3 things about which you know an awful lot / 3 gaps in your general knowledge

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Inspired by Adam's "I know an Awful Lot About Music" thread on the noize board.

I know an awful lot about:

1) Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie and fin de siecle children's literature.
2) Baking, butchering, and candle-stick making (honestly!)
3) Following peoples' gaze / discretely figuring out what my conversational partners are looking at.

And I know very little about:

1) Contemporary architecture.
2) Relationships lasting beyond six months.
3) Opera.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I keep trying to read up on contemporary architecture, too, but practically every time I try I'm bored to tears by the text I'm following.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Knowledge:
1. The music business
2. Social theory
3. Cooking

Gaps in knowledge:
1. Computer secret knowledge
2. Sewing
3. Non-romance languages

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

1. indie rock
2. pop culture
3. fixing computer problems

1. critical thinking
2. skills in debate/rhetoric
3. how to achieve something resembling self-esteem/self-confidence

― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

knowledge:
1. public sector and services issues in regional western australia
2. western australian politics
3. australian torts law

gaps:
the gaps all join together to form a gaping black hole, i don't think i can narrow it down to 3 specifics

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

nice thread.

Hmm

Know a lot about:
1)Bronte juvenilia
2)Modern pharmapsychology
3)Texas

Don't know (and would like to):
1)conflict in the middle east
2)video and audio recording
3)physical anthropology

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

knowledge:
1. (?)
2. being fukked over twice
3. being fukked over thrice

gaps:
where oh where should i even begin? i'm all gaps, really.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Knowledge:
1. English grammar
2. Natural and homeopathic remedies
3. Marvel comic books from the 90s

Gaps in knowledge:
1. Economics
2. How to fix a car
3. African history

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam Cooke to thread.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Why Sam? Would he economically fix African history?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm I cant narrow it to 3 either so I'll just randomly pick 3.

Good Knowledge:
1) All of Matt Groening's work (Futurama, Simpsons, Life in Hell etc)
2) cooking
3) Various areas of IP - networking, routers, DNS, LAN/WAN configs, DSL, fibre, ethernet, all that kind of shite.

Gaps:
1) Music past about 1994, I just don't keep up anymore
2) programming. it is a bit of an annoyance that I've never been able to grasp any programs like C++ or Flash Actionscript. And I really wish I could, it would come in great handyness.
3) "Canon" literature. I'm really not very well-read and sometimes it is quite embarrasing.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Cooking
Jesus, antique Palestine, baptizing cults, Mandaeans, etc
F Scott Fitzgerald

Driving
Math
How to draw stuff

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I wish I could draw better too, I would love to do comic novels and strips.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't consider myself to know much about anything.

― Every country has their stupid (AaronHz), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

neat. driving and math are two things i can do...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I can probably drive, just not legally, well, or without going over the basics in my head in advance.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course, that's true for math, too.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Why Sam?

Don't know:
1.) Much about history
2.) Much biology
3.) Much about a science book (or the French he took)

Does know:
1.) That he loves you
2.) And if you love him too
3.) What a wonderful world this would be

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

That is to say when I think about the things I know a lot about, I can't help but think of all the things I DON'T know about them.

― Every country has their stupid (AaronHz), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

otm, I'm such a jack of all trades master of none sort.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but that just comes with it. I mean, when I say I know about cooking, I'm also saying that I'm aware I don't know a lot about a score of things that people who don't know cooking at all aren't even aware exist.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

strut:
1. Postscript troubleshooting, imposition and trapping
2. Cooking (and Tep and AaronHz are OTM above)
3. How to live a pretty darn happy life with a bipolar partner

wha?
1. musical harmony
2. philosophy
3. chess

― the apex of nadirs (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i know:
1. geography, esp. in the u.s. (i stare at maps obsessively)
2. minesweeper, hearts
3. how to live with an overbearing / slightly messed up mother

i don't know:
1. economics
2. middle east problems
3. hollywood movies / pop culture

― mattp, Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Physics
2. Christianity
3. Music

1. Chinese History
2. Medicine
3. Cooking

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

3. How to live a pretty darn happy life with a bipolar partner

Can I keep you on tap as an advisor for my next relationship?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

a fair knowledge
1. rhythm guitar
2. walking on stilts
3. showin' up on time

no diddlysquat
1. accounting
2. self discipline
3. plumbing

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost: uh, sure. (It suddenly occurs to me that my wife and I should write a book.)

