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[hobbitomm]

ok, the questions are from anthraxia and the game rules are:

The Rules:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me" or something of an equally pithy nature.
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature. Be warned!
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions, or there will be trouble.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them 5 questions.

Comments

[sismith42.livejournal.com]

slightly frightened, but sure-- ask me a few personal q's...

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Muahahaha! The power ;)

1)Where did you see yourself being at your current age when you left high school, and how does it compare with where you currently are?
2)I know you're from a religious (Catholic) family, but how do you now see your relationship with the Divine, and where does the Church fit into that?
3)Princess Bride or Knight's Tale?
4)If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
5)If you could live anywhen, when would it be?

Hope none of these are too personal. If they are, omit.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Hmm... fire away.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

1)Why computer science? How did you end up in it?
2)What is the first RPG you ever played?
3)Sail or steam?
4)Three musketeers or Crouching Tiger?
5)Have you ever lied to get something that you wanted, but wouldn't have if you had been truthful?

[anthraxia.livejournal.com]

Oh go on, hit me back :)

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

1) Where is 'home'?
2) When did you lose your 'innocence'? (interpret however you like)
3) Which Science Fiction would you like to inhabit?
4) If I were to leave you only five books, what would they be?
5) So, how come I never got smoochies? :P

[anthraxia.livejournal.com]

1. Home is dependent on my mood. Either a) Adelaide, Mile End to be specific (currently living in the house I grew up in) or b) Cardiff. Whichever I'm in, I always feel a little homesick for the other.

2. Oooh, toughie. The easy, virginty-related answer is 2 months before my 17th birthday, in a shearing shed. Innocence is such a difficult thing to define though!

3. Tricky! I'd like to say Discworld, but that's not SF. Hmmm. I know! Doctor Who verse - then I get lots of Cardiff and plenty of TARDIS travel back to Adelaide :P

4. I'm not overly familiar with your library, so I'm going to go with the 5 books in my collection I would want if no others.
4.1 Annoted Complete Works of Shakespeare
4.2 The Mabnogion
4.3 The Decammeron
4.4 "Come Hither" - poetry collection ed. by Walter de la Mare
4.5 The Enormously Big Book of Songs We All Know (which isn't actually a real book, it's a bloody huge folder of mine full of sheet music and lyrics)

5. Because I never knew how serious y/our flirting was.

[caomhinmaca.livejournal.com]

Ask your questions, you fiend! But you'll need a comfy chair...

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

1) Which martial art, and why?
2) Where would you live, if you could live anywhere, anywhen?
3) How did you get into computers?
4) Roundhead or Cavalier?
5) What did you want to be when you were fifteen?

[caomhinmaca.livejournal.com]

1) Which martial art, and why?
That's a really good one for me. I almost fell into karate twice - at university, where I only just missed joining the college club by the thickness of a clique, I guess you could say, and then later I took it up for something to do after my divorce. It wouldn't really have been my first choice either time, just a convenient class near the things that interested me. Truly, the idea of fighting as such has never been the driving force. The concept of defence is much more interesting, so I have to answer with caveats: if I'd ever found the right teacher, true martial tai chi chuan would have been the one. Gentle, flowing and utterly steely powerful. That was then and now I know that no true teacher would really teach a Westerner anyway. I'll settle these days very happily for the taijutsu I'm actually doing. The ideas are near tai chi chuan in many ways and a lot of western teachers are very good, so they will teach at least everything the Japanese will teach them. And I like it now more than ever for the almost intrinsic ideas of not accepting the unwritten rules that all fights contain - don't accept them, find ways to cheat, and so to win and survive.

2) Where would you live, if you could live anywhere, anywhen?
Assuming the species survives, an L5/L3 habitat about 400 years from now. If we survive that long then we'll have fixed the problems. If we're living in orbital habitats then we're damn clever, and they'll be interesting places to be. The past fails to attract - I LIKE medicine and dentistry - and the present, well, there's an island in the Pacific where all the food comes from the land, the climate lets the inhabitants sleep, well, anywhere, and there is time in plenty.

3) How did you get into computers?
Well, when you discover in university that research is NOT your bag - too dim -, and teaching fails to appeal, and you need a job, and you've done a year of programming, you might get lucky enough to find that your Dad, who gets the Local Government employment info sheets has found that Luton Borough Council want trainee programmers... and then you get either lucky or perceptive enough to jump into just the right new technologies as they push out the ones you were expert in.

4) Roundhead or Cavalier?
Oh Cavalier without a doubt. I really COULDN'T be doing with all that seriousness and gloom and rectitude, a good word that, veeery close to the entire problem with their heads...


5) What did you want to be when you were fifteen?
Oh well that relates to the 'how did you get into computing'. A research physicist. That was it - physics fascinated me - the ultimate in taking it apart to see how it works... If I was bright enough it still would, but alas, all that dribbled away years back.