Author Topic: Interview The Person Below You (Read 219361 times)

gelee · **Reply #650 on:** August 05, 2010, 05:54:23 PM

Pfft. Easy. I want a job. Hopefully, that want will be fulfilled, sooner rather than later. Inverview #3 coming up. Appropriate appendages crossed.

What Fantasy/SF world would you live in, if you had a pick? FWIW, I would choose Banks' Culture setting, so long as I could be part of The Culture. Not so much fun on their 'client' worlds.

Listener · **Reply #651 on:** August 05, 2010, 07:03:43 PM

Quote from: gelee on August 05, 2010, 05:54:23 PM

What Fantasy/SF world would you live in, if you had a pick? FWIW, I would choose Banks' Culture setting, so long as I could be part of The Culture. Not so much fun on their 'client' worlds.

One of Sean McMullen's worlds -- either post-Greatwinter, or on Verral (Moonworlds).

Which would you rather do: clean your own bathroom every week, or clean the public bathroom at your place of employment once every two?

Zorag · **Reply #652 on:** August 05, 2010, 07:21:40 PM

Easy, mine. I drive a truck. Some of the bathrooms are nasty. Favorite cuss word alternative? Mine is absofragginlutely frag.

Listener · **Reply #653 on:** August 05, 2010, 08:10:31 PM

Poop.

First joke you remember telling. (Alternately, first joke your kid ever told.)

Faraway Ray · **Reply #654 on:** August 09, 2010, 10:38:25 PM

Quote from: Listener on August 05, 2010, 08:10:31 PM

Poop.

First joke you remember telling. (Alternately, first joke your kid ever told.)

"Poop." coincidentally.

Hey, it's funny when you're still two years old.

What are you having for supper tonight? (Monday 08/09/10)

Edit: 48 minutes left to Monday. God help you if you try to tell me what you had on Tuesday. There will be repercussions. *shakes fist*

Bdoomed · **Reply #655 on:** August 10, 2010, 08:33:39 AM

I made hamburgers for my brother, a family friend, and me. Tasty. Put in a little pickapeppa (sp?), dried minced onions, a little habanero sauce, coat it with cajun spice seasoning. Yum.

What was the last video game you played?

Listener · **Reply #656 on:** August 10, 2010, 01:07:58 PM

Quote from: Bdoomed on August 10, 2010, 08:33:39 AM

What was the last video game you played?

Guitar Hero 5... until a lightning storm fried my Wii.

Guitar Hero or Rock Band, and why?

CryptoMe · **Reply #657 on:** August 11, 2010, 04:45:40 AM

Quote from: Listener on August 10, 2010, 01:07:58 PM

Guitar Hero or Rock Band, and why?

Definitely "Why?"
Why play games when you can play the real thing?

Morning Person or Night Owl?

Scattercat · **Reply #658 on:** August 11, 2010, 04:53:09 AM

Quote from: CryptoMe on August 11, 2010, 04:45:40 AM

Why play games when you can play the real thing?

Because I can't.

Quote from: CryptoMe on August 11, 2010, 04:45:40 AM

Morning Person or Night Owl?

I have never understood why people don't get things done in the night, when it's quiet and soothing and dark and much less hideously over-warm. I tend to perk up noticeably when the sun finally gets its hoary butt down below the horizon, no matter what time I actually got up that morning. (And even after all these years, I still have to get up in the mornings. Ugh. God, I miss my overnight shift.)

At what point does enthusiasm become unsettling?

Zorag · **Reply #659 on:** August 11, 2010, 11:40:17 PM

Raving Lunatic and Radiohead would be a good example. What is your favorite Pseudopod episode that is evenly divisible by 13? (In honor of Friday the 13th)

Unblinking · **Reply #660 on:** August 12, 2010, 01:55:52 PM

I'm partial to Pseudopod #169, though I will admit that I am not entirely unbiased in the matter. If I had to choose a different one, I'd choose #117 Deep Red, which is still my favorite Pseudopod episode of all.

Are there any subsets of horror that are just too much to handle?

evelet · **Reply #661 on:** August 16, 2010, 04:19:51 PM

Torture porn - I prefer something that engages higher levels of my brain than just the disgust centre. Probably because my lizard-brain is fixated with food, sleep, and rude stuff...

This is my first foray into a forum. Why do you play here, and what's the first mistake I am going to make?

Zorag · **Reply #662 on:** August 16, 2010, 04:51:16 PM

You just made it. One question per reply. ;-) There is a shared interest in the podcasts, yet a vast assembly of different backgrounds. When you wake somewhere other than your own bed, what is your initial reaction?

kibitzer · **Reply #663 on:** August 18, 2010, 02:49:45 AM

Never a problem -- I always know where I am. Can't remember being surprised on awakening.

