1. Where will you travel next? For business, likely either Boston, Denver or San Francisco. For pleasure, probably Maine, but I have my eye on Umbria or Quebec or Hawaii. My passport has expired. Need to fix that. It was about stamped out anyway. I’ve never been to Scotland, yet have been to the UK and Ireland multiple times. Friends of mine are in Scotland now, biking across the fen I suspect. Off the subject, if asked who you think the most parsimonious people in the world are, how would you answer? For me there are a lot of candidates, including the Germans, and this is what a German colleague asked me one time. “How was copper wire invented? Two Scots picked up a penny at the same time.” 2. What makes you angry? I am slow to anger, and there are not a lot of things that bring me to a boil. Real or perceived personal injustice gets my dander up. For family and friends, as well as myself. Transgressions made by my kids when they know explicitly what they should not do. My ex-wife also seems to know how to push my buttons. All she has to do is open her mouth, and some insult usually tumbles out. Sometimes my Dilbertian boss makes me angry. Hmmmmm, I guess I’m angrier than I thought. Have I mentioned our President? 3. Have you ever had a pet? Please tell me about it. Yes, lots of them, from childhood into adulthood. Haven’t had one for the last five years though, because allergies have arisen and I live alone and travel for business frequently. My last pets were family pets, a neurotic impure shepherd rescued from the pound, and a Heinz cat also from the pound, a Christmas present for my daughter. The cat would crawl up on my chest while I was in full slouch on the couch, inches from my face, and I’d give it a good face, neck and head massage. This cat would close it’s eyes, and purr, purr, purr. It would invariably begin to drool while this was going on so it became self-limiting. And I was highly allergic; I would have to wash my hands before doing anything, because if I inadvertently rubbed my eyes, the result was itching agony. The cat was a hunter, too. Birds, mice, lizards. Yuck. 4. How did you choose your username? I used to sit and watch Disney movies with my children when they were very little. One of these movies was Aladdin. One of the characters in the Disney movie was a wise cracking parrot named Iago. I can be a wise ass myself, so I became a Iago fan. 5. Tell me something frivolous. You mean not including the first four answers? Any book purportedly written by George Bush.
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Date: 2003-06-07 12:23 pm (UTC)2. What makes you angry? I am slow to anger, and there are not a lot of things that bring me to a boil. Real or perceived personal injustice gets my dander up. For family and friends, as well as myself. Transgressions made by my kids when they know explicitly what they should not do. My ex-wife also seems to know how to push my buttons. All she has to do is open her mouth, and some insult usually tumbles out. Sometimes my Dilbertian boss makes me angry. Hmmmmm, I guess I’m angrier than I thought. Have I mentioned our President?
3. Have you ever had a pet? Please tell me about it. Yes, lots of them, from childhood into adulthood. Haven’t had one for the last five years though, because allergies have arisen and I live alone and travel for business frequently. My last pets were family pets, a neurotic impure shepherd rescued from the pound, and a Heinz cat also from the pound, a Christmas present for my daughter. The cat would crawl up on my chest while I was in full slouch on the couch, inches from my face, and I’d give it a good face, neck and head massage. This cat would close it’s eyes, and purr, purr, purr. It would invariably begin to drool while this was going on so it became self-limiting. And I was highly allergic; I would have to wash my hands before doing anything, because if I inadvertently rubbed my eyes, the result was itching agony. The cat was a hunter, too. Birds, mice, lizards. Yuck.
4. How did you choose your username? I used to sit and watch Disney movies with my children when they were very little. One of these movies was Aladdin. One of the characters in the Disney movie was a wise cracking parrot named Iago. I can be a wise ass myself, so I became a Iago fan.
5. Tell me something frivolous. You mean not including the first four answers? Any book purportedly written by George Bush.