(If you haven’t seen “Quantum of Solace,” the redheaded agent’s name was Strawberry Fields)
1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4.
“...is, upon her understanding of the great...”
You couldn’t have picked a page farther in, like somewhere in the plays section of my Shakespeare’s Complete Works?
2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What's there?
My CD rack
3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
CSI: New York
4. Without looking, guess what time it is:
10:15pm
5. Now look at the clock. What is the actual time?
10:33pm
6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
Chaka Khan’s “I Feel For You” on satellite radio
7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
Checking the mail
8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
Strawberry Fields’s copy of this survey
9. What are you wearing?
Gray checked button-down shirt and blue jeans
10. Did you dream last night?
If I did, I don’t remember
11. When did you last laugh?
During CSI: NY when Detective Flack made a nice pun about the irony of a situation at the crime scene
12. What is on the walls of the room you are in?
A certificate of appreciation from The Planetary Society for my lengthy participation in SETI@Home; a periodic table of both matter and anti-matter elements; a picture of Kes, my favorite Star Trek character; and all of the rejection letters I have received from publishers
13. Seen anything weird lately?
I work in a crime lab. I see weird things all the time, yet can’t discuss open cases
14. What do you think of this quiz?
I haven’t encountered any of the questions that are usually aggressively recycled yet
15. What is the last film you saw?
Push
16.If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?
(I spoke too soon about the aggressively recycled questions) I’d pay off my parents’ house, give them all the money I owe them, then go on a trip around the world
17. Tell me something about you that I don't know:
I lost my virginity when I was 30
18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
I honestly have no idea
19. Do you like to dance?
No
20. George Bush:
Which one, and what about him?
21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Andromeda (I like astrophysics and Greek mythology)
22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
Sean Leonard (the middle name after my grandfather)
23. Would you ever consider living abroad?
Would and did
24. What do you want to say to God when you reach the pearly gates?
That’s personal
