December 21, 2007
FOUR FOR FRIDAY
Q1 - Notification: Rose Tani, the 90-year-old mother of astronaut Daniel Tani, died this Wednesday in the Chicago suburb of Lombard. Police said Rose Tani stopped behind a school bus at a railroad crossing and then drove around the vehicle, bypassing the lowered crossing gate. A train struck the elder Tani's vehicle on the passenger side and pushed it down the tracks before stopping. Daniel Tani is believed to be the first American astronaut to lose a close family member while in space. If you were on a space mission, would you want to be notified of a death in your family, or would you prefer that you be notified once you returned to Earth?
Q2 - Memory: Can you remember what got for Christmas last year? Well, according to a new survey, half of British men cannot remember what was under their Christmas tree. A 2005 Canadian study was the first to systematically mark the onset of "childhood amnesia" in children rather than adults. The research shows that by our tenth birthday our early pre-school memories have receded into an inaccessible past. What is the earliest verifiable autobiographical memory you can commit to?
Q3 - Strip Clubs: Do you think strip clubs (the ones where the ladies dance for the men) debase women, men, or both?
Q4 - Hold It: This one's an oldie but goodie here on the For For Friday. Right now, from where you're sitting, locate a clock or watch and hold your breath for as long as possible. Okay, now tell the rest of us for how long you were able to hold your breath? (FYI: The last time I asked this question--on May 20, 2004--Kim and Sya held theirs for one (1) minute, Dave and AC went for 45 seconds, I lasted 28, and seven people chose not to even try.)
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Q1- Hard to say...right now, I would want to be told after I came home from the mission, but I am not in the situation. But, I could see myself being upset that I wasn't told until after coming back as well. Either way sucks.
Q2- An apple and some socks...just because I get those every year as part of a tradition. Anything else I can't really remember to well. I probably got some shoes, but that was given to me by me. Does that count?
Q3- Well, women choose to strip, and both men and women go to the clubs...so both.
Q4- Well...the last number I remember counting out loud before I passed out was 35. My head hurts.
1 - I think I'd rather hear about it when I made it home. I wouldn't want the distraction when I'm in space, where anything can happen.
2 - I vaguely remember. Clothes from my Mom I won't wear. Tools from my Dad. It's pretty much the same every year. I remember what I gave as presents much more vividly then what I received.
3 - If you've ever talked to a stripper, they aren't crying themselves to sleep at night. Most of them are driving home in a nicer car than I have, to a nicer house than I live in and falling asleep on a huge pile of dollar bills that smell like baby oil. I think there are very few women that stripping is a last resort and they are forced into it. Most of them realize that they can make TONS of money by simply being nakey for a while.
4 - 38 seconds. That seems short. Must be this thin air.
1 - Intellectually, I think I'd want to know after I returned, but emotionally, it would all depend on the subsequent services. If I would be stuck up there too long to make it to the services, I'd want to know immediately, to have a chance to be remotely involved in some way because I would want the closure.
2 - All I can remember is that my mom ordered something to be sent directly to my inlaw's house, where I spent Christmas. No clue what it was though.
The earliest memory I have is of halloween when I was 4. The only part I remember is when we went over to my friend Andrea's house and I have this snapshot in my head of the entryway and being tired of waiting for Andrea to come down so we could go trick or treating. I think the only reason I remember that entryway is probably because I saw it so often and I remember that particular time because it was my first time trick or treating.
3 - It's clearly an endeavor that appeals to our baser instincts, greed and lust, so both.
4 - 47 seconds, pretty good considering I see myself as out of shape and lazy.
1. Notification: Well, if my mother was 90 years old, I could probably take the news. If it were, say, my wife or one of my kids, that would really affect my work, but I'd still rather hear about it so I'm not wondering where the heck they are when I land.
2. Memory: I hate Christmas, and I always tell people not to get me anything... but I remember I had this boss last year that didn't listen and got me an iPod and $75 in iTunes credit. I forgave him rather quickly.
3. Strip Clubs: Hmm... that's a tough one. I'd say more the men, but then I could never go... so, um. Yeah.
4. Hold It: First, let me say my record is 3:03. I have three witnesses to this grand event, and I even recorded it on video. Yeah, I'm crazy like that. Unfortunately, it takes some preparation for me to do that (stretching out my lungs and what not) so there's no way I'll even get close on a first try out-of-the-blue attempt like this... but here goes.
2:37
Honestly... a little better than I expected. I thought I'd struggle to make 2 minutes.
Q1. I'd want to know right away. I think it would be hard, but work is a nice distraction sometimes.
Q2. I remember what I got, because I usually only get a few gifts, I doubt my kids remember what they got, more because they are spoiled and get a lot of gifts than memory ;).
Q3. I think they are gross, that's all I can say really.
Q4. You will be amazed at my skill on this...27 seconds, too bad being married to a super duper breath holder doesn't rub off on me ;).
Oh... my earliest memory. I think it helped that my family moved a lot because my dad was in the Navy. I have several memories from my time in the Philippines where I haven't been since I was two years old.
The most prominent is when I went with my parents and brother and sister to a Philippine hospital to visit my grandmother. As we stood next to her bed, I saw a bowl of bananas and asked my father if I could have one.
Even earlier than that is a memory I have of sitting in this big bowl, taking a bath outside some building. I looked up and saw two woman walking down the dirt road with large bowls atop their heads. I looked down and saw this big ol' scar on my leg caused from me scratching a mosquito bite too much (or so, that's what my mother tells me)... I just remember thinking the pattern of the scar looked cool. I was one year old back then.