― the apex of nadirs (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

know:
1 - 100,000,000,000,000. all that northeasty aestheticky bohemicky stuff

gap:
1 - 100,000,000,000,000. all that bizness school money stuff

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i know:
1. russian silent film
2. david gordon green
3. lots of history/current events

dont know:
1. romance/relationships
2. non-european art
3. music pre 1950 (besides the harry smith stuff)

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

:)
1. world geography
2. ncaa basketball
3. world war 2 history

:(
1. music before 1990
2. critical thinking
3. art

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Art (the practice of, not theory)
2. MGM movies prior to 1945
3. Medieval and Ancient History

1. Social Interaction
2. Self-discipline
3. Politics

― god made dirt and dirt bust ass (papa november), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

know
1. cooking
2. english grammar
3. teh guitar

don't know
1. classical music/music theory
2. pre 20th century art history
3. non-indo-european languages

(is anyone else having a much easier time coming up with the don't knows than with the knows?)

― the krza (krza), Thursday, 18 November 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i should just say non-european languages -- not trying to imply that i speak all the IE ones.

― the krza (krza), Thursday, 18 November 2004 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm finding it hard to limit myself to three things that i know an awful lot about! (my solution was to combine them all into one big, vague answer that says nothing specific about me.)

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 November 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

1) Jazz
2) Israeli politics (at least compared to most)
3) proofreading

-1) current sports ( I know the sports themselves but not the current players, etc.)
-2) practical matters surrounding being handy (building stuff, fixing things)
-3) computer programming

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 18 November 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

1. How to get cats to do that leg thing
2. Geography
3. Reading people

1. Italian politics
2. Underwater basket-weaving
3. When to let things go

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 18 November 2004 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

KNOWN KNOWNS

1. Dates of things (Academy Awards, Olympics, etc.)

2. Criticism (which maybe seems like a weird thing to say on ILX, but among the general population, the fact that I can name several dozen contemporary music or film critics and have opinions about them is relatively unusual, I think)

3. 20th C. art/culture in general (yeah, this seems like a cop-out answer, but I'm going to echo what others have said about being a jack-of-all-trades...)

KNOWN UNKNOWNS

1. Finance/economics/business (ranging from an inability to comprehend my own finances to being baffled at how the global economy works and affects world events) (hehe, Jody OTM)

2. Mechanical things and how they work (like cars, tools, etc.) (oh yeah, and Hurting OTM, too -- just practical stuff, fixing things, dealing with objects)

3. Web design

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 November 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know much about anything, but I wish I knew more about plants and flowers. And maybe birds.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 18 November 2004 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh, i'd love to learn more about birds. i keep saying i'm going to go birdwatching in greenwood cemetery, but i still haven't gone.

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 November 2004 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

+
u.s. presidential history
music (not by the standards of ilm, tho)
working in book and record stores

-
how to fall asleep
economics
why nations go to war and millions of people are killed over relatively insignificant bits of land like bessarabia or alsace-lorraine

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 18 November 2004 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

:\
1. kind of a bizarrely overblown amount about the happenings of central and eastern europe during the twentieth century until the fall of communism (I can't tell you SHIT about post 1990)
2. as of last week, the creation of the korean alphabet, but hopefully i'll forget about it and it'll be replaced with my normal #2, information about cats and dogs and reasons they get diseases and might die
3. good ways to cook zuppa di pesce, and cookies

:/
1. greek and roman history
2. how to play katamari damacy and what exactly the point of it is
3. the films of wadja

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 18 November 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

!
1. History, design and assembly of electronics for the modification and production of sound with a particular focus on those commonly called "stompboxes" or "effects pedals." This includes the elusive knowledge of soldering which it seems many people find it difficult to master.
2. Web design and development. (When you do it every fucking day you eventually know something about it.)
3. Setting things on fire. (Note that this does mean "controlled fire," but does not really apply to anything delicate like a flambe. See #1 below.)

?
1. Cooking anything that isn't out of a recipe book or making substitutions for ingredients in a recipe. (i.e. The most complicated modification of a recipe I can make is to half the ingredients to make half as much food.)
2. History of anything other than the computer, the [electric] guitar, pop/rock music and stompboxes.
3. How to keep time using all four limbs for different rhythms. (Which is to say I cannot play the drums for shit.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 18 November 2004 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

:-)
1) Computers and IT stuff (although my knowledge is broad but shallow)
2) Railway signalling systems (don't ask)
3) Pointless trivia

:-(
1) Cars (after buying one I know realise just how little I know about owning/driving one)
2) Relationships and how to be in one
3) Any history outside of the very basic stuff we were taught at school

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 18 November 2004 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

tell us more about railway signalling systems, plz

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 18 November 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

But I said don't ask!

