facebook q&a

2011 - June 17
QR codes seem ridiculous to me...

Do you ever look up QR codes you pass? If so, how often? Have you ever found anything interesting? Do you think they are cool or lame? Do you sometimes wish you were a QR code?

Kelvin [Z]: I wish you were a QR code

Brennan [N]: I wish every object + every person had one, but that it was invisible.

Jason [Y]: About 25-30 % of the time. And never anything interesting.

Brennan [N]: In all seriousness, 20 - 25% and it's usually just a link... which is sorta lame. I want a clue that leads me on an augmented reality gaming adventure!

Ryan [V]: never, because i know it's always just a stupid, faux-trendy advertising gimmick. banks and old companies trying to be cool. no, i don't want a link to Weyerhaeuser's stupid Twitter page.

Tony [C]: i like bacon.

Ezra [S]: at work we're using QR codes to track coffee collection, processing, and shipping

Tori [A]: No. ;

2011 - June 10
Oh, this is going to be a regular thing. It's too good.

Word association fun time!!! Say you have the letters "AP"!!! What are some acronyms you could derive from it?

Daniel [R]:
Ant Piss!
Alpha Penguin
Amazonian Partrage

Anna [L]:
Art Pants
Angst Pants
Ant Pants
Avery's Pants



Tony [C]:
anal penetration

Amy [P]:
Amy Pao

Jay [E]:
Action Pabst
Anger Putt
Aching Pterodactyl

Jeanette [L]:
associated press

Me:
?@tony that was the first one that came to my mind ridiculously but i thought it would be in poor taste to begin with that one.

Steven [M]:
Antidisestablishmentarianism Presentation

Me:
apple pringle
antagonistic pollywog

Steven [M]:
Anarchist Porn
Aging Pedophile
Apathetic Platypus
Archeologist Poop
ABBA Pokemon
Articulate Podiatrist.
Angry Poonani

Andy [C]:
Acer palmatum

Tori [A]:
Absolute Poltergeist
Aspartame Pineapples
Accidental Phlegm
Aristocratic Patronage
Augerational Philanthropy
Apple Programming
Audrey's Perogative
Ableton Project
A Plus
Atlantic - Pacific
Atypical Pedagogy

Brendan [A]:
I'm boring and always think "All Purpose" because of AP Flour

Tori [A]:
Astral Projection
Anytime Playmate
Already Phat
Antibacterial Pollution
Algerian Pharmaceuticals
American Pastimes
Angry Parents
Advertisement Prop

Me:
anticipated parallels
aggro partner
authoritarian panderer

Cole [R]:
Apocalyptic Prissy
Anticlimactic Philandering

Ron [E]:
This is a bastard of a post, because everyone has such good comments, and all I have is this androgynous patriarchy.

Kristoph [C-R]:
Absolutelly Perfect

Jay [E]:
acceptable pun

David [M]:
Affro puffs

2011 - May 24
:D

What's something you're neurotic about?

Sammy [B]:
Brains
Zombies
Not a good combo

Mihae [J]:
everything. pretty much.
Mihae Jung ?(especially framing stuff and cat hair on my couch

Lewis [C]:
I can't litter. If I drop soemthign I absolutely have to go back and pick it up and matter of fact i'll pick up all the litter aroudn that little piece just to make sure Karma/God/universe is satisfied

Devin [G]:
is everything a something?

Alex [O]:
I hate reading books. I mean, I love reading them, but it bothers me when I notice that I have bent the corner or placed a seem in the binding. Now I have a kindle, and the content of my books will be safe forever from my destructive hands.

Arlen [Y]:
When people recognize and acknowledge the irrationality of their thinking or actions, but continue with it. Only when I'm vested in the person or endeavor, though, does it bother me. It makes me want to berate them into the choice or way of thinking that they, themselves, recognize as being the most rational. If their opinion differs from mine, fine, or if they have different sensibilities than me, also fine.

2011 - May 10
After finding a blog with 300+ posts dedicated to cabbage, my new favorite thing...

The blog has like, recipes, sure, but jokes and body function/pet/Cabbage Patch Kids-related questions, too; if you had to pick a food item to dedicate a blog entirely to, what would it be? (I dare say bacon is too predictable an answer.)

Neil [D]: double stuf oreos

Tammy [V]: I love cabbage! Mine would have to be maggi seasoning sauce hahahha

Sarah [A]: You're hilarious.

Me: oh come on sarah! i know you have a bid!

Sarah [A]: Milk!

Jennie [K]: Eggs

Lyle [K]: Cabbage is awesome. Nutritious and mildly spicy. Last time at Research Club Brunch I grabbed a little extra cabbage. :)

Ním [W]: You're not fooling anyone, Hua. We know that it's your own blog. Cabbage forever!

Eric [A]: WATERMELON!!! I decided yesterday my last meal would be two whole watermelons and endless bun thit nuong.

Jennifer [G]: Haha, that's great.

Claire [D]: potatoes!

Neil [D]: toast.

Me: pop tarts.

Neil [D]: burritos, but people do that.

Neil [D]: http://www.thetoastblog.com/

Me: toast blog could truly use some work. it might be your duty.

Neil [D]: riveting, isn't it. I particularly like may 21st - not even any butter.

Me: that's just proof of how much that person likes toast.

Jennie [K]: i would also like to add peanut butter

2011 - April 21
After attempting to make coconut macaroons...

Who the hell decided to invent a hand mixer? Thought that it would be a good idea to separate egg whites from egg yolks to then beat them to death to create fancy desserts?!!! (< This is not a real question.) Think about it seriously: what is a man-made "tool" that strikes you are particularly genius in its peculiarity?! (< This is a real question.)

