[ObMeme] Interview meme
Nov. 19th, 2022 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tbutlerBy way of yhlee:
Comment below and I'll ask you five questions. Answer them in your own journal, offer to give the first five commenters their own sets of questions, and let the cycle continue!
1. What was your first camera?
The first camera I can remember owning is a Kodak Instamatic, when I was a little kid:
I don't remember taking many (if any) pictures with it, but it was a fun toy!
That's kind of the way most of my early cameras were - fun toys, especially early Polaroids that I collected when I had a paper route and ran into a lot of garage sales. Fascinating bits of machinery.
The first camera I seriously owned to use was a Yashica 35mm SLR that belonged to my dad, and he had cleaned up for me as a high school graduation present. Unfortunately, as a poor college student, I wasn't able to shoot with it nearly as much as I wanted to, and never really learned it well. I didn't get really decent with photography until I could use a digital camera and practice without significant cost.
2. What's your favorite barbecue place, past or present?
Arthur Bryant's is still my favorite; none of the new ones that have sprung up in the last decade can measure up, though Oklahoma Joe's isn't bad.
3. Favorite fruit?
Apples; I used to love red delicious before they started breeding for crispness over flavor, but these days it's more gala or fuji.
4. What's a book from your childhood that you'd like to revisit?
The Pushcart War, by Jean Merrill. The pushcart vendors of New York City are being crowded out by large trucks, and decide to fight back! ...by giving them lots of flat tires. :) Merrill also wrote The Toothpaste Millionaire, a story about a sixth grader deciding to make and sell his own toothpaste because commercial toothpaste was too expensive.
5. If you could spend two weeks on vacation anywhere through ~magical handwave~, where would you go?
Ergh. Too Many Choices. ^^;;
Greece is a top choice of mine. We went to the Isle of Man when I was a kid to meet a distant side of the family, and I'd love to go back there as an adult who knows much more about what he's seeing. :) Tokyo, Kyoto, and Japan in general (I'd love to see the Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Project, for example). If ~magical handwave~ is allowed to fix the political situation, I'd love to visit several sites in Russia - the cultural sites in St. Petersburg and Moscow, and the sites associated with the Soviet space program. Ancient historical sites, like Machu Picchu, Sigiriya, the Acropolis (granted, the main reason I want to visit Greece), the Great Wall... Too Many Choices.
yhlee:Comment below and I'll ask you five questions. Answer them in your own journal, offer to give the first five commenters their own sets of questions, and let the cycle continue!
1. What was your first camera?
The first camera I can remember owning is a Kodak Instamatic, when I was a little kid:
I don't remember taking many (if any) pictures with it, but it was a fun toy!
That's kind of the way most of my early cameras were - fun toys, especially early Polaroids that I collected when I had a paper route and ran into a lot of garage sales. Fascinating bits of machinery.
The first camera I seriously owned to use was a Yashica 35mm SLR that belonged to my dad, and he had cleaned up for me as a high school graduation present. Unfortunately, as a poor college student, I wasn't able to shoot with it nearly as much as I wanted to, and never really learned it well. I didn't get really decent with photography until I could use a digital camera and practice without significant cost.
2. What's your favorite barbecue place, past or present?
Arthur Bryant's is still my favorite; none of the new ones that have sprung up in the last decade can measure up, though Oklahoma Joe's isn't bad.
3. Favorite fruit?
Apples; I used to love red delicious before they started breeding for crispness over flavor, but these days it's more gala or fuji.
4. What's a book from your childhood that you'd like to revisit?
The Pushcart War, by Jean Merrill. The pushcart vendors of New York City are being crowded out by large trucks, and decide to fight back! ...by giving them lots of flat tires. :) Merrill also wrote The Toothpaste Millionaire, a story about a sixth grader deciding to make and sell his own toothpaste because commercial toothpaste was too expensive.
5. If you could spend two weeks on vacation anywhere through ~magical handwave~, where would you go?
Ergh. Too Many Choices. ^^;;
Greece is a top choice of mine. We went to the Isle of Man when I was a kid to meet a distant side of the family, and I'd love to go back there as an adult who knows much more about what he's seeing. :) Tokyo, Kyoto, and Japan in general (I'd love to see the Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Project, for example). If ~magical handwave~ is allowed to fix the political situation, I'd love to visit several sites in Russia - the cultural sites in St. Petersburg and Moscow, and the sites associated with the Soviet space program. Ancient historical sites, like Machu Picchu, Sigiriya, the Acropolis (granted, the main reason I want to visit Greece), the Great Wall... Too Many Choices.