When you wake up in someone else's bed, with someone else, what's your first reaction?

Faraway Ray · **Reply #664 on:** August 18, 2010, 02:59:50 AM

Oh, you have got to be kidding me. No replies for an entire day. I type out a lengthy post and get beaten by a matter of minutes. *shakes fist*

Usually I say "Hey girl, wake up. Where'd your sister go?" before taking my underwear down from the ceiling fan.

Do you have any siblings?

kibitzer · **Reply #665 on:** August 18, 2010, 03:05:27 AM

I have three sisters, all younger than me (fortunately!) They're all wonderful, all married, all have kids. This means I don't have to have kids.

What's the first book you bought with your own money?

Unblinking · **Reply #666 on:** August 18, 2010, 02:29:31 PM

Quote from: kibitzer on August 18, 2010, 03:05:27 AM

I have three sisters, all younger than me (fortunately!) They're all wonderful, all married, all have kids. This means I don't have to have kids.

What's the first book you bought with your own money?

Dragon Wing by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (in the Death Gate Cycle series of books). Until I was 10 I lived in the city, and I got most of my reading material from the city library. Then we moved to a small town that technically had a library but it was about the size of a closet and mostly stocked with romance and western, not my cuppa. Our high school library had a few good books, and I even managed to find a few SF books, including Fire Sea, book 3 of the Death Gate Cycle books. It was damned confusing series to pick up in the middle, but was worth it. There were one or two others in the library of that series but nowhere near the whole set. So I saved up loose change for months to buy book 1, then eventually the rest. It took me more than 3 years to save up all that money (didn't have an allowance, literally just kept bits of change that my parents let me keep).

If there was one author you'd like to kick in the head, who would it be?

FireTurtle · **Reply #667 on:** August 18, 2010, 02:50:30 PM

Ahhh. One I can answer without reservation. Terry Goodkind. Took what was an interesting twist on an old fantasy trope and mangled it I to some pseudo religious self worship *rant tapers off into angry mutterings.

What was the first book (or series) that kept you up all night reading?

Talia · **Reply #668 on:** August 18, 2010, 03:40:26 PM

This will come as absolutely zero surprise to some of you, but probably the 'Arrows of the Queen' trilogy by Mercedes Lackey, because I found myself strongly identifying with the protagonist, from whom I drew the username I'd invoke on numerous message boards long into the future. :p

Who's the author you'd most like to meet?

Unblinking · **Reply #669 on:** August 18, 2010, 05:28:54 PM

Quote from: Talia on August 18, 2010, 03:40:26 PM

This will come as absolutely zero surprise to some of you, but probably the 'Arrows of the Queen' trilogy by Mercedes Lackey, because I found myself strongly identifying with the protagonist, from whom I drew the username I'd invoke on numerous message boards long into the future. :p

Who's the author you'd most like to meet?

Alive or dead? Dead: Robert Jordan. Alive: probably Tim Pratt. Maybe Tad Williams.

What movie or book had the absolute WORST ending you've ever seen?

Portrait in Flesh · **Reply #670 on:** August 18, 2010, 05:38:38 PM

Quote from: Unblinking on August 18, 2010, 05:28:54 PM

What movie or book had the absolute WORST ending you've ever seen?

Mainstream movie would probably have to be Monty Python and the Holy Grail (with Return of the Jedi following a close second...but since it was an overall worse movie it doesn't take the cherry for me).

I've seen way too many juicy b-movies to choose from there, but there are some stinkers.

What is your biggest (legal) guilty pleasure?

CryptoMe · **Reply #671 on:** August 19, 2010, 02:00:32 AM

Heavenly Hash Ice Cream!

If you could take a walk on one planet in our solar system, what planet would that be?
Moons, asteroids, and Kuiper belt objects qualify. Temperatures and atmospheric pressures don't matter.

kibitzer · **Reply #672 on:** August 19, 2010, 03:00:47 AM

Dammit I missed some really good questions.

DAN BROWN!! (tho TG is a fair choice)

Umm... Mars. I think I'd still to feel the sunlight but the solitude would be wonderful. Also it's one of the few celestial bodies we've seen up close and I'd like to see some of those landscapes with my own eyes.

Which fictional planet (including versions of Earth) would you most like to visit?

Zorag · **Reply #673 on:** August 19, 2010, 01:59:40 PM

Any one with the capacity for interstellar travel. What is with the hatred of Goodkind? I enjoyed the Sword of Truth series and found no religious message. It did have a philosophical message of personal responsibility and the belief in the capability of individuals. I admit to bias, as it closely matches my belief system. I enjoy many stories that do not align with my beliefs.

kibitzer · **Reply #674 on:** August 20, 2010, 12:03:00 AM

And your next question?