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Sunday 14 May 2006
Personal Priorities
Here’s a riddle. Let’s imagine you have five activities you could be doing right now. You can’t do all five things at once, so you have to order them in terms of your personal priorities. Here are the five activities:
- Working with your shiny new computer
- Buying shoes
- Watching Star Trek
- Making love with a person whom you adore and desire
- Catching up with an old, beloved friend or family member
What would be your priority order?
Filed under: faith(less), blogging
Posted by: Molly | 3:46 pm |
May 14th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
4,1,5,3,2
May 14th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
5,4,1,-,-
May 14th, 2006 at 4:26 pm
1, 5, 4, 2, 3 and I now feel sad so will go in the corner.
May 14th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
4,1,5,2,3 …who watches Star Trek?
May 14th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
4, 1, 3, 5, 2
Ummm… sometimes I wonder about my priorities
May 14th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
Maybe I’m not as geeky as I should be, because I haven’t watched Star Trek since before Ethan Marcotte was born.
Maybe I’m not really a girl, because I don’t care about shoes.
Do you actually have to know the person in #4? Or, can it be one of those sexy standardistas we discussed recently? (Note to self: Don’t let husband ever visit molly.com)
Sad but true answer: If the person in #4 or #5 wanted contact of the type described, and it happened just at the moment that the shiny new computer arrived at the door…….my first choice would be #1. But I’d be yelling, “Just a sec! I’ll be right there! I swear! Don’t start without me!”
May 14th, 2006 at 6:20 pm
4, 4, 4, 4, 4
May 14th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
4, 1, 2, 5, 3 … and then some more 4. heh.
May 14th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
3,4,5,1,2
May 14th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
4, 5, 1, 3, 2
May 14th, 2006 at 6:58 pm
1,1,4,1,1. if “star trek” were “a ‘twilight zone’ marathon”, it might make it to the fourth slot on the list. my friends and i stay in touch through e-mail, so i can play with the shiny new toy *and* keep in touch. shoe shopping is too traumatic for me to make it a priority of any kind (i have huge-ish feet and picky tastes).
honestly, i’m not sure #4 would even be on my radar screen if i had a new computer, but i refuse to admit i’m that much of a nerd.
May 14th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
41532 - which is the same as Dean Edwards. I could skip 2 though and have another 4 if its more convenient.
May 14th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
ps. i vote whiskey should replace shoes and maybe 1 5 and 3. Of course it could preclude any chance at 4 but i’m getting older and get more 4 than whiskey anyway…
pps. yes i like whiskey
May 14th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
5, 4, 1, 3, 2 … unless it’s a MacBook Pro, then: 5, 1, 4, 3, 2 applies.
Why do I get the feeling there’s more to this than meets the eye? Somewhere, someone is saying “O’kay, o’kay Molly - you’ve made your point!” (grin!)
May 14th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
I have to agree with Carolyn above. “I’ll be RIGHT WITH YOU, I promise!” (startup chime in the background…)
May 14th, 2006 at 11:03 pm
4, 5, 1, i never do 3, and 2 is never *my* priority it’s hers!
the inner geek says “just how new and shiny is that new computer? are we talking out-of-the-box-today new?”
May 14th, 2006 at 11:22 pm
…and it even asks “what software is installed yet?”
I think it would be 1,4,5,2,3 (but 4 and 5 could be swapped). I am not too much for shoes, and I never watch Star Trek.
@Carolyn
hehe
May 15th, 2006 at 12:00 am
4,5,3,1 and 2.
However, if Star Trek happened to be on in the background while making love I wouldn’t complain
Shiny new things just don’t do it for me anymore.
May 15th, 2006 at 12:36 am
4 * Making love with a person whom you adore and desire
5 * Catching up with an old, beloved friend or family member
1 * Working with your shiny new computer
3 * Watching Star Trek
2 * Buying shoes
May 15th, 2006 at 12:54 am
4, allways…
love is never waisted time…
May 15th, 2006 at 1:57 am
God, what a load of unimaginative losers. With a bit of creativity and some planning, I regularly manage to do all of them simultaneously.
May 15th, 2006 at 2:45 am
Easy:
5 - because they’d get annoyed otherwise (but all the time I’d be thinking about 1).
1 - because it’s a shiny new computer!!! This would be in first place if I didn’t mind upsetting my friends’n'relations.
3 - but only if it’s ‘The Next Generation’ (Jean-Luc Picard…!). This would possibly move up to second place if it was the new Dr. Who we’ve been enjoying over here in the UK, instead of Star Trek.
[… everything else in my life …]
2 - I’ll have to replace my shoes sometime or other. This would NEVER be a priority though.
4 - because it’s never actually going to happen.
May 15th, 2006 at 3:16 am
Buying shoes, buying shoes, buying shoes, porn, porn.
May 15th, 2006 at 5:33 am
4,1,5,4,4 - it’s been a long time since I watched Star Trek, but it still sounds more fun than buying shoes.
May 15th, 2006 at 6:19 am
4,5,1,2,3
May 15th, 2006 at 6:30 am
See Ben Buchanan answer supra, including the post scriptum.
