’m also assuming that it is specifically asking about paper-based periodicals.

  • NME (up until quite recently)
  • Bassist (a few years ago)
  • Look-in (a few decades ago)
  • Dandy (a few decades ago)

Four cars you’ve owned:
This survey seems to be aimed at people who have either been driving for a long time, or are quite bad at it. I’ve taken a liberty with number four.

  • Ford Sierra
  • VW Golf
  • Vauxhall Astra
  • A small square of car-pet

Four people to do this meme:
What do you think I am? Some sort of clairvoyant? Stuff off.

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Memes beat whinging any day

Snaffled from [Pix][]:

[pix]: http://www.pixeldiva.co.uk/memes-beat-whinging-any-day.html

> Welcome to the 2005 edition of getting to know your friends. What you are supposed to do is copy this entire blog entry and paste it onto a new blog entry that you’ll post. Change all the answers so they apply to you, and then publish! Leave a comment if you do this.The theory is that you will learn a lot of little (random) things about your friends, if you did not know them already.

1. **What time did you get up this morning?**
8:25am
1. **Diamonds or pearls?**
Diamonds, I guess, but I’m not particularly enthusiastic about either
1. **What was the last film you saw at the cinema?**
Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
1. **What is your favourite TV show?**
I don’t really watch anything religiously. I quite like CSI and Frasier.
1. **What do you usually have for breakfast?**
Honey nut corn flakes
1. **Favourite cuisine?**
Pizza
1. **What food do you dislike?**
I don’t like the texture of broad beans.
1. **What is your favourite CD at the moment?**
I’m pretty big into [Funeral][] by Arcade Fire, but generally I’ll listen to lots of stuff in rotation rather than one album a few hundred times over.
1. **Morning or night person?**
Night
1. **Favourite sandwich?**
Cheese and pickle – it’s highly practical.
1. **What characteristic do you despise?**
Hypocrisy.
1. **Favourite item of clothing?**
I wear Levi 501s most days, but I’m very attached to this particular pair of brown shoes that I own.
1. **If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would it be?**
I’m not a big holiday person, but I’d like to go back to New York sometime.
1. **What colour is your bathroom?**
Pale green
1. **Favourite brand of clothing?**
I prefer my clothes to have as little branding as possible.
1. **Where would you retire to?**
Not planning on doing so. My mum’s mum is still working, and she’s the only one of my grandparents who is still alive.
1. **What was your most memorable birthday?**
I think birthdays should be low-key and sophisticated.
1. **Favourite sport to watch?**
Hahahahahahahah! Oh, the joys of generic questionnaires.
1. **Who do you least expect to complete this?**
Me.
1. **Person you expect to complete it first?**
Pix. She’s already done it.
1. **Person who is least busy?**
Okay, this is getting stupid.
1. **When is your birthday?**
August.
1. **What is your shoe size?**
11 or 12
1. **Pets?**
Just the girlfriend.
1. **Any new and exciting news you’d like to share with us?**
Yes, but you’ll have to wait.
1. **What did you want to be when you were little?**
Cool.
1. **What is your favourite flower?**
Paeonia Lactiflora.
1. **What date on the calendar are you looking forward to?**
20th June 2006.
1. **One word to describe the person who you snaffled this from?**
Female.

[funeral]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006ZRX86/