{"id":655,"date":"2006-02-16T11:19:18","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T19:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/16\/tag-im-it\/"},"modified":"2006-02-16T11:19:18","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T19:19:18","slug":"tag-im-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/16\/tag-im-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Tag&#8230; I&#8217;m it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out of fear that I will have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/luck\/chain.asp\">100 years of bad luck<\/a>, here&#8217;s my response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darcynorman.net\/2006\/02\/14\/the-one-about-the-game-of-tag-meme\">D&#8217;Arcy&#8217;s tagging me<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Four jobs I\u0092ve had<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; dishwasher<br \/>\n&#8211; burger flipper<br \/>\n&#8211; knowledge carpenter<br \/>\n&#8211; strawberry picker (not in this order!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Four movies I can (and do) watch over and over<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0075314\/\">Taxi Driver<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0061512\/\">Cool Hand Luke<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076723\/\">Slapshot<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064708\/\">My side of the Mountain<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Four places I\u0092ve lived<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Montreal, Quebec<br \/>\n&#8211; London, Ontario<br \/>\n&#8211; Cardiff, Wales<br \/>\n&#8211; Banff, Alberta<\/p>\n<p><strong>Four TV shows I(&#8216;ve) love(d)<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentary-video.com\/displayitem.cfm?vid=854\">James Burke&#8217;s Connections<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0090521\/\">Dennis Potter&#8217;s Singing Detective<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0084287\/\">Made In Britain<\/a> (Tim Roth&#8217;s first part)<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themovienetwork.ca\/regenesis\/index.php\">reGenesis<\/a> (oh please bring it back!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Four places I\u0092ve vacationed<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; the canyons of Utah<br \/>\n&#8211; the mountains of Wales<br \/>\n&#8211; Prague<br \/>\n&#8211; Australia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Four of my favorite dishes<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Pad Thai (almost anywhere, just love the stuff)<br \/>\n&#8211; the medallions of Buffalo tenderloin at the Banff Springs<br \/>\n&#8211; my Mum&#8217;s roast beef and yorkshire pudding<br \/>\n&#8211; my wife&#8217;s mac and cheese<\/p>\n<p><strong>Four sites I visit daily<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; bloglines<br \/>\n&#8211; google<br \/>\n&#8211; umm, is there anywhere else?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Four places I would rather be right now<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; right here<br \/>\n&#8211; right now<br \/>\n&#8211; the forest<br \/>\n&#8211; the ocean<\/p>\n<p><strong>Four books (or series) I love<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaweb.com\/wiki\/wiki.phtml\">Neal Stephenson&#8217;s The Baroque Cycle<\/a> (though I actually think <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cryptonomicon\">Cryptonomicon<\/a> said it better, in less words)<br \/>\n&#8211; anything by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Powers\">Richard Powers<\/a>, but especially <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Gold_Bug_Variations\">The Goldbug Variations<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&amp;isbn=0312204094\">Gain!<\/a>)<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themodernword.com\/pynchon\/pynchon_works.html#Anchor-The-35882\">Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_Noise_(novel)\">Don Delillo, White Noise<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Four video games I can (and do or did) play over and over<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; never really played video game except for an intense period of blowing things up in Doom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Four bloggers I am tagging<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; NOT! This dies here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of fear that I will have 100 years of bad luck, here&#8217;s my response to D&#8217;Arcy&#8217;s tagging me: Four jobs I\u0092ve had &#8211; dishwasher &#8211; burger flipper &#8211; knowledge carpenter &#8211; strawberry picker (not in this order!) Four movies I can (and do) watch over and over &#8211; Taxi Driver &#8211; Cool Hand Luke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/16\/tag-im-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tag&#8230; I&#8217;m it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}