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July 22, 2005

Ode to The Friday 5


When it was still active, The Friday 5 was something I used to look forward to. The questions weren't always great, but I liked the concept well enough and I remember having a lot of fun with it.
So for today's blog, I thought I'd go ahead and pay tribute to the now defunct Friday 5 with my own set of Friday 5 questions (and answers):

1. What is your favorite 80s video game character....and WHY??
'Squish' from Space Invaders on the Atari 5200. I named her Squish because she just looked like a little blue washcloth that bounced back and forth as she did her little Space Invaders march across the screen. So Cute!!

2. What was your most recent music purchase....and WHEN??
I believe it was Naturally, by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. SO good!! Oh, when?? crap...like maybe 4 months ago. Could it really have been that long?? Man, time is flying - I need to buy some music. I am about to get some Two Star Symphony, but I haven't yet. I do zero online music stuff, which is shocking I know, but true - so since most of you are all into that, I expect that your answers will be much more recent. :)

3. What was the last thing you ate yesterday....and WHERE did you eat it?
Razzleberry pie, warmed, with vanilla ice-cream.....where?!?! ugh, what a lame thing to ask, ok fine, I ate it at my desk, in front of the computer.

4. What is your most favorite sci-fi technological device/ability?
Ok,"most favorite" is too hard to answer....Oh!! I know a good one! I loved that little computerized pen thingie that the receptionist in Total Recall used to color her fingenails. Nanotechnology rules!!

5. What was the coolest project you ever did in school (grade or college)? I'm looking for things like science fair, college of engineering robotics, or cool art projects, etc... (tangible results)
I never did any great science fair stuff (wish I had), but I had this really cool art class in high school in which I made a brass and copper keychain. We were able to cut free form patterns out of a sheet of copper and a sheet of brass with a jigsaw - then we sanded and filed the edges smooth, soldered them together and then finally polished them. Mine was SO RAD and I am STILL mad about the fact that I lost it. :(

Pearls of "wisdom" by Jamie at July 22, 2005 08:23 AM


Comments

#6.) What would be a pretty cool show to win tickets to?

Answer: http://jamhouston.proboards45.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1122056407

Posted by: Nino at July 22, 2005 06:27 PM


Hey! You can only do that if you answer the other 5...

Come on....it's fun! :)

Posted by: Jamie at July 22, 2005 06:43 PM


1.) Link - Um, what 10 year old boy in 1985 DIDN'T want to be Link?

2.) I get music every week from artists for JamHouston. I rarely buy music. If I do, its from iTunes. Last iTunes purchase? A killer track by Irakere.

3.) Yesterday I in fact at Corn Pops. In my dining room. At 11:30 PM.

4.) I'd say holodecks but we all know that the human race would soon become extinct if those were ever created.

5.) I once turned in a Chemistry report thing that the teacher gave me a 150% on. He added 50% because the layout and design and presentation of the project was "Incredible." The rest of the class hated me from then on. I admit, 50% extra was a bit much. Alas, the woes of being in a graphics designer family since I can remember. :)

Posted by: Nino at July 22, 2005 10:21 PM


Cool Nino, I want to see this incredible chemistry report. Sounds interesting.

You can SO put links in the comments section. Trust me, blog spammers make abundant use of this function. (Unfortunately for them I am just that bored and on top of my blog, that I usually ban their IP within half an hour of them posting it. Sad but true. I know this is not the ideal solution, but I just haven't gotten around to doing much else about it)

Sooo, to make it easier, I'll post the link again:
Win tickets from JamHouston/JamAustin

Posted by: Jamie at July 22, 2005 11:47 PM


1. i don't know. it'd have to be a standup though. the only home system i played much was the atari 2600 and the characters didn't have much going for them.

2. three at once...20th century masters: the best of webb pierce, marty robbins: gunfighter ballads and trail songs (american milestones release), and the little darlin sounds of johnny paycheck: the beginning. purchased a couple of weeks ago i think. i've been buying a lot of old country music lately.

3. sausage and biscuits with gravy, and a coffee. at the house of pies. if we include drinks, the last thing i had was a margarita on the rocks at blanco's while listening to the incredible and authentic honky tonk sounds of dale watson.

4. i want mirror implants in my eye sockets to permanently cover my eyes, with heads-up data displayed to me through them. thanks, william gibson.

5. i don't remember much from my past. i did one on aerodynamics in high school, one on pyramids in junior high. neither were particularly cool. i don't remember anything with tangible results in college.

Posted by: slacker at July 23, 2005 02:54 AM


1) My old ass can't remember the 80s.

2) Most recent music purchase: I bought a small cowbell that I hooked up to a pedal so my left foot could be as obnoxious as the rest of my limbs during drum solos.

3) Last thing I ate yesterday: Does beer count?

4) most favorite sci-fi technological device/ability: Uh, hmm? That I can play a cowbell with my left foot. That's as sci-fi as I get, remember, I only scored a 4% on the Geek Test.

5) The coolest project I ever did in school: Become a library asst. so I could skip the last 2 hours of school and go practice with my band called METAL REIGN. "And the dragon comes in the niiiiiiiiiight!"

Posted by: nuje at July 23, 2005 02:41 PM


Slacker - lol @ 2600 character comment. That guy from Pitfall was pretty cool though, no???
Aerodynamics and pyramids??? I don't believe you. Both sound very cool.


Nuje!!!!! - That is H Y S T E R I C A L. Yes, I remember you guys telling me about Strong Bad, but I hadn't actually gone and checked it out any further yet.
I am crying from laughing so hard. Well, yeah, I'll definitely be back. Way too funny.

The rest of your answers are pretty funny too. Thank you for calling me old (we are the same age)....don't feel bad, I only cried for 2 hours, not three.

Beer only counts if it was frozen (or gelatinous) and you used an eating utensil to consume it.

Where are the links to the METAL REIGN mp3s???? You can't post a band name without a link of some sort. It is the law. I know people weren't making mp3s in the 80s, but people were recording stuff and you should have converted your old cassette recordings to mp3s by now. It is doable, ask your geek friends, they'll tell you. :)


Posted by: Jamie at July 23, 2005 03:43 PM


I don't have any recordings of Metal Reign, but I think I have a cassette of Liquidrone lying around here somewhere. I should have superdork transfer it to digital so I can have it forever and ever. Liquidrone's music in the early 90's was stranger than Drop Trio's and made the Southern Backtones (another old band of mine) sound like girly light rock. Liquidrone sounded like Soundgarden and Charles Mingus having wild unhappy sex...uh...um...ewe! Sorry.

Posted by: nuje at July 23, 2005 05:59 PM


That was nasty Nuje. But, yet, frighteningly accurate.

Posted by: Nino at July 25, 2005 01:57 PM


OMG! I love that nail color changing pen thingy! I totally want one!

That and replicated food that tastes good and has no calories are my favorite sci-fi thingies.

And look! I found your blog! :D

Posted by: Kymberlie R. McGuire at August 4, 2005 12:51 AM