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damerell at 01:14pm on 22/11/2012
damerell at 01:14pm on 22/11/2012Ten things about myself beginning with L, thanks to Valkyriekaren... I guess we all know how this works by now. It is surprisingly hard to think of words beginning with L at all.
1: L is for Livejournal, which is a bit of a cheese because I've moved to DW as much as I can, but; I'm not on Facebook (which seems replete with the evil of sheer mediocrity), I don't read Twitter, and so forth. I'd have kept using USENET if anyone else did (heck, I still do read USENET, there just isn't enough of it) and I'm not going to rearrange everything again.
2: L is also for Luddite, which is also not really true, but still - especially for someone who normally works with computers, I don't normally get enthusiastic about new technology. No smartphone (and I only got a mobile at all when my employer issued me one), no tablet, still sitting here with my old tube monitor. And I'd like to get rid of the motor car, which probably no longer counts as new.
3: Locomotives. Also a bit of a cheese because I partly mean I'd like to undo the damage done by Beeching and electrify as much of the railway as possible, which would presumably involve mostly multiple units, but... I'm also very keen on preserved steam, both on preserved lines and on National Rail. Every time we end up in York I trot into the National Railway Museum, usually to the accompaniment of an assortment of long-suffering girlfriend looks.
4: (Die) Laughing, who are serving as a sort of stand-in for goth bands in general and the Manuskript / Pretentious, Moi? / Die Laughing cluster in the specific. These days we find ourselves going to more and more punk and psychobilly gigs, but we still trot to Whitby twice a year, and I'm still a bit squee about Zombina gigging again next year. More specifically, I saw Die Laughing a few times in the 90s when they were last around, and again when they played Whitby last year... and I could have closed my eyes and not known I was 15 years older.
5: Which brings me to Leipzig, and the giant German Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival, so huge it has its own tramline, all organised with (ahem stereotype) German efficiency (but seriously, I've only seen one band come on stage late, and they were... British). I reckon I see more new bands here than in the rest of the year combined.
6: Last July, who are ahem another goth band, but our local goth band these days, and are still at the stage where they're better every time we see them. The singing gets better, they've acquired a guitar and a bassist... all they need now is a drummer.
7: Lovecraft, H.P., whose... writing is perhaps better remembered for his ideas, but still has been tremendously influential. I'm running Call of Cthulhu at the moment, which has to be a sort of stand-in for roleplaying games in general unless I can think of something beginning with L. And not horror writers in general, who I can't abide, but Edgar Allan Poe; I read The Premature Burial at all too tender an age, and it made a lasting impression.
8: Linux. UNIX, really. When I was about 13 Royal Holloway, where my dad worked, got some Sun 3/60s, which had the bsdgames Hack 1.0.3 on... and the source for same. You could change the way the game worked! I was hooked; and this is basically the reason I do what I do for money, at least when I'm doing anything for money.
9: Lazy. Bit of an admission, but I am one of life's procrastinators. Most things sort themselves out. Don't go looking for trouble. I'd write more, but... too lazy.
10: Life. It beats the alternative, no?
1: L is for Livejournal, which is a bit of a cheese because I've moved to DW as much as I can, but; I'm not on Facebook (which seems replete with the evil of sheer mediocrity), I don't read Twitter, and so forth. I'd have kept using USENET if anyone else did (heck, I still do read USENET, there just isn't enough of it) and I'm not going to rearrange everything again.
2: L is also for Luddite, which is also not really true, but still - especially for someone who normally works with computers, I don't normally get enthusiastic about new technology. No smartphone (and I only got a mobile at all when my employer issued me one), no tablet, still sitting here with my old tube monitor. And I'd like to get rid of the motor car, which probably no longer counts as new.
3: Locomotives. Also a bit of a cheese because I partly mean I'd like to undo the damage done by Beeching and electrify as much of the railway as possible, which would presumably involve mostly multiple units, but... I'm also very keen on preserved steam, both on preserved lines and on National Rail. Every time we end up in York I trot into the National Railway Museum, usually to the accompaniment of an assortment of long-suffering girlfriend looks.
4: (Die) Laughing, who are serving as a sort of stand-in for goth bands in general and the Manuskript / Pretentious, Moi? / Die Laughing cluster in the specific. These days we find ourselves going to more and more punk and psychobilly gigs, but we still trot to Whitby twice a year, and I'm still a bit squee about Zombina gigging again next year. More specifically, I saw Die Laughing a few times in the 90s when they were last around, and again when they played Whitby last year... and I could have closed my eyes and not known I was 15 years older.
5: Which brings me to Leipzig, and the giant German Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival, so huge it has its own tramline, all organised with (ahem stereotype) German efficiency (but seriously, I've only seen one band come on stage late, and they were... British). I reckon I see more new bands here than in the rest of the year combined.
6: Last July, who are ahem another goth band, but our local goth band these days, and are still at the stage where they're better every time we see them. The singing gets better, they've acquired a guitar and a bassist... all they need now is a drummer.
7: Lovecraft, H.P., whose... writing is perhaps better remembered for his ideas, but still has been tremendously influential. I'm running Call of Cthulhu at the moment, which has to be a sort of stand-in for roleplaying games in general unless I can think of something beginning with L. And not horror writers in general, who I can't abide, but Edgar Allan Poe; I read The Premature Burial at all too tender an age, and it made a lasting impression.
8: Linux. UNIX, really. When I was about 13 Royal Holloway, where my dad worked, got some Sun 3/60s, which had the bsdgames Hack 1.0.3 on... and the source for same. You could change the way the game worked! I was hooked; and this is basically the reason I do what I do for money, at least when I'm doing anything for money.
9: Lazy. Bit of an admission, but I am one of life's procrastinators. Most things sort themselves out. Don't go looking for trouble. I'd write more, but... too lazy.
10: Life. It beats the alternative, no?
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at least its seomthgin to say when in interviews peopel ask you about your weaknesses :)
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We were wondering what the worst possible answer to "five years' time" is. I think the best we came up with was "Cutting up your body in my bathtub".