Gabe [F]: melon baller

Daniel [A]: Pez dispenser

Peter [W]: potato ricer

Careen [S]: the little nubbins I can attach to my right angle ruler that are always in the right place to make stair treads

Emanuele [M]: a bike?

2011 - April 13
I rather like to explore the concept of death in an open way. We are so frightened of it as a society. Why not do it in a public forum like Facebook? What I found particularly interesting was the people who shied away from it versus the people who embraced it. Perhaps it was because the nature of my original dream was esoteric; it's hard to say.

Dreamt I went thru the death sequence of my Caucasian male equivalent. It began like a movie intro, w/ highly-stylized credits alongside images of "me." Dream-time shifted to real-time during this sequence, so striking it roused me from sleep to lucidity. I began to will the sequence's continuation, but an awareness of pressure on the left side of my skull forced me to wake. (Share a death dream with me, please?)

Rachel [H]: Since I was little I would have dreams where a mob of people were being chased by some force or creature that we knew was coming, where we just knew we were doomed, and rather than running I would just give in and decide that I'd rather die than keep running in fear. Two of these I remember well. One where I was helping an entire classroom of little girls in nightgowns escape through a broken window out into the snow, waiting to be shot and just went out in the hallway to take a bullet in the face. Another was a grocery store and everyone was running and screaming and looking for places to hide. The whole dream was from the monster's point of view. I decided to walk out into the center checkstand and end it all.

John [G]: Here's one that I'll paraphrase briefly. Me and this other person are running from a spectral figure who appears to us as Hurley from Lost. We keep running from him, and he's one step ahead of us all the way. Eventually, we think we've gotten away from him and decide to go hide out in a restaurant, just to find him there, apparently just finishing his meal and bullshitting with the owner. The message is clear, we can't get away. I start to walk out of the restaurant, then get kind of annoyed and decide to confront him. I roll into the restaurant and say, "hey, what the fuck, why don't you just kill me?" To which he stands up, looks at me kind of joke menacingly and puts his hand on my neck. He then projects a future scenario to me (which I'm not really comfortable talking about). I see this thing from multiple perspectives and after the vision is done, he just kind of laughs and tells me: "Dude, I can't, becuase of that." He then proceeds to laugh and tell me: "that's going to be awesome."

Max [G]: well, i haven't had any crazy dreams in a while, but a couple weeks ago i was meditating for about an hour a day everyday and it started getting kind of crazy. during one session i imagined i was a fish. at first i was imagining the basic feeling of swimming in that kind of body, almost like i was a mermaid. but suddenly i just became a fish. i had trained myself not to react to negative emotions, to just feel them. and it was really scary! i was actually a fish! and suddenly i was in a school of fish and there was this instantaneous connectedness to them. i was sort of in the middle left of the school. i could zoom in and out to see myself but felt the movement of 'myself' only. one movement by one fish was every movement by every fish -- but each fish had their own will. we just all felt eachothers' will. there was a kind of electric telepathy. then suddenly we were frantic and it took a minute to realize why: we were being chased by a shark! and then the school broke up and i was alone, swimming by myself having no one, and i tried to hold on to the feeling but then i became myself, and i cried a little because it was really realy really fucking sad. yeah. it was sad because i lost all my friends and family. that's exactly how it felt.

Careen [S]: I dreamed that I saw a ritual dismemberment in process- there was the body without four limbs or head, upright. I understood that the body was mine just as the medicine man was hacking off the breast with a sharpened stone. there was not a feeling of pain. I remember 'ascending'- that I understood I was leaving the vessel, and there was a strong sound of acknowledgment of the spirit leaving the body. not a keening per se, but a cry- aiaiaiaiai

2010 - January 15

Do you think most of the music you hear is good or bad? And where do you get your music?

Brian [B]: Most of the music that is played around me (radios and stranger) sucks ass. I find music from hunting on the Internet, and by friends oppionions.

Steven [M]: most music I hear is not interesting. I get music from searching labels artists and test listening to new shit on Bleep and Boomkat.

Henry [P]: I second the Baker

Wes [A]: my iPod, and good

Jeanette [L]: so you think you can dance. (jk???) blogs. magazines like redefine. people with good taste (there aren't many out there...)

Billy [S]: Pretty Much Amazing and Hype Machine. I don't have a car so hardly listen to the radio. All the music I know is from finding it or friends, so most music I think is good...

Kevin [T]: There's this band called Waves on Waves that I heard was pretty cool ;)

Tim [S]: Most of the music on the radio I don't like. I still buy CDs. Imagine that. I still buy vinyl, new or used. And I listen to Pandora and download music too. It takes effort to listen to music that only YOU like.

Alex [B]: good; pandora

Dillon [R]: I wish Redefined would start a radio station in the southeast and that is how I will answer that question.

Neil [D]: My favourite thing to do is go round to friends places and spend hours going through their records. Also Im lucky enough to live near London's best independent record shop - it'd be a crime not to use it. I use the internet a lot. I do download music and mixtapes as mp3, but I also buy lots of records so I dont care. I prefer to buy the actual record (rather than itunes) so the shop gets some money. There are a couple of music blogs I keep tabs on. Also label websites are a good source for new stuff if they are the genre-based kind, and are likely to have similar bands to the ones you already know. I sometimes hunt through myspace if I have a spare hour. It's sometimes pretty rewarding to check out bands who are linked to bands you already listen to. Swapping Spotify playlists is good too, but I hear you guys don't have it yet. Most of the stuff I hear outside of personal recommendation and hunting the internet is usually pretty lame - but that's nothing new.