Resistance is Futile Meme: 5 Questions
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allergicone
1) resistance isn't Feudal... or virtually any other form of governance. What is resistance good for, aside from keeping us from colliding at random moments far more often?
Resistance is what you need to work against to strengthen yourself. You can't grow without overcoming boundaries; they resist you, and you push against them.
2) Why do you love to dance?
Looks good, feels good, I want to Move it Move it, and it is one of the marks of a true Gentleman.
3) What is your favorite pastime?
By analysis, procrastination. By predilection, reading. By preference, teaching...really teaching, not kid minding in school.
4) Who would you most like to meet, past or present personage?
The circumstances of the meeting make a great difference, and how long I would get to converse, and what limits are on our interaction. Do I get to look through their sketchbook? Am I allowed to record any of the meeting, or is only a true dream for me? Is there real risk for me? Benjamin Franklin, William Shakespear (we know so little about him), Sue when she was alive--what color was she? (Sue the Tyrannasauros Rex).
5) What is your favorite music to sing and why?
Anything I can. Whatever catches my fancy at the moment. But...It's got to have a bass part in it. Favorite song is probably Willin'; favorite to sing solo (or drunken) would be "Barrett's Privateers"
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allergicone1) resistance isn't Feudal... or virtually any other form of governance. What is resistance good for, aside from keeping us from colliding at random moments far more often?
Resistance is what you need to work against to strengthen yourself. You can't grow without overcoming boundaries; they resist you, and you push against them.
2) Why do you love to dance?
Looks good, feels good, I want to Move it Move it, and it is one of the marks of a true Gentleman.
3) What is your favorite pastime?
By analysis, procrastination. By predilection, reading. By preference, teaching...really teaching, not kid minding in school.
4) Who would you most like to meet, past or present personage?
The circumstances of the meeting make a great difference, and how long I would get to converse, and what limits are on our interaction. Do I get to look through their sketchbook? Am I allowed to record any of the meeting, or is only a true dream for me? Is there real risk for me? Benjamin Franklin, William Shakespear (we know so little about him), Sue when she was alive--what color was she? (Sue the Tyrannasauros Rex).
5) What is your favorite music to sing and why?
Anything I can. Whatever catches my fancy at the moment. But...It's got to have a bass part in it. Favorite song is probably Willin'; favorite to sing solo (or drunken) would be "Barrett's Privateers"
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Date: 2009-11-18 10:30 am (UTC)Resistance is V/I!
Date: 2009-11-18 11:00 am (UTC)2. Tell me of one of your golden moments in the SCA--when it all became good.
3. You live in Napa, one of the Best Places in the World to Live (tm). Where would you like to vacation to next?
4. What skill will you develop in the next year?
5. Poo! Have you ever used it to process other animal parts or done any of the urine concentration/dyeing experiments?
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Date: 2009-11-18 10:59 am (UTC)Good morning!
Date: 2009-11-18 11:02 am (UTC)2. Where do you think you'll go after Italy?
3. What's your favorite position in yoga?
4. Couchsurfing: can you tell me how it works best?
5. What would you take back to Italy from California, if you could?
Re: Good morning!
Date: 2009-11-21 03:36 pm (UTC)1) If you hadn't have found the SCA (or it wasn't there to have been found), what activity/ies do you think would have filled that niche in your life?
2) What is your couchsurfing user name?
3) Where will you travel next, and what method will you use to get there?
4) If you could choose any teaching position you wanted, what sort of school would it be, for what age range, and what subject(s) would you teach?
5) Are there opportunities for dancing that I shouldn't miss the week after Boar Hunt when I'm at the geology conference in SF?
Re: Good morning!
Date: 2009-11-21 07:32 pm (UTC)2. JohnRSchmidt...lemme go check...still haven't figured out the system. Yep.
3. Dunno. Travel into the land of liquidity first; pay off the medical bills. Short trip? Dicken's Faire. Longer trip? Dunno.
4. Institute for Engineering Education, going into middle schools and holding trade schools, and I'd be a director, both improving the program and teaching classes?
