Inteview Meme

[dcseain]

Rules:

1. Leave a comment by saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Something random. You are not obligated.
2. I’ll respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better. If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate.
3. You’ll update your blog/LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You’ll include this explanation and an offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you’ll ask them five questions.

(Of course, if you choose to participate, 4 and 5 are entirely optional.)

Here are utforsker's questions for me:

1. Does your "dry mustard, salt, pepper, horseradish mustard, pickles, pickle brine, mayo, hot sauce, and veggie broth" work as well with Nayonaise?
   • I'm sure it would, though using Nayonaise with eggs rather defeats the purpose, doesn't it. If i were using Nayonaise, i'd sub tofu and herbs/spices for the egg.
2. Please direct me to a good reference for "the concept of literary archetypes". I endeavor to grok.
   • An etymological definition
   • Here's a basic explanation
   • Wikipedia's article an Archetypes muddies literary ones with Jungian ones, IMHO, but at the same time, they have similarities and continuities.
   • Theatre Stock Characters are related
   • I'll research a decent book on the topic for you, which will require a library trip next week, as i've not found a satisfactory online source.
3. With how many penpals do you currently exchange correspondence?
   • From middle school through the mid-90's, 4, all by post.
   • Today, via email and IM mostly, about 12, including 2 of the original 4
4. When and how have you met Jailbait?
   • In i think it was 1988, at LUMSFS at the Bob's Big Boy in New Carrollton, MD, he plopped down aross from me in a booth, and gleefully said, "X is for Xerxes, devoured by mice!". I had him repeat himself. Again, and an explanation ensued. And so it was that i came to know JB, and t'was thusly that i learned of the Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies, and that i embarked on a lifetime of collecting abecedaria.
   • And this year, i'm finally making it to Baitcon! :D
5. Please describe your ideal garden.
   • My ideal garden would be large - 4 or 5 hectares. A half hectare would be dedicated to vegetables, probably behind a hedge off to the right as viewed from the back of the house.
     
     There would be a boxwood labyrinth, probably hedged with trees and azaelas. Pretty, shaded, calming. That would be far from the vegetables, as hedges house things that eat veggies. The remainder would have at least a hectare of woodland runing through it continuously, with formal gardnes, not necessarily fancy ones, that change as one walks around bends - hedges, shrubs, and what forming visual barriers setting up 'rooms'.
     
     There'd be a river or some creeks running through part, as what's a garden without some weeping willows under which to picnic languorously. There would be a moon garden, with tobacco and magniolia grandifloae and other white, night-scenting things, a resonable distance from the house.
     
     It should be laid out such that the whole is not visible from the house, that there be surprises. Benches and tables would be scattered around for rest, contemplation, reading, and dining and what. Some yew need must be scattered about as appropriate. There would be some meadows, of course, with a tree here or there to better frame the views.
   • /stream of consciousness

Comments

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

Less than randomly, I must admit to an utterly atrocious record at answering these. I fully intend to try if you are so inclined as to ask, but wanted to issue the warning nonetheless.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

1. How came you to dance?
2. Might you share the story of meeting bfudlmint?
3. I see you're active with ru_translator. How's that going for you, and can you tell me a bit about the experience. I ask because i've been debating volunteering for es_translator.
4. Please tell me about grey - what's your relationship to it or/and what's it mean to you.
5. Do you miss Winter ever, now that you live in the Land of Summer?

[dpolicar]

Yay! This meme is comin' round again on the gittar! I love this meme.

Er... something random. There's a mechanical parrot on my shelf that really does appear to be glaring at me challengingly. I guess I'm feeling guilty about something.

Hit me!

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

1. Would you tell me more about your ideal communal living arrangements? I'm curious, as i've had great experiences in 4-5 adult households in the past. I do agree it only works when everyone is dedicated to the arrangements.
2. You seem to grok dates/numbers. Please to tell me a bit about your relationship with them.
3. You're one of the minority of people who attend school in Mass and stay there. What has kept you there - inertia or something else?
4. Which form(s) of interactive roleplaying do you like best?
5. Chocolate. What kinds do you like, and other than straight-up eatinhg it, what do you with it?

[dpolicar]

Here ya go.

[dragonsea]

Do you know of a good online Gaelic-English translation site?

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Scotch, Irish, Welsh, Breton, or other?

[dragonsea]

Irish. My favorite song is Ayub's Song by Afro-Celt Sound System, and its sung in Irish.

Welsh and Breton aren't in Goidelic branch of the Celtic language where Scotch, Irish and Manx are. They're in the Brythonic branch, with Cornish and some extinct languages.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

My bad. I find this site (http://www.englishirishdictionary.com/dictionary) useful, it provides common phrases and declensions as well. Dowside, it's word-, rather than phrase-based.

D'oh. Just realized my literalism has bit me again. Sigh. :)

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Okay, my fit of literalism and cluelessness having passed for now, five queries for you:

1. What are the origins of your username?
2. Now that you've graduated, are you continuing with your current job?
3. Thank you for the review of Celtic languages. That review begs the question: have you a particular interest in Irish, and/or some other Celtic tongue?
4. What of maths?
5. I know you like where you live, but if you could have any housing type anywhere, what would it be like?

