Five questions
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lilfluffVoluntarily tagged by aldersprig I received the following questions
* So: Why Fox?
I've always been more of a cat-person than a dog-person, so this is actually a good question. Foxes don't seem to be as pack oriented as wolves, so that probably fits with the introvert in me. They're often shown as silly and/or tricksters which my sense of humor likes. RL foxes when not suffering from malnutrition or disease can be rather cute (Fennecs! Few creatures can give them a challenge in the cuteness competition). Then of course there are kitsune, from traditional to modern interpretations - not always nice even when not villains, but usually reserving their largest cruelties for the deserving.
I'm not certain when exactly it happened by somewhere between the mid-90s and mid-00s foxes ended up near the top of my preferred critters list.
* Favorite story/world/author as a child?
I got bit by the third incarnation of Tom Swift after a cousin got me the first three books as a Christmas present. A young inventor, from an inventor family, who lives on a space station, and has adventures in space? What wasn't for a young geek to love? The rest I only got to read by way of the library, but I held onto those first three. Even rescuing them after my mother tried to put them in a yard sale box. I still have them on one of the bookshelves in my room.
* And now?
Today is a harder question. I enjoy the Honorverse books by David Weber and Co., Jim Butcher's Dresden novels are pretty much buy-on-sight, and I love the blending of genres that Charles Stross brings to The Laundry stories (think a blend of Ian Fleming, Douglas Adams, and H.P. Lovecraft -- The Bond stories if the agency was under funded, the spy was a computer geek, and Lovecraftian horrors waited to be unleashed by something as simple as running a fractal screen saver on just the wrong part of the Mandelbrot Set).
* One thing you don't regret at all
All the hours I "wasted" as a kid on first our old Apple //e and then an IBM PC (I used that PC XT with 10 MB hard drive right up until 91 or so, long after it was obsolete). Learning to get stuff to run (often without direct access to manuals) is a large part of how I built up the problem solving skill set that got me the job I have today.
Only regret there would be that I didn't add more programming, even in BASIC, to that "wasted" time.
* If you had to split your time between a fictional 'verse and this one, which 'verse would it be?
I'm not sure I'd really want to drop into many of my own fictional realities, many of them are Not Very Nice. My Galactic Academy setting could be fun assuming I actually had a source of tuition funds. On the other hand even a short visit to the Star Trek setting could probably see a number of health/body issues dealt with (they've apparently got a medicine that can in a few doses fix all but the worst cases of near/far-sightedness). I'm not going to even go within the multiversal neighborhood of S.M. Stirling's Draka series without an entire fleet to back me up (and some anti-matter hooked up to a deadman switch) (The Draka, just about the one thing you can get people on the Spacebattles forum to agree on is that the Domination of Draka is in good need of a curbstomping).
That said, I'll go for the online shared universe of Fen Space. A setting created on the Drunkard's Walk forums in which science fiction and fantasy (and other genres but mostly those) get hold of honest-to-goodness unobtanium and migrate to space. It could be a very fun place to visit so long as you avoid the villains and don't taunt the catgirls.
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If you'd like, leave a comment and I'll leave five questions for you. Quoting from Aldersprig's journal:
"• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions. (<- let's make that optional"
aldersprig I received the following questions* So: Why Fox?
I've always been more of a cat-person than a dog-person, so this is actually a good question. Foxes don't seem to be as pack oriented as wolves, so that probably fits with the introvert in me. They're often shown as silly and/or tricksters which my sense of humor likes. RL foxes when not suffering from malnutrition or disease can be rather cute (Fennecs! Few creatures can give them a challenge in the cuteness competition). Then of course there are kitsune, from traditional to modern interpretations - not always nice even when not villains, but usually reserving their largest cruelties for the deserving.
I'm not certain when exactly it happened by somewhere between the mid-90s and mid-00s foxes ended up near the top of my preferred critters list.
* Favorite story/world/author as a child?
I got bit by the third incarnation of Tom Swift after a cousin got me the first three books as a Christmas present. A young inventor, from an inventor family, who lives on a space station, and has adventures in space? What wasn't for a young geek to love? The rest I only got to read by way of the library, but I held onto those first three. Even rescuing them after my mother tried to put them in a yard sale box. I still have them on one of the bookshelves in my room.
* And now?
Today is a harder question. I enjoy the Honorverse books by David Weber and Co., Jim Butcher's Dresden novels are pretty much buy-on-sight, and I love the blending of genres that Charles Stross brings to The Laundry stories (think a blend of Ian Fleming, Douglas Adams, and H.P. Lovecraft -- The Bond stories if the agency was under funded, the spy was a computer geek, and Lovecraftian horrors waited to be unleashed by something as simple as running a fractal screen saver on just the wrong part of the Mandelbrot Set).
* One thing you don't regret at all
All the hours I "wasted" as a kid on first our old Apple //e and then an IBM PC (I used that PC XT with 10 MB hard drive right up until 91 or so, long after it was obsolete). Learning to get stuff to run (often without direct access to manuals) is a large part of how I built up the problem solving skill set that got me the job I have today.
Only regret there would be that I didn't add more programming, even in BASIC, to that "wasted" time.
* If you had to split your time between a fictional 'verse and this one, which 'verse would it be?
I'm not sure I'd really want to drop into many of my own fictional realities, many of them are Not Very Nice. My Galactic Academy setting could be fun assuming I actually had a source of tuition funds. On the other hand even a short visit to the Star Trek setting could probably see a number of health/body issues dealt with (they've apparently got a medicine that can in a few doses fix all but the worst cases of near/far-sightedness). I'm not going to even go within the multiversal neighborhood of S.M. Stirling's Draka series without an entire fleet to back me up (and some anti-matter hooked up to a deadman switch) (The Draka, just about the one thing you can get people on the Spacebattles forum to agree on is that the Domination of Draka is in good need of a curbstomping).
That said, I'll go for the online shared universe of Fen Space. A setting created on the Drunkard's Walk forums in which science fiction and fantasy (and other genres but mostly those) get hold of honest-to-goodness unobtanium and migrate to space. It could be a very fun place to visit so long as you avoid the villains and don't taunt the catgirls.
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If you'd like, leave a comment and I'll leave five questions for you. Quoting from Aldersprig's journal:
"• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions. (<- let's make that optional"
