It’s Internet meme time at Is There Food, boys and girls. Oli over at The iBlog has, in the blogging equivalent of running up to someone, slapping them with your hand, and shouting “tag” – or “tick” as we used to say, but then “you’ve been ticked” doesn’t really have the same ring to it – picked me as one of seven people who must name seven things about their good selves. So, here goes:
- I am Daniel Woolstencroft, a recently turned 30 software developer from Leicester, England.
- My hobbies include gaming, film (particularly horror), and music. I like reading books, but for some reason rarely do. I used to go to the gym, but now cannot scare up enough motivation to move in its general direction.
- I adore my two sons, my wife, and my family. They mean the world to me, and I’m so, so lucky to have them.
- I used to write short stories when I was younger, and keep thinking about doing it again. In fact, a recent conversation on Twitter spawned the idea for Blog Fiction Day, which will happen eventually, I promise. Just probably not on Edgar Allen Poe’s birthday like I originally planned.
- I currently have 26 draft posts on Is There Food, some of which are actually complete but never got published. I also have a number of post ideas for my other blog Geeklike.me – but I haven’t gotten around to posting anything over there yet. I’m thinking film posts here, techie and personal stuff over there. I want to blog about being a Dad too, and that sort of content on a site full of rotting corpses just doesn’t seem right…
- I love zombies and apocalyptic fiction. It doesn’t really matter how bad it is, I’ll probably read it, watch it, or listen to it if it’s got flesh eating undead in it, or it involves the end of the world.
- I’m a self confessed Apple fanboy, and am reminded of this fact – and ridiculed about it – on a fairly regular basis by all that know me. I’m not completely taken in by the reality distortion field, but I am one of that special kind of geek who gets excited about every little Apple announcement despite himself.
And there we have it, seven factoids about me, myself, and I for your reading pleasure. And now, as is law with these things, I’m supposed to nominate seven more people who need to do the same thing:
- Ashleigh Charlesworth: Blog | Twitter | F1-Blog
- Ian Woolstencroft: Blog | Twitter (Please follow to encourage use!)
- Andy Murdy: Blog | The Lightning Lounge
- Richard Brunton: Blog | Twitter | Filmstalker
- Graeme Smith: Blog | Twitter (Please follow to encourage use!)
- Gary Cooper: Blog | Twitter
- Dave Coveney: Blog | Twitter | Spectacu.la
Please check out the sites above, and the linked Twitter accounts, you might well find something you like.
Small print: these were the actual rules…
- Link to the original tagger(s), and list these rules on my blog.
- Share 7 facts about myself in the post – some random, some weird
- Tag 7 people at the end of my post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
- Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.
"I used to go to the gym, but now cannot scare up enough motivation to move in its general direction."
"Scare up enough motivation"? What a peculiar turn of phrase. Is it Amurrican?
Could be. Have you never heard the phrase “to scare up” before? Apologies for offending your delicate British grammatical sensibilities.
Not delicate. Militant.
And no, I've not heard it, but don't forget, I don't watch television or listen to anything other than the British Broadcasting Corporation on the wireless. "Scaring up" seems to me to be from the linguistic school that also brought us "covering off". Bah.
I think it takes its origin from hunting birds. You scare them up into the air.
It just seemed like an appropriate phrase for obtaining something under effort, particulary with regard to the mental tricks one tries to play on ones self to get ones lardy arse into the gym.
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I haven't come across it, but then I don't hunt pheasant. I have, however, squashed one. It was already dead.
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