:-P

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 18 November 2004 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yay:
1. american comic strips, pre-1960
2. u.k. punk/post-punk 1976-81
3. watergate
nay:
1. cooking
2. the israel/palestine conflict
3. economics

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 18 November 2004 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

For everything that I feel like a know a lot about, I can think of zillions of people who know more about it than I do, and I'd like to know much more about all of them. I know enough to know how little I know, you know? But here are three things I know more than most about:

1. Non-vanilla sex (even forms which I would never ever want to participate in)
2. R.E.M. lyrics (up to "Up", at least)
3. Finnegans Wake

And not so much about:

1. Picking out nice clothes
2. Driving
3. Hiphop

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 18 November 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

cars
history
politics

mechanics
computer programming
classical literature

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 18 November 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

:knowledge:
Certain aspects of the computer world
Drawing stuff
Staying out of trouble

:gaps:
serious relationships
sex
politics

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 18 November 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Gaps:
1) making friends
2) interior design
3) music these days

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Thursday, 18 November 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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know:
1. radio
2. american social justice movements of the 60s and 70s
3. fixitty type things around the house and auto.

don't know:
1. sports (except for a little basketball)
2. movies
3. lit crit

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 18 November 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I can name subjects I know a little about like:

1. Business Strategy
2. Transformers
3. ROCK!
4. Virtual identity/community.

But, hell, I think I'm a generalist. It takes an awful lot of effort to know an awful lot.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

KNOW A LOT:
1. Random trivia
2. V. Nabokov
3. Shitty '90's indie rock

GAPS:
1. Style
2. '80's music
3. US geography

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I just realized I also know an awful lot about escalators.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Know more about than most:

1) Non-superhero comics
2) The history of rap and electronic music
3) Queer history and queer cultural studies
4) Non-American and American indie film
5) Development co-operation

Gaps:

1) Economics
2) Statistics
3) Literature
4) Finnish history
5) Long-term dating

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I always think I know a lot about my 'specialist' subjects, then I meet someone else who really knows a lot about them and I feel like a spluttering idiot compared to them.

That said, things I know about include:
English spelling
Captain Cook
How the stand-up comedy business works

The things I don't know and wish I did are:
Computer stuff
How to play a musical instrument
Baking from scratch without having to measure or look at a recipe

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

!!!!

laser physics
baseball history
Autechre remixes

????

US history
the Chinese language(s)
the visual arts

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a question for oops. Oops, what leg thing?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew N/A was going to mention Nabokov. Hi, I'm currently reading Pale Fire!

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

:( I felt pretentious even mentioning it. I don't even really know a lot about Nabokov, but relative to my other shallow fields of knowledge, it stands out.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I've decided I'd like to replace "Nabokov" with "boobies."

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay:

1. Car-free lifestyles
2. Various minutiae about things
3. Saying "Hi there!" (really, it's an art and a good one)

Boo:

1. Car-filled lifestyles (what does actively caring for a car mean?)
2. The grand secret to happiness (I have various handy placebos)
3. Getting people to call/write more often

Such are the mysteries.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

No, no, Nick, I wish I had something specific like that on my list! Anyway, I am looking forward to talking to you about PF when I am done with it.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

+
how to listen
the plight of the teenage girl
art history

-
dating
fashiony stuff
traveling

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh oh, I should probably reread it then.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried to make a list and am now just depressed. I know nothing! I know a little more than some people about Dutch (I'm a Dutch translator), German women's history (wrote my thesis a million years ago comparing the legal situation and literature of women in East and West Germany when there was such a thing), certain aspects of the Civil War (am currently working on a book about a general who worked in the Freedmen's Bureau), more than most of my friends about music but less than many people here...

I wish I knew more about economics, physics and fishing. Mostly I just wish my memory were better so that I wouldn't immediately forget things after learning them.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Nonsense, Maria D., you know quite a lot. Including how to live with a long-haired music freak, something I've not been able to ever do, in that I've been the freak. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(But not YOUR freak, obv. That would be weird.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 November 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

-yes, please-
* Making Cats do that thing where they stand on their hind legs and meow (um, this isn't so much a wealth of knowledge as it is trying to stand up to oops's claim)
* The details of moving (urgh, wish I didn't know this one so well)
* Any rock band ever that included a female musician or singer

-nosiree, bobcat-
* Current events (this one brings me the most shame)
* Any computer programming beyond html
* XTREME sports

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Living with my freak doesn't take special skills - except this week cuz he just quit cigarettes.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

But Nick, you are an expert! Okay, maybe we'll just discuss boobies then.

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Reasonably knowledgable about:
European History,
French,
Politics

Know nothing about:
Philately,
Programming,
Pugilism

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

We should get together, throw on some D'Angelo, smoke our pipes, and discuss boobies.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

!
1. 20th c. european history
2. oldies
3. buffy the vampire slayer

?
1. organic chemistry
2. playing games or sports
3. career goals

i plan on learning 2/3 of these.

