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The Game

Take turns asking and answering the questions below. There are no exact rules. The idea is to have fun mostly with just the conversation. You can modify questions for younger children. You can introduce drawing or painting, singing or charades. You could throw a bean bag back and forth each time you do a new question? You can do this standing, sitting, or walking. It can be played inside, outside or over the phone. It’s not a competitive game. It’s a game of fun, warmth, and relationship building.

Print out the questions below. You can either take turns asking questions you like from the list or you can randomly choose numbers, whatever works for you. If other questions follow naturally, all the better. Let the conversation flow! Let us know how you modify the game for more fun!

The Questions (for any age – feel free to modify)

1. What is your favorite color?
2. Who do you admire most?
3. Who is your best friend?
4. What is your funniest habit?
5. What do you dislike/hate?
6. What was your favorite dream ever?
7. What was your scariest dream ever?
8. What famous person would you like to have dinner with? What would you talk about?
9. Have you ever dreamed you could fly?
10. What is your favorite smell?
11. What is your favorite song?
12. What do you like to do when you’re bored?
13. What’s your favorite adventure you’ve been on?
14. What are you most scared of?
15. If you could live anywhere and bring anyone you want, where would you live?
16. What place are you keen to visit? Far away and nearby.
17. What are you most proud of?
18. Did/Do you have an imaginary friend? Tell us more.
19. What is your favorite holiday? Why?
20. What is your favorite holiday memory?
21. What was the best and worst day of your life?
22. What is your favorite food? Least favorite?
23. What is your favorite word? Least favorite?
24. How do you express your creativity?
25. Where do you believe we come from before birth?
26. Where do you believe we go after death?
27. What is something that always makes you laugh?
28. What person always makes you laugh?
29. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
30. What would be the consequences if you got your wish?
31. Do you collect or live simply? Explain.
32. What drives you crazy?
33. What makes you smile?
34. What do you know about your heritage? Grandparents and back.
35. Do you have a favorite story from your family history?
36. What’s the most shocking thing you ever did?
37. What would you like to have a “do-over” on?
38. What is your favorite story to tell?
39. What’s your favorite animal? Why?
40. What is your favorite season? Why?
41. What is your favorite hobby?
42. What is your favorite thing to do on the weekends?
43. What one thing do you want to change in yourself?
44. When did you feel most alone?
45. When did you feel most happy?
46. What do you do to cheer yourself up?
47. With whom would you like to trade places for a day?
48. What makes you mad?
49. Do you want to have children?
50. What’s your favorite thing you own?
51. What do you wish you could do?
52. What are the colors of the numbers 1-10? Letters?
53. What are you afraid of?
54. What would your dream house be like?
55. Do you believe in angels?
56. Are you ticklish?
57. What is your favorite place?
58. What’s your favorite place in nature?
59. Which do you like better: hot or cold?
60. What was your favorite Halloween costume?
61. What was your favorite thing to do as a kid?
62. What is your favorite memory from high school? college? grade school?
63. What makes you sad?
64. What does your name mean? Why did your parents choose it?
65. What are your favorite clothes?
66. Who is your favorite person to talk to? Why?
67. What’s your favorite hiding place?
68. What do you want to be when you grow up?
69. What do you want people to remember you for?
70. What is your most annoying habit (to others)?
71. In your most difficult relationship, what makes it so?
72. How do you show compassion?
73. What are you always curious to learn more about?
74. Whom do you miss?
75. What do you like to teach?
76. What is your favorite gadget?
77. What do you like to write about?
78. What is your favorite “bad” thing to do?
79. What is your favorite movie?
80. Favorite book?
81. Favorite band? Song?
82. Do you like to go camping?
83. What fascinates you?
84. What makes you special?

