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| 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 |
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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. |
Say hello to yourself
We’ve composed this composite personality based on our 2006 All About You survey.
How can you recognize a Network World reader? Easy! This is the person who is: …eating meat and potatoes, french fries, pizza and chocolate ice cream; playing Monopoly, going to the movies, watching football, quietly relaxing alone or listening to or playing rock music; arriving at work early, talking with co-workers via e-mail (not the phone!) and solving problems during a high-octane, fast-moving day; vacationing in France, visiting museums and sightseeing, staying at a nice hotel; engaged in a vigorous newsgroup discussion, tuning into an online news aggregator or reading a good novel; working on a Palm, listening to an iPod, driving a hybrid-fuel vehicle; giving Linus Torvalds the thumbs-up sign; siding with Paula Abdul’s opinions, admiring Donald Trump’s chutzpah; laughing it up at Jackie Chan.
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