Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid<\/a>. It’s a brain-stretcher of a book, one that I’ve had to read many times to access most of the meaning, but one full of fascinating ideas and profound concepts involving music, art, literature, language, biology, and computers. I must be a graduate of the book by now, though, since I think his views on the future of Artificial Intelligence are quite pessimistic. OTOH, what do I know?<\/p>\n4) What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?<\/i>
\nWorking the Copy Center counter at Staples. The work itself was fine, but I had such difficulty with abrasive customers and co-workers that it made my previous job of vacuuming and emptying trash cans for an office building look absolutely peaceful.<\/p>\n
5) How fast do you type?<\/i>
\nTo my own great surprise, around 60-65 words a minute. Surprising, because I kind of two-finger type. An actual typewriter would kill me, because I hit the “delete” key a lot. Still, my old boss at Thrifty Nickel once said I was the fastest, most accurate bad typist he’d ever seen.<\/p>\n
Der Ruleses:<\/u>
\n1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
\n2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature.
\n3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
\n4. Include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
\n5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, ask them 5 questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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