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Feb. 22nd, 2007 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Here's the rules:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will 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 will update your lj with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
I'll begin with the answers to the questions that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cjdoyle asked me and add more as things go along.
1) You've done some urban-exploration type stuff...what was your scariest moment?
In terms of most memorable moment of pure terror, it was probably a time a couple years ago under Kenosha. I was, by my best guess, standing under a manhole a few blocks from Sheridan Road in Kenosha. I had stopped to to look at something. I can't remember what; maybe it was interesting graffitti or something. Suddenly the sound of Vulcan's hammer slamming into into a massive anvil exploded through the drain. It was the first time I'd ever heard a car driving over a manhole directly above me. I calmed down once I figured it what it was and it doesn't bug me now that I expect it, but I jumped high enough that I nearly fell over.
2) When you visit a new Thai place, what's the spice level you're most likely to tell the waiter you want? (Spicy, medium, no-spice, hot as you can make it, etc.)
If they only have three levels (or four, technically; mild, medium, hot, and none), I'll ask for the hottest they make. If there are more gradations, I'll usually go for one level below the hottest. Places that have listings like 'mild, mild plus, medium, medium plus, hot, hot plus, and on fire' like Sala Thai does tend to have a higher maximum threshold than places with less control over the heat level. I prefer to leave walking into a restaurant lke that and effectively saying 'hit me with everything you've got 'cause I can take it' to those with more machismo than me.
3) On a long cross-country trip - radio or iPod/CDs? Why?
*laughs* As far as driving my truck, I'd have to pick radio since it doesn't have a CD player and I don't have an Ipod! But speaking more abstractly, I think I'd end up listening to both. There are a few albums and specific pieces that I can listen to for hours and that kills a lot of boring time on the road. For the most part, I listen to media that I bring with me. Of course, once I get bored of what I have with me, or if I'm looking for something different, I'll start cruising radio stations and jumping around between them as they catch and then lose my interest.
4) If there was one craft/skill you could pick up instantly, what would it be?
I'm so torn on this questions. The first craft that comes to mind is smith work, and I'd probably go with that one. I find myself continually wishing that I had more time to go out and pound metal. I feel like I owe it to my grandfather and all of his tools I have sitting out in my garage.
Programming and fluency in Japanese are very close seconds though.
5) What do you consider your biggest quirk?
I'm not sure; it's buried under the huge mound of little ones! Maybe the fact that sometime, maybe late at night or very early in the morning when the sun has yet to rise and I've been up all night working on a project, I like to lie down amongst all of my computer hardware. I'll watch it for a while, listening to the hum of the fans and watching the blinking LEDs on all the various parts. Sometimes I'll close my eyes and imagine the paths of all the millions of bits of data flowing through my network. It's meditative, and very soothing once in a while.
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Here's the rules:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will 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 will update your lj with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
I'll begin with the answers to the questions that
cjdoyle asked me and add more as things go along.1) You've done some urban-exploration type stuff...what was your scariest moment?
In terms of most memorable moment of pure terror, it was probably a time a couple years ago under Kenosha. I was, by my best guess, standing under a manhole a few blocks from Sheridan Road in Kenosha. I had stopped to to look at something. I can't remember what; maybe it was interesting graffitti or something. Suddenly the sound of Vulcan's hammer slamming into into a massive anvil exploded through the drain. It was the first time I'd ever heard a car driving over a manhole directly above me. I calmed down once I figured it what it was and it doesn't bug me now that I expect it, but I jumped high enough that I nearly fell over.
2) When you visit a new Thai place, what's the spice level you're most likely to tell the waiter you want? (Spicy, medium, no-spice, hot as you can make it, etc.)
If they only have three levels (or four, technically; mild, medium, hot, and none), I'll ask for the hottest they make. If there are more gradations, I'll usually go for one level below the hottest. Places that have listings like 'mild, mild plus, medium, medium plus, hot, hot plus, and on fire' like Sala Thai does tend to have a higher maximum threshold than places with less control over the heat level. I prefer to leave walking into a restaurant lke that and effectively saying 'hit me with everything you've got 'cause I can take it' to those with more machismo than me.
3) On a long cross-country trip - radio or iPod/CDs? Why?
*laughs* As far as driving my truck, I'd have to pick radio since it doesn't have a CD player and I don't have an Ipod! But speaking more abstractly, I think I'd end up listening to both. There are a few albums and specific pieces that I can listen to for hours and that kills a lot of boring time on the road. For the most part, I listen to media that I bring with me. Of course, once I get bored of what I have with me, or if I'm looking for something different, I'll start cruising radio stations and jumping around between them as they catch and then lose my interest.
4) If there was one craft/skill you could pick up instantly, what would it be?
I'm so torn on this questions. The first craft that comes to mind is smith work, and I'd probably go with that one. I find myself continually wishing that I had more time to go out and pound metal. I feel like I owe it to my grandfather and all of his tools I have sitting out in my garage.
Programming and fluency in Japanese are very close seconds though.
5) What do you consider your biggest quirk?
I'm not sure; it's buried under the huge mound of little ones! Maybe the fact that sometime, maybe late at night or very early in the morning when the sun has yet to rise and I've been up all night working on a project, I like to lie down amongst all of my computer hardware. I'll watch it for a while, listening to the hum of the fans and watching the blinking LEDs on all the various parts. Sometimes I'll close my eyes and imagine the paths of all the millions of bits of data flowing through my network. It's meditative, and very soothing once in a while.
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