Five Question Meme Rears Its Head
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mrissaThe five question meme is going around on the internets, and I decided that faffing about on the internets is about what I'm up for at the moment, so I got some from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
haddayr. Ask or be asked in the comments section.
1. Hockey. Please explain.
It's a game on ice wherein people attempt to get a puck in the other person's goal using sticks. What, not that kind of explanation? Oh.
So there I was in California, where, as you may know, they are short of vowels. It's not their fault. We seem to be hogging all the vowels up here in Minnesota. But I got to miss them out there. So I turned on the TV to hockey, with my back to it, and I turned the sound down so I couldn't really hear the words, just the patterns. And this worked for awhile, but there's always something going on in hockey. And the ice makes such pretty noises! And every time you go past the screen, something is happening!
Once you get past that point with hockey, there are various teamwork and loyalty things, and if you get into it you start to get invested in player narratives. And there is something deeply satisfying about a well-placed check.
2. You are allowed to create an opera or other piece of music using any performers or composers, alive or dead (I first wrote that as composters, and you may add that to the list if you'd like). Who do you pick? why?
Gilbert and Sullivan: the internet musical, complete with twitter patter song.
I mean, living musicians should feel free to write whatever opera they like. It's much easier to not feel dictatorial about ordering the dead around.
3. It's happening. We are colonizing another planet. What goes horribly wrong?
Other than everything? I think underestimating radiation/mutation is pretty far up there. But this is the sort of question I answer in 5K chunks with characters.
4. Suddenly, the wind can talk. What is it saying?
And this one is a minor subplot of novel. Well, sort of. In that case it says things like, "Wipe your feet when you come in; were you raised in a barn?" I think it depends on the wind. Some of them say, "The sweet rabbit in the meadow just had her adorable wittle baby bunnies." Some of them say, "Get the hell out of my way, monkey, or face the consequences." Some of them say, "Hey, fresh oregano next door." Which wind is important.
5. The ability to levitate at will. Bad/good? Why?
Well, it's kind of annoying when the dog does it. So I think it ought to be limited to entities who have been taught to be distantly polite about other entities, and to understand their sensitive bits.
haddayr. Ask or be asked in the comments section.1. Hockey. Please explain.
It's a game on ice wherein people attempt to get a puck in the other person's goal using sticks. What, not that kind of explanation? Oh.
So there I was in California, where, as you may know, they are short of vowels. It's not their fault. We seem to be hogging all the vowels up here in Minnesota. But I got to miss them out there. So I turned on the TV to hockey, with my back to it, and I turned the sound down so I couldn't really hear the words, just the patterns. And this worked for awhile, but there's always something going on in hockey. And the ice makes such pretty noises! And every time you go past the screen, something is happening!
Once you get past that point with hockey, there are various teamwork and loyalty things, and if you get into it you start to get invested in player narratives. And there is something deeply satisfying about a well-placed check.
2. You are allowed to create an opera or other piece of music using any performers or composers, alive or dead (I first wrote that as composters, and you may add that to the list if you'd like). Who do you pick? why?
Gilbert and Sullivan: the internet musical, complete with twitter patter song.
I mean, living musicians should feel free to write whatever opera they like. It's much easier to not feel dictatorial about ordering the dead around.
3. It's happening. We are colonizing another planet. What goes horribly wrong?
Other than everything? I think underestimating radiation/mutation is pretty far up there. But this is the sort of question I answer in 5K chunks with characters.
4. Suddenly, the wind can talk. What is it saying?
And this one is a minor subplot of novel. Well, sort of. In that case it says things like, "Wipe your feet when you come in; were you raised in a barn?" I think it depends on the wind. Some of them say, "The sweet rabbit in the meadow just had her adorable wittle baby bunnies." Some of them say, "Get the hell out of my way, monkey, or face the consequences." Some of them say, "Hey, fresh oregano next door." Which wind is important.