[dragonsea]

Here you go: http://turtleduck.livejournal.com/90124.html

[chaosdancer.livejournal.com]

"Oh the last bus is gone/or maybe I'm wrong
it just doesn't exist.
And the words that flew/between me and you
I must be crossed off your list
Now I'm walking the long miles home
I don't mind losing you
In fact I feel better each step of the way
In the dark I rehearse all the right things to say
I'll be home, I'll be sober by break of day
Walking the long miles home."

(Random, of course - nothing personal intended but it was just the last thing that came up on my mRobe. :)

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

1. Your life has been quite the journey over the last 18-24 months. Are you content with where this has left you in the end?
2. Whats an mRobe?
3. You list "poetry but not yours" as an interest. What's that about?
4. Which moutain instruments like you and what's your interest in them?
5. How would you make it, whatever 'it' you will, better?

For Reference....

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

http://chaosdancer.livejournal.com/202739.html (http://chaosdancer.livejournal.com/202739.html)

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

The prescription on my glasses is strong enough that there's visible chromatic aberration. It's especially noticeable on brightly-lit objects against a dark background. I first noticed this phenomenon long before I really understood what it was.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Hm. I thought i'd done this meme with you before, apparently not. So, five for you:

1. How closely does your life today match what you imagined would be the case by this point in your life when you were younger?
2. Tell me about "fatal dingo attack!", please. Also, did dingoes eat your baby?
3. How came to be Beemer, Baron Mustache Wax?
4. Your ability to use electronic toys - things not necessary for cooking/bathing - is taken away for a month, and money is no object, what do you do?
5. Marcel Proust a dit: Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdu. Agree you or not, and why?

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

I have a copy of LOGO in my car. And probably everything else.

Meep.

Then again I suck at answering stuff, and oft fear questions.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

1. ...and oft fear questions. Why is that?
2. How's grandma's coming, and when do you need more help to finish it up? Only 8 days left, and closing it out is doable.
3. You don't get to go walk in the woods nor along rivers/streams as often as it seems it would do you good. Why is that?
4. Which one thing would you change about humankind if you could?
5. What is your biggest, and seemingly least achievable, dream, and what keeps you from pursuing it?

[ftemery.livejournal.com]

William Penn was a Quaker and had an interest in ants. His parents were embarrassed by his radicalism.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

1. How came you into geocaching, and what like you about it?
2. Are you liking the Washington you're in now better than the one you left behind?
3. You don't seem to've don much photography of late. Is that accurate, or have you just not been posting, or am i being clueless?
4. What of frogs?
5. Tell me please about your ideal vacation.

Great Questions

[ftemery.livejournal.com]

1. I must have read an article about geocaching as I'm basically clueless about most things going on in the world. I looked it up online and found there was one within two miles that I could find without a GPS. What I like most about it is finding places I'd never have known were there otherwise, and going exploring. That, and finding treasure......
2. I have to try to like it here but I manage. DC area fits me for the closeness to so much diversity, colleges, etc. It's easier to forget yourself with a lot to do to divert your mind. And I hate driving.
3. I've been in a different phase of photography. Refining and editing, but I have just put a big bunch up on Webshots. I no longer use my darkroom, either, having gotten so bitten by the ease of digital.
4. When Robyn and I met online, we were in a group cowriting what it would be like to be young and in our correct genders. She wrote as a school girl with crushes and romance, and I wrote as a boy who loved frogs, snakes, and pranks. It became a symbol, and grew from that.
5. Vacation; ideally it would be one you get when you need it, ie young and needing a big break from responsibilities! It wouldn't really matter where, but I'd love to take along all the people that are important to me. The right people make all things fun. It would have to be all nonsmoking of course!

[utforsker.livejournal.com]

> > 1. work as well with Nayonaise?
> * I'm sure it would, though using Nayonaise with eggs rather
> defeats the purpose, doesn't it.

Not necessarily. I'm using Nayonaise not because I'm vegan, but because I have a neurosis about mayonnaise.

> If i were using Nayonaise, i'd sub tofu and herbs/spices for the egg.

That also sounds delish.


> > 2. "the concept of literary archetypes".
> * I'll research a decent book on the topic for you, which will
> require a library trip next week, as i've not found a satisfactory
> online source.

I thank you greatly.

> > 4. When and how have you met Jailbait?
> * In i think it was 1988, at LUMSFS at the Bob's Big Boy in New
> Carrollton, MD,

Neat. I didn't hear of LUMSFS-in-exile until the early 90s, when it was reputed to be at the Bob's in Wheaton or the Shakey's Pizza in Langley Park.

> > 5. Please describe your ideal garden.
> that change as one walks around bends - hedges, shrubs, and what
> forming visual barriers setting up 'rooms'.

neat!

> picnic languorously.

fantastic imagery.

> There would be a moon garden, with tobacco and magniolia grandifloae
> and other white, night-scenting things, a resonable distance from the
> house.

tasty.

