It’s summer time and blog readership will be down. So I’m saving my good Excel and Access tricks for later. Right now, I’m continuing my ‘Road of the Excel Bastards’ series. In this series, we are getting to know our favorite Excel gurus through the prism of 10 idiotic questions.
Today’s Excel Bastard is Dick Kusleika!
Dick is the creator and manager of the longest running Excel blog in the world, Daily Dose of Excel. Resisting the call of commercialism, Dick frequently chooses topics that are arcane, but curiously appealing – topics such as “Calculating Wind Direction” and “Charting House“.
Here is my enthralling interview with Dick Kusleika, Excel guru!
DataPig: What’s your favorite thing in your refrigerator right now?
Dick: Fresca. Soon to be wed with gin and ice. Don’t get me wrong, I like food. We just don’t put good food in our refrigerator for fear that we’ll eat it.
DataPig: Red Shirt or Blue?
Dick: My wife says I look good in red and I’m a Nebraska fan (Go Big Red). Yet for every red shirt in my closet there are three blue ones. I guess I’m a red shirt guy trapped in a blue shirt body.
Is there an operation for that?
Sure….Here you go.
DataPig: How many hats do you have?
Dick: 31. About average I guess
Here’s a small glimpse of Kusleika’s closet.
DataPig: Who plays your role in a movie about Excel?
Dick: Pre-motorcycle-accident Gary Busey.
DataPig: Which Superpower do you want: Invisibility, Flight, Strength, or Mind Reading?
Dick: Definitely not mind reading. I think I’m better off not knowing what people think of me. Invisibility would be the most interesting, but the practical aspects of flight make it the clear winner.
DataPig: What’s the title of your autobiography?
Dick: Don’t be a Dick
Bonus points for anyone who can name all the Dicks on the cover of this book.
DataPig: Who do you like better, Tom or Jerry?
Dick: I’m a Looney Tunes guy. I never cared for Tom and Jerry. Cartoons that don’t talk? I don’t get that.
Just for the record, two of the characters shown here don’t talk, two have foreign accents, and three have speech impediments.
DataPig: What’s the most important part of the sandwich?
Dick: The lack of Tomatoes.
So … this is out?
DataPig: What’s the Best thing you ever ate?
Dick: I had a cup of clam chowder at a little seafood restaurant in Newport Beach, CA. It was terrific. I haven’t been able to find clam chowder that good in 15 years of looking.
DataPig: What’s the Worst thing you ever ate?
Dick: I ate some sauerkraut in Hamburg, Germany once. They put it on everything. I knew I didn’t like it, but I didn’t want to be rude and it was good opportunity to see if my tastes had changed. They hadn’t and it was horrible. I think it’s worse that I wasn’t able to immediately spit it out and dance around and chug a beer. I had to sit there with a smile on my face chewing and swallowing that vile
weed.
I have to agree. Sauerkraut is something you have to be in the mood for – like bowling, or talking to your kids. You just can’t do that every day.
Darn, it’s 32 hats. I forgot about the emergency cap I keep in my car. And my wife wishes my hats were that well organized.
Kusleika, Van Dyke, York, Sargent, Clark, Van Patten.
I guess there are some advantages to being old…
Are you sure the clam chowder was in Newport Beach? There was a GREAT seafood restaurant called ‘the Brig’, with out of this world clam chowder, but it was in Dana Point just a few miles down the coast…
I have to agree with the sauerkraut sentiment. I grew up in Wisconsin and have never liked it, even though it is routinely piled on bratwurst, which is one of my favorite foods.
Might not have been Newport Beach proper, but that’s where I was staying (and it was 15 years ago).
And where’s Cavett, Enberg, and Vitale?
Between these interviews and Class Week over at DDE, the Excel corner of the blogosphere is extra entertaining right now. These interviews are great. If I’d been drinking something it would have come out my nose when I got to the autobiography part of this one.
Put some bacon on the sauerkraut – Yeah baby!
Lyndon Johnson had four buttons on his desk to summon his minions to bring him a drink. They were Coffee, Tea, Coke and … Fresca!
Abadi,abadi,that’s all folks !!