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Feb. 13th, 2004 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aberrantangelsAwk! Friday the 13th fell on a Friday this month! </churchy>
Oh well, at least it's lucky for a couple've the people who've interviewed me.
Questions from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
whataradialacks.
1.) "Things aren't wot they seem." When did this reality hit you?
I can't quite remember. I think it was sometime in high school.
2.) I have a theory about men and women. Men being linear thinkers will most likely always go to the fridge (when thirsty) and pick out the closet beverage to their hand. While women will stand in front of the fridge and go over everything from calorie intake to taste. Wots your thought on this?
Well,thessalian and my kindly gray-haired mother both generally know what they want and go for it, so at least half of that doesn't match my experience.
3.) Are the brown m&m's gonna become obsolete one day?
I doubt it.
4.) Tick off your favorite daria-related memory
Getting IIFY on DVD for my 32nd birthday.
5.) Splain to this lil queen wot your favorite childhood story is and why.
Almost anything by Dr. Seuss, because he too looked at the world upside down. I think one of the If I Ran... books is the overall winner.
And these are the questions fromlostfactor.
1. What do you believe is the most positive aspect of your current projects?
The most positive aspect of playing
Marcus (inasmuch as there is a positive aspect to that Impudite sonofabitch) is that I get to see how much I can empathize with someone whose values are so far removed from mine. Often, what connects me to him is his deep and abiding sense that God left him high and dry.
The most positive aspect of the Trinity Universe timeline stuff is that it gets the facts, as laid out by White Wolf across a couple've dozen supplements, into a semblance of chronological order, where we can see the glitches. As I pointed out on the 2nd inst., the Adventure! core rules have at least one sequence of events that doesn't really fit onto the time-chart when they say it does. I was at least semi-serious in my contention that these companies should be more or less required to hire people with Asperger syndrome and other autism-spectrum disorders as fact-checkers/continuity mavens. (Another example, an event I'll be covering in under a week: Aberrant: Elites has Joseph "Pursuer" Simms quelling riots in Namibia in February of 1999, and says not too many pages later that he erupted in the spring of 2000.)
2. At what times to you feel the most inspired to work?
When some interesting datum is kicking around in my head.
3. If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be?
"Dude, talk to [my first therapist — names deleted to protect the innocent, the eager and the doomed]. Just because your parents and [my high school vice-principal] sent you to him, that doesn't mean to say he's their ally. He really wants to help you, but you have to tell him what you need help with." (Then again, I didn't know what I needed help with, but maybe if I'd told him about the problems that got me sent to him, he'd have been able to figure it out.)
4. On a whole, is humanity basically good or basically evil?
If I have to choose between those two, "basically good" is probably closer to it. In fact, what I really believe is that most people are basically well-meaning, but they (we) don't always know what would really do good.
5. What, to you, would be the ultimate _expression of success?
Getting paid to do what I like — that is, take facts (or at least factoids) that interest me and put them together in an arrangement that makes people see things about the world they hadn't noticed before. (Believe it or not, this was the one that was giving me such trouble.)
Oh well, at least it's lucky for a couple've the people who've interviewed me.
Questions from
whataradialacks.1.) "Things aren't wot they seem." When did this reality hit you?
I can't quite remember. I think it was sometime in high school.
2.) I have a theory about men and women. Men being linear thinkers will most likely always go to the fridge (when thirsty) and pick out the closet beverage to their hand. While women will stand in front of the fridge and go over everything from calorie intake to taste. Wots your thought on this?
Well,
thessalian and my kindly gray-haired mother both generally know what they want and go for it, so at least half of that doesn't match my experience.3.) Are the brown m&m's gonna become obsolete one day?
I doubt it.
4.) Tick off your favorite daria-related memory
Getting IIFY on DVD for my 32nd birthday.
5.) Splain to this lil queen wot your favorite childhood story is and why.
Almost anything by Dr. Seuss, because he too looked at the world upside down. I think one of the If I Ran... books is the overall winner.
And these are the questions from
lostfactor.1. What do you believe is the most positive aspect of your current projects?
The most positive aspect of playing
Marcus (inasmuch as there is a positive aspect to that Impudite sonofabitch) is that I get to see how much I can empathize with someone whose values are so far removed from mine. Often, what connects me to him is his deep and abiding sense that God left him high and dry.The most positive aspect of the Trinity Universe timeline stuff is that it gets the facts, as laid out by White Wolf across a couple've dozen supplements, into a semblance of chronological order, where we can see the glitches. As I pointed out on the 2nd inst., the Adventure! core rules have at least one sequence of events that doesn't really fit onto the time-chart when they say it does. I was at least semi-serious in my contention that these companies should be more or less required to hire people with Asperger syndrome and other autism-spectrum disorders as fact-checkers/continuity mavens. (Another example, an event I'll be covering in under a week: Aberrant: Elites has Joseph "Pursuer" Simms quelling riots in Namibia in February of 1999, and says not too many pages later that he erupted in the spring of 2000.)
2. At what times to you feel the most inspired to work?
When some interesting datum is kicking around in my head.
3. If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be?
"Dude, talk to [my first therapist — names deleted to protect the innocent, the eager and the doomed]. Just because your parents and [my high school vice-principal] sent you to him, that doesn't mean to say he's their ally. He really wants to help you, but you have to tell him what you need help with." (Then again, I didn't know what I needed help with, but maybe if I'd told him about the problems that got me sent to him, he'd have been able to figure it out.)
4. On a whole, is humanity basically good or basically evil?
If I have to choose between those two, "basically good" is probably closer to it. In fact, what I really believe is that most people are basically well-meaning, but they (we) don't always know what would really do good.
5. What, to you, would be the ultimate _expression of success?
Getting paid to do what I like — that is, take facts (or at least factoids) that interest me and put them together in an arrangement that makes people see things about the world they hadn't noticed before. (Believe it or not, this was the one that was giving me such trouble.)