5. The ability to levitate at will. Bad/good? Why?
Well, it's kind of annoying when the dog does it. So I think it ought to be limited to entities who have been taught to be distantly polite about other entities, and to understand their sensitive bits.
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Date: 2011-08-23 06:11 pm (UTC)We may not be dissimilar, apart from, y'know, everything. I became first converted and then addicted to cricket through listening to the Test Match Special (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Match_Special) commentary (it's famous! it's on Wiki!) - but it was the characters and their use of English that hooked me first, rather than the, y'know, sport. That came later, and in consequence: I had to understand what they were talking about, in order to understand what they were saying.
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Date: 2011-08-23 06:17 pm (UTC)And really there are some lovely phrases as well as some eye-rolling ones. Not just the ones that are compact enough to fit in the titles of the Carter Hall stories, either, although I really like some of those. (I am excited about eventually getting to write "Carter Hall Returns to the Point" and "Carter Hall Sends it Down Deep.")
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Date: 2011-08-23 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-23 07:03 pm (UTC)2. The sword in your icon: how often do you pick it up? Can it be sheathed without drinking blood?
3. What part of your life would be hardest to explain to your 20-year-old self? your 10-year-old self?
4. What is your reading missing most these days?
5. What do you wish you could send out as a postcard (image, text, whatever)?
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Date: 2011-08-23 07:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-23 09:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-24 12:03 am (UTC)2. What activity would you recommend to an old fan who feels they've done/seen everything at a WorldCon?
3. What is your first tip for dealing with an unfamiliar cat?
4. Who would you most like to take with you for company on a routine and ordinary day?
5. What would you most like to see/hear as live music/theater?
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Date: 2011-08-25 05:48 am (UTC)Do you want me to ask you questions, or are you too tired from your vacation?
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Date: 2011-08-25 02:56 pm (UTC)4. Suddenly, the wind can talk. What is it saying?
Date: 2011-08-23 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-23 10:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-24 12:31 am (UTC)2. What part of your routine would you most like to change?
3. What's on your desk?
4. Do you have a board or card game your family likes to play together? For whatever values of "your family" you like.
5. If I was coming over for movie night, what would we eat? drink? watch?
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Date: 2011-08-24 02:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-24 03:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-24 02:26 pm (UTC)2. Other than yourself, who would you cast as Carter?
3. If money was not a consideration, what would you do/where would you go if you kidnapped Rob for a week? How about Lily? (You're allowed to bring helper-grownups in this scenario.)
4. Punjabi burritos worked beautifully. What other fusion food item would you like to eat that you don't think we could easily prepare at home?
5. Other than more planets and aliens books, what category of reading would you like more of?
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Date: 2011-08-24 02:25 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yif-5xBbxd4
And I will play the questions meme if you want to ask.
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Date: 2011-08-24 02:57 pm (UTC)2. What do you love most about where you live?
3. If you could set the program for your first elder concert expedition, what would you put on it?
4. What sort of thing do you find it hardest to remember?
5. If you could have one task out of all your household chores that would always take care of itself perfectly and you would never have to do it again, what would it be?
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Date: 2011-08-24 03:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-24 04:13 pm (UTC)2. If you could add one voice or type of voice to your family's singing, whose/which would it be?
3. How tightly/loosely organized is the mode in which you function best?
4. What handcraft would you like to be able to do but cannot at this point?
5. What would your 15-year-old self want to remind you of?
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Date: 2011-08-24 05:30 pm (UTC)2. Is there a household chore you absolutely do not want to do with other people? Is there one for which you absolutely do want help/many hands making light work/etc.?
3. How important is external structure in the initial composition of a short story for you? Does that come early or later?
4. Do you have a favorite bird?
5. What currently available mode of long-distance transportation do you prefer, and why?
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Date: 2011-08-24 03:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-24 02:59 pm (UTC)2. What do you carry in your pockets, purse, or usually-carried bag?
3. What item would you like to add to the above list?
4. What is your best birthday memory?
5. If you could introduce your family to one new food, what would it be?