I forgot to put my earliest memory. I remember walking home from kindergarten on the last day of school trying to carry all of my papers and a forgotten sweater. I was 5.
Q1 - Give it to me straight! Bad news is bad news whether I am in space or Disneyland I better hear about it now than later so I can get over it. Heck I my mom was hitting 90 something I don’t think I would be too broken up about it, especially if she was driving. I would have thought “she is much better off”.
Q2 -Sitting on the counter at Super America when I was three. I had decided to go exploring from my house and walked 7 blocks away. I made it to a gas station called Super America. Where the clerk there took care of me and feed me an awful lot of “Smarties” while trying to coax information out of me so he could locate my parents. I wasn’t giving him anything, fortunately my folks found me. I crossed 6 streets and the gas station was located on the busiest street in my home town.
Q3 – As a fourteen year old boy I could have stood outside one of these facilities for hours on end dreaming of the wonders that happened inside. After seeing the movie Flashdance I realized that was not a place where they made candy bars and cookies. I was shocked by the appalling behavior that occurred in these facilities and I immediately swore I would never go into one of them, unless I was going in remove a member of my family.
Q4 - I am still holding it.
Ok here are the real stats.
10:17:45 to 10:19:20…..My face started tingling
Q1 - Probably when I get back. That would be too much of a buzz kill to handle in space.
Q2 - I remember hanging out with my family up in the canyon when I was about 5 yr. old. Funny thing is I remember the sounds better than the images.
Q3 - They debase neither. Everyone one makes their own choices and who really cares what judgments others make of those choices. Anyways, how else am I going to get rid of my spare dollar bills!?
Q4 - I started this endeavor but then forgot what I was doing and Outlook didn't send me a reminder to breath again....
Q1 - Notification: Dying is all a part of life, so I would want to know when it happened. I think it's kind of selfish to say that it would be an inconvenience to get the news of your mother's death.
Q2 - Memory: My brother and I were sitting next to the ditch with willows pretending that we were fishing. My dad told us not to go next to the ditch, but of course we couldn't resist. Sadly, he caught us sitting on the bank, and he came and picked me up and threw me in. I stuggled to get out and he did it again. After that, I guess I learned my lesson of the danger of water. I think I was 4.
Q3 - Strip Clubs: I think it is more debasing to the wife and kids who are not at the strip club. The stripper chooses that profession, and the men choose to go there. The wife and kids have no choice, and often get the blunt end of it all after a wrecked marriage and family.
Q4 - Hold It: I am holding it and typing trying not to really think about what I am doing. I'm sure I look like a big doofus, so I am glad I have my own office and that no one is looking over the cubicle at me.
Wow, I've passed a minute and haven't breathed. And I'm done.
1:35
1. NOTIFICATION: Being in space is a job that, despite its novelty, should be so regarded. Call me at work, even if it's in space or under deep sea, to tell me, timely, of such a death.
2. MEMORY: My earliest memory is of the 1st day of school. Despite pictures of events prior to that, I cannot recall anything prior to that, which is when they pinned the bus number (5) on my shirt when I got off the bus for the first time.
3. STRIP CLUBS: Strip clubs, whether male, female, straight, or gay, CAN be debasing toward its dancers and even patrons. However, they do not have to be and often times are not. An individual's character, behavior, and general outlook would factor in to such a conclusion. I think the dancer/performer or the patron would be best suited for such a judgment. Clearly, women (and gay men) are taken advantage of at such places. What are we to do as a society, a neighborhood, or as an occasional patron? That is the great question of civil society: how do we we spend our time, energy and resources? to what end?
4. HOLD IT: No time to hold my breath right now. Perhaps I could spend a moment and CATCH my breath, though.
Mine is up at -
http://sandystyl.blogspot.com/
1. I would want to be notified in space. So if I was really bummed and couldn't handle it, I can shoot my boosters to earth while space walking, and fall into the earth's atmosphere and kill myself...okay that was probably easier written than said.
2. First memory was when my family dog was given away when we moved. They gave it to some hippies on a school bus, I remember walking on their bus with my dog wondering why these kids were so exited about my dog. sadness resulted after they left.
3. I agree with the post about the wife and kids bit, but I think its more of a singles sort of place. I went, and I didn't feel any debasement, I felt pretty damn good, just a dollar shorter. The act of stripping, I believe, is not the source of debasement, but the end result of bad upbringing, or rebellion.
4. (getting weird looks at work) eljuan is a liar, 10 min, that's better than Jacques Cousteau...Maybe I'm jealous (1:30)
1. I think I'd want to know after I landed. Being up in space and getting home safely is risky enough, don't need to add to it. Unless it happened after I just got up there and wouldn't be home for several weeks.
2. My earliest memory is probably also my most traumatic, that's why I can still remember it. I was in nursery school (age 4) and I was crying because I missed my mother, and my very mean teacher yelled at me and called me a baby and made me stay inside from recess. (Another friend also cried and I remember her sleeping at her table with her head on her hands and her eyelids red from the crying).
3. Both. That a woman can only earn that much money by getting naked in front of men seems sad to me. Also, the atmosphere seems kinda skanky. But I guess if women weren't willing to do it, then men wouldn't have a place to go and see it.
4. 30 seconds.
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