Rather than try to backtrack and find everyone I’ve seen post this so I can answer it individually, I thought I’d just post it here, behind this cut tag. Since some of the questions are specific to the questioner, feel free to leave a comment if you’d like me to give you a more personal answer to one of them.
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This one’s going around, and I keep meaning to answer it myself, which I will in a future post. But I’d like your answers to these as well.
YOU’RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, and I want to know 36 things about you. I don’t care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine … You’re on my list, so I want to know you better!
Be honest! Copy from here, and then answer the questions in a comment and re-post the EMPTY questions in your own journal
1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
2) What was your dream growing up?
3) What talent do you wish you had?
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
5) Favorite vegetable?
6) What was the last book you read?
7) What zodiac sign are you?
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
9) Worst Habit?
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
11) What is your favorite sport?
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
16) Do you have any pets?
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm…careful!)
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22) What color eyes do you have?
23) Ever been arrested?
24) Bottle or can soda?
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
27) What’s your favorite place to hang at?
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
30) Do you swear a lot?
31) Biggest pet peeve?
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
34) If you could live anywhere in the world where would you chose?
35) Do you believe in God?
Hello, and welcome to 2007. I am in London, safe and sound, and with only a small bit of drama. Kitanzi and I are sitting at the gate at SFO, waiting to board. aiela pointed me at this video, thus demonstrating one of the many reasons I love her: Back in 1996, having been drug by me kicking and screaming onto the Internet, vila_resthal started submitting some of his fiction to an online fanzine called “The Dragon’s Lair”, which was run by a Baltimore fan named Roger Bennett. If cadhla participates in Blog Like It’s The End Of The World Day…..would anyone notice? kitanzi found this via StumbleUpon. The new issue of Aphelion Webzine went up on Wednesday, right on time. This has been a trip, thus far, of exceptionally useful voluntary purchases. I don’t usually mark birthdays here, because I know that I’d forget one sooner or later, but I couldn’t let the day go by without saying Happy Birthday to my darling sweetie, aiela. When asked to describe my musical tastes, the word I’d most often use is “eclectic”. And you can read all about it here!
What can I say? It was a year.
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(linked via puppetmaker40)
It’s obvious now at the start of the day
When nothing quite seems to be right
That morning collects all the dues we must pay
For the fun we were having last night
And yet there’s a joy that morning light brings
If only you take time to feel it
A lightness of being, your inner heart sings
And you hide it lest someone might steal it
So shake off the shadows and cast off the fear
And let not a cloud hang above you
And know that the world was made special for you
And is full of the people who love you
Well, the number of people scratching their heads and looking at me funny has slowed to a trickle, so I guess it’s time to reveal the answers, to better help you run off to iTunes and try to figure out what I’m talking about. If you still want a crack at the lyrics before looking at the answers, click here.
When asked to describe my musical tastes, the word I’d most often use is “eclectic”. And as a result, I’ve been meaning to get around to the whole “post lines from X songs and let people guess what they are” meme for a while, but just never got around to it.
So, tonight I have. Here’s a delightful trip through the familiar and the obscure that is known as “My iTunes on Shuffle”. Remember, no fair doing Internet searches! (As a note, I did skip over songs which either have no lyrics (duh) or which had the title of the song in the opening lines of the verse.).
Enjoy!
1. Down by the river, the water’s running low as I wander underneath the trees
2. As I walk through this wicked world, searching for light in the darkness of insanity
3. The fly on the coachwheel told me that he got it and he knew what to do with it
4. They made up their minds and they started packing. They left before the sun came up that day
5. Politicians preaching on TV saying nothing but vote for me.Everybody everywhere, we got a love
6. Gonna take a chance on her, one bullet in the cylinder
7. Whatcha gonna choose the poison or the lines? Lived with crazy pain in all your life
8. You don’t have to take the bar exam to see what you’ve done is Ignoramus 103
9. Kelly is raising her son; his dad left just after the birth
10. So you think you’re a Romeo playing a part in a picture-show?
11. The Tupamaros got a platinum card, all right. I got a heart of gold and it’s time to get hard and I like it
12. He left a card, a bar of soap and a scrubbing brush next to a note that said “use these down to your bones”
13. Tears fill up my eyes I’m washed away with sorrow, and somewhere in my mind I know there’s no tomorrow
14. It don’t matter what you do, I don’t care what you say, It don’t matter where you go, honey
15. I was trained in Arizona in a secret desert camp where we did night manoeuvres without a lighted lamp
16. Here I go, going down, down, down; my mind is a blank, my head is spinning around and around
17. What may I ask is never enough; It’s never too sweet and it’s never too rough
18. Peter said to Paul you know all those words we wrote are just the rules of the game and the rules are the first to go
19. Floating in the summer sunshine, we are flying, we are blue; Falling like a summer raindrop, like a teardrop, like the dew
20. Lost track of what i had to get done, not meeting anyone, stuck in one place while the snowflakes all come down
1 question…
1 chance…
1 honest answer…
That’s all you get…
Ask me 1 question.
