Four for Friday

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Q1 - Fighting: A recent poll found that U.S. citizens are now less likely to see the possibility for peace between the believers of Islam and Christianity. Of 1,029 people polled, 53 percent say conflict is inevitable between believers the two religions here in the United States. Regardless of your faith, would you engage in physical fighting on behalf of your religion/religious beliefs?

No, I'm pretty much a Quaker on this issue. To me, fighting for a religion that I believe is based on peace sorta negates the whole concept.

Q2 - Going: Would you use a public toilet that was entirely encased in one-way glass (it's completely impossible for anyone to see in from the outside, but when you're inside it's like sitting in a clear glass box)?

I suspect I'd make someone else go in before me and try it out. Once I knew for sure that it wasn't possible to see through the walls from the outside...sure.

Q3 - Collecting: Jeremy Mehrle of O'Fallon, MO, recently made news for his pristine collection of Apple computers. The 30-year-old Mehrle has over 100 different models--all in excellent working condition--set up in his basement, and has no immediate plans to stop adding to his growing collection. For special events, like New Year's Eve, he plays videos on several monitors and sets up strobe effects on multiple machines, creating a rave-like atmosphere. If money was not a concern (meaning, you had enough to do it), what would you collect and how and where would you display your collection?

I collect dust. My mother insists that I've collected salt & pepper shakers since before I was born--yeah, I don't get it either--so I have a lot of those (mostly hand-me-downs). But mostly, it's just the dust.

[Translation: collecting things seems really stupid to me. For serious collectors, using the collection isn't allowed, and what's the point of that?!]

Q4 - Jobbing: If you could have had any job in the history of all mankind, what specific job would you have liked to have had?

Samuel Pepys' job. Get paid for writing a diary full of gossip that people will read as gospel for the next several centuries. Where do I sign up?