How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you?
I guess this depends on whether or not the person on the receiving end of the information is unable to see me because of external interference (like a wall, or over the phone) or if they are visually impaired. I say this because the former might have solid reference material for comparisons while the latter does not.
For instance, I could say I’m average height for a guy (because I am) but what does that “look” like in the mind of a blind individual? Get the idea?
Anyways, yes, I’m an average height guy (I’m assuming 5’6″ is average) with a huskier build. Because of work I typically wear polo shirts and slacks or jeans. Short brown hair, brown eyes, glasses, and a beard for the last several months. I look like a boring yet almost stereotypical nerd. At least, I think I do. No visible tattoos yet, and I don’t wear flannels, so I don’t really look like what people were stereotyping hipsters as looking. Sometimes I wear hats, specifically baseball caps.
I can’t think of anything else to throw out there to describe myself, so I hope this works.
What traditions have you not kept that your parents had?
Honestly, this is an interesting question. I’m glad I was able to read it before crawling into bed around 1:00AM so I could try to sleep on it. Unfortunately, that didn’t help.
I don’t know that my family has any traditions that we picked up from my parents and kept doing. We might have a traditional family recipe (a version of töltött káposzta that we learned from one of my grandparents) but that’s not something we limit ourselves to having just once per year at holidays. We eat it whenever we feel like making it.
Aside from that, I really don’t think my parents specifically had traditions that they tried to pass down to my siblings and I.
The day isn’t over yet, but I can say that in some ways, so far, it has been a fairly typical Monday.
Got up, got ready for and headed to work. Very few meetings today, which has been the trend for several months now it feels like.
How it HASN’T been typical? I’ve had a deep conversation with a friend relating to a mutual friend/acquaintance, sharing learned details about this person, and coming to terms with reality about them. THAT kind of conversation, or the results, aren’t typical everyday occurrences. Which is good that it doesn’t happen often, but it’s unfortunate that things have come to where they are today. Thankfully, my friend and I are very much in agreement about things, so I’m not dealing with everything by myself.
Sorry to be vague about all of that, but it’s for the best, and just about everything else about today has been great!
Regardless of whether it’s being asked through a school/class assignment, filling out a dating profile, or rewriting my resumé, I hate this question.
I never really know what to say.
Are we including physical characteristics? Just personality stuff? Where do you even start?
Incredibly imaginative with a love for science fiction and fantasy, but very pragmatic in day-to-day life.
Introverted and content to just sit at home avoiding people, but able to have moments of extroversion and comfortable with public speaking through practice.
Willing to help when asked, if able. If outside of my abilities to help directly, I’ll help figure out next steps (if desired) and find someone who can help.
Thanks to the Jurassic Park/World movies there have been an increase in new hybridized dinosaurs that have become popular with children. Sadly, because they ARE fictitious, I won’t be “bringing back” one of those, which would be greatly disappointing to my nieces and nephews if I ever actually had the chance to do this.
As much as paleontologists may have discovered, there is no guarantee of knowing which species of dinosaur were aggressive. It’s all educated-guess work. Instead, I’d have to choose something that makes a little more sense. I wouldn’t want to bring back anything that could have been too aggressive and carnivorous. So I’d have to pick something that we can almost certainly define as herbivorous, and has features that might allow us to determine that it was more passive.
Regardless of most of that logic, I am going to pick something I liked as a kid.
I would pick the Triceratops. To the best of our knowledge, they were herbivores, they’re not stupidly huge (I mean, they’re still BIG, but definitely not 30 feet tall or something) and I just think they look cool.
I honestly don’t know. I read this prompt earlier in the day and nowhere specific came to mind. Even now, after most of the day, I still can’t think of a place I would want to go.
I did have the thought, though, that does it have to be two tickets just for me? Like, are they meant to be used as a round trip deal for a single person, or could I give one to a friend and just do one-way air travel to where ever it is we’re going and then figure out the return trip later?
Either way, I’m sure there would be stipulations, like the tickets have to be used within a certain amount of time after winning, can’t be used during typical travel blackout dates, and can only travel to somewhere within the contiguous United States. In which case, vacation to somewhere cool or amazing is off the table (which is why nowhere came to mind in the first place.)
