Saturday 6

Episode 133

1. Have you ever joined one of those "social networking" communities like "Friendster" or "Myspace?" Would you ever consider it?

I joined Friendster about two years ago. I think I've visited about 4 times since then...no real payoff there for me. :-)

2. Do you think that lasting friendships can be made solely through sites like those?

Sure. Why not? Of course, there are likely to be a lot more relationships going nowhere, but that's kind of true in real life. Think cocktail parties--I have yet to make a good friend at one of those, or at a bar, or at a baseball game...

3. Has reduced prices in gasoline prompted you to drive more?

Nope. Too busy to go anywhere.

4. Take the quiz: What kind of sports car are you? (Thanks, Charley!)

I'm a Honda S2000!

You live on the edge, and you live for the adrenaline rush. You don't need luxuries, snob appeal, or superfluous gadgets. You put your top down, get your motor revving, and take all the curves that life throws at you at full speed. So what if you spin out occasionally?
Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.


Not a bad description of my life...although I do like gadgets.

I'm amused to see that the most common answer is a Corvette, followed by a Porsche 911. Huh.

5. Which phone do you use the most: your home phone, your work phone, or your cell phone? Of the remaining two, which do you use the least?

I use the house phone the most, and my cell the least, although my work phone is primarily used for inside-the-building calls. If I remove those, my cell usage would be higher.

6. In the old days, telephone numbers used to be word and letter combinations. The telephone company would take the first two digits of a phone number, create a word that began with two letters corresponding to the numbers in the digits, and then follow the word with the rest of the number. So, for a number that began with 25, they might use the "A" from the 2 button and the "L" from the 5 button and create a phone number like "Alpine 2-6341. If we went back to this system, come up with a word that would work for the first two digits of your phone number. (It can be work, home or cell...just don't post your whole number!

What a fun question! I always liked this system (tho' it was before my time), and can still quote our phone number Sunset-1-####. So much more romantic than just a list of numbers.

Anyway. Here at home we'd have to be "OK" (there are no other vowels, so creating a word becomes problematic; if I remember correctly, in the old days that would mean you'd have a word like "JeLlo" (for 55) or something similar...and then they just stopped using the words because it was too time-consuming and complicated).
For work, I'd like to use "DEnver" and my cell could be "EGgplant."