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| # | Comment | Survey |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | If I'm hiring strictly on the basis of skills, the white man. There are a lot of other factors that might come into play, however, not the least of which is "who do I think will be more comfortable/pleasant to work with". And the race/sex of the applicants just does NOT come into it at all. Well, unless the woman is flirting with me in a serious way... (that was a JOKE!! a JOKE!!!) | You're a personnel manager, interviewing job applicants... |
| 32 | He certainly should be suspended, but what he did is NOTHING like Patricia Smith's situation. Sure, he re-used some one-liners - I won't even get into whether he did it knowingly and intentionally, let's say he DID. That is NOT the same as completely INVENTING people, situations, and stories that you pass off as true journalism. If Ms. Smith wanted to write novels, that should have been her vocation. Presenting fiction as human-interest reporting is, in my mind, way further down on the ethical scale than revamping some one-liners. And the whole black/woman thing is completely irrelevant, IMO. It's a red herring. | Mike Barnicle |
| 33 | Two here at work - Norton anti-virus and ClipCache (a clipboard history program). At home, however, I have on the order of six - ICQ, PerfMon, Personal Web Server, Audio Mixer, RealPlayer, VirusShield. Tray programs, IMHO, are a very cool feature. Having a very non-intrusive way to access frequently-used apps, and get realtime information from them, really kicks butt. | Windows 95/98/NT users, how many tray icons do you have? |
| 34 | Haven't been following it... I don't feel any major sentimental reason to leave it down there though. If people want to spend their money on raising it, that's OK with me, although I'd personally rather they contributed it to helping end hunger instead. | What do you think of the recent efforts to raise part of the hull of the TITANIC? |
| 35 | I thought about how I'd feel to get such a letter today, and I realized that pretty much no matter what it said, I'd be really psyched to have gotten it. I can see the dangers inherent in changing things, but then again there are dangers we experience every day based on our choices in the present; just making things DIFFERENT doesn't necessarily scare me off. I'm not sure just what I'd say, though I can think of a few things that would almost certainly be in there. I'd trust the me of 10 years ago not to go batty trying too hard to do or avoid things, and it would be pretty darn cool, if it were possible. ***Timmi: Would it be asking that waitress at Nightstage for her phone number? :) | If it were possible right this moment to send a message into the past to yourself, would you do it? |
| 36 | I live by myself, and I LOVE it! I do sometimes miss the community of people I used to live with at the various group houses I shared, but I can offset that to some extent by having people over frequently. I love the freedom, the privacy, and the utter lack of feeling annoyed at my roommates (or they at me) about anything. I figure this is a good time in my life to do this, since I've never lived alone before (I'm pretty gregarious), and I'm currently romantically unattached. This really should have been a single-choice survey, no? | How many people do you live with? |
| 37 | I have weighed between 133 and 140 for at least the past 10 years, except for a little while at about 145 when I was working out a lot. | How much do you weigh? |
| 38 | For me, gaining weight is much harder, so that's what I answered. Speaking in more general terms, though, the world seems to have a lot more problems losing it (which, if you ask me, is a symptom of an obsession with the "thin = attractive" message that the media pumps down our throats). ** reality: Just so. It should be what you're comfortable with (and definitely what keeps you healthy). It's just frustrating when really attractive people decide they need to lose weight to meet the societal aesthetic. I certainly didn't mean to imply that you can't have good reasons to lose (or gain!) weight. | Speaking in terms of weight, which do you think is harder to do? |
| 39 | They don't, since I don't have a middle name. When I used to play lots of video games in the early 80's, I would frequently use "O" as a middle initial for the games that wouldn't let you put in spaces. So one time I got high score on this submarine game, and put in "GOD" as my initials. The game screen went black, and then these color-cycling letters appeared in the middle of the screen that said "I am honored". Cute game designers.... :) | Do your initials spell out a word? |
| 40 | WPI for two years, then I got a summer job at FTP Software. Wasn't doing all that well in school, and was doing really well at the job, so I kinda stayed. Now I'm a Professional Computer Weenie, and the lack of a degree doesn't seem to have hurt me much (although there is a lot of social context that my friends from WPI gained in those last two years that I do regret having missed out on). I occasionally toy with the idea of going back to school, which I'd love to do if I had the time and the money (OK, the money. I'd have the time if I didn't need the money). I think I'd go for a degree in Cognitive Science somewhere, not WPI, not MIT. | If you attended college at any point for an undergraduate education, what college or university did you attend? And did you finish and obtain a degree? |
