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jack1. Do you live in the present, dwell on the past or look to the future? Ooh, I don't know. Probably the present, but a bit schizophrenically. What I am now is not outweighed by what I want to be in the future, nor what I was in the past, but what I used to and still want to be is still a factor.
2. How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man? 42. I think I qualify.
3. How many beans make five? I am a maths pedant.
4. Which is your favourite Winnie the Pooh character, and which are you most like? Probably Pooh. Piglet is too whiny, Eeyore is way too whiny, Rabbit nice but aggravating, Owl ditto. CR is obviously good, but more of a deus ex machina than a character :) But Pooh is actually nice, and wise if not clever. In poohsoc I was first River (whose only two lines are "gurgle" and "hurry"); and Singing Pooh (not because I can sing, but because James refuses); and CR (more of a power-play than a character). I'm probably actually like Eeyore (depressed and arrogant) and Rabbit (intellegent, flighty, and makes lists of things) and Pooh (nice, and cuddly).
5. Which is better, extract of malt or clotted cream? Now how about in sandwiches? I don't do cream.
1) Why did you choose to do Maths at university? Was it a passion? I always liked maths, it seemed obvious and inevitable. I didn't really think about what I would enjoy most, or what would be most useful. But I think it was right, I enjoyed it more than I would anything else, and it left my options for a job open, successfully.
2) What writer that I haven't read should I read, and why? Eek. Which of http://semichrome.net/~jack/social/books.txt haven't you read? And I'll recommend one of them.
3) What is your favourite story that you've written, and why? Ooh. Probably Maurice Saldini. It's most me.
4) What place that you haven't been to would you most like to go to, and why? The future! We're getting there fast.
5) Is it better to die young and famous or old and rich? Agh. Middle-aged and famous?
2. How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man? 42. I think I qualify.
3. How many beans make five? I am a maths pedant.
4. Which is your favourite Winnie the Pooh character, and which are you most like? Probably Pooh. Piglet is too whiny, Eeyore is way too whiny, Rabbit nice but aggravating, Owl ditto. CR is obviously good, but more of a deus ex machina than a character :) But Pooh is actually nice, and wise if not clever. In poohsoc I was first River (whose only two lines are "gurgle" and "hurry"); and Singing Pooh (not because I can sing, but because James refuses); and CR (more of a power-play than a character). I'm probably actually like Eeyore (depressed and arrogant) and Rabbit (intellegent, flighty, and makes lists of things) and Pooh (nice, and cuddly).
5. Which is better, extract of malt or clotted cream? Now how about in sandwiches? I don't do cream.
1) Why did you choose to do Maths at university? Was it a passion? I always liked maths, it seemed obvious and inevitable. I didn't really think about what I would enjoy most, or what would be most useful. But I think it was right, I enjoyed it more than I would anything else, and it left my options for a job open, successfully.
2) What writer that I haven't read should I read, and why? Eek. Which of http://semichrome.net/~jack/social/books.txt haven't you read? And I'll recommend one of them.
3) What is your favourite story that you've written, and why? Ooh. Probably Maurice Saldini. It's most me.
4) What place that you haven't been to would you most like to go to, and why? The future! We're getting there fast.
5) Is it better to die young and famous or old and rich? Agh. Middle-aged and famous?
wow, the spellchecker went bananas on this
Date: 2007-04-03 07:08 pm (UTC)NEVER READ: Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light / early Amber Chronicles
TRIED AND FAILED TO READ: Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
NEVER READ: Three Men in a Boat
NEVER READ BUT I HAVE READ AND LIKED OTHERS: Discworld - Terry Pratchett
NEVER READ: CS Forester - Hornblower
READ AND LIKED THE FIRST, READ AND WAS BORED BY THE SECOND: Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
NEVER READ: To Kill a Mockingbird
READ AND DISLIKED: Orwell - Animal Farm / 1984
NEVER READ BUT I HAVE A PDF ON MY TO-READ QUEUE: Frank Herbert - Dune
NEVER READ: Richard Adams - Watership Down
NEVER READ: Three Musketeers
NEVER READ: Umberto Eco - Name of the Rose/Foucault's Pendulum
READ AND DISLIKED: Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
NEVER READ: Dianna Wynn Jones
READ AND LIKED: JK Rowling - Harry Potter
NEVER READ: Ursula Le Guin - Earthsea
NEVER READ: Stephen King - Eg. Firestarter, Carrie, [but some are bad]
SAW AND DISLIKED THE MOVIE: Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones
READ AND LIKED: Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park
NOT SURE! Asimov - Foundation, some short stories
NEVER READ: Larry Niven - Mote in God's eye, Moat Around Murchusun's Eye, Ringworld, Warlock universe
NEVER READ: Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan
NEVER READ: Tim Powers - Anubis Gates
NEVER READ: Vernor Vinge - Fire upon the Deep, Deepness in the Sky
Re: wow, the spellchecker went bananas on this
Date: 2007-04-06 12:22 pm (UTC)Re: wow, the spellchecker went bananas on this
Date: 2007-04-11 08:53 am (UTC)