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jazzfishPerhaps the very best thing about Facebook is how all the "which pop culture phenomenon are you?" quizzes seem to have migrated over there and no longer clog up my reading list. On the other hand, I sort of miss the sense of community engendered by the 'bunch of people i know answer a list of semipersonal questions' things. Hence, the triumphant return of Five Questions.
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions. And post them in a comment here too, if you don't mind.
4. Include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, ask them 5 questions.
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badmagic:
What's the strangest thing you've caught yourself saying?
You mean, this week? "mR2," in the context of neither a Star Wars droid nor an M.R.DUCKS shirt. (Because "Nine-oh-one-em-ar-two" took too long to say.)
What was the best moment in an RPG you've ever witnessed?
After turning Random's son Martin (mostly famous for bleeding all over the Primal Pattern) into the living embodiment of said Pattern, thereby stopping the slow leakage of reality and stability into Corwin's new Pattern-realm and thus preventing the eventual destruction of Amber itself, Our Heroes returned to their homes for a much-deserved rest. Except for one who felt like poking around to see how the rest of the universe was getting on, and, well:
GMjazzfish: "You're getting a Trump call."
uilos: "Yes?"
jedibfa: "I'm at Corwin's Pattern. Or what's left of it, anyway."
GM: "Aaand that seems like a fine place to close this chronicle."
Who was your best friend when you were growing up?
Being an army brat means that this list is longer and shallower than most people's. The one I remember most fondly is Ryan Waller. I met Ryan in fourth grade when his parents, for reasons that pass all understanding, brought him to a party my father was hosting. (I think Cpt. Waller served under Dad.) We discovered a shared fondness for computer games and fantasy novels, plus he lived within bike riding distance. That ended when Cpt. Waller got deployed overseas (Germany, I think), the summer before Ryan and I would have been in junior high together.
How did you end up dating two women?
By doing wrong almost everything that I possibly could, over the course of three or four years. This isn't a story wherein I come off looking all that well so I'm going to leave it at that.
Sorry you said "Oranges" now, aren't you?
Not yet, but I might be depending on how many people want questions.
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions. And post them in a comment here too, if you don't mind.
4. Include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, ask them 5 questions.
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badmagic:What's the strangest thing you've caught yourself saying?
You mean, this week? "mR2," in the context of neither a Star Wars droid nor an M.R.DUCKS shirt. (Because "Nine-oh-one-em-ar-two" took too long to say.)
What was the best moment in an RPG you've ever witnessed?
After turning Random's son Martin (mostly famous for bleeding all over the Primal Pattern) into the living embodiment of said Pattern, thereby stopping the slow leakage of reality and stability into Corwin's new Pattern-realm and thus preventing the eventual destruction of Amber itself, Our Heroes returned to their homes for a much-deserved rest. Except for one who felt like poking around to see how the rest of the universe was getting on, and, well:
GM
jazzfish: "You're getting a Trump call."uilos: "Yes?"jedibfa: "I'm at Corwin's Pattern. Or what's left of it, anyway."GM: "Aaand that seems like a fine place to close this chronicle."
Who was your best friend when you were growing up?
Being an army brat means that this list is longer and shallower than most people's. The one I remember most fondly is Ryan Waller. I met Ryan in fourth grade when his parents, for reasons that pass all understanding, brought him to a party my father was hosting. (I think Cpt. Waller served under Dad.) We discovered a shared fondness for computer games and fantasy novels, plus he lived within bike riding distance. That ended when Cpt. Waller got deployed overseas (Germany, I think), the summer before Ryan and I would have been in junior high together.
How did you end up dating two women?
By doing wrong almost everything that I possibly could, over the course of three or four years. This isn't a story wherein I come off looking all that well so I'm going to leave it at that.
Sorry you said "Oranges" now, aren't you?
Not yet, but I might be depending on how many people want questions.
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Date: 2010-07-14 06:13 pm (UTC)Sure thing.
Date: 2010-07-15 06:34 pm (UTC)2) Who's your favorite cartoon character, and why?
3) Do you play many video games these days?
4) What book changed your life?
5) Where do you want to be in fifty years?
Re: Sure thing.
Date: 2010-07-15 06:55 pm (UTC)Re: Sure thing.
Date: 2010-07-15 08:26 pm (UTC)Re: Sure thing.
Date: 2010-07-15 08:30 pm (UTC)Re: Sure thing.
Date: 2010-07-16 02:58 am (UTC)I'm interpreting this as "what thing that was a part of my life when I was in Blacksburg do I miss the least", rather than "what thing that is an unchanging feature of Blacksburg do I miss the least". The answer to the second version is probably, having no local stores. In Houston I can find almost whatever I want retail, in Blacksburg I had to order almost everything and wait a week.
But I think you meant the first. This is a really difficult question to answer without starting a fight, but what the hell, I'll just filter the post. The answer can really only be seen on my post
2) Who's your favorite cartoon character, and why?
I'll have to cop out and pick two: one is Droopy Dog, because he never really gets perturbed. Sure, he's sad all the time, he's Droopy Dog, but nothing external really gets to him. He gets chased, people attempt to drop things on him, whatever, but he just goes on like nothing ever happened. Anyone who tries to take him down is hoist on their own petard, and he holds up a funny sign just to rub it in.
The other one is Wile E. Coyote, from a cartoon that Cassie won't even watch but I love. I like how there's no dialog in it at all, and how it always seemed to have the funniest gags, when compared to things like Tom & Jerry. Wile E. Coyote is the ultimate hacker mascot: first of all, here's his business card. I mean come on. How cool is that? Second, everything he does is he does by building some complex, usually expensive, machine. He must be keeping the Acme Corporation in business singlehandedly. And of course he never succeeds, the machine always backfires, because like every other hacker, if it actually worked, what would he do then? His purpose, like all the rest of us, is to build the things. Once they work, we're lost.
3) Do you play many video games these days?
Pre-massive-depression, I played a lot of Dragon Age: Origins. I will eventually drop back into it, but mostly all I play now is DropZap, which is amazingly addictive.
Dragon Age has lots of interesting ideas, like “make a plot that’s actually pretty interesting” and “have a real-time combat system that’s actually playable”. I’ve had a lot of fun in the first forty hours of playing, and I’m nearing the end.
DropZap is, well, crack. It’s one of those little puzzle games like Drop Sum that are way more fun than they have any right to be.
4) What book changed your life?
A couple come to mind. Hackers by Steven Levy is a large part of what made me want to be a programmer. I was also one of the people who read Ender’s Game at exactly the right age, and the bits about Peter stuck with me.
But the one I’ve read that changed my life most recently was The Guide to Getting It On. It answered a lot of questions I didn’t know I had, and I learned a lot, and gave me a healthy, matter-of-fact attitude toward sex. Which is, I think, a good thing.
5) Where do you want to be in fifty years?
Hopefully still alive. Hopefully completely out of debt, with enough money to live comfortably, owning my own house outright. Married to Cassie. Retired, but maybe owning part of a company. There are no kids in this picture, but there is a big dog, maybe a hound, content to sit next to my rocking chair and agree with my views on the world.