6 good American regional foods

1. Rochester- The white hot, a personal favorite from my youth
2. Montreal -Poutine frenchfries with gravy and still squaking cheese curds
3. Louisville- Hot brown, some kind of smothered openface sandwich I have still yet to try, but hear are fantastic
   
4. Maine-Lobster roll, tons of lobster on a top split hotdog bun I like mine with butter mayo and lemon
5. San Diego- Carne asada fries, basically cheese fries topped with carne asada, never seen it anywhere else, but they're awesome
6. NYC- Pastrami on rye, just like some of the others, you can get it elsewhere, but it just ain't the same

Other honorable mention goes to the Po' boy, The memphis pulled pork sandwich (with slaw in it), Chicago, NYC, and neapolitan pizza, SF sour dough and cioppino, hawaiian loco moco, rochester garbage plate, etc.

If you have any personal faves put em in the comments

6 can't miss iPhone apps for productivity

1. Jott- runs my life
   
2. Dial Zero- gets me to cust service faster
   
3. Grand Dialer- lets me use a single phone number for everything
4. Sketches-take and markup pictures
   
5. VNC- remote system access
   
6. Page Once- keep all of your info acessible
   

6 essential numbers to have in your phone

1. local cab company
2. free information line ( goog, or free 411)
3. ICE ( in case of emergency)
4. delivery food (other than pizza)
5. florist ( if you're a guy or a girl, the ability to send out a last minute gift is important)
6. the folks ( call em once a week, it'll make em happy)

There are plenty of others that almost made the list like sig-O, car service, AAA, etc. For my money these are the important ones

6 Science teacher desk to

1. Newton's cradle
2. "floating" top/pen
   
3. Drinking Bird
4. Radiometer
5. Hand Boilers
6. Gyroscope

collected observations over the years

6 Uber Geek Skills That Can Be Learned In A Day

1. Solving a Rubix Cube
2. Memorizing Pi to 10 Decimal Places
3. Programming a Ti-82/3
4. Compiling a Linux kernel
5. Basic Math on a Slide Rule
6. RSA Cryptography

6 Animal Condiments

1. Ham Powder
2. Bonito Flakes
3. Bacon Salt
4. Pork Sung
5. Shrimp Paste
6. Bacon Bits ( the real thing)
   

6 Pies

1. apple
2. rhubarb
3. pecan
4. pumpkin
5. blueberry
6. steak and kidney

Threw the last one in there to keep ya thinkin, honorable mention to chicken pot, key lime, pizza, and of course banana cream

6 geek loves

1. Dungeons and Dragons
2. Star Trek
3. Magic Cards
4. World of Warcraft
5. Casemods
6. Star Wars
   

Collected in conversations

6 things you learn in operations

1. Don't starve the bottleneck
2. L = λ W ( thanks John Little)
   
3. Manage the bullwhip ( reduce information latency)
4. Variability Causes congestion
5. Real problems are often NP Hard, use a heuristic or simulate the hell out of it
   
6. Forecasts are always wrong, good forecasts are just less wrong and for a near horizon

Some of these you learn in school, some of these you learn on the job. Real world learnings that almost made the cut are below

• Grads students are cheaper to hire than undergrads or consultants and produce better work
  
• Real supply chain optimization is an exercise in contracts not math
• No one really cares about the best solution, any improvement is met with praise
• Performance Metrics only have to be representative, not truly meaningful, if they are truly meaningful and not deftly named they'll never get monitored
  

6 Songs for sporting events

1. Garry Glitter-Rock and Roll part 2
2. Survivor- Eye of the tiger
3. Queen- We Will Rock You
4. House of Pain-Jump Around
5. M/A/R/R/S- Pump up the volume
6. Blur- Song 2

Some songs just make you want to out box Dolph Lundgren to win the cold war, or perform some other sports feat. I wrangled up a few of them, but leave your favorite sports jams in the comments and if we get another 6 I'll toss up another 6thing

6 fun things to see on the freeway

1. enthusiastic singers
   
2. knuckle deep nose picking
3. bad car decorations (flames on a PT cruiser)
4. obvious road head
5. asian women covered up (including full welder face visor)
6. super multi-taskers (phone, coffee, cigarette, razor/makeup, screaming kids)

Submitted by IY over email

6 Artists to drop everything to listen to

1. Massive Attack
2. DJ Shadow
3. Boards of Canada
4. Royksopp
5. Air
6. Stereolab

submitted by J over email, but I have to confess, I haven't heard any Royksopp. Guess I better start

6 belgian beers to knock your socks off

1. Houblon Chouffee
2. Corsendonk
3. Bokrijks kruikenbier
4. Chimay blue
5. Duvel
6. Rochefort 10

Submitted by Jolly Jack over email. To mention your own favorites please use the comments

6 types of crab

1. blue
2. dungeness
3. peeky toe
4. king
5. stone
6. rock

Courtesy of recent menu research

6 social networks

1. six degrees
2. friendster
3. myspace
4. tribe
5. linked in
6. facebook

6 hot sauces to perk up a dull meal

1. Tapatio
2. Frank's Red Hot
3. Cholula
4. Sriracha
5. Tabasco
6. Crystal

1 and 4 are my personal favorites, but I've relied on all the others at one time or another :). Andy ( over email) likes #2 the best on pizza