who are you? (meme/game)
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lordandrei, who posted the lineage
here.
lordandrei, who posted the lineage
here.
Post anonymously, giving me three clues as to who you are. I will try to guess. I won't check IP addresses.
I'll add my guesses to your comments, so you'll have to check back now and then. If I guess wrong, give me another clue. I'll continue until I get it or I give up in despair and embarrassment.
Clues that describe half the people on my friends list, such as "I have cats", won't be very helpful. And if you're not on my friends list but just popping in, you might want to say so if you want me to have a fighting chance. :-)
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Date: 2004-06-04 03:13 pm (UTC)2. I've seen Off The Mark perform
3. I'm not in your time zone.
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Date: 2004-06-05 07:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-09 06:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-09 07:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-04 05:18 pm (UTC)2. I'm an atheist.
3. I'm breast-obsessed.
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Date: 2004-06-05 07:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-08 11:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-04 06:17 pm (UTC)2. Moleskin has been my friend this week.
3. We've mentioned meeting at Pennsic, but it won't be this year.
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Date: 2004-06-05 07:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-06 10:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-07 07:17 am (UTC)This will be a tough one
Date: 2004-06-04 06:19 pm (UTC)2. I live up north
3. I probably see you no more than once a year.
Re: This will be a tough one
Date: 2004-06-05 08:02 pm (UTC)Seeing me no more than once a year probably means you're talking about Pennsic, though there's an outside chance you're one of my in-laws from Toronto (but if so, this is my first hint that you've heard of LJ). If we assume Pennsic, "up north" describes way too many people in (at least) Carolingia and Ealdormere.
How about another clue?
Re: This will be a tough one
Date: 2004-06-06 04:25 pm (UTC)I'm not a relative.
North of Carolingia, South (or East) of Canada.
Re: This will be a tough one
Date: 2004-06-06 06:11 pm (UTC)Re: This will be a tough one
Date: 2004-06-07 12:58 pm (UTC)Re: This will be a tough one
Date: 2004-06-07 01:15 pm (UTC)Re: This will be a tough one
Date: 2004-06-07 01:26 pm (UTC)Don't know if this is me, but here I am anyway
Date: 2004-06-08 12:16 pm (UTC)Been doing ok, but mostly busy working and trying to rebuild a house and barn. You?
Re: Don't know if this is me, but here I am anyway
Date: 2004-06-08 12:43 pm (UTC)I assume from this that you are not the person who posted anonymously earlier in this thread, then. So I have to make a new guess. :-)
Been doing ok, but mostly busy working and trying to rebuild a house and barn. You?
Working, got married, bought a house that doesn't need to be rebuilt because we're lame. :-) Three cats, no kids. I'm less active in the SCA than I was (though still around), and have become active in my congregation.
Will you be at Pennsic this year?
Re: Don't know if this is me, but here I am anyway
Date: 2004-06-08 04:42 pm (UTC)There's also a big clue that has to do with editrx that I could say, but I'll save that for the next one.
Aha. Got you now!
Date: 2004-06-09 04:16 pm (UTC)While I know a few people in Stonemarche, I don't think most of them have journals (Baroness Megan, Gareth, Amethysta, a few others). I was reminded of
But
Nicely done,
Re: Aha. Got you now!
Date: 2004-06-09 06:14 pm (UTC)The clue I was going to give earlier is that editrx married my spouse and myself.
By some coincidence, I *am* new to Live Journal. I'll let you know, in order to avoid nickel & diming the guesses that I'm Amethysta. Though I think I'm going to have to get Gareth introduced to Live Journal too.
This was so much fun! Ian & I really enjoyed it! Thanks.
Re: Aha. Got you now!
Date: 2004-06-09 06:25 pm (UTC)Re: Aha. Got you now!
Date: 2004-06-09 08:09 pm (UTC)I feel like it's been ages since we've seen each other. Will you be at Pennsic this year?
Re: Aha. Got you now!
