Clearly, I have been neglecting my blog when aj (“barely … one post per month”!) decides he needs to tag—and flatter—me in order to get me to post. (Well, it worked, I suppose.) And then the prodigious Pete Black decides that I’m clearly not responding quickly enough!
To wit, five things you may not know about me:
I’m a Barry Manilow fan. I was converted on a Singapore Airlines flight to I-forget-where, which had the then-novel feature of audio on demand and a Barry Manilow CD to demand. I actually listened to the lyrics to “Copacabana” for the first time and found them pleasantly dark.
In my misspent youth, the one time I met RMS, I asked him whether he thought Emacs was bloated. He responded to the effect that because there were reasons for inclusion of items in Emacs, it wasn’t “bloat” (in that, he may have an ally in Joel Spolsky). I think that’s as close to a “yes” as you’ll ever get.
Also in my misspent youth, I read War And Peace. It’s actually quite engrossing once you get into it. (And it’s on Project Gutenberg—a mere 3 MB of plain ASCII text!)
My favourite movie is Three Colours: Red, even if it does engender a strong feeling of déjà vu for those who remember The Double Life of Véronique.
My first real computer (i.e., excluding the family Commodore 64) had an Intel 8086 chip that was older than me. It was an NEC APC III, which was mostly, but not entirely, IBM-compatible.
Because these “blog meme” things seem seem suspiciously like chain letters, and in the spirit of the end of the Internet (and the last page of the Internet), I tag no one.
