Ask the Box

05 jul 06

"Can we ask personal questions such as 'when are you coming over for dinner?' or is that taboo?"

sure, that's fine -- no potential emotional turmoil involved. in fact, i'd like to go to some mystery person's house for dinner tonight, because all i have left in the house is a pint of plain yogurt and several kinds of jams that i heap over helpings thereof. so, some dinner would be lovely.

now, it's just a matter of narrowing the dinner location down. unfortunately, i can't, because i'm discovering that geolocation by city is probably only about 60% reliable. for instance, i know only that the submitter of this question uses cavalier internet, which appears to serve northern virginia. the geolocation puts the asker in silver spring, but i've found that geolocation tends to put everyone (including myself) in silver spring. the asker's IP address doesn't match the IP address of a possibly active participant i know who lives in northern VA, so i really have no idea.

furthermore, things very well may have spread to people not on my orignial advertising email. moreover, gmail for some reason didn't save my outgoing bcc email that advertised "ask the box", and i can't remember who the recipients were, let alone who out of them lives in northern virginia.

so, i don't know at whose house i need to show up tonight; i'll just wander around northern virginia all night with a bucket, knocking on doors.

but really, sure -- ask anything you like. if it annoys me, it annoys me, and i'll be really rude in my response and hurt your feelings. i'm realizing that people take it personally when i snap at them via "ask the box", even if, from my point of view, they\re anonymous -- i can't be snapping at "them", because i have no idea who "they" are. but i'll try to be a little nicer.

this is just my way -- to be snappish when my personlaity is poured out via the written word. sorry.

you can also ask "how often do you shower?" not all that often.