Four Things

I don’t usually do these meme things (cos they’re just geekspeak for “Chain Letter” to show that we’re not the AOL hoi-palloi), but John Oxton tagged me and he’s a big scary bastard.

Four jobs I’ve had in my life

Four movies I can watch over and over

  • A Man for All Seasons
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Kind Hearts and Coronets
  • Lesbian Lavatory Lust (3D version) Apocalypse Now (the original version; the Redux one drags dreadfully)

Four places I have lived

Four TV shows I love to watch

  • The West Wing
  • Fawlty Towers
  • Question Time
  • Friends. Sure, it’s lightweight, but some excellent scripts.

Four places I have been on holiday

Four of my favourite dishes

  • Traditional roast lamb, roast potatoes, sprouts, cauli, broccoli, gravy
  • Ba Mee Moo Deng (Thai red pork and noodle dish)
  • Japanese bento box, wasabi, miso soup, kimchi, warm sake, green tea
  • Turkish meze (stuffed vine leaves, hot peppers, all the other dishes)
  • (A bloody good Chicken and Spinach Balti gets an honourable mention here)

Four websites I visit daily

Four places I would rather be right now

  • Bangkok, having a Thai massage before going out for food with mates
  • Sugar Cane Guest House, Kanchanaburi, on the terrace of the floating guesthouse we visited for long weekends away from Bangkok, watching the river lotuses bob up and down as the long-tail boats go by, sipping a beer as the sunsets over the mountains of the Burmese border
  • Watching earth-rise from a moonbase
  • Tokyo, with all my expenses paid. I’ve always been fascinated by Japan since studying haiku. It was my reason for learning to be an English teacher, but I never got there.

Four bloggers I am tagging

Three web standards women, and an old friend I visited for new year who’s got nothing to do with web standards at all (and yet is a good person all the same):

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6 Responses to “Four Things”

  1. Comment by John Oxton

    That has to be the best four jobs I ever had, ever.. ever ever!

    January 23rd, 2006 at 6:40 pm

  2. Comment by goodwitch

    that was so much more entertaining than eating lunch! now what is this silly comment you made about a boring post that has been interrupted. don’t you think standards are incredibly sexy? nothin’ like a semantically marked up standards based site to get my motor runnin’!

    January 23rd, 2006 at 11:07 pm

  3. Comment by Kim

    Hey Bruce~

    I just happened upon your site after visiting Doing What Works, who links to me; I love the Ransom Letter look of your blog! Very fun :-)

    January 29th, 2006 at 10:30 pm

  4. Comment by Simon Mackie

    Friends??!!

    I am disgusted.

    February 2nd, 2006 at 6:32 am

  5. Comment by Notes from a Low Land » Meme?

    [...] 8216;Chain Letter’ ” - so your average load of old bollocks then. Here’s his. But since, according to The Memes List “you’ll never run short of blog [...]

    June 1st, 2006 at 4:39 pm

  6. Comment by Slimming tea

    Slimming tea…

    Thanks for the post. I couldnt agree with you more….

    June 27th, 2008 at 11:40 pm

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