All about you

Pizza and iPods, rock 'n' roll and Jackie Chan - these are a few of your favorite things.

By Julie Bort, Network World
July 24, 2006 12:02 AM ET

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In this package
What you eat	Your favorite techno toys
How you work	Your favorite celebrities
How you vacation	What you read
How you play	Say hello to yourself

Getting to know you. Getting to know all about you. That was our aim in asking you to participate in an informal Web survey. We wanted to know about your preferred food, work environment, vacation plans, techno toys, celebrities and more. The votes are in from 185 readers, and here's a look at . . . you.

What you eat

French fries (68%) over sushi (32%)

Meat & potatoes (92%) over tofu & veggies (8%)

Ice cream (81%) over fruit sorbet (19%)

Four-topping pizza (63%) over hearty salad (37%)

Your most-named favorite foods are cheeseburgers, chicken, chocolate, steak and Thai food. But favorites also ranged from bar food - buffalo wings - to white-tablecloth luxuries - foie gras.

How you work

Start work early (68%) over working late (32%)

E-mail (82%) over phone (18%)

Solving problems (55%) over initial design (44%)

Problem-free smoothness (59%) over high-octane excitement (41%)

Top favorites aspects of work are designing new IT systems, learning new stuff, working flexible hours, helping others and solving challenging problems. But some named figuring out stuff that nobody else has, and that there is never a dull moment.

How you vacation

Museum (72%) over casino (28%)

Sightseeing (62%) over lounging on the beach (38%)

France (56%) over Peru (44%)

Hotel (74%) over tent (26%)

Disney World, Hawaii, Paris and San Francisco bubble up as the favorite vacation spots, but some of you yearn for far-flung destinations like Bonaire, in the Caribbean; Bruges, Belgium; and Mykonos, Greece.

How you play

Monopoly (73%) over Battleship (27%)

Cinema (57%) over live performance (43%)

Football (78%) over NASCAR (22%)

Alone time (57%) over socializing (43%)

Some of you fancy bird watching and car racing, but overall favorite pastimes are bicycling, spending time with the family, gardening, golfing, playing a musical instrument, reading, playing soccer and video gaming. And when it comes to music, you like classical more than country western, jazz over rap and hip-hop, rock over gospel and golden oldies over top 40.

Your favorite techno toys

Palm (59%) over BlackBerry (41%)

iPod (71%) over Xbox (29%)

Hybrid (58%) over Hummer (42%)

Your BlackBerry or Treo, PlayStation, cell phone and GPS devices get the nod as most-named faves, but wireless BBQ thermometers also rated a mention.

Your favorite celebrities

Linus Torvalds (58%) over Vint Cerf (42%)

Paula Abdul (58%) over Simon Cowell (42%)

Donald Trump (68%) over Martha Stewart (32%)

Jackie Chan (88%) over Jean-Claude Van Damme (12%)

Show-biz personalities Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks and Jay Leno are your favorites, but Albert Einstein and Nelson Mandela also have your respect.

What you read

Newsgroups (54%) over blogs (46%)

Online news aggregator (51%) over newspaper (49%)

Fiction (61%) over nonfiction (39%)

The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Stand and The Bible come up as your most-read books, while The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Slaughterhouse Five and the Rand McNally Atlas earned praise, too.