― crly, Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i am good at the same things n/a is good at except i am also good at his gaps -- LIFE!!!

actually I am a jack of all trades but a master at none. You know, someone you want on your team during trivial pursuit.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm great in Trivial Pursuit too. One of my biggest skills I didn't mention on the list is remembering massive amounts of little pieces of information that are in no way useful.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 18 November 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

strengths:
1. radio documentary (producers of & making it)
2. clif bar flavors
3. pens

gaps:
1. how to be nice when yer crabby
2. physics
3. mating habits of aquatic animals

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Things I know all too well:
1. things Homer Simpson has said
2. where to put my hands in any given situation
3. what it's like to wake up, covered in mystery bruises, in a pile of empty White Castle boxes and broken dreams

Huge gaping gaps:
1. history of like things and stuff
2. important computer stuff
3. everything else

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Things I know a lot about:

1) Experimental film
2) Good scotch
3) Women

Things I don't know a lot about:

1) Car repair
2) Medieval History
3) Women

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 18 November 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Know:

1. Vaginas.
2. Sylvia Plath.
3.Uh... swearing at people.

Don't:
1. Mormonism.
2. Playing the washboard in a jug band.
3. Bikini waxing (administering or receiving).

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Friday, 19 November 2004 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, what leg thing?

Yanno, when you scratch them in the right place, and they reflexively bring up their hind leg and furiously scratch at it themselves. Usually the magic spot is near the base of their throat, but it can vary. Basically, I can pet the fuck out of a cat.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 19 November 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

ned, car-free lifestyles?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 November 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned doesn't own a car, yet he lives in Orange County. I aspire to such a committment to carlessness (well actually no, Ned's just crazy).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 06:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 November 2004 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I misread carlessness as carelessness and I was wondering to myself, "How is it careless to not have a car?".

― god made dirt and dirt bust ass (papa november), Friday, 19 November 2004 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Know too much about:

1) The AFL
2) Pubs, cafes, restaurants etc in the area surrounding the University of Melbourne and how they've changed since the mid-80s
3) Paris Hilton (any knowledge is too much)

Don't know nearly enough about:

1) Budgeting
2) Power Point Presentations
3) Basic motor mechanics

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Friday, 19 November 2004 08:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The Known...
1. Music (many here, I'm sure, might choose to refute this).
2. Record stores of NYC
3. Manhattan lore.

The Unknown....
1. Finance, the stock market, economics of any kind.
2. Vocational Motivation prompted by Aspiration rather than Desperation.
3. Martial Arts

What started off for me as vain attempt at being witty turned into several minutes of somewhat painful, sobering introspection.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 19 November 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The same thing happened to Gallagher. It's why you don't see him around much anymore.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Selling drugs
2. Doing drugs
3. Crazy

1. Dignity
2. Grace
3. Food

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 19 November 2004 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

No actually I eat a lot, I just don't know how to cook anymore. I used to make the salmon with the tinfoil and the sauce with the sugar, soy sauce, lemon juice, and sugar?

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 19 November 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I the only person here who studied Economics and works in Banking? I mean, I am crap at looking after stuff myself, but I know how it all works. Can I become ILX economics advisor or something?

― 3underscore (___), Friday, 19 November 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

We should all take a couples of months together to spend time studying the items on our 'gaps' list. Then the world would be complete and full of roses.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 19 November 2004 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

my dayjob is mortgage stuff. is that close? Not that i know jack about finances, much less how to maintain my own.

also, i realize that most of my gaps have to do with people/personal relationships, or my lack of any sort of willpower or discipline to learn about

oh yeah, and i know a lot about problem solving, i guess. 6 years of engineering school pounded that into my head, along with a massive sense of shame for never getting an engineering job more than a one-off 90-day period.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 19 November 2004 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

kingfish - that'll do. I was feeling strangely isolated. My next job will be designing and analysing mortgages, which is quite scary. Especially when you consider I have never bought a house.

― 3underscore (___), Friday, 19 November 2004 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't work for a bank but i am a series 7 registered rep.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

mr underscore, my dad was in banking for 25 years...now he analyzes and designs mortgages!

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

___, can you design me a mortgage? I need to remortgage but I'm lazy and ignorant.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't started yet, but it does strike me as fun. I thought one up the other week, and then persuaded myself it was stupid. I wanted to build an interest rate collar mortgage - it would basically be a capped mortgage at a lower ceiling, but with a floor unlike the capped mortgage. The fact of the matter is that it is a fundamentally crap idea.

― 3underscore (___), Friday, 19 November 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I know an awful lot about:

1) Krautrock
2) Rainer Werner Fassbinder
3) Samuel Beckett

And I know very little about:

1) Modern music
2) Modern film
3) Modern literature

― My Son Calls Another Man Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 19 November 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

an awful lot

1) parenting
2) politics
3) music

gaps
1) modern literature, unfortunately
2) engineering
3) philosophy

― don weiner, Friday, 19 November 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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