digitaldiscipline ◾ ◾ M's Qs (redux, bigger M)

1. Fuck it. Healthy living is overrated. You're throwing in the towel on all this good eating and exercise and going back to eating and drinking what you want when you want it. What's the first thing that's going into your fridge that isn't there now?

- Chocolate milk and dill pickles. Hungry Man turkey dinners. Honestly, so few of my nasty eating habits came out of the fridge that very little there would change. I'd just eat more cold cuts if i'd stop secreting lard and preservatives transdermally immediately afterwards.

2. What's the worst physical pain you've ever felt?

- Breaking my collarbone (college) as being damned unpleasant at the time, but not overwhelmingly so. Having hypoglycemic shock medically induced to do some hormone testing bloodwork (at 16) was deeply uncomfortable and lasted a long time (an hour or two, while they took samples).

However, in terms of raw, at-the-time discomfort, though I can just barely recall how it feels now, one of my earliest memories is of taking a hand-sized swath of skin off both of my knees when I was five or six. I tripped while running home on the sidewalk between my best friend's house and mine (I caught the toe of my sneaker on an uneven segment of the sidewalk, and i was wearing shorts). Apparently, my mother could hear me screaming from -inside- our house, which was six lots away.

3. What's your favorite moment in sports history?

- Ray Borque hoisting the Stanley Cup. The shot of him, alone on the ice, with it over his head made me fucking bawl. I get misty just typing that.

4. Ok, the whole Clunky thing was a big joke and all. I grok that. But come on, be honest? Was there ANY real inspirado behind the Clunky movement? I'm sure you've read episodes of Heavy Metal or seen Anime with hot robot chicks in it - Was there just a little bit of truth behind the fiction?

- For my part? It was whole-cloth conjecture and bullshit.

cavalorn or some of the other guilty parties may have this particularly rusty skeleton in their closet, but the closest I come to C: pron is the occasional Sybian video.

5. What's the thing you like the most about your new job? What's the thing you like the least?

- Most? How laid-back and supportive everyone is. The whole, "If you win, we win," attitude, rather than "If I win, that means you need to lose," leitmotif that pervaded Big Red Can Cola Company. The least? It's not the commute, it's the lack of a truly casual dress code. I admit to being spoiled by being able to wear a t-shirt and shorts every day, and kilts on Friday.