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Times I fell asleep while driving. One time I only fell asleep for two seconds but woke up two lanes to the right

SAPBM,

What was the last thing that made you laugh?

A story a coworker told me today.

SAPBM,
What is your favorite outdoor activity?

Sitting under a shady tree with a book and a drink. A soft cool breeze is blowing.

SAPBM,

As my answer could be construed as not being an activity, same question.

Sitting on a shady porch with a book and a drink. A soft warm breeze is blowing.

SAPBM,

As my answer could also be construed as not being an activity, same question.

Swimming, though if outdoors I prefer it at night. If indoors, any time. After a nice swim, I like to lounge by the pool, maybe a short nap.

SAPBM,

What do you look forward to most when reading the newspaper/daily news?

Putting it down. Ours is a political rag, on agendas that likes to pretend they're not.


SAPBM


What's your most trusted (or usual) source of news?

The Internet is my usual source, though I have learned to take most reports with a grain of salt.

SAPBM,

If you would go into the services industry, what type of service would you most like to provide?

Back to something I enjoyed. I once volunteered with a non-profit whose purpose was to help other non-profits, mostly neighborhood based, get (through donations) and set up computer networks. I also taught computer skills and simple desktop publishing to Spanish speaking only. This was one of the funner things, given that I didn't speak any Spanish. Most were middle aged, migrant workers just here for the season. We had fun, nothing too serious. Some of the gentlemen really struggled with the concept of the mouse, lol.


SAPBM

Describe an opportunity missed. It was there, right in front of you but for some reason, you didn't react, react right, were indecisive, whatever.

There was this girl I really wanted to ask out freshman year. She was a bit spoiled and stuck up, but quite pretty and really smart and she was interesting. I didn't have a particularly good shot but I could also tell she wasn't too horrified at the thought of dating me.

I would often keep her company while she was waiting for a ride home from school, but never actually did ask her out. Once she was like, "Oh, you don't have to wait for me anymore, the car's 5 minutes away." So I was like, "Yeah, okay, see ya." Then I could see the look of surprise on her face, but I walked away anyway. I kicked myself after that.

In hindsight though, it's not that big of a miss considering who I have now

SAPBM,

Describe a great opportunity seized!

Signing up for Legion World. It truly has allowed me to meet some very nice and very interesting people.


SAPBM,

Tell us about a guilty pleasure of yours.

Besides checking Legion World (which I am only doing at this hour because I have to go to the bathroom), I really enjoy chocolate milk and peanut butter. Despite the fact that they sometimes have high sugar and fat contents.

And dumplings and dimsum, don't get me started on those. With plenty of hot sauce, chili oil, sesame oil and Philippine lime.

SAPBM,

Same question.

Cartoons and books aimed at kids. Examples: Phineas & Ferb, the Percy Jackson books

SAPBM,

I just read a fascinating book about the Trolley thought experiment. There are several versions of the trolley question. Here is the first version.

There is a trolley coming down a hill that has lost its brakes. You look ahead and on the tracks are 5 people tied to the tracks. The trolley will run over and kill all 5 people. Fortunately, you are standing by a switch that will divert the trolley onto another track. Unfortunately, you see that there is one person tied to that track. Do you pull the switch?

Yes. Better 1 dead than 5 unless the 1 is my boyfriend. Wow what a Q.

SAPbM

Same Q

I would pull the switch too. Note: in the book, there is a version of the question that has the one person being some one you know or a famous or infamous person.

Here is another version of the question.

The trolley is still plunging down the hill at the 5 tied up people. Now though you are standing on an overpass above the tracks. Next to you and leaning directly over the tracks is a very fat man. You realize that if you push the fat man over, his bulk will stop the trolley from hitting the 5 tied up, but that the fat man will be killed (if not from the fall, then by the trolley hitting him). Do you push the fat man over the side?

Wow, way to up the ante.

I think I would. N idea of I could actually do so in real life

SAPBm

Same Q

a) Why had no one intervened when they saw someone tying five people to the tracks? What had they done to deserve it? Will seeing their demise propel me into a career as a nocturnal vigilante? Surely I'd be charged with killing someone, unless I lie about it? Perhaps this accident will force tram brakes to be completely revised saving loads more lives further down the ...um... track. By the time you've gone through that lot, it's already too late. So it's like the do nothing option but with internal angst as opposed to callous popcorn eating.

b) Now's the time to find out if you have superpowers and jump...

c) Jump anyway. Why should the fat guy die? Perhaps a lesser bulk will be enough after all.

d) Offer the fat guy a chance to sacrifice himself, by giving him a leg up over the side of the bridge. What a hero he was!

e) perhaps one of the tied up people will develop superpowers (not a one shot fatal use of super thinness having been squished)?

f) stare really, really closely as it will increase the amount of your trauma compensation.

g) perhaps someone is just about to drive a car across the track, blocking the tram. You'd feel really embarrassed as the person who died/ killed someone just before they were going to be rescued anyway.

h) are any of the tied up people damsels in distress. If you're going to have people tied to tram tracks by villains it should be mandatory or it's not on.

I'm leaning (but not too far on the edge of a bridge) towards D.

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The Baxter Legion are facing the Arch Mage! One must die to get onto his world. Who do you choose?

Ultra Boy. When has he ever died in any version of the Legion? It's about time he did. Can't let Colossal Boy have all the fun.

SAPBM,

The shy can't be blue anymore. What color would you make it?

I think the shy are only blue when they've just been strangled. So, I'd probably want to return them to the colour they were before that happened. Unless they were part of the previous question. There, five dead people on the tracks takes a lot of the agonizing out of the decision.

SAPBM
Pick a job/group of people that you feel should be honoured in a huge globally televised ceremony to replace the vacuous ones that are currently on.

Garbage men and the whole sanitation industry. They do a dirty job and are underappreciated.

SAPBM,

would you want to travel in outer space?

No, I would rather travel around Earth first. Outer space can wait.

SAPBM,

What do you do to help yourself fall asleep early?

Yoga nidra or sleep meditation recordings.

SAPBM,

What's one thing you'd like to accomplish by the end of 2015?

Develop a regular schedule despite overtime and hellish traffic. Schedule should include exercise time, time for hobbies friends pets family and Blaze. Plus my hygiene and healthcare regimens

SAPBM,

Tell us about one method you use to deal with stress.

Bury it under a mound of pop-tarts.

SAPBM

Favorite Cheech and Chong one-liner. Look'em up if you don't know any. (for the record, mine is "Bailiff, whack his pee-pee."

"You wanna come over to my place? Okay. I'll be here with balls on."

SAPBM,

(no typo from me this time). The sky can't be blue anymore. What color would you change it to.

A sort pastel rose

SAPBM,

Imagine a newly constructed ship, grand as they come and fit to sail until the end of time. But, of course, no ship can sail forever. Eventually something’s going to break. And when a piece of the ship of Theseus breaks, they just replace it with a new, identical piece. Over time, every piece of the ship wears out and is replaced in this manner. When the last piece is replaced, is it still the same ship? If not, at what point does it become a different ship?