Nonetheless, I do think that a movie showing “bruce” screwing an old friend in a shoe store while his new laptop plays Star Trek on the shelf would make an awsome viral video.
Cheers from across the Ocean!
May 15th, 2006 at 7:34 am
4,1,5,3,2
I wonder if 2 would have lost so badly had you said sandals?
May 15th, 2006 at 7:49 am
1 and 4 at the same time, I just need to find a vibrating mouse!
May 15th, 2006 at 10:33 am
4, 1, 5, 2, 3 (that last one’s only if it’s required, I hate Star Trek)
May 15th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
4, 5, 1, 3, 2
The “Truly how geeky are you” test?
May 16th, 2006 at 3:05 am
Hey Le Plume, I’ve got my video camera. I’ll meet you in the shoeshop
May 16th, 2006 at 4:43 am
Man, 4, 1, 5, 3, 2 for sure!
One can never make love too much.
May 16th, 2006 at 5:18 am
* Making love with a person whom you adore and desire
* Catching up with an old, beloved friend or family member
* Working with your shiny new computer
* Buying shoes
* Watching Star Trek
May 16th, 2006 at 6:26 am
4, 5, 1, 3, 2. Happy with those choices, too.
May 16th, 2006 at 6:48 am
4,1,5,3,2 aswell. Although i think option 1 should really be:
Playing World of Warcraft with your shiny new computer
May 16th, 2006 at 10:04 am
Sadly, your test does not apply to graduate students. It requires strange things called “imagination” and “personal priorities.” Is this some sort of foreign mumbo-jumbo?
May 16th, 2006 at 11:35 am
Ah sex… Lil’ Miss Popular. 4, 1, 5, 2, 3
May 16th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
I’d have to say 4 then 5. After that would be determined by which Star Trek. I’m fond of TNG, but most people who were around for the original consider that pure heresy.
I’m actually kind of disturbed about how many people would rather play with a computer than talk with family in friends. I’m not trying to be too preachy, but it just strikes me as odd. Maybe I’d think differently if I had a shiny new computer.
May 16th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
4,5,1,3,2:
Sex, uh, making love comes first, of course!
I miss an old friend of mine, who vanished some time ago, so this is the right priority.
I love shiny, new computers and to work with them…
and to watch Star Trek (I like TNG most, “Data’s day” for example, or dialogues like this:”No, you don’t understand! I didn’t kill some of the Husnok or the crew of the ship(s), I killed all of them, 2.5 billion (take another high number)!” or “THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!”: Brilliant!)
I’m a guy: my shoes are still good, so why buy new ones?
May 16th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
“You can’t do all 5 things at once”? Molly! I beg to differ. You’ve not heard of Continuous Partial Attention? With the power of the internet I think even throwing 2 into into the mix is more than possible!
May 17th, 2006 at 11:30 am
4,1,4,5,4 (repeat!)
I live in Austin. We don’t need shoes. As for Star Trek, I can do without. Guess I’ll need to turn in my Uber Geek membership card.
May 17th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
4,5,1,2,3
I definitely put 4 and 5 above any of the others (call me ‘old-fashioned!’)
May 17th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
This quiz is very interesting and all, but I can’t help thinking there’s an even better story behind it.
May 17th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
If one is dextrous enough, couldn’t one do all 5 at once? On the shiny new computer,one could buy shoes & catch up with a friend whilst watching Star Wars and beginning to instigate foreplay…screw prioritizing, multitasking is the new prioritizing!
May 17th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
You never said what your ordering would be Molly?
May 19th, 2006 at 6:54 am
4, 5, 1, 2, 3
Lets face it, I know what I like to do.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Web Standards and why we care
There has been a number of interesting threads going on around this subject, particularly as it concerns…
May 19th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
Okay, my order goes:
4
5
2
1
3
:* mmmm
May 20th, 2006 at 2:41 am
I’d pick exactly that order too if the first two were realistic
Well, I’d never watch Star Trek voluntarily, have no money for new shoes, and don’t have no shiny computer (rather a five year old one). But still..
May 20th, 2006 at 4:14 am
Why does it not shock me that the response to this question is so low?
Forty eight people in one week, whereas any other question you could have asked would have got you ten times as many people in that same time!
Or was that the true point? Not to find out how people would respond, but if they would.
May 20th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
I have to admit to old fashioned as well 5,4,3,1,2
Only reason #2 is still there is I mentally substituted fine soft leather walking Wellingtons for “shoes”
May 20th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
45132 but priorities are fluid - they could be different next week. I kind of like the idea of substituting Baileys for shoes too.
May 20th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
4, 5, 1, 2, 3.
Or 4, 5, 3, 1, 2 if we substitute ST for a good book.
May 22nd, 2006 at 8:05 am
Initially 4,5,1,3,(4 again insead of 2 cos I hate buying shoes)
:D
May 22nd, 2006 at 2:36 pm
I like eggs.
May 22nd, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Sometimes I like to eat eggs, with Ketchup.
