Meh...

[camwyn]

Oh look, a bandwagon! Throwing myself under it. Okay, no, I'm not; I'm just doing this because I participated in zou's use of this particular quasi-content generation scheme, and I figured why not. Besides, I'm writing dialogue for the Ghostbusters and the Fat Friar in my head right now, I could use a break.

Everyone who reads this, ask me 3 questions (no more, no less). Ask me anything you want. Then go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything. Unless you don't want to.

I just want to see what some of you people ask.
So there.

Comments

[pelogrande.livejournal.com]

1. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?

2. A fictional character of your choice will fix you breakfast. Who is it and what is prepared?

3. When flying somewhere, do you prefer aisle, window, or middle?

[camwyn]

1. Nanaimo, BC. Decent weather, decent mix of knowledge work and other industries, lovely harbour, they speak my language, and they're within striking distance of some of the finest temperate rainforest on the face of the planet. Plus, once a year I'd get to have people over for the bathtub races, and if I got scuba-certified I'd be able to go on what's supposed to have been Jacques Cousteau's favourite cold-water dive- they've got destroyers that were deliberately sunk to make reefs.

2. Mrs. Hudson, the housekeeper for Dr. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes. Sure, there are other fictional cooks who do cuisines I'm more interested in, but Mrs. Hudson could make breakfasts that hobbits would envy- and no need to worry about banging my head on the ceiling beams the way I would if it were Rosie Cotton. I'm looking for a full-on, proper breakfast, heavy on the crisp-to-burnt bacon, hard-cooked eggs, toast, and things that only ever turn up on the breakfast table in England, because if ever there were someone who could render the taste of English food properly and still make it good, it was Mrs. Hudson.

3. Window. I like to lean over, glance out, and wonder what the heck I'm looking at. That, plus I can lean against the inside of the plane and sleep, or try to.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Let's see, what have I got in the bag o' trix...

How soon is now?

What's the last thing you ate?

Calvin or Hobbes?

[camwyn]

How soon is now? Just there, between one point and the next.

What's the last thing you ate? A Butterfinger-chocolate mini-egg.

Calvin or Hobbes? Hobbes, I think. Easier to have a conversation.

[genarti]

1. What would be your dream job? That's ignoring all practicalities of what you actually have an aptitude for or could make money at.

2. What would be your ideal pet?

3. What's your least favorite thing about being a writer?

[camwyn]

1. Disaster services specialist for the Red Cross, specializing in computer ops, logistics, and mass care. Preferably the computers. I'd get to travel, I'd get to help people, I'd get to work for an organization I believe in, and I'd get time off in between disasters in which I could write.

2. A medium to large dog that could either entertain itself decently while I was at work, or that was allowed to follow me everywhere and could go anywhere I went so that I wouldn't have to abandon it when I was at work. I love dogs. I just can't have one right now.

3. I don't know that I'll really consider myself a writer until I get something published- it's one of those mental hurdles for me. But I'd probably say the uncertainty- not knowing whether an idea is crap, not knowing whether the implementation is crap, not knowing whether the stuff in my head will look right when I set it on paper and come back two days later, not knowing whether people like what I write even if I know it isn't crap...

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

Uhm, uhm, ...

1) Clue-bats or clue-by-fours?

2) What's your favorite kind of pen?

3) What's your biggest typesetting-related pet peeve?

[camwyn]

1. Any LART is a good LART. However, I ultimately come down on the side of clue-by-fours, because I like the sound of the name. I'm of the big-sticks-wid-nails-in school of correcting foolishness- it's that or pool cues and cored, loaded baseball bats, and that just isn't euphonious.

2. I could get really annoying and say something agricultural here- I mean, my current default icon is a border collie, after all- but I'm going to have to go with basic, craptacular ballpoint pens with fine points and black ink. Plastic, for preference, though I'd rather they be the soft kind than the clear hard sort. I chew on my pens at times and fancy metal ones with engraved names just don't mix well with that.

3. I haven't done actual typesetting since fifth grade, when Louis Armstrong Middle School had Shop classes that included learning how to set up and use a pilot press. When it comes to fiddling with font faces and leading and such on the computer, I'm generally more irritated with specialty fonts that are extremely attractive but poorly coded than anything else. Some of them don't have punctuation marks built in, some of them leave out numerals, some of them only allow for lowercase letters (titling fonts in particular seem to be unable to handle the use of the shift key, reckoning that everything is rendered in caps automatically), and some- here I am mostly thinking my copies of Herbert and Inkburrow- have gorgeous lettering but forcibly insert something like six points' worth of space above and below every line, which cannot be changed by fooling with the paragraph settings. That's a royal pain in the bum, that is.

I jumped on this bandwagon too....

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Silly fun. I've got the post on my journal, too Okay...questions...

1. Whose Death would you rather spend an afternoon with, Pratchett's or Gaiman's?

2. If you ran the country ala the Patrician, what changes would you make?

3. If you could make your living as a writer, where would you want to be writing - a cabin in the woods, a house by the beach, etc.

Not the most profound questions in the world, but I have a cold.

Re: I jumped on this bandwagon too....

