The Four Things finally cornered me, thanks to Rob. But like good old Artie Schopenhauer says:

If you observe that your opponent has taken up a line of argument which will end in your defeat, you must not allow him to carry it to its conclusion, but interrupt the course of the dispute in time, or break it off altogether, or lead him away from the subject, and bring him to others.

So I’m making up my own questions.

• Four jobs I’ve blown the interview for:
  1. Summer-camp model-building instructor
  2. Undergraduate writing tutor
  3. Technical writer
  4. Software engineer
• Four movies I’ve watched one time more than was good for me:
  1. Lone Star
  2. Miller’s Crossing
  3. The Lion in Winter
  4. Apocalypse Now: Redux
• Four places I’ve never gone back to:
  1. Athens
  2. Tehran
  3. Capitola
  4. Oxford
• Four other places I’ve never gone back to:
  1. Crete
  2. Isfahan
  3. Reno
  4. Cornwall
• Four TV shows I never watched:
  1. Friends
  2. Seinfeld
  3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  4. The Sopranos
• Four web sites I stopped visiting:
  1. C|Net
  2. Slashdot
  3. Locusmag.com
  4. the Washington Post
• Four serious culinary mistakes:
  1. Toblerone fondue à la micro-onde
  2. Lipton’s onion soup with Cheerios
  3. Pan-fried refrigerator cookies
  4. Spaghetti alla carbonara with lukewarm spaghetti
• Four places I wonder if I’ll ever get to:
  1. Olduvai Gorge
  2. Samarkand
  3. Manaus
  4. Darwin
• Four albums I used to really like that I don’t really ever need to hear again:
  1. The Police, Every Breath You Take: The Singles
  2. The Police, Sychronicity
  3. Sting, Dream of the Blue Turtles
  4. Sting, . . . well, pretty much anything, really

Tag! . . . er, who hasn’t done this yet?