Category: Daily Prompt
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ChatGPT, give me a middle name
What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance? The other day I was talking about the meaning and significance of my first name. But I don’t have a middle name. I have no idea if my mom and dad had a plan to give me one when I was born. This might…
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Vanilla ice cream
What is the last thing you learned? I love trying new things in the kitchen. My latest experiments have been with ice cream. So far, I have made vanilla, banana, melon, strawberry and orange ice cream. This weekend I will try my hand with the chocolate one. All of them have turned out quite good:…
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Rain check
What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain. On the Oscars this year a reporter asked Timothée Chalamet if he could do the ‘skrt, skeet’ on the fly. He asked for a rain check. I asked for a rain check also for this post. Today I’m using it. During my first trip to…
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Job interview
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Once I got an invitation for a job interview in a management position. The job description was to manage a small group of about five people. It was a technical team and I practically had all the qualifications for that role. I…
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I dreamed of the future
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? I dreamed of the future, and it became my reality. When I was a child, I had so many ambitions. It was not just luck. There was a lot of work and sacrifice involved. But thankfully I got to achieve many of those dreams. I got to…
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Eyeglasses and an e-reader
What are three objects you couldn’t live without? I will start off by saying that, should the situation arise, it’s impossible for anyone to live with only three objects. We need way more than that to minimally subsist, specially in our modern world. So, I will not be taking this prompt literally but will list…
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No pain, no gain
What experiences in life helped you grow the most? There have been innumerable situations that have helped me grow, no doubt. I don’t think a particular one has contributed more than others. Collectively, the ones helped the most were when I had to overcome a very difficult situation. Particularly those that were painful. As the…
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Destiny, or fate
Do you believe in fate/destiny? To answer that, we need to set some ground rules… First, let’s define what we understand by destiny, or fate, and chance. Destiny, fate, and chance According to Wikipedia: Destiny, sometimes also called fate (from Latin fatum ‘decree, prediction, destiny, fate’), is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in…
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Midlife crisis
Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to. I think I can say with confidence that I already passed through my midlife crisis. Hopefully I will not have another one, or God forbid, a rebound. Forty or Forty-five? One day, many years ago, I was in therapy talking with my psychologist.…
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Charmides for a day
If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why? I would give anything to go back to ancient Greece and hear Socrates challenging his interlocutors in their dialectic disputes. If I could be someone else for a day, I would choose to be one of Socrates’ youthful disciples. I…
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Kitchen backsplash tiles
Describe the most ambitious DIY project you’ve ever taken on. I have done a fair share of DIY projects during my lifetime. For example, I have painted my house. I have done my own moving and worked in the garden. I have fixed so many things in the house. This not counting the innumerable IKEA…
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No more bans
If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why? I am not a big fan of banning anything. For example, I am not in favor of banning books. I often don’t agree with most things that other people write. But it’s their right to say it. The same…
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