5. Lemme check and get back to you!
no subject
Date: 2009-11-18 02:24 pm (UTC)Ask away.
Here goes
Date: 2009-11-19 04:19 am (UTC)2. Do you leave a glass of wine out for Elijah?
3. Who would win: Vampire Ninjas, Werewolf vikings, or Zombie Pirates?
4. What workshop would you most like to do (ie: part singing, basic beads, patterning--a group that works together so all members produce something to take away)
5. What are you contemplating school for, that is, what degree and what to do afterwards?
OK!
Date: 2009-11-24 06:51 pm (UTC)2. The band strikes up the dance tune--you love this one--what is it?
3. Have you ever heard Meshugga Beach Party live? (Hey, they played Forbidden Island!)
http://www.meshuggabeachparty.com/meshugga/index.htm
4. Flaming ball of fire from the sky destroys your home. The live things get out. Where do you go?
5. Steampunk: Fun, or foolish?
Ummm....
Date: 2009-12-02 11:41 pm (UTC)Re: Ummm....
Date: 2009-12-03 02:03 am (UTC)1. Do the Things have a closer range with the woodwinds or the viols?
2. What most do you like about your urban setting?
3. What sort of event would lure you to the West coast?
4. Dance tune, you love it; What's playing?
5. What's the best pimped library cart you've ever seen?
Re: Ummm....
Date: 2009-12-03 02:21 am (UTC)I'll Bite... :-)
Date: 2009-11-18 02:55 pm (UTC)Resistance is fultile!!!
Date: 2009-11-18 03:21 pm (UTC)Re: Resistance is fultile!!!
Date: 2009-11-29 12:05 am (UTC)2. Have you seen Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody on youtube? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMJ8keM13Mw
(Beaker's Ode to Joy is also excellent)
3. Know of any dance teaching gigs I could help out with?
4. What was your favorite discovered food in Japan?
5. Steampunk: What role would you take?
Re: Resistance is fultile!!!
Date: 2009-12-03 07:17 am (UTC)2. I have not seen said rendition. It is loading now. I've never fully grasped the appeal of the Bohemian Rhapsody, as I was raised in a cave (figuratively) and missed that entire decade. Beaker's Ode *is* excellent, I agree.
3. Lynne Herkimer, nee Ellison, teaches high school chemistry in Aromas (S of Gilroy) and is teaching a two-week intersession course in dance. As I understand she has 36 students signed up and is looking for anyone who would like to come and teach their favorite variety of dance for a day. Naturally, I thought of you. Her email is ellison21@hotmail.com. I would have given her your contact information, only I don't have any. She can also be contacted at eight three one, seven two six, two three three eight. I've warned her that you'll likely be in touch.
4. My favorite discovered food in Japan was a local specialty called okonomiaki. It's like eating the Japanese Flying Spaghetti/Cabbage Monster!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeUHy0A1GF0
Hysterical video, but doesn't include the regional favorite ingredient of Chinese noodles. Beware asking for pancakes in Hiroshima - you'll be served okonomiaki.
5. Steampunk: I would, and often do, take the role of amused spectator. Steampunk is cool to look at and I am grateful for those who turn out to amuse me and mine, but I just can't seem to get myself worked up about it.
This could get interesting...
Date: 2009-11-18 04:00 pm (UTC)Re: This could get interesting...
Date: 2009-11-19 05:23 pm (UTC)1. Ever cut yourself with an ax?
2. What's your dream bike?
3. Are you an Ironbutt?
4. Palin in '12--Dream or Nightmare?
5. Have you been back to Rabbit's Foot since I saw you there?
no subject
Date: 2009-11-18 04:06 pm (UTC)Mood Music!
Date: 2009-11-20 08:53 am (UTC)2. Into your hand is put the blade. What is the blade?
3. Steampunk: Goth Welders, Goths who discovered brown, or cool fantasy?
4. What resource would you like to find in Silicon Valley that you haven't found/visited yet? (since you've asked about Farmer's Markets and been to the cloth place)
5. SJSU: What will you do when you graduate?
no subject
Date: 2009-11-18 05:28 pm (UTC)Totally OK>
Date: 2009-11-20 08:57 am (UTC)2. Crime/Mystery novels: Aliens, Vampires, or Dwarves?
