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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.

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[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.