May 22nd, 2006 at 2:39 pm
Sometimes I like Eggs, With Kethcup, with Bacon, on the crispier side.
May 23rd, 2006 at 5:34 am
1, 4, 5, 3, 2
Can’t resist the offer of playing with a new computer..
May 23rd, 2006 at 2:30 pm
414141, please
May 23rd, 2006 at 2:42 pm
I need specifics!
First, priority order in my idealized world…
4 – If said person is one of my real life or even TV crushes (I’m looking at you, Goran Visnjic), is currently unattached, happens to be an exciting and/or considerate lover, and I’m guaranteed that I won’t have to spend the next six months of my life in angst-ridden phone conversations after said love-making, then it’s definitely #1 on my priority list.
5 – Old friends and family live all over the globe – I’d love the chance to sit down and chat like old times with a friend or two I haven’t seen for a couple of years. A good friend, a wonderful location, perhaps a bottle of wine – heck, I might be able to have #5 and #4 in one fell swoop, if things don’t work out with Goran…
1 – Is this a MacBookPro, or a Power Mac G5 with a 30-inch Apple Cinema HD display? Is it fully loaded with current MacrAdobe software for my design needs? Heck, I’ll even take it with a 23-inch Cinema display – that’s still bigger than my TV.
2 – Are you buying? Can I have two pairs? Then shoe-shopping it is…
3 – Yes – I was a TNG fan, and wouldn’t mind watching a decent episode again, but it’s not a high priority for me. Now if you had said a Futurama marathon, to be topped off by the new straight-to-DVD Futurama movies that it’s been rumored are in the works, then it would definitely take priority over shoe-shopping…
Now for my priorities in a far-from-idealized world…
4 – Someone I adore and desire? Even if said person’s not as into me, and will probably bring a lot of “dramah” into my life? I’d still make it top priority, probably because I’m currently unattached and it’s been awhile…
5- It’s always good to connect with another human being…
2 – In a far-from-ideal world, I’d at least want to get out of the house occasionally, and I still need shoes.
3 – By default, in this list watching Star Trek becomes priority #4, unless it’s Enterprise, in which case it goes to the bottom of my list.
1-If my shiny new computer is a cheap-o WinTel box that I received as a gift or a prize (because I likely wouldn’t buy a shiny new Windows machine for home), and it doesn’t come loaded with design software, then it’s just not that exciting for me. Granted, if it’s connected, I can at least check my usual online haunts and/or do some web work, but I’ll be pissed if I have to spend part of my day on hold waiting for tech support…
Aaahh, life is full of possibilities…
May 24th, 2006 at 6:29 am
See, I’m with Bruce. The imaginative sole would find a way to multi-task and do all the things at the same time…
For example, the girlfriend would be a shoe salesperson so it would be possible to make love and “talk shoe business” at the same time…
“Ohhh baby, whisper that desciption of those hot pink pumps in my ear one more time… OOOOOOOOO, yeah!”
And, while whispering “hot, dirty shoe talk” to my shoe salesperson girlfriend, I’d be downloading the entire Star Trek DVD set on my shiny new laptop sitting on my nightstand by the bed. And, during, um… “breaks”, I’d be talking to an old college roommate on my Motorola HS805 Wireless Bluetooth Headset as I checked on the download process of my Star Trek DVDs on my shiny new laptop.
:-)
-Chris
May 24th, 2006 at 11:04 am
Now listen folks. I didn’t say it wasn’t possible to do all five at once. I said you can’t, at least according to this riddle.
So while all of you who are trying to figure out imaginative and clever ways to do as many of the five simultaneously, well, you’re missing the point. You have to actually prioritize. I’m sorry, I realize it’s shocking, difficult and perhaps even painful.
Sorta like that new pair of shoes I just bought . . .
May 25th, 2006 at 9:01 am
4, 1, 5, 2, 3
I’m not sure which one I dislike more, buying shoes or watching Star Trek.
May 31st, 2006 at 10:18 am
4 - 5 - 2 - 3- 1
May 31st, 2006 at 3:46 pm
4, 1, 5, 3, 2. Not sure what this says about my personal care (buying shoes? Who the hell buys shoes?).
I’d have said that friends came before the computer, but having a shiny macbook pro in front of me, and having done somethig very similar to telling friends to stuff it while I play with it just yesterday… that might be a tad hypocritical.
Love comes first, though. Sex, even. Definitely.
June 2nd, 2006 at 2:23 am
4.5.1.3.2
I always get depressed buying shoes, they never have quite what I want.
June 2nd, 2006 at 5:44 pm
4,1,4,1,4
June 2nd, 2006 at 11:26 pm
4 & 1
but you so need a ‘drink coffee’ in there somewhere
June 3rd, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Which Star Trek?
Can’t you have sex and watch Voyager at the same time?
June 16th, 2006 at 9:15 am
1,4,5,2,3 Yeah, my priorities are set!
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4,5,1,3 and 2.
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4-1-3-2-5
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I like eggs, too. hmmm
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5,3,2,1,4
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Actucally 4, 1, 3, 5, 2
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