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woodburner and one from sulcharae that are according to the following rule-sets, which I then have modified.
1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like. Sources, if they exist, for your random material, are highly appreciated. If not, no worries. Your brain’s creativity is more than enough.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You may update your LJ with the answers to the questions, or reply in comments, or both.
4. Should you include this in your LJ, please include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post. Y’know, propagation and all that. Wouldn’t be much of a game if nobody turned into a host after being a contestant.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, ask them five (or however many it suits you) questions.
Fromwoodburner
1. What’s that quote from and why do you like it?
“That quote” is something bastardized from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. What I said was, “Are you trying to tell me that there aren’t six billion people down there living in six billion separate worlds? I find your theory of a unified existence laughable.” I happen to like it because I think that reality doesn’t line up the same way for everyone. There’s enough of it shared that we can talk to each other and function, but each of our reality fragments is different than everybody else’s in some way. It’s not so much a “everyone is unique and special” in a fluffy positive sort of manner, more that everyone sees things differently, and that you have to learn that before you can really start relating to someone.
2. WHAT... is your favorite color? Or colors, for that matter. And why?
It’s not always obvious from the user name, but silver is my favorite of colors. Not grey, but silver. It is apparently also the metal and color that I’m the most in tune with, according to my Western zodiacal sign. If there is no silver option, I tend to favor blue as my color of choice. (Which, as a water sign, also fits, I suppose) I like those particular colors because of the gleam of good silver and the relaxing (and sometimes depressing) blues that keep me fairly on even keel, or at least only likely to explode in a powder keg of rage occasionally.
3. Do you sleep with a night-light? Why or why not?
Ah, no, no nightlight, other than possibly the gleam of my computer’s green Cylon eye. Used to, though, and then I finally graduated to using a beside lamp for my reading rather than trying to do it by the nightlight. I am actually somewhat light-sensitive, having spent most of my life in a room with an east-facing window where the curtains and the blinds didn’t really do much for me. If really tired, I can fall asleep with the lights on (and I have been known to nap occasionally in the middle of the day, when I let my mind think about things more interesting than whatever’s in front of me.) buyt for the most part, I need a reasonable amount of darkness to sleep.
4. What sounds comfort and soothe you?
I won’t say I have a great ear or musical ability, but I can somewhat tune into the emotional content of a piece (if I like it enough to get tuned into it), so comforting and soothing sounds tend to be slower pieces, lots on piano and slow strings and woodwinds. To totally screw up that perception, however, a thunderstorm is one of the best reassuring and meditative experiences I can get.
5. How do you feel about llamas?
When they’re not being exploited to make a Monty Python movie, okay, I guess. I really haven’t seen them much in person.
Andsulcharae
1. Would you rather change the world, or discover a new one?
Tough call. To discover a new one, uninhabited, I’d want to have the lifespan to see it grow up and guide it. Were it inhabited, I’d want to have enough time to scour it completely, and learn the place, before I wanted to claim it, as it were. And probably then, I’d want to change it in some way, because I doubt it would be Utopia for me. Might be Utopia, but probably not one for me, or it would take serious getting used to. I think, and I blieve my choice of profession reflects this, I’d rather change the world into something I can be proud of, rather than discover something new.
2. What’s the worst thing you’ve ever eaten? How about the worst thing you’ve ever eaten and enjoyed -anyway-?
Hrm. Worst thing I’ve eaten... and I enjoyed it, to some degree, would probably be the poi.
3. Who do you think have been the three most influential or important people in history?
Tall order, making me work on history at large, rather than a small part of it. Well, if he exists and the writings attributed to him are true, minus the miracle bits, really, then Jesus, son of Joseph is probably one of the most influential people in history, for the message and the massive amount of good and evil done in his name. I’d probably give the second nod to Karl Marx, for similar sorts of reasons, and the third nod to Shakespeare, for taking a barbarous language and proving that good things can come from it.
4. Who wrote your favourite children’s book?
Frank Asch wrote Turtle Tale.
5. Pick one: Cheddar Popcorn, or Toffee Popcorn?
Cheddar Popcorn all the way.
woodburner and one from sulcharae that are according to the following rule-sets, which I then have modified.1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like. Sources, if they exist, for your random material, are highly appreciated. If not, no worries. Your brain’s creativity is more than enough.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You may update your LJ with the answers to the questions, or reply in comments, or both.