[camwyn]

1. I don't really know Gaiman's Death very well at all- I've only read one or two of the comics where she's the central character, and a few of the cameos that she's made. It depends on the purpose of the afternoon, really. If it were a Follow The Grim Reaper To Work Day, probably Pratchett's; I like him and his attitude, and I'd like to see if he had any commentary on the work he does that might put the world into a clearer perspective. If it were supposed to be an afternoon of recreational conversation, though, probably Gaiman's. Trying to have a casual chat with the Discworld Death would probably result in long stretches of staring and awkward silence while he tried to think of something to say.

2. Oh gosh. Well, if I ran the country on the One Woman One Vote (woman: me, vote: mine) system, I'd start by ordering up a big batch of barbarians to come after our capital and other areas regularly. Not terrorists, not an enemy nation per se- just barbarians. With the smelly ponies and the bows and arrows and stuff. Very little rivets the attention of fat rich whiny people like the prospect of having all their good liquor carried off by short guys who eat mice and fail to bathe, and I think people could use some perspective. I'd also order a massive review of the U. S. Public Health Service, and fire the people whose political-appointee mojo outweighed their actual knowledge and practice of public health (I don't mind political appointees as long as they know what they're doing), then start beefing up their budget and enforcement/implementation capabilities. That should get me some affection from the common people, since I'd be pointing them not only at HIV/AIDS but at urban health problems in general. It might be harder to please the rural population this way- probably I'd have to find some other angle that'd satisfy them, maybe something to do with ceding most laws regarding guns to the jurisdiction of the individual states, save for rules about selling weapons across state or national boundaries.

I'd also have to do some serious examination of the Department of Defense, because spending vast quantities of money on shiny high tech weapon toys when the basic front-line grunts aren't getting paid enough to house, feed, and clothe their own families is a good way for a one-woman dictatorship to fall. Get the masses of guys with guns on your side and you're a long way down the road to job security, I say... After that I'd probably slap the FCC around a bit and tell them to lay off on the breasts and curses and such and remove the real obscenity from the airwaves, namely those damned, damned sproglings that pass for children in commercials. And I'd repeal anything that had 'Defense of Marriage' in it that failed to address the incredible cheapening of marriage represented by "Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire", "The Bachelor", "The Bachelorette", and so on.

I would probably have to order a review of a number of other federal laws and agencies, too, because I'd need to see just who could be pitted against each other in order for me to get the better of the scary-ass agribusinesses that seem to be responsible for vast tracts of the American food supply. And then I'd have to start on foreign policy, assuming Rupert Murdoch hadn't declared war on me first.

3. Hmm. Beach is good. Trees are also good. I'd want it to be somewhere that didn't have a lot of people- the beaches and coasts of the Eastern Seaboard are all very nice, but damn, it's crowded on this end of the country. Maybe somewhere in southeastern Alaska, where it's wet and drizzly and has lots of trees and people don't often come because they assume it's just Seattle only less convenient to reach. But near enough to Juneau or somewhere similar that I could enjoy basic city privileges when I had the chance.

[silly-dan.livejournal.com]

OK, then, here's the first questions that popped into my head.

How did you get interested in Sgt. Preston, anyway? I used to watch reruns of the TV show about 20 years ago, but you just said you didn't...

Og same Og used to hang around with Internet Oracle?

What do you want on your pizza?

[camwyn]

1. cadhla came to the NYC area last June or so and said that while she was here she wanted to run a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen RPG. Thing was, she was setting the game in 1936, so we had to use characters that were either set in that time frame or had been written in that time frame. After determining that Lawrence Evans Oates of the Scott expedition was no good (he had been real, even if a legend had sprung up around him after his vanishing), and that Batman was verboten (he and Kal-El of Krypton were 'classical comic book superheroes'), I suggested Alec Ramsay of the Black Stallion books, but she said the story would be taking place in Glasgow and there's not much room for a racehorse there. So I thought I should get a character who was at least nominally subject to the British crown, even if they weren't from England, and went to Google thinking I might look for some pulp-era Mounties- I couldn't think of anyone specific, but they seemed like they'd make good heroes. Next thing I know, bam, here's this Sergeant Preston fellow all over the Web. I do some research, I do some thinking, and I notice that the first episode of the radio show was broadcast in 1938. Yeah, so his stories were set during the Klondike gold rush...

About fifteen minutes' conference with cadhla later I had permission to fiddle with his time frame enough to make him a plausible League member as of 1936. And about twelve hours after our game session ended, the MP3's of the entire radio series were waiting in my post office box (I'd ordered them with the intention of getting them BEFORE the game). I listened anyway, and after that it was just too much fun not to keep going.

2. Og inspired by that Og. This Og little different. For example, this Og not have Ogwa, but Internet Oracle Og have Ogwa. Also, this Og little better at use word have more than one syllable. This Og tell you someday how camwyn make Total Justice Og after camwyn find out armor from certain size action figure fit little rubber cave dude on camwyn desk.

3. If it's a tomato pie, cheese and maybe some pepperoni, but if it's really up to me I'm going for garlic pizza. Olive oil, garlic- fresh minced or from a jar, not garlic powder- oregano, grated pecorino romano, small bits of broken-up feta or ricotta insalata, maybe a little pesto.