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What is your earliest memory?
Submitted by Megan.
My earliest memory was from before I was 4, but I'm not exactly sure when. We were living in Yokosuka Naval Base, which is on the southern edge of Tokyo Bay. My earliest memory is riding on my dad's shoulders as we walked around an inlet of the bay just outside our home. There was a man in scuba gear swimming around, which must have been really cool, because otherwise I don't know why this would be my earliest memory. I went back to that spot 10 years later and discovered that they had filled it in with concrete.
When it comes down to it, Vox has some interesting layout options for photos and videos.
What was your very first job?
Submitted by Laurel.
Baskin Robbins! It was pretty much the only job I could get on a work permit before I was old enough to legally work full time. My boss also had no scruples, so I could actually work more than the 20 hours a week I was legally permitted, as long as I did so for the $4.25/hr minimum wage he was paying -- he did later offer me a $0.25/hr raise if I would come back the next summer. We were a dissatisfied lot -- one of my fired co-scoopers started calling in fake cake orders to get back at my boss, but my boss figured out that rainbow sherbet + rocky road cakes weren't in season.
What TV show(s) will you be watching this season? Why?
Submitted by ducnly.vox.com.
Battlestar Galactica for darkness, Scrubs for levity, and MythBusters for real explosions. I'm giving Lost one last chance to redeem second season suckage, but I'm thinking it's time for that show to end.
I'll also checkout Heroes and Studio 60 for at least a little bit, but I watched both tonight and wasn't particularly enthralled by either.
I eventually gave in a made a myspace page, as I've discovered you can't comment w/o being logged in. Or perhaps I wanted to practice making visual monstrocities. If you see messages in your inbox hoo-ring for friends, that's why.
What song or lyrics are stuck in your head at the moment? What album is it from?
Submitted by Lox Ly.
OK Go's Here it Goes Again is stuck in my head. d and I were watching The Colbert Report. Colbert showed a brief clip from the treadmill video and interviewed one of the band members. d didn't think the clip looked all that special so I pulled up the full thing on Youtube -- it's been stuck in my head since. Oh, and once she saw the full thing d thought it was great. My favorite part of the video is the using the two treadmills to rotate around.
How cute were you as a baby/child? Let's see those baby pics!
Hmm, my mom said I was an ugly child. Let's leave it at that.
I got to meet Frank Robinson at the commissioning of the USS Oriole. He let me talk to him about Cal Ripken getting close to breaking the streak and was generally really nice to a young, brace-faced kid.
There's two ways I can interpret this question, so I'll answer both:
1. A Power Ranger that I got sometime between the age of 0 and 4. It is one of the few surviving toys as the many moves I've made have been a war of attrition on my belongings. Somehow this toy made it through, and I'm still amused that the current generation of youth grew up on a Japanese TV show I watched when I was 3.
2. A old Topcon RE Super camera from my grandfather. It was the first camera to use full-aperture (through the lens) metering and I love studying how the camera is able to embed information in the physical body of the camera without the help of LCD displays. Unfortunately, the shutter curtain is broken, Topcon never made spare parts, and no one can promise to repair it. I still keep it on the shelf as a reminder that my grandpa was a shutterbug like me.
