1. What’s the oldest thing in your house?
Out in the garage there are some boxes of my grandmother’s china and among that is a set of really rare crystal forged with uranium glass. Stunningly beautiful and work a pretty penny.
2. Who was your craziest / most interesting teacher?
My high school biology teacher Mr. Peer. He was just a delightful wacko. With a fully fitted science lab full of chemicals and Bunsen burners – he would light the place up.
3. When was the last time you got to tell someone “I told you so”?
When those wack jobs elected Trump I warned that this wasn’t going to go as well as they might think.
4. What smartphone feature would you actually be excited for a company to implement?
Whenever I am asked what new technology I want I also default to the demand to bring me my Star Trek teleportation. I thinking fitting that within a sell phone would be a game changer.
5. What was cool when you were young but isn’t cool now?
Atari Pong? a lot of late 1960s and early 1970s tech has certainly gone out of fashion. I mean really, 8-track? C’mon! I’ll go with “Moon Boots” for winter wear. Growing up everybody was wearing them. They were the O.G. “Uggs.”
1) A couple of civil war era paper money from the south.
2) Mr. Stough. Hee was an English teacher and a hippie. His most popular class was know as drug literature, because the reading list was such gems from Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac and the like.
3) Almost every day with my teenagers.
4) Complete and utter privacy from the overarching reach of technology.
5) Malls.
1) My wife’s grandmothers China. That’s actually mine?me I’m the oldest thing. I’m not a big keeper of stuff.
2) Gary Harmms he was my jr high woodshop teacher. He accidentally got his shirt caught in the lathe while teaching us machine safety. Damn near ripped his hand off!
3) Not to often. But my most recent was an ortho surgeon who wanted me to give a med to a patient that was contraindicated due to potential cardiac collapse. I said no he barked and told me to call my attending. The attending came in and told him fuck no! That I was right and probably prevented him from harming the patient. I smiled and said, “told ya”. I was requested to not be in that surgeons room. lol fragile ego much?
4) An unwavering connection like the old landlines had.
5) Zubas