13 posts tagged “qotd”
What's on your holiday wishlist?
What sites show up if you type "S" into your browser's address bar?
Shebanation -- a great blog from an Adobe programmer
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
This line is probably the best known line from Romeo and Juliet, perhaps the best known of all Shakespeare's works. It probably is the most misunderstood line as well.
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
The house of Montague is in a long running feud with the Capulets, Juliet's family. So it's rather distressing to when Juliet when she discovers that that cute boy, Romeo, she became smitten with is one of the Montagues. To her, it's the height of cosmic unfairness when she discovers her romance is doomed before it can even start because the roulette wheel of fate slapped him with the name and family of her family's enemies. That line begins her musings on whether names and labels are so important.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So, the point is she wasn't asking where Romeo is. In that line at the beginning, she was asking rhetorically (and venting a little bit), why must he have been born Romeo Montague. Wherefore isn't the word "where" for people who need to fill out nine squares on a crossword puzzle. Wherefore is an archaic form of why?
John Gruber learned this yesterday when he titled an article, "iPhone SDK, iPhone SDK! Wherefore Art Thou iPhone SDK?"
What's your best tax tip?
Do it before April 15th 17th.
What word(s) do you always make a typo in?
"Occasional" is one I'm still paying for. I initially misspelled the title of this blog as "The Occassional Blargh", which is how it is still listed in many blog search engines.
Where do you do your online shopping?
Funny enough, I just cancelled my free trial of Amazon Prime. Unlike Joe, even with the extra shopping spurred by free two-day shipping, I didn't spend nearly enough to justify the $80 yearly fee that would have been levied. In addition, the free "Super Saver Shipping" option frequently got my stuff delivered two days after order, even though Amazon would over estimate shipping time by a week. Right now, since I have a order I placed two days after my trial expired, I have Amazon estimating it won't arrive until between the 22nd and the 29th, however UPS is estimating the delivery to happen on the 21st. UPS is always right in these cases.
I joined Amazon Prime because it was offered as a free trial when I ordered Justice League Unlimited season 1 (and technically 2, too) when it came out in October, along with Teen Titans season 1.
Following that, I've been using Amazon.com to build up my trade paperback collection of Wonder Woman starting from the 80s relaunch. (I actually had picked up the first book in 2005 so I could have something for George Perez to sign at Baltimore Comic Con in 2005. He couldn't make it in 2005, but he was there in 2006, so he I got him to sign it then. And he and Marv Wolfman were nice enough to pose for a picture as well, which I wasn't expecting. Eventually, I should get it off of my digital camera and onto some more permanent medium.) Anyway, since I have the first paperbacks, I thought I may as well get the rest as they come out so I can follow the story to its apparent conclusion at spring 2006, after which it was relaunched again. I don't follow comics enough to know why, though.So, while I had Prime, I've ordered Beauty and the Beasts, Destiny Calling, Spirit of Truth, and JLA: League of One. Not counting Spirit as it is out of print and I bought it from a collector who had it signed by Paul Dini and Alex Ross (and thus sold it for $30 through Amazon), the other books from Amazon came to cost about $30, thus not justifying any membership for Prime.
What's one thing you regret not doing?
Submitted by Mr. Nice.
Applying to one of the major colleges back when they were sending me brochures unsolicited (I presume). I remember getting catalogs from Stanford, Wake Forest, and believe-it-or-not Princeton. Unfortunately, first off I was not the most organized or diligent person about requesting or filling out applications, and secondly, my mom had died early in my Senior year of high school, so that final year I was in a daze, right when I needed to hunker down and give myself an ulcer trying to get into some super-duper school. That last year of school, I felt as though I had just gotten off a tilt-a-whirl: disoriented, unmoored, lost. I'm still trying to ground myself, six years later.
Windows, Mac, Linux - What's your preference and why?
Submitted by ramblingsbymark.
I use all three. Linux annoys me the most. Honestly, I like features of Windows and features of OS X so it evens out.
What's your dream career?
Submitted by Something.
Cartoonist, illustrator, animator, or comic book artist and/or writer. It just seems like absolute fun to draw for a living.
How did you pick your Vox name? Does it mean something?
Submitted by LeendaDLL.
I'm trying to get the estate of the author of Rascal to sue me for defamation of character. Honestly, I really don't remember how I chose this name, except that this was a misspelling of the username I wanted for my Rocketmail account (now part of Yahoo, but still with the ancient @rocketmail.com address). "Sterling" was taken, so I tacked on a random adjective to the end, and thus I unwittingly usurped the name of popular children's book author. Interestingly enough, I learned later that a child of his lived in nearby (to me) Arlington, Virginia back in 2002 he was arguing that the state's tax code was unfairly favoring him at the expense of the less well off. I'd search for the article mentioning him, but I pretty much destroyed Google through my continued use of this alias for myself.
Anyway, to the family of Sterling North, and fans of his work. I apologize.
