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I know I owe questions to some people. I'm not ignoring you.

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The interview meme is making the rounds again.

kitanzi asked me some questions:

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Here's the rules:

Leave me a comment saying "interview me".
I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the post.
When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

Sure, I'm game. From

rjlippincott:

Online journals are little filters that we each see every one else's lives through, the parts others choose to share with us. That said, we often think we are close, but really we seldom know a lot about each other. So I invite you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then, if you like, post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

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The interview parlor game is back. If you like, request a set of five questions and answer them in your own journal. You should then offer questions to your own readers.

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The interview meme is making the rounds. For the two or three people reading this who haven't already seen it, here's how this works:

If you want to be interviewed, leave a comment saying so.
I will respond, asking you five questions.
You'll update your journal with my five questions and your five answers.
You'll include this explanation.
You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

( answers to cortejo's questions )

( Pittsburgh, SCA persona, religious community, music group, cooking )

( non-Jewish regrets, SCA, musical instruments, life lessons, Pittsburgh )

( in-laws, observance, SF, music )

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1) If you were a toy, what toy would you be?

There is much in this question that is not specified, but oh well. Is a computer a toy? Can I be a self-aware computer that can surf and use email? :-) Nah, didn't think so.

I suppose the most likely answer is some sort of game-playing device (mind games, like chess, not shoot-'em-up action games). Gotta keep the brain active, after all, which argues for a game with some complexity. (I don't actually like playing chess; that was just an example.)

2) Tell me about your favorite (typical or specific) day at Pennsic.

I like the visit-with-distant-friends days best. I always look forward to spending time with Steffan and Elspeth, and Dof and Thora, and Yaakov and Rivka. I try to get at least one visit of several hours with each of them, though they don't tend to be on the same day. There are other people I'd like to be able to visit but either they don't come any more or they do but they're hard to find or we just never connect.

3) Is there someone in your life whom you regret losing touch with? If so, how do you imagine that person living their life today.

I miss my friend Mike. We used to hang out a lot, and he did me many kindnesses when I was laid up with a broken leg. I did not do nearly enough to repay that when he later had a broken arm, and I feel bad about that. But I especially feel bad that we have drifted apart in the last few years, and that my attempts to contact him have failed. (I've tried email, phone, and paper.) I hope he's doing well, but I know that he sometimes just withdraws from the world for a while and I suspect that's what's happened.

4) If you could scientifically prove that God exists, how would that change your outlook on the world? What would you imagine the experiment that proves the hypothisis looks like? Would you do the experement if you knew there was a chance the hypothisis might be disproven? ( Read more... )

5) Its 2055 and you win a Nobel prize. Which category do you win for? ( Read more... )

Hey lookie -- daylight savings time. More time before Shabbat means time to finish this. (I've been gradually ansering these questions over the past couple days.)

1) What's the least-interesting section of the Torah to you, the one that would be most improved if you read it in the original Klingon. ( Read more... )

2) Nature or nurture? ( Read more... )

3) Have you ever worn SCA garb as your street clothes (i.e, not on the way too/from an event, just because you felt like it). ( Read more... )

4) You have been granted a wish to meet one of the great Jewish sages (and commensurate ability to understand and be understood). Who do you meet and why? ( Read more... )

5) Some say the world will end in fire, others say in ice. Which do you choose? ( Read more... )

1. What prompted you to seek out a new religion? I suspect you have already written on this so a pointer to what you have written before would be fine. ( Read more... )

2. I liked the time machine question Liam asked so, with no chance of death or injury what five events/people/things in history would you go back to witness? ( Read more... )

3. What music projects do you have going on this coming year? ( Read more... )

4. If you could have your Pennsic house made all over again, what changes would you make to it (or have Johan make to it)? ( Read more... )

5. You have just witnessed the murder of a loved one. You are safe and there is no danger to your life. You have the power to immediately kill the murderer or let them get away and potentially never be caught. What do you do? ( Read more... )

The interview meme is back. If you want me to ask you questions, post and say so (and then you answer them in your journal).

