28 posts tagged “qotd”
If you had to write your autobiography in 6 words, what would you write?
Submitted by mitzie.
I came. I saw. I pedalled.
What are you most looking forward to this weekend?
Now that I'm back from my trip to the New Jersey office and got to hug my wonderful wife (who came to the airport to get me in the wee hours this morning after my flight was delayed), I'm really looking forward to riding the Owl's Roost trail again. We "discovered" this challenging single-track last weekend and I was pleasantly surprised that it was both technically challenging and had some fast stretches.
Lately, we've been riding around Country Park and Tanglewood, but Owl's Roost reminds us of the Kenna Cartwright trails back in Kamloops (before the pine beetle ate all the trees). We'll bring a camera sometime and get our own shots of Owl's Roost, but the pics on the Owl's Roost page give you an idea.
Do you think real love can last throughout any distance, or will long distance end most relationships?
Submitted by Miss Joy.
I don't think it is a question about how "real" love is. Two people can love each other but not have the ability to keep their feelings "fresh" when they don't see the person everyday. I believe that a relationship's ability to withstand distance is more a question with how confident and secure the people are as individuals.
What would you do with your extra time off next time you are in-between jobs?
Submitted by Oleg Dulin.
As I am actually "expecting" such an event, this QotD was a must-answer.
Biking: It has been a long, cold winter (by North Carolina standards) and I've not been as diligent about spinning on my stationary bike as I could have been. If I get far enough on my website design this week, I might even hit a trail or two this weekend. But nothing would be as great as getting into a daily ride for a few weeks while I am in-between jobs. I want to spend some more time at Tanglewood because its such a fast trail and provides a decent length with some interesting challenges. Then there's Country Park with its tight and twisty loop and plenty of roots and logs to keep my full-suspension bike working hard. I also want to try out Bur-Mil, because every person I talk to asks me "Have you ridden Bur-Mil yet??" and I'm tired of not being able to say "Of course!".
Programming: I have at least 5 projects that are in various states of completion that I haven't had time to revisit lately. I'll have a few Flash projects done soon but I really need some time to work out the fuzzy logic navigation and swarm intelligence projects. It will be nice to get those two projects out of the way because I keep "dreaming code" at night.
Arranging living space: Our son is moving here this summer and we need to 'create' a bedroom for him. We are V E R Y happy that he is coming here to live! Moving away from the town where he lives was the hardest thing I ever had to do, so we were super-excited when he decided that he wanted to live with us in N.C. on a permanent basis! He will be coming down here in June or July and starting his first year in high school as a US student. Exciting!!
Play "Hide and go Squeak": Our cat likes to play her own brand of 'Hide and go seek' and when she finds her human, she makes the cutest little "SQUEAK-Meow!".. and then runs away. Fun!
What are 10 things you've done that other people probably haven't?
Submitted by Janette.
10. Got run over by Nigel Mansell (okay, it was only my toes).
9. Rode my bike on the San Andreas fault line.
8. Snuck into a foreign country.
7. Met my wife "online" (not through a 'match' site).
6. Hiked through Death Valley.
5. Saw DEVO in concert (yeah yeah.. not many actually want to).
4. Rode the "Dueling Dragons" roller coaster at Universal Studios with my wife and son over 20 times in one day.
3. Rode the 'flume trail' over Lake Tahoe (despite my issue with heights..)
2. Hit 60MPH (97KM/h) on a bike (not motorcycle).
1. Quit smoking, cold-turkey, on my first try and never had a 'relapse'.
If you were suddenly granted the day off today, how would you go spend your free time?
Looking for a new job.
What's your alma mater?
Submitted by Lies.
The city where I lived most of my life, Kamloops BC, has grown in many ways. For example, the place where I got my BSc. in computing science is called Thompson Rivers University, but it hasn't always been called that. The first classes I ever took there were your basic first year arts classes with a few computer programming courses thrown in. At that time, it wasn't even a university and was called "Cariboo College" (yeah, Caribou is misspelled, just like it was back then).
There was an instructor there by the name of Wayne Hilmo who was my Pascal instructor. Yes, I'm so old that I took a course programming Pascal. He was a pretty good instructor, but he unfortunately didn't stay for too long and went to another university in Alberta.
I didn't take those classes too seriously, except for the computing, which really messed up my GPA. What really sucks is that this particular institution does not grandfather GPA - I had to battle those bombed classes from 1985 to get my GPA up high enough to graduate in 2006!
After Cariboo College, they adopted the somewhat schizophrenic University College of the Cariboo, or UCC (yeah, still spelled wrong). Its a college.. its a university.. what is it?!?! When I started my BSc degree, it was called UCC but in the middle of my studies the name changed once again to Thompson Rivers University. That is a better name, at least its not ambiguous, but I really liked that it had achieved "real" University status before my wife and I graduated.
TRU is all grown up now and attracts many students from around the world. I would have to say the TRU is the best thing about Kamloops.
Finish this sentence: "I am glad to say that I have never ___."
Submitted by chl*.
"..crossed the streams".
What are your Major League Baseball playoff predictions?
I won't watch a single game.
What shows are you looking forward to in the new fall TV season?
"The Office"
It isn't new this season, but so what.. it is funny! Reminds me a lot of where I work, too. Except they get more work done in Scranton...
