Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery
Subject: Results of 32nd annual ASR poll
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_Results of the ASR poll_

Well, I've decided you are all a bunch of nice chaps (even if I didn't think
that already).  Your taste in everything is exceptional.  You are all invited
to my parties if you are ever in Boulder.
They were also very very varied, and tended towards the less mainstream.  (eg,
microbrews)  I didn't really get enough votes for anything to declare a 
clear winner.  
But here is my summary:

Beer & Brewery:
Generally, darker stronger stuff.  Samual Smiths was popular (Oatmeal
Stout forever!), as was Anchor.  Basically, the good stuff--and generally
micros.  The least micro I saw where Heineken, Newkie Brown and Guiness
(none of which I have a problem with).  
No one voted for one of the Budmilloors!  Happy happy joy joy!  
Clearly the typical ASR reader has exceedingly refined taste.

Coffee:
Surprisingly few entries in this, I thought it would be more popular.  I 
should have worded it "caffeine", I suppose.  Anyway, mostly the entries where
local quality joints;  Starbucks featured more often then most.

Music:

One word:  LOUD
About equally split between very loud metal/modern/industrial and very loud
classical.  The most popular was NIN, followed by Bach.
Also featuring are Pink Floyd (with Roger, naturally), Kate Bush, Metallica
and lots lots more.  

Missing were Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits, Frank Sinatra's easy-listening 
favourites and disco versions of great space themes.  (That last CD once heard
by me, and I've regretted not taping it ever since.  It was hard to listen
to a disco version Also Sprach Zarathustra (aka 2001) with a straight face. 
At least I have Rolf Harris does Starway to Heaven and Star Trek stars sing
your favourites to console me)

Death:

Very creative.  See list.

Without further ado, therefore, here is a more or less complete list. 

Beer:
Alaska Amber Ale
Anchor Liberty Ale
Breckenridge Oatmeal Stoud
Heineken
J. Dundees Honey Brown
Newcastle Brown Ale
Samual Smith Oatmeal Stout
Waterloo Dark  (Brick Brewery, Waterloo, CA)
Youngs Old Foghorn

Brewery:
Harts  (makes Pyramid)
Sam Adams
Samual Smiths
Upper Canada Brewing Co.

Coffee:
Barista Java's double Cap, with Vanilla
Black, with ground Vivarin
Folgers  
Kona
Peets Ethiopian
Quint Espresso (Espresso Royale Cafe, Ann Arbor, MI)
Sarks
Starbucks
Sumatran Vienna Roast

Music:
Alice in Chains
Beethovens Piano Sonatas
Blanchard/Harrison
Dead can Dance
Depeche
Erasure 
Gregorian Chants
Industrial
Jane Siberry
Jarre
Kate Bush
Loud
Ministry
NIN 
Oingo Boingo
Pete Escovedo
Peter Gabriel
Pink Floyd
Queensryche
Sisters of Mercy
Sky
Vivaldi's and Faure's requia
Ray Specs

Death:

"Bloodeagle"  Cut open ribs, fold or break into wings, display.
220VAC through telephone when they dial sysadmin
Death:
Beaten to death with heater hose
Beating them to death with the Mac they've just used to wreck their Unix 
        account's .login script. Dual purpose.
Evaporation
Hanging with Thinnet
Kill with Kindness  (What a weirdo)
Pummel to death with bare hands.
String them up with Modem Cable
Strip, cover with honey & seed, and feed to hamsters
Tieing each wrist to 9 track drive reel, and ripping it apart
Turned on a sit over coals, beaten with a 8" flpopyy
Flaying alive with the sharp edges of cga cards