Any 1 question, anything,
no matter how crazy it is.
An honest answer.
No catch.
Except one. All comments will be screened so your question stays private between you and me, and only you will get to see my answer to your question.
Saw this on filkerdave‘s LJ, and I’ve been meaning to dig out the camera and start using it again, anyway, so…
Ask me to photograph something (around where I live/work, or somewhere I can get to easily) … it could be just about anything, but I reserve the right to “interpret” your request if it makes for a better photo or is vaguely amusing to me 🙂 … no guarantee for how quickly I’ll get around to your request, but I’ll see what I can do (and I also reserve the right to use a photograph I’ve already taken if it fits your theme/request)
serenejournal said “Reply to this, and I’ll pick seven of your LJ interests, and ask you to explain them. So here they are.
#filkhaven
Way back in 1998, when folks in fandom were getting on Fandom in a big way, there was a service called . TalkCity was a dedicated IRC service with an easy to use web-interface that let people create and moderate chat channels. Debbie Ohi (ohiblather) decided to start up a chatroom for the filk community. She named the channel FilkHaven, punning on Leslie Fish’s “FanHaven” project. Several of us were hanging out there, up until the point that TalkCity decided to disallow IRC clients and put more annoying advertising in their web client than was really necessary. Most of us stopped going there as a result.
Some weeks after this, Mike Whitaker (fleetfootmike) posted in rec.music.filk asking if anyone every came there anymore, so I dropped by to let him know why we’d all left, but proposed that I could set up a private IRC server on my own server, and we could get folks to move there where we could control the access and keep out all the annoyances that public IRC space provides. He said “I’ll do you one better. We can both set up servers and network them together.” And that’s how FilkNet was born. (TalkCity is still there, but I have no idea who uses it.)
There are people who used to hang out on #filkhaven that don’t any longer, and I miss them (hint), but It’s still a great group of people that make my day better.
jedimud
Long before there was World of Warcraft and Everquest, there were muds, mutli-player text adventure games. (There were also social online text games called MUSHes, of which Second Life is the current graphical descendant). Jedimud is one of the longest-running DikuMUDs still in existence, having launched in 1992 and run more or less continuously since. The game is still there today, though currently without a coder to continue developing it. (Anyone know a good, masochistic C coder?) Although I’m still the implementor, I really haven’t played the game in quite a while, but it remains the first online community I helped to foster, and many people important to me still make it a virtual home.
sapiosexuality
If you take all the people that I’m dating, and all the people I’m attracted to, and all the people from my past, you’d be hard pressed to find anything in common with them physically. But each of them is devastatingly intelligent. I’m attracted to smart people, and I was pleased to come across this word which coined my orientation so neatly. I don’t know who coined this one originally, but I snarfed it for my own use the moment I first heard it.
three weird sisters
Three Weird Sisters is an acoustic folk/filk band comprised of Brenda Sutton (ladyat), Theresa Powell (weirdsister), Gwen Knighton (telynor), and Mary Crowell quadrivium). They are all dear friends of mine and make wonderful, harmony rich music with interesting lyrics. I’ve played roadie for them in the past. You check them out on their webpage and on Myspace. Better yet, buy their albums. And their solo albums. And go to their concerts, and….sorry, got carried away. 🙂 They are fab, though. Check ’em out.
unix
Unix is a computer operating system. Since I make a living as a Unix Systems Administrator, this is obviously something that i’m very interested in, though unlike some people, I don’t make a religion out of it. The Christians say that Jesus is coming back, but I seriously doubt He’s decided to manifest as Linus Torvalds. 🙂
zen tourism
I am notorious for refusing to make any more plans for a vacation than I have to. Making lists of things to do and schedules of when to do them make me cranky, stressed, and irritable. Since I’m usually more interested in seeing particular people than sights or events, I much prefer to show up, and then just do whatever seems like fun at the moment. I coined the phrase “zen tourism” to reflect this basic attitude of just going with the flow while traveling, and both the phrase and the attitude have served me well.
zoos
I think animals are nifty, and enjoy seeing them in person. Short of taking safaris, the best way to do this is to go to a zoo or aquarium. kitanzi and I Have been members of ZooAtlanta for some years, and pay extra for the family membership that allows us to take kids in; so we can play Aunt and Uncle to our extended adopted family when they come to visit.