Category: Friday Fives

1. If you could play one video game again for the first time, what would it be?

The stand up, arcade version of Atari’s Tempest. In my day, as a 17 year old, man ! That game was the bomb. i was so good at that. I have a version on my console emulator but it is so no the same.

2. What’s one product or service you’ve paid for (one-time purchase OR monthly/yearly subscription) that legitimately changed your life for the better that you believe more people should know about?

YouTube Premium. 13.00 or so a month but all of those damned annoying commercials are gone and the content is watchable.

3. What are TV shows or a series that you have the entire DVD set for?

Hogan’s Heroes, the Dick Van Dyke Show, Steve Martin and Mel Brooks “TV stuff” appearances.

4. Which historical event would look the most insane if we had 4K camera footage of it today?

The Lincoln assassination.

5. What will someday be illegal after we finally understand how bad for us it is?

Vaping tobacco. Very few published studies have been done yet we know that even vaping tobacco is dangerous – see mouth/jaw cancer in relation to those you chew tobacco.

Random Grab from Reddit:

1. What do you think is the greatest mystery of any sitcom?

What indeed are the facts of life?

2. What company would you be most shocked to find out was shutting down tomorrow?

Wal-mart

3. What law doesn’t exist yet in the U.S. that would help millions of people immediately?

Universal health care/Medicare for all

4. Should there be another World War, which Country would be the safest to
relocate to and why?

Uraguay. Ocean, beach, rain forest, jungle, legalized weed, universal health care.
Spoken English is quite common.

5. What first episode of a show had you absolutely hooked?

“Lost” in fact the first four or five episodes were absolutely captivating.

1. What’s the scariest thing about living in 2025?

There is a God-Damned maniac in the White House with his finger on the trigger of nuclear weapons and he is now musing about reinstituting testing nukes in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. What could go wrong?

2. If you could teleport anywhere right now, where would you go?

Well, the question doesn’t ask for just one jump – so I would pick the ability to always live at 72° outside, all the time.

3. Every animal on Earth suddenly gains human-level intelligence but keeps its personality. What’s the first species to start a war?

The Great Apes. I mean you’ve seen the movies, correct? They are pissed and we are doomed.

4. What’s something that’s about to happen which most people aren’t aware of?

There is this huge financial bubble about ready to burst from crypto funding huge AI start ups that have no real business profit applications and as the economics starts to float into focus the rest of the economy, based on very shaky Trump-ism econ, we are doomed.

5. What was your favorite show growing up that no one remembers now?

A Saturday morning non-animated show about post-apocalyptic Earth called Ark 2. (Runner up “Kings” ran a partial one season on NBC about a fictional future when the USA deteriorated into Kingdoms and the soap opera fights for power.)

1. If you won a large lottery and the rules stated that you had to give 10% to a recognized charity, who would you pick?

The World Wildlife Fund – save the elephants !

2. If you heard the news that “a well-known celebrity has been outed as a serial killer”, who would you immediately think it was?

Crispin Glover

3. What’s the scariest sound you’ve heard that’s woken you up in the middle of the night?

One Halloween season my sister had this really spookie ASMR ringtone on her phone of a woman asking me if I was there and what is going on and if I was scared. It went off one night, around 1:00 am and scared the Bejezuus out of me.

4. What do you remember from kindergarten?

The smell of wet brown craft paper and white glue.

5. What closed restaurant do you miss the most?

Prima in the Hotel Teatro. Really only went there for brunch but it was divine. Bottomless Prosecco and a sublime stuffed ravioli with soft boiled eggs (how did he do that!?)with a brown butter sauce and truffles. An exquisite Caesar salad. I do so miss that place.

1. If someone called you and said “Turn on the TV, it doesn’t matter what channel.” What would you expect has happened?

He has died – he is finally dead. No names are necessary.

2. You get to domesticate an animal the same way we turned wolves into dogs. What animal do you pick and how does it turn out?

