User:Danaimband/Opinions

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Personal Favorites[edit]

Movies[edit]

For a list of my favorite movies by year, including the 10 best movies I like, please see this list.

Food[edit]

For the Official Culinary tour of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, which is a 600-plus mile roadtrip along many of the roads of the South involving some choice-places, please see this list.

Television[edit]

  • For a list of my favorite TV shows (ranked by year), please see this list.
  • For a list of my favorite TV stations, please see this list.

Books[edit]

  1. Year of Living Dangerously written by Christopher Koch
  2. If You Give A Mouse A Cookie written by Laura Numeroff
  3. The Spook Who Sat By The Door written by Ivan Dixon
  4. Kiss of the Spider Woman written by Manuel Puig
  5. Danny, the Champion of the World written by Roald Dahl

Magazines[edit]

  1. Psychology Today
  2. Omni
  3. Billboard
  4. PC Magazine
  5. Architectural Design
  6. The New England Journal of Medicine
  7. Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  8. South Carolina Magazine

Newspapers[edit]

  1. The State - Columbia, South Carolina
  2. The Charlotte Observer - Charlotte, North Carolina
  3. The New York Times - New York, New York
  4. The Times - London, England
  5. The Register-Guard - Eugene, Oregon
  6. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Atlanta, Georgia
  7. Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago, Illinois
  8. The Seattle Times - Seattle, Washington
  9. Detroit Free Press - Detroit, Michigan
  10. Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville, North Carolina

Musicians[edit]

Musicians (and the best album(s) by the Artist)

  1. Herbie Hancock - Perfect Machine
  2. Chick Corea - Tap Step, Eye of the Beholder
  3. Stevie Wonder - Journey through the Secret Life of Plants
  4. Herb Alpert - Rise
  5. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
  6. Miles Davis - Water Babies, Bitches Brew
  7. Elton John - Madman Across the Water
  8. George Harrison & Ravi Shankar - The Concert for Bangla Desh
  9. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water
  10. Genesis - ...And Then There Were Three...

Game Shows[edit]

  1. Password (1961-1967) & (2008) - CBS & (1971-1975) - ABC / Password Plus (1979-1982) - NBC / Super Password (1984-1989) - NBC
  2. Concentration (1958-1973) & (1987-1993) - NBC ; (1973-1978) - SYN
  3. Now You See It (1974-1975 / 1989) - CBS
  4. Musical Chairs (1975) - CBS
  5. Wheel of Fortune (Daytime Network Edition) (1975-1991) -NBC/CBS/NBC

Places to go Shopping[edit]

List of Computers I have owned (in Order)[edit]

(*) - denotes that the computer was still working in excellent condition when got new computer.

  1. July 23, 1985-October 22, 1990 Apple Lisa 2/10 (*)
  2. September 15, 1990-March 9, 1991 Dell (80286)
  3. February 11, 1992-March 22, 1996 Televideo (8088)
  4. March 9, 1993-April 4, 1998 IBM PC-XT (8086) (*)
  5. March 30, 1996-April 4, 1998 Acer (80386)
  6. April 16, 1998-February 9, 1999 IBM PS/2 (80286) (*)
  7. September 9, 1999-October 4, 1999 IBM PCjr (8086) (*)
  8. October 4, 1999-February 4, 2001 HP Brio (80386)
  9. August 22, 2002-November 11, 2002 Compaq Presario (80486)
  10. November 5, 2002-May 5, 2004 Compaq Presario Notebook (Pentium 4)
  11. May 5, 2004-August 9, 2005 HP Pavilion (AMD Athlon)
  12. August 9, 2005-April 30, 2006 Gateway Notebook (AMD Athlon)
  13. April 30, 2006-May 3, 2007 Apple iBook G4 (*)
  14. May 4, 2007-April 16, 2009 Apple MacBook (Core 2 Duo)(*)
  15. April 20, 2009-June 3, 2010 Lenovo IdeaPad S10 (*)
  16. June 3, 2010-April 23, 2011 Toshiba Satelite Notebook (AMD Opteron) (*)
  17. April 27, 2011-December 23, 2011 Hewlett-Packard Mini 210 (Intel Atom 64 bit) (*)
  18. December 23, 2011-November 6, 2012 and June 1, 2015-(present) Toshiba Satellite Notebook (AMD A6 Quad Core) (*, first time)
  19. November 10, 2012-December 17, 2013 Compaq Presario CQ-57 Notebook (Intel Celeron B800)
  20. December 9, 2013-October 11, 2014 Lenovo ThinkPad T500 (Intel Core i3) (*)
  21. October 12, 2014-June 1, 2015 Dell Inspiron (Intel Core i3) (*)

Personal Preferences[edit]

Food[edit]

Preferences of Styles of Food (and major Restaurant):

  1. Greek
  2. Japanese - Benihana's of Tokyo
  3. Italian - Romano's Macaroni Grill
  4. Mexican - El Torito
  5. Chinese

Restaurants[edit]

Candy / Snack Foods[edit]

Beverages[edit]

Automobiles[edit]

See Also[edit]

Entertainment[edit]

Life[edit]

People who I have written to (and gotten responses)[edit]

Media[edit]

Musicians[edit]

Religion[edit]

Local Television[edit]

Total of 73 personalized signed pictures as of April 5, 2008:

KPIX in San Francisco, California (10 pictures)

  • Ken Bastida, Wendy Tokuda, Roberta Gonzales, Dana King, Tracy Humphrey, Kate Kelly, Juliette Goodrich, John Kessler, Allen Martin and Dennis O'Donnell

WLTX in Columbia, South Carolina (10 pictures)

  • Darci Strickland, J.R. Berry, Andrea Mock, Jim Gandy, Bob Shields, Nat Roers, Curtis Wilson, Scott Ryan, Matt Barrie and Jennifer Tomazic

WIS in Columbia, South Carolina (9 pictures)

  • Hannah Horne, David Stanton, Dawndy Mercer, Ben Tanner, Brooks Garner, Judi Gatson, Joe Pinner, Rick Henry and Craig Melvin

KXTV in Sacramento, California (8 pictures)

KFSN in Fresno, California (8 pictures)

  • Wayne Armstrong, Graciela Moreno, Nancy Osborne, Margot Kim, Angelo Stalis, Dan Taylor, Dale Yurong and Liz Harrison

KNTV in San Jose, California (7 pictures)

KGO-TV in San Francisco, California (7 pictures)

KCRA in Sacramento, California (4 pictures)

  • Adrienne Bankert, Chris Riva, Eileen Javora and Walt Gray

KTVL in Medford, Oregon (3 pictures)

  • Shannon Young, Kevin Lollis and Matt Montgomery

WNBC in New York, New York (3 pictures)

WSOC in Charlotte, North Carolina (2 pictures)

  • Kim Brattain and Blair Miller

KTVU in Oakland, California (2 pictures)

  • Ken Wayne and Mark Curtis

Network & Syndicated Television[edit]

CNN (2 pictures)

GSN (1 picture)

Syndicated (1 picture)

Radio[edit]

Government[edit]

United States Senators[edit]

Governors[edit]

Mayors[edit]