And, for fun, Natalie's questions:
Measurements: Metric, of course.
Weight: Mass, actually.
Favorite activities: Depends when you ask me. First thing in the morning, it's definitely sleeping. If I could, I'd get up at the crack of noon.
Favorite song lyric: "Choose your battles carefully, there are so few wars worthwhile to wage. You better pick your battles carefully, there are so few wars worthwhile to wage. Better think about the fallout every time you fly into a rage." (Randy Stonehill, "Spirit Walk", from Spirit Walk)
Guilty pleasures: I actually like Kraft Dinner.
Ambitions: Finding every single ship that my assorted ancestors sailed to North America on, and lining the walls of my living room with models of each. (Not gonna happen. Apparently, model kit makers don't generally put out model kits for passenger ships. Once you get beyond a few particularly famous liners [like the Queen Mary, Titanic, and Lusitania], models of passenger liners are as scarce as hen's teeth.)
Favorite concert: Daniel Amos and Randy Stonehill in Vancouver, probably sometime between 1980 and 1983.
Favorite books: Almost anything written by C.S. Lewis, Lois McMaster Bujold, Connie Willis, C.J. Cherryh, or C.S. Forester. Mirabile, by Janet Kagan.
Favorite movies: Shrek, The Moon, Inkheart, The Dish
Favorite TV show: Eureka, Quantum Leap
Favorite Sirius XM Station: Like I have enough money to pay that much for a receiver, and then a subscription fee every month! (Okay, yeah. When I get a rental car, and it has a Sirius XM receiver, and the initial free trial hasn't expired, I tune it to The Message.)
Favorite relative: My wife. (At the end of our wedding reception, I looked around and asked, "Has anybody seen my wife?" Her daughter said, "You like saying that word, don't you?" and I said, "Oh, yeah.")
Favorite job ever: Being paid to do web research all day by a dotcom during the boom.
Worst job ever: Guarding a block of boarded-up buildings during record cold weather, with nowhere to shelter. Just walking around and around the block for eight hours to keep from freezing to death.
Sports played: When I joined Facebook, I thought it would be fun to put "Extreme Tiddlywinks". I was all proud of myself for being so original, until I hit "Save", and Facebook told me that 270 other people played the same sport.
Pets: Does the squirrel living in a tree in our back yard count?
Foods I crave: I'm on a seafood diet. When I see food, I eat it.
People I admire: WikiTreers who can connect unconnected branches without flailing around in every direction for a year and a half before finding the connection.
Bucket list: Visit every country that had a pavilion at Expo '67 or Expo '86.
Favorite song to sing: Little impromptu love songs I make up and sing to my wife (and sometimes real love songs, or at least the parts I can remember).
In the morning: Bribe myself out of bed with the promise of breakfast.
In the evening: Read to my wife (currently working through Anne of Green Gables and II Corinthians).