I recently watched a documentary on bonobos and I would really enjoy have a domesticated trained bonobo as a pet to carry around with me.

3. Who is widely regarded as a hero, but was actually a terrible person?

John Wayne

4. For those who didn’t grow up privileged, what’s something you thought was a luxury when you were a kid?

Electric windows in a car. Growing up it was all manual window cranks, all the time.

5. What did you lose between 2020 – 2025?

About 50 pounds. Thank you science and GLP-1s.

1. What is your favorite Bill Murray movie?

Stripes. “Army training, sir!!!”

2. Who is your favorite director?

Well as we are in the scope of conversation, Wes Anderson.

3. What is your favorite movie soundtrack?

“Saturday Night Fever”

Honorable Mention:

“Masked and Anonymous” Starring Bob Dylan and a great set of Dylan cover tunes – seriously go seek it out.

4. What do you consider a perfect movie?

Tough to winnow this down. Candidates, “Lawrence of Arabia”(so visually stunning), “The Sting” (visually stunning, great soundtrack and a great surprise ending.) and “Casablanca”

I am going with Casablanca as it was a very seat of the pants production with the screenplay being written on the fly and pages handed to the actors and directors seconds before each scene was to be filmed.

5. What is a popular movie that you just don’t understand its popularity?

Most horror movies. I don’t find getting scared and jumping out of my seat to be entertaining. I am in the minority, I am sure.

1. Did the house where you grew up have a newspaper delivered regularly?

Yep. Local paper and the Denver papers. I also had paper routes and would deliver them in the mornings and the afternoons as a boy.

2. Have you ever subscribed to an actual print newspaper?

Yep. I worked at several newspapers as a reporter and also subscribed to them.

3. When was the most recent time you physically picked up and read a newspaper?

It was about three months ago while in Fruita visiting Jim and he gets the local paper and perused it.

4. Do you pay for news online now?

Yes. Probably paying too much but I think it is important to get news from vetted news sources and not rely solely on a social media feed.

5. Do you have any saved newspaper clippings?

I have a clip file of some of my news stories I wrote. I also have the front page plate from the last day I worked at the daily newspaper in my home town.

1. Besides common domesticated animals, what animal would you want as a pet.
Well, I am informed that genetically engineered miniature elephants or giraffes do not exist, to my chagrin.
So with that being said, I think a pet bonobo. Probably illegal and even immoral to own one but this is a fantasy exercise. They are adorable and very very closely related to humans and highly trainable. Sure a big mess and chaos would ensue but isn’t that the world we live in now anyway?

2. If animals could talk which one would be the rudest?
A mule. They have this tough working animal life and probably have a foul mouthed blue collar outlook on life.

3. Which one would be the sassiest?
An alpaca. Sassy with a South American Spanish accent.

4. What do you remember about your first pet?
The first family pet was a black dog named Rudy but I barely remember him. Then we had the stalwart family dog, a pure white Alaskan husky. A sweet super smart guard dog who watched us children to alert for any perceived threat.

5. What’s your best “unused” pet name for your next pet?
I have a few in the back pages of the Rolodex of my brain but pet names are pretty organic and are dictated by the actions and personality of the pet.

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1. How often do you typically shower/bath?

In work from home mode I go about two or so days between showering. In work in the office mode everyday.

So I guess four or five times a week.

2. Do you prefer showering or taking a bath?

Showers. I have a great shower and it has a steam room setting on the shower head that makes the whole process pretty invigorating.

3. What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without a shower/bath?

In the army on an assignment went 6 days. I was pretty ripe.

4. What’s your favorite personal hygiene product?

My razor and the silicone strop I use to sharpen it. I can usually go about 14 or months between disposable razor blades.

5. Do you shave your legs and/or beard? If so, how often?

I trim my beard about every two weeks. I tried to grow it out to a big bushy beard during quarantine but it drove me crazy and I had to trim it back.