If I could just sit on them for as long as I like that wouldn’t be bad. I could figure out where to go later.
There really isn’t much of a story because I don’t exactly have any nicknames.
For online gaming my username is typically some variation of Arborial_Dragon (with and without the underscore separating, sometimes no space, sometimes a period) but I’m usually just called “Dragon” because that’s easier for people to say than “Arborial”. One streamer I used to chat with called me “Arbo”, though.
I don’t have any nicknames with my friends, and my family doesn’t typically call me anything other than my first name. My nieces and nephews as toddlers are a different story. They can’t enunciate well so they usually just said “Tay” or “Ay”.
I don’t know that I have “strategies” associated to my health and well-being. I probably SHOULD, but I really don’t? That daily prompt from a couple weeks ago about strategies for comfort was definitely easier to answer.
I suppose you could probably count annual health checks with my doctor and optometrist. Having that as a routine has been helpful, but I haven’t always stuck to what my doctor has recommended (which I should be taking more seriously) and so every year is relatively the same outcome.
Trying to think through this prompt has me realizing I should set aside some time to review and make a better plan.
Well, I’ve already been back to Colorado twice so far this year, but I’ll be going back a third time at some point in the near future.
The first trip was with my Dad and sister to go visit family. I ended up working remotely the whole week I was there, so I didn’t get to do much.
The second trip was just for myself. I stayed with friends and we hit up the Colorado Renaissance Festival. Which reminds me, I still need to take pictures of the sword I bought. Childhood dream achieved.
The next trip will be another family trip, but a much larger group. The plan so far is to take my nieces and nephews to a couple of the cool places my siblings and I got to see when we were their age. At least one place, I think, is the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. That trip should be exciting.
Aside from all of that, I haven’t planned for anything else.
“Society” is a very complex and complicated topic to tackle even on the best of days, and asking about making a change to modern society (as a thought experiment) is not easy.
What part of the world are we looking at? What cultures would be impacted the most/least?
Personally, the idea of transportation is something that comes to mind when I think about society. The reasons? Well, for starters, in the United States, most of our major cities were built around the need for individual automotive transport. Cars, SUVs, and Trucks. Some of these major cities became so densely populated that traffic is incredibly bad and there are even large chunks of their populace that have never bothered to get their drivers license! Public transportation in those cities supplements their needs well enough.
Another thing to consider, that seems to come up as a repeat meme every week, is the sheer distance between the East Coast and West Coast. (The joke is that someone from Europe is in Florida, at Disney World, and they want to know when the park closes because they want to go to Los Angeles.) This calls to mind, for me, the increased need for individuals and families to own a vehicle if they live outside those major cities. Outside of New England/the East Coast area, the public transportation infrastructure just doesn’t support traveling between cities. Interstate and cross country travel almost always requires owning your own vehicle or catching a flight. Yes, there are buses and trains, but they’re not as commonly used, which is where I’m going with all of this.
Making cities more walkable/easier for non-motorized vehicle ground traffic is practically impossible at this point. So instead of focusing on that, looking toward interstate travel changes is what I had in mind.
The passenger train system of the United States has hundreds of stations covering 21,400 miles (34,000 km) of tracks, but the issue is that there are only a handful of tracks that cover East-West travel cross country, and only a handful that cover North-South (primarily along the coasts or in the eastern half of the country.) Where I live, I would have to travel a couple hundred miles South or Northeast by other means to reach one of the nearest stations, and those tracks then only run East-West. There is no track running North-South in my area, the nearest one is roughly 500 miles away to my East, or three times that distance West.
So, what would I change about modern society? There’s something I can’t quite put my finger on (yes I can, it’s the local and federal governments being in the pockets of the automotive giants) that is preventing the development of rail transit. My belief is that if we could develop solid rail transit between major cities, then things would be better. To be fair, I don’t know ALL the details, so it’s entirely possible I missed something, I’m not perfect, but I was definitely taking environmental and public health factors into account.
Also, if I’m being honest, I just REALLY want to ride a train once in my life without it costing an arm and a leg.
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