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August 28, 2004
Tolbert Cultural Index
Jeremy Tolbert's Cultural Index
1. USB 2.0 or Firewire
Firewire all the way.
2. The Smurfs or the Snorks
Smurfs. Especially Garglesmell, as my kid sister and I called him.
3. Fraggle Rock or the Muppet Show
The Muppet Show!
4. Kerouac or Ginsberg
Kerouac.
5. Kansas or Boston
Boston.
6. Sally Mann or Diane Arbus
Aroo?
7. Soul Coughing or Weezer
Soul Coughing.
8. Penny Arcade or PvP
Penny Arcade! Tycho and Gabe are local, I've had beer and talked non-game stuff with Tycho, and Scott Kurtz is... gyah. Annoying as all hell. He makes a good comic, yes, but he's way too full of himself.
9. Orbital or Fatboy Slim
Fatboy Slim is my weapon of choice.
10. Unreal Tournament or some WII crap
Halo, actually - but UT will do.
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11. BoingBoing or Metafilter
BoingBoing, once you get past Cory's ego.
12. Pirate or Ninja
Ninjas are overdone, but I still prefer 'em.
13. Beethoven or Bach
Ah, Bach.
14. Asimov's or Analog
Analog.
15. Slacks or jeans
Jeans.
16. Dandelions or carnations
Dandelions, because you get the puffballs.
17. catfish or salmon
Salmon.
18. Discordian or SubGenius
SubGenius.
19. D20 or GURPS
D20. Steve Jackson, like Scott Kurtz, is a little too full of himself.
20. BitTorrent or Kazaa
BitTorrent. Open Source, rather the source of innumerable virii and spyware infections.
21. Suicide Girls or Playboy
Voyeurweb, but SG over PB.
22. Slashdot or Kuro5hin
Slashdot.
23. Tick animated or Tick live action
Animated, oh yes. Comic's even better, especially when you know Eli.
24. Family Guy or King of the Hill
Ugh. Neither.
25. Firefly or Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy... pre-UPN.
26. Highway or city (driving)
Highway.
27. Saturn or Kia
Saturn (I own a '94 SL1)
28. Donnie Darko or The Matrix
DD vs the 1st Matric movie by itself - Matrix. DD versus all three Matrix movies - DD.
29. NTFS or FAT32
HFS+
30. drive-in theatre or cineplex
Cineplex with stadium seating
31. Greek gods or Roman gods
Greek gods. The Roman ones were just copies, anyways.
32. Painful death by fire ants or 7th grade
Erm, things didn't start to get really crappy until 9th grade.
33. Warren Ellis or Grant Morrison
Warren Ellis.
34. Jugglers or clowns
I juggle.
35. Train or bus
I ride the bus to work, but trains are cooler.
36. Movable Type or LiveJournal
MT.
37. PHP or Perl
PHP.
38. School House Rocks or After School Special
School House Rock!
39. Transformers or Go-Bots
More than meets the eye! Transformers!
40. Roger Zelazny or Neil Gaiman
Gaiman.
41. E.O. Wilson or Stephen Jay Gould
Gould.
42. Lake Monsters or Bigfoot
Bigfoot.
43. Pajamas with feet or pajamas without feet
Feet!
44. The Iron Giant or Toy Story
Toy Story.
45. The Legend of Zelda or Super Mario Brothers
Super Mario Brothers
46. Saturday morning cartoons or after school cartoons
Saturday Morning
47. VH1 or MTV
VH1 now - they actually play music on occasion.
48. BiPolar Disorder or Schitzophrenia
BiPolar.
49. Credit unions or banks
Banks.
50. Ecology or molecular biology.
Ecology.
Posted by jim at August 28, 2004 09:52 AM