This morning I started a post about how stale my blog has been over the last 12 days. I started a post about how I’ve been through this cycle before, and it has been posted about before, with the explanation that I just didn’t have anything to post about.
Enter You Look Like A Nail. My a fortunate coincidence he has posted a list of questions to be answered by myself. Normally when e-mails of similar style go around I immediately delete them–those who know me well know that I have a strong dislike for blindly forwarded e-mails. If I wasn’t so dry of blog topics I would probably regard these questions in the same way, but it reminded me of the Ask Ryan section of my web log (side note: I’ve noticed that the section link doesn’t work correctly. I’ll fix that tonight.)
So here’s the latest entry of Ask Ryan.
You Look Like A Nail of Ottawa, ON asks: If you could have any job, without consideration of requirements, experience, or cash flow, what would you be doing?
“Well, I would invest half of it in…mutual funds, and give the rest to my friend, Saheib, in securities.”
That answer doesn’t work when the question is worded like this.
My job would be a collector. I would collect mis-shaped or otherwise faulty manufactured food and snack items, such as oblong Smarties, boston cream donuts without the filling, and packages of individually wrapped Life Savers that contain an very uneven ratio of cherry flavoured candies to any other flavour. These are the types of items we all encounter every day and we notice them, but we shouldn’t have to. Really the job extends to, what is effectively, a Quality Assurance Engineer for the People. Maybe it’s even an elected position.
Let me throw this question out to the rja.net readership: what would your job be?
I’ll answer one question every indeterminate time period until all 8 are done, at which time I will select another web logger to answer the same questions. Each question will be addressed in its own post and will, hopefully, be more well thought out than this. Suddenly I’m tired.
I would write a series of travel guides for foosball players. It would involve me travelling to every single foosball hotspot in the world and writing little blurbs about them. I actually did this when I backpacked Europe, playing foos in nearly every city I visited and keeping a journal, although it lacked detail.
Titles include:
Foosin’ North America
Foosin’ South, Central America and the Caribbean
Foosin’ some of Africa
Foosin’ East Asia
Foosin’ some of Western Asia
Foosin’ Europe (this one would be huge)
For example:
Kingston, Ontario
Smijies
Located at the corner of Princess and Division
2 Tornado Foosball Tables – $1 per play
Tournaments are held weekly on Tuesday
Quality of play is generally low with a few isolated exceptions
On other nights of the week, you can expect a steady stream of bar hacks
Beer is moderately priced
Music is top 40 pop and hip hop, usually played at deafening volumes
Ask for Trevor and you might not have to pay a cover
Overall: 3 goals (out of five)
Rating System:
0 – table is unplayable, but the bar itself is awesome so you should go there anyways
1 – table is playable, but no one plays on it, but the bar is awesome so you should go there anyways
2 – either the table is in excellent condition or it is in okay shape but people play on it, also the bar is good enough to make it worth your time (Eg. Mybar)
3 – table(s) in excellent condition and some people play on them or table(s) in okay shape but good players play on them, bar is now worth your time on a foosball basis alone
4 – table(s) in excellent condition and good players play on them, bar is a must see for any serious fooser (Zampub in Ottawa or Le Skratch in Laval)
5 – tables in excellent condition, good players are there almost every night, atmosphere in the bar is awesome, bar is known to be a place where pro foosers reside.
I’d hands-down be a judge on Iron Chef America. Wait, maybe the chairman. No, a judge. For shizzle.