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**--** Informal SURVEY **--**
Tell Us About You - Take this Survey
Send your survey answers to the list address: [email protected]
If you send it directly to me instead of the list, I may not see it.
We would appreciate it if you would tell us a little bit
about yourself - THANKS
I also have a request - for you to take this simple survey. You can
elaborate as much as you wish to. Tell us who you are. Tell us what makes
you tick.
Survey:
(1) What books you are currently reading? Have read? Favorite authors?
Jules Verne, in the original French
Dumas, original French and English translation
Chanson de Roland/ The Song of Roland, Original Old French, Modern French,
Modern English
Lord of the Rings, original English and French translation
Rowlings, Harry Potter series
Textbooks (old favourite "light" reading): Mathematics, Physics, Linguistics,
Cognitive Sciences
Sci-fi, Fantasy
Kenneth C Flynt, Arthur C Clark, Verne, Dumas, JRR Tolkein...
(2) Listen to podcasts? Which ones? Provide links & recommendations?
Podcasting is an old way to use the net but is increasingly more
useful. If you have not bothered downloading audio yet, you should
try it. Internet radio is a wide open new horizon for information.
You don't need an mp3 player to listen to downloads. you can use your
computer - but if you had an MP3 player (some are cheap) you could listen
anywhere - even when you exercise and never be without the information you
need and want.
Not sure what constitutes a "podcast". I download some BBC audio/video
programmes.
(3) How old are you? What do you live now and where are you from originally?
Would you like to be somewhere else NOW? What is the place you would most
like to live (and why)?
40. Minnesotan in Bordeaux, France (permanent resident, essentially). I love to
travel and experience different cultures. I HATE souvenir tourism. I travel to
learn about different peoples, not to say "I've been there".
(4) What is your educational background? Formal and informal? Self-educated
or formal - if you want to tell us. What do you wish you studied and
didn't? What field interests you the most?
Progressive education in Minnesota Public Schools. BA English Literature and
Composition, University of Minnesota. Maîtrise and Mastère Linguistics and
Translation Theory, Université de Bordeaux. Pursuing Doctorate in Cognitive
Linguistics.
Music Performance (Percussion, Piano, Voice), Theory, and Composition.
Political Science. International Relations. Philosophy. Logic. Educational
Psychology.
(5) Have you been in the military? Which one? When? Other? Where? What wars,
if any?
Recruited for OCS, marines/navy. Medically disqualified from military service.
(6) How would you classify yourself politically? Philosophically? Do you vote?
Do you vote a straight ticket? Would you like to see the political system
where you live changed? To what?
Later.
(7) What are you most urgent concerns and interests? This could be a biggie.
You wouldn't be here if you didn't have gripes.
Later.
(8) What do you do when you are not on the Internet?
Read, study, travel, cook, learn, live...
(9) What are your hobbies? And what do you do for a living?
Learning. Whatever I can learn to do.
Teach. 18 year career in security/enforcement (pretty much ended).
(10) How long have you been on the interNUT? Your operating system?
Programming experience. Organizations which are internet or
computer related?
1998??
Apple OSX
Taught Basic Computer Language: 1983-1985
varied
(11) How long before we destroy ourselves and everything on this planet?
And how?
We are not that powerful, no matter WHAT we think. Better question, how long
before our imprint on this planet results in the nature of this planet being
totally unrecognisable by current cultural standards?
(12) What kind of connection do you have? High speed or dial-up?
High speed.
(13) When was the last time you went to the library?
Do you remember the books you checked out? Fiction or Non-fiction? Titles?
This week, most weekends. Music, videos, non-fiction.
(14) Do you watch Keith Obermann on MSNBC? (check it out if not) What news
stations do you watch? What are your favorite channels and programs on
TV?
Very little time to watch anything.
(15) What groups or organizations do you belong to now or have and when?
What clubs?
ToastMasters. Dale Carnegie and Associates. Cooking classes, art classes,
chorales.
(16) Answer anything at all here. You pick this question. Your choice:
More later.
NOTE: Be advised there are some here who are still using dial-up and cannot
view video links. There are blind users here also and sites you recommend
should be accessible.
Hank Roth
PNEWS-L
http://pnews.org/
(You can include anything else you want to say in this survey or not and
if you have any suggestions which you would like to include here, send
them to me..)
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