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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

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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.