displacement
Jun. 8th, 2003 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livWell, I've just spent the entire evening fussing with my webpage. It's still far from perfect, but it's somewhat less boring, at least. And I'm also frustrated because I absolutely can't get my livejournal to match it any more; in particular I can't make it display a background image despite either following the faq intstructions carefully or stealing other people's code. Grr.
Anyway, while I'm on the displacement thing, there's a meme doing the rounds where people get their friends to interview them. I like this idea; it's rather related to the concept I was trying to formulate a while ago of a "nomic-style" version of the standard email quizzes. So anyway, if anyone wants to interview me, go ahead. I'll answer any question that applies to me alone; I promise to dodge only if the answer concerns another person who might not want me to tell the whole truth for any reason. Up to and including random strangers.
If you want me to interview you, I can have a go. But making up questions is a lot harder than answering them. And if I don't know you very well you might get generic, rather than specific questions, which sort of defeats the object a bit, but anyway.
Edit 9.6.03: I've realized that the name of the group I was listening too is *The* Burning Bush, not just Burning Bush. So I've changed it because I'm pedantic like that, but also because as it was before it sounded too much like an off-colour political statement.
Anyway, while I'm on the displacement thing, there's a meme doing the rounds where people get their friends to interview them. I like this idea; it's rather related to the concept I was trying to formulate a while ago of a "nomic-style" version of the standard email quizzes. So anyway, if anyone wants to interview me, go ahead. I'll answer any question that applies to me alone; I promise to dodge only if the answer concerns another person who might not want me to tell the whole truth for any reason. Up to and including random strangers.
If you want me to interview you, I can have a go. But making up questions is a lot harder than answering them. And if I don't know you very well you might get generic, rather than specific questions, which sort of defeats the object a bit, but anyway.
Edit 9.6.03: I've realized that the name of the group I was listening too is *The* Burning Bush, not just Burning Bush. So I've changed it because I'm pedantic like that, but also because as it was before it sounded too much like an off-colour political statement.
Interview questions for Rysmiel
Date: 2003-06-09 02:14 pm (UTC)2. What sort of things do you most look for when you're reading? Are there any general features shared by books you would consider good? Great?
3. Is there anything that you would be absolutly unable to be happy without? (This time anything really means anything, abstract, material, situational, whatever.)
4. To what extent do you consider yourself a product of your background and upbringing? If you are ever not the person you're expected to be, do you generally try (and do you succeed?) to shape a context for yourself which suits you, or to adapt yourself to your situation, or are you indifferent to 'not fitting in'?
Bonus question: Just because I'm incurably nosy, what exactly is your connection with
Meta question: What do you think of these questions? In what ways do they appeal to you? In what ways do you think they are weak questions? Are they expected or unexpected, or neither? (Of course, what I'd really like to know is, what have you inferred about me from my choice of questions, but you don't have to answer that if you don't want to!)
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There you go. That was an interesting challenge. Do I get rewarded with some questions in return?
Right, next!
(PS: anyone else who thinks they're interesting can answer these questions if they like. But I devised them with
Re: Interview questions for Rysmiel
Date: 2003-06-10 04:06 am (UTC)