> Benches and tables would be scattered around for rest, contemplation,
> reading, and dining and what.

sculpture?

> Some yew need must be scattered about as appropriate.

I am unaware of the significance of yew. Would you enlighten me?

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

...because I have a neurosis about mayonnaise.

That had never occurred to me, obviously. Now it will.

Neat. I didn't hear of LUMSFS-in-exile until the early 90s, when it was reputed to be at the Bob's in Wheaton or the Shakey's Pizza in Langley Park.

Yes, after Bob's New Carrollton, came Bob's Wheaton - after a brief sojourn to Shakey's in Langley Park, then Bob's in Hillandale- which became a Shoney's while we were there, then to Hollywood East Cafe in Wheaton, and now we're at Plato's in College Park, at least for the Summer and early Fall.

sculpture?

Hm, possibly. That would require careful shopping so that the sculpture did not conflict with the ambiance of a 'room'. On the other hand, it could be fun to come across random bits of stone sculpture. Hmmm...

I am unaware of the significance of yew. Would you enlighten me?

Yew, holly, juniper, Scots pine, and (English) ivy are the indigenous evergreens of the British isles, with the holly and the ivy being the non-conifers. Yew is widespread in the Old World, and a common ornamental shrub here in North America. From the Wikipedia article on Common Yew (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Yew):

Taxus baccata is a conifer native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia. Originally and still widely known in English as just Yew, ...

It was, and may yet be for some, traditionally planted on graves in the British isles, and is one of the Celtic holy trees. Many churches in the Asturias region of Spain, England, Wales, Ireland, and Breton are next to yews that predate the churches, often on a hill, as hills, being liminal, were holy to the Celts also. It was the preferred poison for killing oneself by peoples who revered the plant.

It's very long-lived, the oldest specimens are known to be at least a millennium old, and was, is in some circles, known as the plant of immortality, hence it's use as a grave marker.

At Charles Butler's suggestion, it is a sprig of yew in berry and with cones, that i plan to have carved as the scroll of the viola pomposa (http://www.rivinus-instruments.com/pomposa.htm) i plan to order in the near future.

Yew, magnolia grandiflora, and holly are my revered evergreens, and hold deep meaning for me.

I must say that i had great fun answering the garden question, and think i will work that answer into a proper vignette fitting its content.

[selki.livejournal.com]

Your garden sounds wonderful.

Speak your queries, please.

[utforsker.livejournal.com]

While most westerners commonly see pi appoximated as 22/7, the Chinese also see it approximated 355⁄113. Zu Chongzhi discovered both approximations in the 5th century AD.

Re: Speak your queries, please.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

1. Please to define your interest in gfci.
2. Is there a way other than nonlinear?
3. Have you ever used thermite, and if so, for what, or if not, when/how might you give it a go?
4. What's something you've thought about doing, but have not as yet, and why?
5. I'm looking out the window at the flowing green of the trees in the wind, and find the vista pleasing and soothing. What ideally would you view out a window for calming, contemplation, and pleasure?

Re: Speak your queries, please.

[utforsker.livejournal.com]

Answered (http://utforsker.livejournal.com/681245.html)

[maddogairpirate.livejournal.com]

The seagull perches on the steeple in the rain.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

• Puzzle pirates?
• What does furry mean to you?
• Please tell us about your ideal place to live.
• How did you come to keep ferrets?
• Which is your favourite time of year, and why?

[maddogairpirate.livejournal.com]

1. Puzzle Pirates is this neat multiplayer game where you set off as a crew to combat other crews for booty. In lieu of fighting, you compete in puzzle competitions to best the other team, and it's cooperative. A very neat idea, and one I sometimes think about returning to. Its limitation was that it only had about 5 or 6 game activities, and they became monotonous after a time. Great concept though.

2. Furry is a term to describe an umbrella of interests related to the anthropomorphization (if such be a word) of animals. Most people use furry as a personal identifier to group them with the fandom. I personally am somewhat wary of the fandom and keep just a bit of distance, usually. Met many great folks. Most folks who identify as furry have at least some sexual interest that overlaps with furry, and I'm no exception. I'm a bit of a cartoon-loving and fantasy furry. Basically, to me, furry describes what I like, not what group I belong to. I could write much more but that'll do for now. Dig deeper at some point if you want. I never did much discuss my furry interest when we got together.

3. If money were no object, I could name three places I'd love to live: San Fransisco Bay Area, Boomerang Coast of Australia, and Spain... probably near Gibraltar. Any nice 6-room home would do it for me. Preferably brick. Somewhat secluded, maybe just a touch into the woods, but still within an hour or so of a big city.

4. A friend of mine had ferrets and introduced me to them when I was... oh, I'd say about 13 or so. I always found them to be neat, bouncy little critters. Mom wouldn't let me, so when I moved into my first place, I made sure to get a pair.

5. I tend to like the fall, if I had to pick a season. It's a prelude to the big holidays that I love, the weather's mild, and dead leaves just give the air this crisp feeling.