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the 2021 daily meme, week 12
Mar. 27th, 2021 04:15 pmMarch 19. Do you have a preferred toothpaste brand? Currently one of the Arm & Hammer toothpastes. It's cheap and does the job, and their tartar control toothpaste actually did what the label said for me.
20. What is something you really wanted as a child? A cat. Which I couldn't have because my brother was allergic. So I got a couple cats as an adult, and I found that while I like cats, I don't like litterboxes. They've been dead for fifteen years, and I've never felt the urge to get another; it's possible that I'll change my mind when the kids have moved out, though.
21. What parent are you more like? It's a pretty even split. My general temperament and conversational style (or lack thereof) is very much from my mom, as is my appearance (and my blood type); my wide range of interests comes from my dad.
22. Do you have a preference on name brand vs store brand? Usually I go with whatever's cheaper, but there's occasional items where I found a given name brand to be significantly better than the store brand or the generic. (Peanut butter is the big one; there was one grocery store where I quickly learned not to bother with the store brand because it was disgusting.) Most of the coupon flyers that show up in mailboxes don't do me any good, because they're for name brands and even with the coupon it's more expensive than the store brand.
23. Preferred water temperature for showering? Hot, but not scalding.
24. What was the size of your high school? Large. There were almost as many students in my high school as there were undergrads in my university.
25. What's an opinion you held for a long time that you no longer hold? That PCs were superior to Apple computers. And then MacOS came out with a command line, and I was converted. (These days, I don't think it matters; it's all which OS you're more comfortable with and which one has the strengths you need for the apps you run.) (It does still feel weird to call something an "app" that ten years ago I'd have called a program.)
20. What is something you really wanted as a child? A cat. Which I couldn't have because my brother was allergic. So I got a couple cats as an adult, and I found that while I like cats, I don't like litterboxes. They've been dead for fifteen years, and I've never felt the urge to get another; it's possible that I'll change my mind when the kids have moved out, though.
21. What parent are you more like? It's a pretty even split. My general temperament and conversational style (or lack thereof) is very much from my mom, as is my appearance (and my blood type); my wide range of interests comes from my dad.
22. Do you have a preference on name brand vs store brand? Usually I go with whatever's cheaper, but there's occasional items where I found a given name brand to be significantly better than the store brand or the generic. (Peanut butter is the big one; there was one grocery store where I quickly learned not to bother with the store brand because it was disgusting.) Most of the coupon flyers that show up in mailboxes don't do me any good, because they're for name brands and even with the coupon it's more expensive than the store brand.
23. Preferred water temperature for showering? Hot, but not scalding.
24. What was the size of your high school? Large. There were almost as many students in my high school as there were undergrads in my university.
25. What's an opinion you held for a long time that you no longer hold? That PCs were superior to Apple computers. And then MacOS came out with a command line, and I was converted. (These days, I don't think it matters; it's all which OS you're more comfortable with and which one has the strengths you need for the apps you run.) (It does still feel weird to call something an "app" that ten years ago I'd have called a program.)