Questions Especially (but not exclusively) for Young Children

1. Do you remember being born?
2. What’s your favorite story about when you were a baby?
3. What’s your favorite game?
4. Who is your favorite hero?
5. Who is the worst villain?
6. What can you do better than mommy, daddy or sibling?
7. What are you really good at?
8. If you could have any pet, which one would you choose?
9. If you have a child someday, what would you like to give to him/her?
10. What’s your favorite thing to cook with mommy/daddy?
11. What color are your eyes?
12. What color are you inside?
13. What word do you think is really funny?
14. What do you like to draw/paint?
15. What songs do you like to sing?
16. What is your favorite book/story?
17. Can you play music? How?
18. Where were you before you were born?
19. Why is the sky blue?
20. Why is there day and night?
21. What is mommy/daddy really good at?
22. Whom do you like to cuddle and kiss?
23. Where do fruits and vegetables come from? How?
24. If you were King/Queen of the house, what would you change? Rules, things, etc?
25. What wish would you ask of the wishing star?
26. How do you make people smile?
27. How do you make people laugh?
28. Is there anything special you can do with your body? (jumping, dancing, funny faces, etc)
29. What do you hope never happens?
30. What do you think is scary?
31. What do you notice when you go outside your house?
32. Which do you like better, sand or snow? Why?
33. What’s the scariest animal?
34. If you could be any animal, which would you choose? Why? What would you do?
35. Do you have any secrets to tell?
36. What is something you do every day?
37. Can you name all the people in your family? Extended family too.
38. What toy would you like to make?
39. What color is a smile?
40. What’s your favorite bug?
41. How do you know when you are tired?
42. How do you know when you are hungry?
43. What games do like to play when you’re alone?
44. Can you tell if an apple is good by how it looks on the outside?
45. What’s the funniest looking fruit or vegetable?
46. What are the morning sounds you hear?
47. What are the night sounds you hear?
48. What is your favorite park?
49. What do you like to do at the park?
50. What’s your favorite thing to do at the beach?
51. Can you see underwater?
52. How does a fish breathe?
53. Can you make a rhyme? Can you add a tune to it?
54. Which do you like better: the woods, the beach, mountains, field, etc?
55. What’s your favorite thing to do in summer? Winter?
56. What was life like in the old days?
57. Tell me about the dinosaurs.
58. Tell me about your brothers/sisters/cousins/friends?
59. What’s your favorite baby animal?
60. Do you ever fight? With whom? Why? How?
61. How do you show love?
62. How do you help someone who is sad/hurt/sick?
63. What ways do you help out with chores?
64. What does mommy/daddy/grandpa/grandma always tell you not to do?
65. Did you ever have a hard day? Why?
66. What is the most fun?
67. What is sooo funny?
68. What is your favorite thing to feel?
69. What rules do you get to make?
70. What is a star?
71. What is the moon? Why is it there?
72. What mysteries do you want to know?
73. What mysteries have you solved?
74. Did you ever track an animals footprints? Tell me more.
75. What’s your favorite game?
76. What do you always do before bed?
77. Describe yourself. Looks, type of person.

Not that any of my friends care, I’m posting this for my own edification and/or amusement.

How to Use the Registry to Deactivate the Symantec Uninstall Password

If uninstalling Symantec antivirus from the server is no longer possible, you need to deactivate the uninstall password. Follow the steps below to disable the password.

1. From the Start menu, select Run.
2. In the Run dialog box, type regedit and press Enter.
3. In the Registry Editor, locate and open the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREINTELLANDeskVirusProtect6 CurrentVersionAdministrator OnlySecurity
4. In this registry key, locate the entry called UseVPUninstallPassword.
5. Right-click the entry and select Modify in the popup menu. Change the Value from 1 to 0.
6. Close the Registry Editor.

Well, it was an interesting night.  My day started off with a Mango juice and some water, followed by a 30min run and a personal
training session.  I then ran to work to get a laptop and charger that I had on my desk that I needed for a project.

I then ran back home and pushed Vu to get ready in time for us to meet one of his friends for a night at the Theatre!  We got to his friend’s house and we promptly hopped in the car and headed to the Alliance Theatre where a new children’s program was to debut.  It was a stage version of Class of 3000, a Disney film.  I got to see Andre Benjamin and a few other muckity mucks.  And hundreds of little ones clamering for the show.

All in all, it was a great night.

Then I took out Vu for a little birthday dinner before bed.  He got the eggplant parm and I got the chicken parm.  We both had a ton of salad and shared a Tiramisu (our favorite).

After that we literally got home, got in bad and the snoring began!

Tomorrow we have a birthday dinner then I have to head on home.

So my friends threw me this spontaneous birthday party on Friday night. It was great, we went bowling and had a few beers and then to my surprise, they had gotten me a Dairy Queen ice cream cake. Anyway, it was great and I need to send them all e-mails thanking them.

Most of my friends are not computer folk, so this should be interesting anyway.

In my opinion the best programmers are the laziest programmers. We’ll show some examples. A lazy programmer will find a way to program something once and reuse those methods throughout their entire program.

So write once, use many. That’s a pretty efficient solution for a lazy programmer. Now just to remember that you’ve created that method when you write your next application.

Oh here is another one, but somewhat controversial. If someone has already written it and I have their source, by golly it’s mine now bitches! Don’t recreate the wheel.

Now for real efficiency, if it can be done in 2 lines of code as opposed to 30, a lazy programmer will find a way to do it!

