Bloggers often get roped into passing along surveys or revealing lists or other memes. I’ve avoided the trend entirely until today. Why give in today? It’s a very complex answer, but if I had to summarize it, I’d say ... it’s because no one ever included me before.
Four jobs you’ve had in your life:
(1) Parts puller for my Dad’s fertilizer equipment company
(2) Captain Tidy, mascot for Calgary’s Anti-Littering Campaign (volunteer)
(3) Editor of Variety’s Web site
(4) Community Builder for the CBC Elections Web site
Four movies you could watch over and over:
(1) The Princess Bride
(2) Ferris Bueler’s Day Off
(3) Grosse Pointe Blank
(4) Die Hard
Four TV shows you love to watch:
(1) Arrested Development
(2) The Daily Show
(3) Law & Order: (any that’s not SVU)
(4) Freaks and Geeks
Four places you’ve been on vacation:
(1) Asia
(2) South America
(3) Australia
(4) Africa
(5) Europe
(6) North America
Four websites you visit daily:
(1) Google Maps
(2) Flickr
(3) Craig’s List
(4) Digg (new addition)
Four of your favorite foods:
(1) Pasta (spaghetti with meat sauce)
(2) Smoked Meats, especially good hot dogs
(3) Sushi
(4) Peanut Butter and Honey sandwich
Four places you’d rather be:
(1) Camping
(2) In a movie theater
(3) Vancouver (if I’m elsewhere)
(4) At an excellent Irish Pub
“I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so. ... She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that’s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain—it’s that the pain is actually a gift. What’s the option? God doesn’t really give you another choice.”
After over a decade of user testing, it is clear that the way we search the web is similar to the way we would search our home for valuables as it was burning to the ground. Frantically.
“We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value ... The shift necessitates a fundamental change in our prevailing theory of the firm… The current theory holds that the singular goal of the corporation should be shareholder value maximization. Instead, companies should place customers at the center of the firm and focus on delighting them, while earning an acceptable return for shareholders.”
Wow! I had no idea you were a Fruvous fan!
This is exactly why these lists are a great idea - you really can learn new and interesting things about your friends. (As long as the requests you get to join them don't end with threats of bad luck!)
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)