Uniquities meme

[cjsmith]

I just made up that word. You can tell, can't you? Okay, okay. It should be taken out back and shot.

Anyway, here goes. Most recently seen in the journal of mactavish.

Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does:
This CD is either named "The Yang Qin Erhu" or "The Beijing Brothers" depending on whether you look at the face or the spine. The artists are two Chinese men, currently street performers in Edinburgh. They're playing the bamboo flute, a hammer-dulcimer-like instrument called the Yang Qin, and a tall stringed instrument called the Erhu. Most of the music is traditional Chinese music, although there's also the William Tell Overture. It's really nifty.

Name a book you own that no-one else on your friends list does:
Fundamentals of X Programming by Theo Pavlidis. It was late on the tail of the X-programming-book market. I own it because I did some technical editing and my name is in it (oooooooooo).

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that no-one else on your friends list does:
I doubt I have such a movie. My best shot at it might be "Hopscotch".

Name a place that you have visited that no-one else on your friends list has:
Darn. dceder went with me to Egypt and rfrench has gone with me almost everywhere else I've ever been. Even my Half Dome hiking partner is on my friends list. I'll have to get obscure. A women's restroom in Finland? All right, that's cheating. The inside of the offices of Crédit Lyonnais in Paris? Is that cheating too? Um, okay, the driver's seat of an Army tank?? [edit: Oh wait! None of my FAMILY is on my friends list! Okay, the roof of St. Peter's in the Vatican.]

Comments

[yoak.livejournal.com]

Durn. My tech book collection recently suffered a purge in which I eliminated books that after a serious, hard look I realized I would never use again. (And that had no sentimental value, as silly as that is... but I wasn't emotionally prepared to get rid of Camel 1 and Llama 1.) There was a book suspiciously close in title to Fundamentals of X Programming. I'm not sure whether it was that one specifically or not. A lot of those books have very similar names.

In any event, I no longer own it, so you're safe, at least by me.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I think I have a few books with similar titles. If you had one that actually taught you how to write a toolkit widget, and it wasn't an O'Reilly book, it was probably Pavlidis. (Frankly I'd purge it too if it didn't have my name in the credits.)