MEME: Saturday Six -- Episode 64

Patrick & Company pose questions. We answer. The planet spins on it's axis.

1. A stray dog wonders into your yard, obviously weak, hungry and thirsty. He is a very friendly dog, but if you feed it or give it water, you know that the dog won't leave your yard and you'll end up keeping him. If you don't help the animal, he might die. What do you do?

I save the dog and later find it a good home if I am unable to keep it. This is not a wandering hobo or lost camel, after all.

2. You must lose one of the following: a foot, a hand, an eye or an ear. Which would you get rid of and why?

I'd lose an ear -- there isn't that much I want to listen to in this world anymore.

3. Scalzi of "By the Way" recently posted about the top unanswered questions in science today. Click here and scroll down to the list of the top 25 biggest mysteries: which one would you MOST like to have answered?

How Are Memories Stored and Retrieved? -- because I'm getting old and having difficulty with retaining memories.

4. Joe, our AOL Journals Editor, says blogs are boring: either everyone talks about pretty much the same topics, or regular people lead dull lives, he suggests. So what keeps you reading other people's blogs?

Nosiness. Curiosity. Boredom.

5. READER'S CHOICE QUESTION #57 from Lisa: You are writing a bestseller book. What kind of book is it (romance, mystery, science fiction, action adventure, historical, gothic, classic, fiction, non fiction, biography, other) ? What is your main character's first name and the setting in which it will take place? And give us a one sentence tidbit about the plot ...

Fiction. Not Science Fiction, because the publishing world has a distinct bias against it, and you did specify it was a "bestseller book." Fiction requiring suspension of disbelief...

Curtis Spane awoke in an alley. Aside from his own smell, the first thing he sees is the bag lady hunkered down at his feet, hoarsely crooning a lullaby from his past while in the distance, the full purple moon rises over the sliver of a yellow one. Then he notices his hands are missing...


6. READER'S CHOICE QUESTION #58 from Mary: Jim Elliot once said, "When it comes time to die...make sure all you got to do is die." What do you have to do or would like to do before you die? Make a list of at least 6 things. And since you made the list.. will you actually try to accomplish those things?

I'm a procrastinator of the school of thought that says, "we don't need no stinkin' lists!" I'll be dead before I notice I'm gone. Be there one or a hundred things on a list, odds are good I'll have done none of them. I guess that makes me unwilling to die at any time. Then again, it may mean I'm ready to die now, as I don't care enough to make a list of undone things.

Whatever.

Have a great holiday weekend. Be safe and sane, no matter what you are doing. I like reading your stuff and would hate to lose you.