4. Should you include this in your LJ, please include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post. Y’know, propagation and all that. Wouldn’t be much of a game if nobody turned into a host after being a contestant.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, ask them five (or however many it suits you) questions.
From
woodburner1. What’s that quote from and why do you like it?
“That quote” is something bastardized from Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. What I said was, “Are you trying to tell me that there aren’t six billion people down there living in six billion separate worlds? I find your theory of a unified existence laughable.” I happen to like it because I think that reality doesn’t line up the same way for everyone. There’s enough of it shared that we can talk to each other and function, but each of our reality fragments is different than everybody else’s in some way. It’s not so much a “everyone is unique and special” in a fluffy positive sort of manner, more that everyone sees things differently, and that you have to learn that before you can really start relating to someone.
2. WHAT... is your favorite color? Or colors, for that matter. And why?
It’s not always obvious from the user name, but silver is my favorite of colors. Not grey, but silver. It is apparently also the metal and color that I’m the most in tune with, according to my Western zodiacal sign. If there is no silver option, I tend to favor blue as my color of choice. (Which, as a water sign, also fits, I suppose) I like those particular colors because of the gleam of good silver and the relaxing (and sometimes depressing) blues that keep me fairly on even keel, or at least only likely to explode in a powder keg of rage occasionally.
3. Do you sleep with a night-light? Why or why not?
Ah, no, no nightlight, other than possibly the gleam of my computer’s green Cylon eye. Used to, though, and then I finally graduated to using a beside lamp for my reading rather than trying to do it by the nightlight. I am actually somewhat light-sensitive, having spent most of my life in a room with an east-facing window where the curtains and the blinds didn’t really do much for me. If really tired, I can fall asleep with the lights on (and I have been known to nap occasionally in the middle of the day, when I let my mind think about things more interesting than whatever’s in front of me.) buyt for the most part, I need a reasonable amount of darkness to sleep.
4. What sounds comfort and soothe you?
I won’t say I have a great ear or musical ability, but I can somewhat tune into the emotional content of a piece (if I like it enough to get tuned into it), so comforting and soothing sounds tend to be slower pieces, lots on piano and slow strings and woodwinds. To totally screw up that perception, however, a thunderstorm is one of the best reassuring and meditative experiences I can get.
5. How do you feel about llamas?
When they’re not being exploited to make a Monty Python movie, okay, I guess. I really haven’t seen them much in person.
And
sulcharae1. Would you rather change the world, or discover a new one?
Tough call. To discover a new one, uninhabited, I’d want to have the lifespan to see it grow up and guide it. Were it inhabited, I’d want to have enough time to scour it completely, and learn the place, before I wanted to claim it, as it were. And probably then, I’d want to change it in some way, because I doubt it would be Utopia for me. Might be Utopia, but probably not one for me, or it would take serious getting used to. I think, and I blieve my choice of profession reflects this, I’d rather change the world into something I can be proud of, rather than discover something new.
2. What’s the worst thing you’ve ever eaten? How about the worst thing you’ve ever eaten and enjoyed -anyway-?
Hrm. Worst thing I’ve eaten... and I enjoyed it, to some degree, would probably be the poi.
3. Who do you think have been the three most influential or important people in history?
Tall order, making me work on history at large, rather than a small part of it. Well, if he exists and the writings attributed to him are true, minus the miracle bits, really, then Jesus, son of Joseph is probably one of the most influential people in history, for the message and the massive amount of good and evil done in his name. I’d probably give the second nod to Karl Marx, for similar sorts of reasons, and the third nod to Shakespeare, for taking a barbarous language and proving that good things can come from it.
4. Who wrote your favourite children’s book?
Frank Asch wrote Turtle Tale.
5. Pick one: Cheddar Popcorn, or Toffee Popcorn?
Cheddar Popcorn all the way.
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3) Given the opportunity to nudge the world in one direction and remove one thing you think is hindering us all, why would you get rid of it?
4) What do you think makes an attractive woman?
5) Pyrzqxgl! What did you transform into?