30 posts tagged “qotd”
We know you never slack off at work, but if you did, what would you do?
I'd co-opt QotD to post a youtube challenge on Vox!
So I'm challenging all men (and some particularly domain-knowledgeable women):
Banana Health.
Background
I'm a single mom of a teenage son. It has come to my attention that the Kaiser Permanent play on AIDS prevention that's presented to high school students has a modular instructional component involving unrolling a condom onto a banana. Astoundingly, many locations' parent groups require them to drop this component out of the play. (Although what can you really learn from 100 feet away, anyway?)
This is one of those things I just don't dare teach my child because, although I think of condom use as a factual health issue, good god, who wants their mother to teach them that?! So I'm left hoping he runs across this important information on the interweb! So, here I am, doing my best to improve the likelihood of that happening. On behalf of single mothers everywhere, I pose this challenge:
Challenge
Make a clinical video on how to select and use a condom, and post it to youtube.
Details
It can use any number and types of fruits or other non-sexual props, but no actual manufactured dildos or other sex toys no matter how abstract. You may use any number of condoms of any color, size, etc., from any manufacturer. I hope it will convey things like how to choose a condom that fits you, and it can certainly include any other kind of health related information such as where to buy condoms anonymously and/or cheaply, info on condom quality, etc.
Then post it on Youtube with the search terms "banana health"
Thanks!
to keep in touch. In order to curtail my vox presence on google, I am no longer creating public posts.
What gameshow or reality show would you kick butt on?
Friend or Foe
Do you play any musical instruments?
Sure, though not recently (enough).
Piano, viola, bagpipes, voice. I want to learn bass.
Again, why ask this question, and not, say, "what do you wish you played?" or "if you play or could play an instrument, what would be your favorite song to perform?"
You've been through the desert on a horse with no name. Except your horse does have a name. What is it?
Submitted by edubya.vox.com.
It's name is, of course, Thursday's Child.
What TV show(s) will you be watching this season? Why?
Submitted by ducnly.vox.com.
(1) The Daily Show / The Colbert Report
This is a daily ritual my son and I have had since after 9/11 (well, with JS). Jon allows the truth to be told and lampooned at the same time; it was a great way to avoid denial without being overwhelmed with trauma. Now that my son's joined debate he realizes that he has a much better sense of recent current events than his peers.
(2) How I Met Your Mother
Why? Because it's cute, and allows for the other kinds of discussions with my son. (See how much he's drinking? He's going to puke....)
(3) Mythbusters
I like it okay; son loves it so we watch this too. It's like Bill Nye the Science Guy for teenagers, in a way. (Hosts are lunatics, and although there's not much factoidal science, there's a lot more engineering and problem solving.)
(4) SNL
Typically a Sunday morning thing, unless it's a rerun.
(5) Monk & Psych
Both cute; monk has felt shark-jumpy for a while, but psych is great
(6) Scrubs
I'm getting pretty sick of this, but my son still likes it. It's turned into Friends.
(7) The Kumars at No. 42
Great interviews and impromptu humor, though it does get a little schtick-y.
It's possible we'll get sick of one or more and slot something newer in. I don't get premium cable so HBO and Showtime shows are right out. I *would* subscribe to whatever carried Arrested Development.
What's your favorite foreign accent?
Swedish Chef.
Max HEADROOM!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_(Character)
I collect dilemmas. Some people do Sudoku? I do dilemmas. For example: "my child vs. my community." It's not actually resolvable. There are things you will want to do for your child that conflict with what would be best for your community.
I also collect mental misconceptions and discontinuous interfaces: what is often the source of antagonism between technology people and traditional salespeople? I believe it stems from two different and opposing views of what information is. For one, information is data, which means it's a raw material to their work; if the salesperson omits information or tells the customer what they want to hear, that's evil (i.e. deliberately destructive). The salesperson, however, is likely to think that information is always subject to interpretation, so there is no such thing as truth, anyway, so there's no such thing as a lie. The salesperson might see the engineer as unsophisticated.
I don't collect actual tangible objects, as I don't have any space for them. Books keep appearing, but I don't consider "several" or "many" to be a collection; a collection to me involves a reasoned search.