Date: 2004-06-12 03:36 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, we won't be going to Pennsic this year. It's terribly stressful with the kids, so maybe when they're older... You'll have to give Johan a big hug in my place at Pennsic. You folks have lots of fun for us, OK?
But, on the plus side, now that we've found Live Journal & found lots of SCAdians there, I can actually communicate with interesting people again whose life goes beyond SpongeBob Squarepants.
Re: Aha. Got you now!
Date: 2004-06-12 08:08 pm (UTC)Will do. Sorry we'll miss you! I hope that when the kids get a little older this becomes more practical for you.
But, on the plus side, now that we've found Live Journal & found lots of SCAdians there, I can actually communicate with interesting people again whose life goes beyond SpongeBob Squarepants.
Yeah, LJ is pretty nifty that way. I got an account initially so I could keep up with a game journal; I didn't know how much I would actually use my own journal. But it turns out to be a useful tool for me, and the friends list is an easy way to keep up with lots of people -- many of whom I've never actually met in person.
Re: Aha. Got you now!
Date: 2004-06-09 06:45 pm (UTC)Humm, I have to figure out how to put in the user icon link thing. Cutting and pasting isn't working.
Re: Aha. Got you now!
Date: 2004-06-09 08:11 pm (UTC)To do the user-reference thing, write HTML such as the following: <lj user="ian_gunn">
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Date: 2004-06-04 08:37 pm (UTC)2. I have a child.
3. I live far away from you.
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Date: 2004-06-05 08:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-08 09:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-04 09:31 pm (UTC)Senior Lieutenant (retired).
We connect through mutual LJ-friends.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-05 08:03 pm (UTC)(You're welcome to try again anonymously if you like.)
(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-05 05:56 am (UTC)Both I and my fiance are LJers.
Someone in our household recently had a big adventure.
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Date: 2004-06-05 08:04 pm (UTC)Confirmed.
Date: 2004-06-08 01:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-05 07:18 pm (UTC)2. Sushi lunch at Sushi Two
3. Not Carl Meister nor Nat Manista nor John McCall.
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Date: 2004-06-05 08:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-08 09:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-05 10:22 pm (UTC)2. Not on your friends list either but live with someone who is and on their friends list.
3. I can't type so someone else is typing this for me.
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Date: 2004-06-06 08:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-08 06:36 am (UTC)Why, yes I do. C'mon over and you can share it with me and the three cats who live here. (You will share, won't you? :-) )
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Date: 2004-06-09 11:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-10 01:10 pm (UTC)I did assume that
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Date: 2004-06-05 10:24 pm (UTC)2) As a child, I had a speech impediment (or so it was diagnosed). My parents were advised that I would grow out of it so long as I was not made self-conscious about it. For that reason (I later learned) they did not let me take singing lessons which I dearly wanted.
3) My father was a semi-pro photographer; he gave me a Canon 35mm when I was 9 or 10 (this is back in the days when kids didn't get technical toys like that), and he would bring me along on nature shoots.
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Date: 2004-06-06 09:09 am (UTC)The only two people on my friends list who have ever mentioned a past speech impediment are, I think, too young for clue #1, so I'm going to take a shot in the dark here.
(I wrote that, and then spent ten minutes browsing my friends list and coming up empty.)
May I have another clue?
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Date: 2004-06-06 09:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-07 07:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-05 10:26 pm (UTC)1. I typed that last one, and I'm on your friends list.
2. Jewish, SCA, Pennsic Barn, but not D&D.
3. I don't live in Israel.
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Date: 2004-06-05 10:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-06 09:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-07 10:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-06 08:36 am (UTC)I have a wide range of interests, and this tends to give headaches to people who have a compulsion for pigeonholing.
The last I checked, we are not on each other's friends-lists, yet we pop occasionally to comment the other, via the friends-views of common friends.
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Date: 2004-06-06 11:46 am (UTC)2 Before meeting you, I had no idea what a hammer-dulcimer looked like; I'm pretty sure that I found that out at our first meeting.
