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richlayersI've done this before, but my excuse is that it's been a long time.
001. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
002. I will respond by asking you ANY five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
003. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
004. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
005. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
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kyrie1618
1) Did the secret admirer ever make it up to you? The long silences bit, I mean.
You know, I still do not know who that was. I say "was," and not "is," because I haven't heard anything from TSA or his compatriot in... going on six months (ish?) now. How's THAT for a long silences bit? However, I am still enjoying Doctor Who series 1, so I guess I have no room to complain....
2) What would it take to finish a marathon? What's stopped you so far?
40 kilometers, I would say would do the trick. Errr. What's stopped me is... lack of time, and lack of warm weather, and laziness. Oh, and that broken toe was a setback, but mostly... laziness. I think it would help to have someone to train with, and also to just be more determined than I currently am. But I WILL do it. Maybe even this year? (When it gets WARM again!?)
3) Want to start using strong crypto? Shall our next ten LJ posts be signed by us in a way that cannot be faked?
I don't know. I mean, I read Little Brother, I appreciate a healthy dose of paranoia as much as the next geek, but... on the other hand, I just have trouble considering myself significant enough for anyone to bother messing with. Not that that's necessarily the deciding factor.
I would sign my posts in a way that could not be faked if I had an idea of how to do that. I sort of understand the theory, but in a vague, non-applicable way.
4) Tell me more about Folding@Home?
Folding is awesome! Basically your computer makes these... computations... and figures out how proteins fold... Like when you eat food, right? And that food is turned into your body, you know? But how does it know what kind of body to turn into? How does it "fold" into the right shape for eyeball or muscle or... whatever? Errr, that's my basic understanding of it. Here is a fairly dense wikipedia article about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding
(Unfortunately they don't have an article about it at simple.wikipedia.org or I would have been so there.)
Anyway, the folding@home concept is that, since figuring out all the ways that folding can happen is a monumental task, many computers can work on small bits of data, which are then put together at Stanford to form a bigger picture of the process. Err, I'm pretty sure you can read more about this, and in more depth/detail/accuracy, if you go to their main page:
http://folding.stanford.edu/
Which you should do. And join my team: 159490
5) If you get a chance to upload, but you'd lose your body doing it, would you? Why?
Man, I'd really have to think about this one. On the one hand, when reading the latest Sawyer book on the concept, it makes complete sense to me and I'm all in favor of it. On the other hand, my hardcore scifi geek beliefs aside, I'm not ready to dismiss a spiritual aspect of our human existence, and how does that fit into an upload? Does my soul travel with my most current data? Or is the soul released when the original body dies, no matter what? Or is the soul just a comforting way to consider death? I don't think I could answer this without the process being a possibility in front of me, but...
I'm inclined to say yes... Sort of as a default. Like... get uploaded but have the upload inactive until the moment of my ... first death? I don't know, is that a cop-out? That sort of suggests I want the most of both options.... Tricky question.
001. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
002. I will respond by asking you ANY five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
003. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
004. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
005. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
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kyrie16181) Did the secret admirer ever make it up to you? The long silences bit, I mean.
You know, I still do not know who that was. I say "was," and not "is," because I haven't heard anything from TSA or his compatriot in... going on six months (ish?) now. How's THAT for a long silences bit? However, I am still enjoying Doctor Who series 1, so I guess I have no room to complain....
2) What would it take to finish a marathon? What's stopped you so far?
40 kilometers, I would say would do the trick. Errr. What's stopped me is... lack of time, and lack of warm weather, and laziness. Oh, and that broken toe was a setback, but mostly... laziness. I think it would help to have someone to train with, and also to just be more determined than I currently am. But I WILL do it. Maybe even this year? (When it gets WARM again!?)
3) Want to start using strong crypto? Shall our next ten LJ posts be signed by us in a way that cannot be faked?
I don't know. I mean, I read Little Brother, I appreciate a healthy dose of paranoia as much as the next geek, but... on the other hand, I just have trouble considering myself significant enough for anyone to bother messing with. Not that that's necessarily the deciding factor.
I would sign my posts in a way that could not be faked if I had an idea of how to do that. I sort of understand the theory, but in a vague, non-applicable way.
4) Tell me more about Folding@Home?
Folding is awesome! Basically your computer makes these... computations... and figures out how proteins fold... Like when you eat food, right? And that food is turned into your body, you know? But how does it know what kind of body to turn into? How does it "fold" into the right shape for eyeball or muscle or... whatever? Errr, that's my basic understanding of it. Here is a fairly dense wikipedia article about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding
(Unfortunately they don't have an article about it at simple.wikipedia.org or I would have been so there.)
Anyway, the folding@home concept is that, since figuring out all the ways that folding can happen is a monumental task, many computers can work on small bits of data, which are then put together at Stanford to form a bigger picture of the process. Err, I'm pretty sure you can read more about this, and in more depth/detail/accuracy, if you go to their main page:
http://folding.stanford.edu/
Which you should do. And join my team: 159490
5) If you get a chance to upload, but you'd lose your body doing it, would you? Why?
Man, I'd really have to think about this one. On the one hand, when reading the latest Sawyer book on the concept, it makes complete sense to me and I'm all in favor of it. On the other hand, my hardcore scifi geek beliefs aside, I'm not ready to dismiss a spiritual aspect of our human existence, and how does that fit into an upload? Does my soul travel with my most current data? Or is the soul released when the original body dies, no matter what? Or is the soul just a comforting way to consider death? I don't think I could answer this without the process being a possibility in front of me, but...
I'm inclined to say yes... Sort of as a default. Like... get uploaded but have the upload inactive until the moment of my ... first death? I don't know, is that a cop-out? That sort of suggests I want the most of both options.... Tricky question.
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Date: 2009-03-29 03:26 am (UTC)Interview me, please! ^_^
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Date: 2009-03-29 04:05 am (UTC)2. Is marriage worth it? Why?
3. Do you have a favorite daily ritual?
4. What's your biggest regret?
5. What's your biggest anti-regret (as in you're SO glad you did that!)?
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Date: 2009-03-29 12:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-29 06:03 pm (UTC)2. What is your favorite traditional folk/fairy tale?
3. What exactly is going on in that picture on your user info page?
4. What ever happened with the beautiful Kenyan girl??
5. What is your default icon all about?
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Date: 2009-03-29 01:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-29 05:28 pm (UTC)Just kidding!
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Date: 2009-03-29 06:12 pm (UTC)Hmmmm. Hmmmmmm hmmmmmmmm hmmmmmmm. Racking my brains through 10 years of conversation to figure out what I still want to know about you... You know, other than what would come up in the natural course of conversation.
1. Who were your favorite and least favorite teachers, from all the many years of school you were forced and/or chose to attend, and why? What will you definitely want to emulate and definitely NOT want to emulate?
2. I think we may have been over this before, but if you could have any superpower, what would you want it to be?
3. How's Alicia? How's that going?
4. I know that you often choose the comfortable and familiar over the new and untried... Is there anything that you've never tried that you're determined to try someday?
5. What is your ideal, don't have to be anywhere, lazy day of doing whatever you want? (Like just a regular day not a special travel/vacation day.)