These are the 10 essentials of gay dating. I don’t go for the stereotypical shit…

1. Attractive: This is very subjective, if you don’t find the other person attractive, don’t waste your time. It must be a mutual thing. You can still be friends with people you aren’t attracted to, so don’t discount them as a friend, but be clear that you don’t find them attractive in a sexual way early on.
2. Respect: You need to have respect for the person and they should also respect you in the same way. This could be as little as helping clean up after dinner to something more important like jokes told in the company of friends.
3. Go Dutch: You should never pay for the other person to start off. You should both be able to pay for yourselves and be comfortable in your own lives. It seems to be the trend in the gay community for one person to pick up the tab, I’ve fallen victim to this too many times.
4. Trust: This one is built over time, but you should have trust that you will adhere to whatever boundaries you decide the dating will fall into. I, for instance, believe in a monogamous relationship. I don’t want anything coming into my house or body that I don’t know. That includes diseases.
5. Boundaries: Again, you must both set the boundaries of the relationship. What you both expect to get and to receive. This might seem tough to do when you start dating, but it needs to be dealt with early.
6. Location: You should not mind traveling between the two places of dwelling. If it’s not feasible it needs to be discussed. Long distance relationships are hard and humans just aren’t built for those.
7. Communication: You should both be able to communicate effectively with each other. This is VERY important in any relationship. Effectively communicating needs and wants are essential to a healthy life.
8. Shared Ideals: You should share some of the same ideals. Life, family, love, and the like.
9. Hobbies: This is not essential, but it helps with conversation and things to do. It’s nice to share some of the same hobbies, but you can also develop these along the way. Essentially, you should like doing things together, regardless of what it is.
10. Friendship: Try to develop a friendship before you get to the more meaningful parts of a relationship. You should want to hang out with this person more than your other friends. If not, then it probably won’t last.

Gees, I went to the gym around 6pm and did some cardio before my training session. I actually didn’t feel exhausted after. I think I’ve been eating too much salt this last couple of weeks. I’m going to cut back and see if the bloated feeling goes away.

On a side note, I’ve really neglected keeping up with my friends back home. I’m going to have to get on that. I’ve met some really cool folks here in town. I’m excited about the new Movie Night I’m a member of. It’s a good group of guys from what I’ve seen.

My friend Ben’s partner is really nice. They seem like the perfect couple. I’ll find that one day… SOON! haha

Well, I’m just playing around with my new laptop. This sucker SCREAMS! I can play all my online games and such on it, so that’s a plus.

The graphics are awesome. I need to purchase an additional HDMI cable. I’m wondering if I have one already… I doubt it. They are so expensive in the stores. I’ll find one online.

I was thinking about having my friend Katie over since he girlfriend will be out of town for the remainder of the week. Leaving us both all alone… sad! haha

Actually they both deserve a break, Shelly just has a bit more free time since school is out! SLACKER! I hope she has a blast on her trip. Katie and I will go romping around the city while she’s away! Getting into trouble, or gorging ourselves with food. Probably the latter! I’m soooo hungry! *taking a deep breath* No I’m not hungry, I’m just thirsty…

Well… that’s it for me for the time being. I’ll probably post some videos or something later.

So, I’ve been working in my current position for almost 1 year now. I have about 3 months left. I love the job, but I’ve been having a bit of trouble really shaking out what I’ll be doing going forward. My co-worker’s thoughts are very disjointed and hard to follow, so explanations don’t come through clearly.

So I took an initiative to put together a list of all the applications/services we offer in Security. It’s quite a list, I was really surprised. I don’t think we’ve put something like this together before. I’m glad I started it. It was really supposed to help me rate my skill level in each of our respective services, but it turned into sort of a “let’s tell the company what we do” type of thing for our department.

My main focus is application security testing, and education material. I have yet to really get to delve into the topic here, but I’m hoping I will get to that soon. It’s very intriguing to me.

Anyway, I went on a date last week, it went great. We had a follow up date the next day. My only worry is that he lives about 30 minutes away, so as long as that’s not an issue I think it will be ok. My friend Jason and I have to get together again, he’s a nice guy, I’m going to throw him into my group of friends and see if he floats. I hope Jason is doing good.

Anyway, time for me to get back to work.

Except for Sunday, which might be a day of recovery, I’m booked this weekend!

Friday I have dinner with a friend and probably some fun stuff after that. MAYBE BOWLING!! WHICH I’M HORRIBLE AT!

Saturday, the day is pretty open, but at like 7ish I’m going to head over to some friends for a movie night and to meet some new Atlantans!

Sunday… we shall see. I’ve been so tired this week I might use it as a recovery day. Maybe do the gym, then veg out, or call up a friend and get coffee/tea! WHO KNOWS?!?!

*trying to get a ton of work done*