Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Four Things Meme

via him and her and her. I've tweaked the categories a bit, as most people seem to on this meme, combining questions from my sources and replacing the last one....

4 jobs I’ve had
Computer programmer
Translator
Research assistant
Teacher

FOUR MOVIES YOU CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER
Casablanca
The Fifth Element
The Fisher King
It

FOUR CITIES YOU'VE LIVED IN
Somerville, MA
Cambridge, MA
Berkeley, CA
Tokyo, Japan

FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH
West Wing
Homicide: Life on the Street
Babylon 5
Dharma and Greg

FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION (Vacation?)
Seattle, WA
Kansas City, MO
Kansas City, KS
Amsterdam, Holland

FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY
Bloglines (aka: my blogroll, plus some)
Blogger
HNN (starting with Cliopatria, of course)
NY Times (though Wash. Post is rapidly overtaking it)

FOUR OF YOUR FAVOURITE FOODS
Chocolate
Garlic
Saag Paneer
Seltzer

FOUR PLACES YOU'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
Sleeping, in bed
A cafe, preferably outdoors
A great library
Closer to family

4 early musical influences
Phil Ochs
Joan Baez
Dvorak's New World Symphony
Stan Rogers

Four Computers You’ve Owned
mid/late-80s: Osborne Executive (portable! two floppy drives! seven inch screen!)
early-90s: IBM PC AT (oh, the power of the 80286)
mid-90s: HP laptop (the model name I've forgotten, but it wasn't really state of the art when I bought it)
early-00s: HP Pavilion 500Mz Celeron (just replaced with a 2.8Ghz P4 on which I'm writing this, as it runs its first Windows update...)

2 comments:

ArticulateDad said...

Saag paneer is always my test for a new Indian restaurant. If that's good, then I can trust everything else will be. I even tried making it from scratch once at home. Cheese is just time consuming, but not difficult. The final product wasn't outstanding, and for all the time I expected it to be, so I haven't tried again.

Ahistoricality said...

I've never tried making it from scratch. I used to be able to get a pretty good canned Saag (actually, it was pretty intense, so you cut it with one or two packs of frozen chopped spinach, and then it was really good), but noplace around here stocks it.

My test for Italian restaurants is Eggplant Parmesan; that almost knocked saag off the list. Sushi/sashimi/poke came pretty close, too.