3. Of all the people you know in the SCA, who most embodies Knighthood for you?
4. And who most embodies the Laurel?
5. A new art: what would you pick up...if you had 2 hours a day and no money constraints on learning?
no subject
Date: 2009-11-18 08:02 pm (UTC)Oui!
Date: 2009-11-24 06:53 pm (UTC)2. What is your favorite SCA music to sing?
2. Accounting, sewing, singing: small details done right. Singing, SCA office, School--big sweeping things. How do you end up doing both?
2. Favorite Pennsic Food?
2. Been in any hottubs recently?
Re: Oui!
Date: 2009-11-28 04:46 am (UTC)*makes face* All the places I can think of are either hot, sunny, and sticky or hot, sunny and arid. In the days before commonly available air-conditioning, not something a redhead fond of her creature comforts exactly favors. Eh bien, if I must, an island outpost in French Polynesia would perhaps be bearable. I believe my choice assignment, however would be at headquarters in Paris ferreting out moles and traitors. :-D
2. What is your favorite SCA music to sing?
Late 15th/early 16th c. period polyphony, in or out of the SCA. Well, out of the SCA it has to compete with Mozart and Puccini, so perhaps not as much of a slam-dunk, but it's up there. When a group singing it really clicks...ah!
Three more question #2s? Oooo-kay.... :-D
2. Accounting, sewing, singing: small details done right. Singing, SCA office, School--big sweeping things. How do you end up doing both?
I think it's that my brain is quite happy using different kinds of information processing. Detailed work is very much a result of my conscious brain in ADHD hyper-focus, where my attention is totally on what I'm doing in the moment. I'm extremely aware of the work and the rest of the world gets tuned out. Big picture stuff, in contrast, is almost all sub-conscious, intuitive processing. I collect the information, let it float around for a while on the back burner while I pay attention to other stuff. I keep adding in stray bits of info without necessarily being aware of them and eventually the answers just kind of emerge. It's a very organic process and pretty much the way I process all my major decisions. It's useful having the ability to do both.
2. Favorite Pennsic Food?
Is, alas, a thing of the past. The Battlefield Bakery, run by Marian of Edwinstowe, the proprietress of the former Sated Tyger Inn, sold these totally yumalicious pasties - meat, chicken, vegetarian, and sweet. She'd make them up all year, haul a freezer full to Pennsic, and then bake them in convection ovens and sell them out of a booth on the food court. I think the PA food handing regulations drove them out of business, sadly, although Mistress Marian also had a spell of ill-health that probably contributed. Their standards of sanitation and the purity of their ingredients were actually far superior to many of the current vendors but the cost and aggravation of getting this Officially Certified was likely just not worth it.
2. Been in any hottubs recently?
Only with family. And not since last winter when I visited my sister in CT. She has a lovely one and she, my niece, and I had a hen party in it while my brother-in-law cleaned up after supper. :-) He joined us once he'd finished. Hot tubs on frosty nights are fun! I'm due for another visit this winter. Just have to work out the scheduling. So there is Hot Tub in my future.
no subject
Date: 2009-11-18 10:48 pm (UTC)Like a Punkin' Chucker
Date: 2009-11-24 07:22 pm (UTC)2. have you ever drunk Dom Perignon?
3. What's your best moment ever on stage?
4. Do you own a glass pumpkin?
5. London, Paris, or New York: Next trip?
dude.
Date: 2009-11-19 05:27 pm (UTC)2. Ever been to Death Guild?
3. Pick: VNV nation, late Ramones, Depreche Mode, the Toyes, Bauhaus, or Abney Park?
4. Ever gone to Mass at Stanford's Memorial Chapel?
5. One city in Europe, 5 days, not London: where do you go? ('cause I know you're going to London.)
no subject
Date: 2009-11-20 05:33 pm (UTC)