Seven interests.
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gridloreComment in this post and I will choose seven of your interests I would like you to explain more clearly in your journal.
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bunyip asked me about the following interests...
areology The study of Mars, in the same way that geology is the study of Earth. Mars is an increasingly fascinating place, and might well have once been much like Earth with warm seas and a thick atmosphere. Mars is also a world of extremes, with volcanoes that dwarf Everest and a canyon that could swallow Arizona's Grand Canyon without a trace.
alternative history What if? The best question in history. I love stories the follow paths not taken, especially those by Harry Turtledove. A well written alternate history shows you what might have been, had that nail been found...
nwobhm New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. I first got into metal as this movement was reaching American ears.
obscure canadian bands Blamekshandra. She got me listening to Moxy Fruvous, then thingunderthest got me into The Arrogant Worms, and I was off. Canada seems to produce more than its fair share of quirky little bands.. Great Big Sea, Captain Tractor, Three Dead Trolls In A Baggie, and I love the stuff I can get a hold of.
the grateful dead Cast your eyes back to late summer, 1985. I'm home on leave, and my best friend suggest we go see a concert at Boreal Ridge. (Have a map.) We get there and then I find out we don't have tickets. That was my introduction to the Dead. By the end of the show I was stunned. Who the hell were these guys, and why hadn't anybody told me about this before?? Dead shows were the one place where I felt comfortable in big crowds, and felt safe dancing. The music?
That is the only way I can describe the music of The Grateful Dead.
worldbuilding From my start as a role-player and GM, one of my favorite activities was world building. Developing a setting, be it a city, nation, planet, or entire interstellar empire, to a complete whole. As I've grown my standards for the realism and detail of my settings has increased.
bunyip asked me about the following interests...areology The study of Mars, in the same way that geology is the study of Earth. Mars is an increasingly fascinating place, and might well have once been much like Earth with warm seas and a thick atmosphere. Mars is also a world of extremes, with volcanoes that dwarf Everest and a canyon that could swallow Arizona's Grand Canyon without a trace.
alternative history What if? The best question in history. I love stories the follow paths not taken, especially those by Harry Turtledove. A well written alternate history shows you what might have been, had that nail been found...
nwobhm New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. I first got into metal as this movement was reaching American ears.
obscure canadian bands Blame
kshandra. She got me listening to Moxy Fruvous, then thingunderthest got me into The Arrogant Worms, and I was off. Canada seems to produce more than its fair share of quirky little bands.. Great Big Sea, Captain Tractor, Three Dead Trolls In A Baggie, and I love the stuff I can get a hold of.the grateful dead Cast your eyes back to late summer, 1985. I'm home on leave, and my best friend suggest we go see a concert at Boreal Ridge. (Have a map.) We get there and then I find out we don't have tickets. That was my introduction to the Dead. By the end of the show I was stunned. Who the hell were these guys, and why hadn't anybody told me about this before?? Dead shows were the one place where I felt comfortable in big crowds, and felt safe dancing. The music?
They're a band beyond description
Like Jehovah's favorite choir.
People joinin' hand in hand
While the music plays the band.
Lord, they're setting us on fire.
That is the only way I can describe the music of The Grateful Dead.
worldbuilding From my start as a role-player and GM, one of my favorite activities was world building. Developing a setting, be it a city, nation, planet, or entire interstellar empire, to a complete whole. As I've grown my standards for the realism and detail of my settings has increased.
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Date: 4 Oct 2007 01:47 (UTC)babylon 5
baycon
catholic
magic
special effects
tim powers
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middle pillar
phaneanism
transhumanity
tyranny
witchcraft
Heh.
Date: 4 Oct 2007 02:12 (UTC)Re: Heh.
Date: 4 Oct 2007 23:48 (UTC)euphemistically-worded interest lists
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wiretaps
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Date: 4 Oct 2007 02:17 (UTC)Is it more fun to play with when drunk, sober, or a wee bit tipsy?
best,
Joel
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Date: 4 Oct 2007 23:53 (UTC)catherding
deep conversation at 3am
mother friendly childbirth initiative
sacred sexuality
the stone
wikkity jones
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Date: 5 Oct 2007 00:01 (UTC)gotham knights
insanity (the good kind)
mother russia
suidakra
suidakra
vodka
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Date: 4 Oct 2007 05:37 (UTC)Are you familiar with The Rheostatics?
NoMeansNo?
The Hanson Brothers*?
(* Not to be confused with Hanson, of course.)
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Date: 5 Oct 2007 00:04 (UTC)arduin
computers
hero system
maine coon cats
traveller
warhammer