Which List Length of Favorites Are You Most Likely to Read?
Okay, this is the last survey in this chain. I’m curious about the optimal list length for favorites and recommendations. Like, favorite restaurants or recommended things to do. Thanks for your insight!
Which List Length of Funny Things Are You Mostly Likely to Read?
Think about this question in the context of “Top” lists, like Letterman’s Top 10 or the types of lists I post about Halloween, etc.
Which Entries Did You Like This Week?
Please shape the future of this blog by indicating all entries that you liked this week. Thanks!
What's the Best Length for You?
You may notice that I post a lot of lists on this blog. I do that because lists are easy to read and easy to skim. They’re idea for the blog format.
One other interesting quality about lists is that you know what you’re getting into when you read a subject line. Maybe you read the [...]
Poll: Posts I've Never Posted
I keep a running list of blog ideas/topics. Some are categorized under various categories (Pet Peeves/Pleases, Management Tactics, Brilliant Ideas, etc.), while most are just lumped under “Truthbits.” (If you’re curious, I use the free version of Backpack as my list software.)
I’ve noticed over time that if I don’t write about an entry when I’m [...]
To Hold or Not to Hold?
A few weeks ago, Trevor sent me a query for the blog that got pushed back by my infatuation with happiness last week (by the way, did anyone try that exercise? I’m really quite curious if my results match up with anyone else’s. The exercise itself is quite gratifying). Here it is:
Trevor was pumping iron [...]
What Would You Have Done?
In today’s “What Would You Have Done?”, an ongoing segment that I just made up, I pose the following situation to you:
Today I was walking across my gated parking lot to the back door of my apartment building when I noticed something strange. There was a two-door car parked near the door–I’ve seen this car [...]
Official Bachelor Party Results
This past Sunday, I posted an entry and a poll about what you’re allowed to do at your bachelor party. I was looking to establish some universal rules and guidelines about bachelor parties. Below are my conclusions and a few observations.
Note that these results are based on the assumption that 30 people voted on this [...]
The Lemonade Experiment
I want you to answer the following question with your gut response.
You’re walking through your neighborhood on a hot, sunny day when you come across a kid with two pitchers of lemonade sitting on crates on the sidewalk. There’s a little sign between the crates that says, “Lemonade, $0.99 and $1.00.” If you have a [...]
The Most Embarrassing Purchase at a Grocery Store
A long time ago, before I had the power to create polls on the blog, I posited that the most embarrassing single item you could buy at a grocery store was a plunger. I say “single item” because if you cushion the plunger purchase with other every day purchases, it doesn’t stand out as much. But [...]
Mythical Animal Fight Club, Round 1
I’m exhausted, so I’ll keep this short and simple today:
Phoning in from the Bathroom
You’ve had this happen to you.
You’re on the phone with a significant other or friend. You’re talking, laughing, blah blah blah…and then you hear a toilet flush in the background.
You have to ask. “We’re you…going to the bathroom?”
“Uh, yeah.”
Perhaps you’ve even been the perpetrator at times. The question is, is this practice acceptable? Point/counterpoint follows [...]
New Format?
I’m giving a new format a try for the weekend–please let me know what you think in the comment area below. Thanks!
Note: Click around a little bit. I’ve made improvements to the general setup that I think work really well. I’m most curious about your response to the three-column theme on the main page, though.
The Winner: Salma Hayek vs. Penelope Cruz
I just refreshed the poll for the last time at exactly 12:07 pm on Thursday, February 12, 2009 (CST), and the results are as follows (total of 22 votes):
Salma Hayek: 17 (77%)
Penelope Cruz: 5 (23%)
It’s pretty conclusive that Salma Hayek is the winner here. What does this mean for you? It means that for sure, hands down, [...]
To the Polls: Salma Hayek vs. Penelope Cruz
For centuries, men have debated the hotness and sexiness of Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz. Early Babylonian buildings depict mug shots of the two women facing each other, as if about to enter combat. During the Renaissance, painters and sculpters created works of great beauty for the woman they favored. And, of course, both Hayek [...]
The Winner: Hottest Animated Disney Male
I just refreshed the poll for the last time at exactly 3:00 pm on Saturday, February 7, 2009 (CST), and the results are as follows (total of 18 votes):
Simba: 6 (33%)
Beast: 4 (22%)
Eric: 4 (22%)
John Smith: 1 (6%)
Shang: 3 (17%)
Receiving no votes: Aladdin, Hercules, and Tarzan
Two animals beat out several strapping young men. Well done, [...]
The Hottest Animated Disney Male
Following the success of the Hottest Animated Disney Female poll, and by request of several female (and a few male) voters, below is the poll for the Hottest Animated Disney Male. A few stipulations:
I tried to match the males with the females from the previous poll.
It’s a lot harder to find photos of Disney leading [...]
The Next Disney Poll
Several people have requested that the next poll be of the Hottest Animated Disney Male. Although that’s not nearly as fun as this last poll, it could be interesting. I’ll be accepting nominations in the comments section below.
In the female poll, there appeared to be a trend where any female voters would vote for the [...]
The Winner
I just refreshed the poll for the last time at exactly 12:00 noon on Thursday, January 29, CST, and the results are as follows (total of 284 votes):
Ariel: 117 (41%)
Belle: 19 (7%)
Esmerelda: 8 (3%)
Jane: 8 (3%)
Jasmine: 75 (26%)
Mulan: 5 (2%)
Pocahontas: 47 (17%)
Nala: 5 (2%)
It’s a victory for mermaids and mermen everywhere. And a huge loss [...]
The Hottest Animated Disney Female
Amidst all the inaugural events this week, you may have missed a bit of important news. Over the last four days, a council has met in complete seclusion, cut off from the world, in the bowels of an Antarctic glacier. The 12 members of this council have sworn not to exit the chamber until they [...]