{"id":89,"date":"2004-04-13T15:07:06","date_gmt":"2004-04-13T15:07:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-04-13T15:07:06","modified_gmt":"2004-04-13T15:07:06","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-three questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This quiz\/survey\/thing seems to be doing the rounds at the moment:<\/p>\n<p><b>1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what<br \/>\nit says:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The FAA ordered the skies cleared.  Within two and a half hours, all 4500 planes<br \/>\nwere on the ground.&#8221;  (Bruce Schneier&#8217;s &#8216;Beyond Fear&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><b>2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The door to my office, propped open.<\/p>\n<p><b>3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This morning, BBC Breakfast News.<\/p>\n<p><b>4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>09:10<\/p>\n<p><b>5: Now look at the clock; what is the actual time?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>09:18<\/p>\n<p><b>6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Over the sound of my headphones, playing Enigma&#8217;s first album &#8220;MCMXC A.D.&#8221;, I<br \/>\ncan hear the tape drive in the corner of my office rewinding with a high-pitched<br \/>\nwhirring-sound, someone in the office opposite ripping up cardboard boxes and<br \/>\nsome people talking in the foyer outside.<\/p>\n<p><b>7: When did you last step outside? What were you doing?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Biking to work this morning.<\/p>\n<p><b>8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>9: What are you wearing?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tatty old T-shirt and shorts, due to above-mentioned bike ride.  Plan to change<br \/>\nshortly \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><b>10: Did you dream last night?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Not that I remember.<\/p>\n<p><b>11: When did you last laugh?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Last big laugh was our almost-three-year-old daughter doing a hamster impression<br \/>\nby putting one grape into each cheek &#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><b>12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Shelves full of computer manuals, some boxed software, various PC components,<br \/>\nrecordable CDs, DVDs and backup tapes.<\/p>\n<p><b>13: Seen anything weird lately?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Oh, yes.<\/p>\n<p><b>14: What do you think of this quiz?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Slightly interesting, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p><b>15: What is the last film you saw?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At the cinema, &#8220;Lord of the Rings: Return of the King&#8221;; on TV, apart from kids<br \/>\nstuff with daughter, probably &#8220;Phone Booth&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><b>16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A secret underground lair, perhaps in a hollowed-out volcano.<\/p>\n<p><b>17: Tell me something about you that I don&#8217;t know.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I had an omelette for lunch on Thursday in the work canteen.<\/p>\n<p><b>18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or<br \/>\npolitics, what would you do?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Make everyone accountable for every little thing they do.<\/p>\n<p><b>19: Do you like to dance?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Only for my almost-three-year-old daughter &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>20: George Bush: is he a power-crazy nutcase or some one who is finally doing<br \/>\nsomething that has needed to be done for years?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Well, I would say that the world is undoubtedly a much less safe place for<br \/>\n*everyone* since Bush was elected US President.<\/p>\n<p><b>21: Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Well, my first child *is* a girl and we called her Heather.<\/p>\n<p><b>22: Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We were planning on Ross.<\/p>\n<p><b>23: Would you ever consider living abroad?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Probably not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quiz\/survey\/thing seems to be doing the rounds at the moment: 1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says: &#8220;The FAA ordered the skies cleared. Within two and a half hours, all 4500 planes were on the ground.&#8221; (Bruce Schneier&#8217;s &#8216;Beyond Fear&#8217;) 2: Stretch&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=89\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}