Category: Personal

As I was informed by someone at Uni with an anagram generator: Lickin’ Nachos. Which I have done, but no guacamole for me, thanks. Just sour cream and tomato. And NO CHEEZ WIZ! Jeez, GettyImages®, are you trying to kill me?! Answered 2016-06-04 [Originally posted on http://quora.com/If-you-could-arrange-the-letters-in-your-name-to-make-up-another-name-word-or-phrase-what-would-it-be/answer/Nick-Nicholas-5]

Not a hypothetical for me, nor it seems for most respondents. I found AUD 300 bundled with a rubber band under my car tire, twenty years ago. I did not know then, and my wife has kindly informed me since, that the location and presentation of the $300 is consistent with a drug deal. No, […]

Ah, a soon-to-be 100+ answers question that Quora would block as a poll question, but should not because it is community building. Reflexes. When I was in high school, I went to the Victoria-wide tryouts for the student version of the Sale of the Century game show. I do believe I can find some pictorial […]

*Stumbles on Quora question with 100+ answers* *Quora, instead of futzing around with UI details that already work, should be working on 100+ answer navigation* By virtue of my surname and my un-Hellenically pale skin, I got Russian in high school. Given the high intellectual caliber of Russian Jews that I socialised with in high […]

Jocular answer: When I was spending three years in the wilds of Orange County, US, I was hankering for the culinary variety of Old Melbourne Town. I kept telling anyone who would listen (and that wasn’t many) about how when I’d go back, eat at my favourite Malay-Chinese restaurant on Lygon St, and swim on […]

Boutros’ Nick, as the villagers called him: Ο Νικολής του Πούτρου. But in the papers of the state and church, he was set down as Nicholas Hadjimarcou. With a c and a dj, because the state was British Cyprus, which acknowledged that the Cypriots pronounces their j’s. The Greek alphabet doesn’t, so Νικόλαος Χατζημάρκου. Boutros’ […]

So, me and the missus are on our honeymoon in Europe, and our travels take us to Florence. My wife, an Under the Tuscan Sun (book) tragic, wants to retrace her steps from the last time she was in town, through San Gimignano, Siena, Orvieto  (in deepest darkest Umbria), and Cortona. Actually, Orvieto was my […]

I’ve switched careers from being a humanities academic to being a business analyst. Currently I’m more a data analyst with a sideline in IT architecture and policy. The clarification is important, because business analysts are more human-facing than data analysts. I switched from natively writing in Dickensian paragraphs, to natively writing in dot points. My […]

Not that big a deal, although I think it’s meant I’m not as emotionally attached to my surname as I could have been. (I’m more attached to the “Dr.” 🙂 The surname hasn’t been in the family that long anyway. The jokes I hear when I’m introduced to people get old pretty quick, so I […]