1. Your four favorite blogging topics are food, gaming, Judaism, and work. Does this represent a fair division of your life? Would you change the relative proportions, if you could? ( Read more... )

2. There are lots of similarities between being a technical documentation author and being a rabbi arguing over the mishnah. Do you like this analogy? How does it make you feel? ( Read more... )

3. You get the chance to make a major manufacturer or producer of goods and services introduce one new thing that you really want. It has to be currently physically possible (i.e. no teleport booths, no fusion reactors) and it will be priced realistically. What do you want? ( Read more... )

4. What's the biggest threat to your continued happiness? ( Read more... )

5. How many fences around fences do you feel comfortable drawing? As a Reform Jew, you have a duty to interpret for yourself. For example, we separate milk and meat because we are commanded not to boil a kid in it's mother's milk. The first fence is extending that to not cooking any meat in any milk. The second fence is to prohibit eating meat and milk at the same meal. The third fence extends this to not eating chicken (considered meat) with cheese even though chickens are in no way mammals, chicken eggs can be eaten with cheese, and fish can be eaten with cheese. Feel free to go with other rules, if you'd like. ( Read more... )

Nick asked me these questions a while back, but I never got the email notification and I didn't notice. If anyone else thinks I'm ignoring questions, please let me know.

1. How has the field of software documentation evolved during your career?

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2. How did growing up in the SCA community in particular influence who you are now? Would you have grown into more or less the same person in a different social environment, such as your current congregation?

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3. If you could become a pen pal of any person from any time, with whom would you correspond? (To avoid paradox, assume that the person exists in a parallel universe, so you could even correspond with yourself from the past without causing reality to implode.)

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4. Alternatively, what do you do if the genie allows you to undo after seeing the consequences? Specifically, you may once instantly revert reality to a backup copy of the moment before he would have contacted you. Does your answer change if you could remember your experiences from the forked reality?

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5. How would you characterize the stories that you most enjoy reading or watching? How have these desiderata changed over time?

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Here's how this works:

If you want to be interviewed, leave a comment saying so.
I will respond, asking you five questions.
You'll update your journal with my five questions and your five answers.
You'll include this explanation.
You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

( SCA, great book, job difficulty, goals, predictions )

[Ah, good. My home network connection is happier than it was last night when I tried to post this...]

( daily tasks, cooking, romance, nosy questions, cats )

( conversion reactions, writing, LJ, tastes, fixing Pittsburgh )

( congregations, job, educational surprises, reading, Volkswagens )

( religious adjustment, food, books, movies, parents )

I think I have given questions to everyone who asked (except the person who asked for a second round; I'll get to you), and that I have now answered all pending questions. If I missed someone either way, please let me know! My LJ mail has been a little wacky at times over the last few days, so I may have missed something. If you still want to jump in, speak up.

( faults, living arrangements, SCA, love )

( religion, family, husband, kids, making aliyah )

I think I've now gotten questions to everyone who's asked for some so far. Please let me know if I'm wrong about that.

( death, Catholicism, SCA, meeting people, job )

Here's how it works:

If you want to be interviewed, leave a comment saying so.
I will respond, asking you five questions.
You'll update your journal with my five questions and your five answers.
You'll include this explanation.
You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

Monica

interviewed by 530nm330hz

interviewed by patsmor

interviewed by kitanzi

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interviewed by thatcrazycajun

interviewed by figmo

interviewed by dyanearden

interviewed by cortejo

interviewed by shalmestere

interviewed by purple_stardust

interviewed by ichur72

interviewed by lrstrobel

interviewed by anastasiav

interviewed by filkerdave

interviewed by ian_gunn

interviewed by dsrtao

interviewed by nickjong

interviewed by rani23

interviewed by sekhmets_song

interviewed by amergina

interviewed by jerusha

interviewed by celebrin

interviewed by patsmor

interviewed by mommyathome

interviewed by profane_stencil

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