Only Three Words

Memes are lame. Here's a meme:

1. Where is your cell phone? Next to me.
2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend? Likes robot music.
3. Your hair? Very badly behaved.
4. Where is your father? Close to mother.
5. Your favorite thing to do? Contingent on mood.
6. Your dream last night? Vague, incomprehensible mess.
7. Your dream car? I don’t care.
8. The room you're in? There’s only one.
9. Who did you hang out with last night? Robot music lover.
10. Your fears? An unhappy future.
11. What aren’t you good at? Peeling apples properly. OR Life in general.
12. Muffins? I prefer doughnuts.
13. One of your wish list items? Weeds: Season Two.
14. The last thing you did? Answered number 13.
15. Your computer? Thank you brother.
16. Your pet? Cutest imaginary puppy.
17. You are wearing? Heart on sleeve.
18. Your life? State of flux.
19. Your mood? OMG! WTF? LOL!
20. Missing? Plan for future.
21. Your car? Subway, streetcar, bus.
22. What are you thinking about now? What's for dinner?
23. Your work? Aspiring professional blogger.
24. Your summer? Filled with newness.
25. Your relationship status? Smells like vanilla.
26. Your favorite color(s)? Deep sea turquoise.
27. When is the last time you cried? On the train.
28. When was the last time you laughed? Too long ago.
29. School? Out for summer.
30. Favorite 90’s group? Color Me Badd

See? Wasn't that fun? OK now you. Off you go...

A History of Wikipedia

Taking a page out of Kottke's book (or rather a meme out of his blog), this is my Wikipedia contrail (ie: Wikipedia search history). I'm sure my search history is more extensive than this but I work from different computers so I don't have the complete list. I love Wikipedia so this was a fun exercise for me but I'm not so sure will be very interesting to all of you. But then again this is my blog. So here goes it:

• Battle Royale - a great novel that I was reading (and then movie that I saw) by Koushun Takami
• Coffee (history) - I was discussing the etymology of the word with my brother (incidentally I was right, comes from the Turkish/Farsi word kahve)
• Dominoes - just looking up a bit of history on the game for a documentary my friend is working on
  
• Julian Beever - for a blog post about his street art
  
• Kingdom Hearts - a video game my friend had told me about
  
• La Linea - reminiscing about one of the best shows I watched when I was a kid (and for a blog post)
  
• MacGyver - also for a recent blog post
• Monopoly - just out of sheer curiosity (which then turned into a blog post)
  
• Nintendo DS - before the release date was announced I was desperate for any information I could find!
  
• Persian Jews - wanted to know a little more about myself
  
• Rube Goldberg - I had recently read about Rube Goldberg machines and wanted to know a little about the man
  
• Serge Gainsbourg - I had read an article about him that my brother sent me and I wanted to know a little more
• Teh - call me dense but I started to realize that people were writing it like this on purpose and I wanted to know why
  
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - the fantastic book I'm reading right now by Michael Chabon
  
• Union Station (Toronto)- I don't remember why I was looking this up - I live in Toronto, maybe I wanted some history?
  
• Utada Hikaru - Japanese pop singer that has a really great song on the Kingdom Hearts videogame soundtrack
  
• W00t - I wanted to know the origin of this word, wonderful loot? We Owned the Other Team? Who knows?

OK so now that we've established that I'm a big nerd, I will tag a few people to see if they're big nerds too:

• Zigtai
• Vin
• Techbee (pardon, je ne connais pas votre nom!)
  
• Bibi
• Anyone else who wants to play