3 On average, I ride the bus twenty times per fortnight.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-06 06:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-06 09:14 pm (UTC)I'm bringing the cookies to work on Tuesday, so you can, of course, have one. :)
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Date: 2004-06-06 01:39 pm (UTC)2. I have a bad habit of posting in LJ in non-English languages.
3. I wasn't born Jewish.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-06 06:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-07 06:54 am (UTC)I generally write in Greek, though Hebrew has made an occasional appearance.
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Date: 2004-06-07 07:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-07 08:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-06 04:02 pm (UTC)2. Part of the barn crowd
3. Into gaming as a hobby too, but not role-playing games
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Date: 2004-06-06 06:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-07 05:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-07 12:09 pm (UTC)2. We've never met (and I'm not on your LJ friends list).
3. I have some of you old mail in my basement.
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Date: 2004-06-07 12:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-07 12:35 pm (UTC)Ok, 1 means you live in eastern PA -- Harrisburg or Philly or environs.
3 is intriguing. Maybe this means you have files related to my term as a kingdom officer; the EK web site isn't entirely informatative here, but I believe the current editor of Pikestaff lives in New Jersey, not PA (and ditto the archivist). Or perhaps this mail has nothing to do with the SCA and you're a former roommate/housemate and some of our miscellany got mixed up during moves, but if so I'm coming up blank when factoring geography in. Or maybe you and I have corresponded -- you meant mail from me rather than mail to me.
Am I even warm? May I have another clue?
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Date: 2004-06-07 01:30 pm (UTC)4. It's almost certain we've attended the same functions, but we've never corresponded.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-07 01:50 pm (UTC)Ok, I'm going to guess
We've never corresponded, but you (apparently) have old correspondence involving me. I initially guessed that could be the current East Kingdom chronicler (or Pikestaff editor) or archivist, but none of them seem to live in the right place. But you said very warm. Ok... hey, the East also has a historian -- who might that be? Hey, he lives in Hartshorndale but I've never heard of him. I wonder if he has an LJ? After obvious guesses at user names failed, I looked up people interested in "east kingdom" and noticed two things: a Hartshorndale community and this user that matches the mundane name given on the historian's web site. And this user and I have LJ friends in common.
I hope the old correspondence isn't too inane or embarrassing or anything. :-)
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Date: 2004-06-07 05:24 pm (UTC)You showed up in my popular with your friends list and I said, "Hey, I recognize that name!"
I don't think I've found any actual correspondence - just mail (in the form of local group newsletters) that was sent to you back when you were the East Kingdom Chronicler. We've been inventorying the newsletters, so I've seen your name a lot recently :)
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Date: 2004-06-07 08:17 pm (UTC)We've been inventorying the newsletters, so I've seen your name a lot recently :)
Um, yeah. :-) At the peak (during my term) there were close to 120 local groups, I believe, and probably 70 of them had newsletters. While many of those were quarterly or bimonthly, there were a lot that were monthly. And I had the job for four years. And I never threw stuff like that out, because it didn't belong to me -- it belonged to the kingdom. So yeah, I guess you've seen quite a bit of my name.
(Just for the record, the physical address you have no longer applies.)
One thing I never got much of a chance to do was to dig in the stuff that came long before I had the office, because the ancient newsletters never came to me. (They probably went straight to the historian sometime in the past.) I once got a chance to browse the first few years of Pikestaff in someone else's basement, though, and that was pretty nifty. Newsletters have come a long way since then. :-)
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Date: 2004-06-08 08:39 am (UTC)Yep, I've got about 65 groups inventoried so far (and listed on-line) with around 5000 newsletters.
One thing I never got much of a chance to do was to dig in the stuff that came long before I had the office, because the ancient newsletters never came to me.
We've been having fun doing just that, as we go through the newsletters. One of our projects is to get through all the Pikestaff back issues (we're only missing 5 issues from the complete run) and pull out any interesting tidbits of info.
We've still got a *long* way to go, but it's pretty fun. When it starts to get tedious, we start reading the newsletters - and then it's fun again.