61 posts tagged “qotd”
If you could have personally witnessed one event in history, which one would you want to have seen?
July 16, 1969 Landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon.
If you were forced to buy a new car today, what kind of car would you get?
It has to be a hybrid, at the minimum.
What question do you hate being asked?
"Say something in Chinese!"
What was your major or field of study in college? Did you wind up working in that field or using that degree? If not, what field have you wound up in?
Submitted by sneuf.
When I was growing up as a child in Hong Kong, I was fascinated by the education programmes the government put on the TV in the afternoon. I kept watching the same maths and science programmes and amazed by how science seems to have an answer for every questions, or at least seemed that way to me back then.
So when it was time to pick the subject to study in university, there was never a doubt that I wanted to study physics. (Chemistry and biology are for wimps who can't handle the maths!) I was (and still am) pretty handy with maths but some of the more abstract stuff bores me :-) Unfortunately this applies to physics too and when the last year of the course came around, I was more interested in computer programming than quantum physics, thermodynamics, and solid state physics.
But the analytical skills that the physics course had taught me had left me in good steed. It was exactly the right type of skills to have at the right time when I graduated. The computer industry started looking for scientists and engineers for programming jobs instead of just computer science graduates because we were perceived as more rounded.
So here I am, working as a software engineer with one of the leading edge software company in the US. Can't be that bad, huh? I bet my uncle, who was actually a proper physicist and advised my parents against me studying physics, would have to eat some humble pie too.
What kind of camera(s) do you own?
I started out with a Canon APS SLR many years ago but soon graduated to a EOS30. Then I got a Canon 10D which has lasted me ever since but I am always looking at the 30D or 5D longingly, hoping somehow I can afford one.
If money were no object, which five luxury items would you rush right out and buy?
Submitted by lorilyn.
I'll assume "money were no object" means infinite amount of money. Then I'll just have to buy out the McLaren F1 team. Mind you, I don't want to manage the whole F1 team and its complex operation. I just want to own the team so I can have trackside access and inside information on what's going on.
The other 4 items are just things that keep me occupy when I am not traveling between races or not attending test sessions, so really are of no consequences.
What are you going to do with your tax return?
Submitted by KB.
Apple TV!
In your ultimate dream house, what does your favorite room look like?
I am in two minds whether the room would be a fully decked out home theatre, or a game room with pool table, Sega Rally, and other Co-Ops machines, and other toys that I have forgotten but definitely want.
What's one of your favorite quotes?
Submitted by Georgie-boy.
"Do or do not. There is no try." Yoda, Jedi Master. Empire Strikes Back.
