Seven Interests meme
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Comment on this post and say YO BABY ! I WANT TO DO THAT INTEREST MEME or something like that. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
1. Cheapass Games is a small game company. They produce, well, cheap-ass games. They sell the printed rules and maybe some paper cards or a fold-out game board and nothing else. If the game requires dice, tokens, counters, or pretty much anything else, you have to supply them yourself. The games came originally in paper envelopes; some still do, but some now come in folded cardboard boxes the size of a trade-size paperback (though thinner). Their games are almost always lots of fun to play, though the rules often seem daunting until you've played it out once (the best way to learn them). My wife has a "Cheap Ass Games Kit" consisting of an Underdog lunchbox in which we store monopoly money, dice, poker chips, a deck of cards, glass beads in various colors for counters, and various other items useful for playing their games.
2. Dark Chocolate is delicious. Given a choice, I always choose dark chocolate over milk chocolate.
3. Fudge, by which I mean the game FUDGE, not the confection. It's a very simple role-playing game system designed mostly on usenet under the guidance of Steffan O'Sullivan. The basic game is extremely simple, though over the years enough options have accreted to it that you can make your Fudge game as "crunchy" as you wish. After many, many years of playing a home-brewed and very complex system and then years of GURPS, Fudge was a breath of fresh air. I haven't actually played it in a long while now, but I still admire the elegance of the basic concepts.
4. Pr0n. What can I say? I like porn. Pictures, stories, movies. 'Nuff said.
5. SUSE is the distribution of the Linux operating system running on my home computer. I started by dual-booting my computer with Win98 and Suse 9.0. I've graduated through various releases of Suse to the current 10.3 version, and I long since reformatted my system to eliminate Windows entirely. Though currently I'm content to simply use the computer to write or netsurf, I go through periods when I get heavily involved in tweaking the OS and geeking out over the software itself.
6. Zenna Henderson wrote a great many stories about "The People", who were aliens with various mental powers who were castaways scattered across earth--though primarily in the American desert southwest. Some of them don't know their origins, and grow up feeling isolated and alien, often moving around to stay hidden (their abilities come naturally to them and are very difficult to hide over the long term) but others have gathered into small communities where they can safely exercise their abilities without arousing fear and hatred. Her stories are elegant and full of a loving spirit that I've loved ever since I discovered them in high school. I remember wishing desperately that they were real; I wanted to meet and know these people--and not just her magical aliens, but the kind hearted humans as well.
7. Nina Kiriki Hoffman writes elegant, lovely stories that remind me in many ways of Zenna Henderson's (see above). Her stories are more overtly fantastic, with magic being remarkably common. Her characters tend to be slightly darker, and live in a harder-edged world than The People, but nonetheless her stories are always fun and exciting to read. I only wish she were more prolific.
sophiedb:Comment on this post and say YO BABY ! I WANT TO DO THAT INTEREST MEME or something like that. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
1. Cheapass Games is a small game company. They produce, well, cheap-ass games. They sell the printed rules and maybe some paper cards or a fold-out game board and nothing else. If the game requires dice, tokens, counters, or pretty much anything else, you have to supply them yourself. The games came originally in paper envelopes; some still do, but some now come in folded cardboard boxes the size of a trade-size paperback (though thinner). Their games are almost always lots of fun to play, though the rules often seem daunting until you've played it out once (the best way to learn them). My wife has a "Cheap Ass Games Kit" consisting of an Underdog lunchbox in which we store monopoly money, dice, poker chips, a deck of cards, glass beads in various colors for counters, and various other items useful for playing their games.
2. Dark Chocolate is delicious. Given a choice, I always choose dark chocolate over milk chocolate.
3. Fudge, by which I mean the game FUDGE, not the confection. It's a very simple role-playing game system designed mostly on usenet under the guidance of Steffan O'Sullivan. The basic game is extremely simple, though over the years enough options have accreted to it that you can make your Fudge game as "crunchy" as you wish. After many, many years of playing a home-brewed and very complex system and then years of GURPS, Fudge was a breath of fresh air. I haven't actually played it in a long while now, but I still admire the elegance of the basic concepts.
4. Pr0n. What can I say? I like porn. Pictures, stories, movies. 'Nuff said.
5. SUSE is the distribution of the Linux operating system running on my home computer. I started by dual-booting my computer with Win98 and Suse 9.0. I've graduated through various releases of Suse to the current 10.3 version, and I long since reformatted my system to eliminate Windows entirely. Though currently I'm content to simply use the computer to write or netsurf, I go through periods when I get heavily involved in tweaking the OS and geeking out over the software itself.
6. Zenna Henderson wrote a great many stories about "The People", who were aliens with various mental powers who were castaways scattered across earth--though primarily in the American desert southwest. Some of them don't know their origins, and grow up feeling isolated and alien, often moving around to stay hidden (their abilities come naturally to them and are very difficult to hide over the long term) but others have gathered into small communities where they can safely exercise their abilities without arousing fear and hatred. Her stories are elegant and full of a loving spirit that I've loved ever since I discovered them in high school. I remember wishing desperately that they were real; I wanted to meet and know these people--and not just her magical aliens, but the kind hearted humans as well.
7. Nina Kiriki Hoffman writes elegant, lovely stories that remind me in many ways of Zenna Henderson's (see above). Her stories are more overtly fantastic, with magic being remarkably common. Her characters tend to be slightly darker, and live in a harder-edged world than The People, but nonetheless her stories are always fun and exciting to read. I only wish she were more prolific.
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Date: 2008-04-18 06:39 am (UTC)I put Zenna Henderson on that list because I liked the name and was too lazy to google. Now I realise that she wrote a bunch of stories that I read 15-odd years ago, loved, but never managed to find again! Whee! It doesn't look like the local library system has any of her books, but at least I have a name now :)
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Date: 2008-04-18 08:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-19 02:36 am (UTC)or something like that. ;)
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Date: 2008-04-19 07:11 pm (UTC)2. fantasy fiction
3. hidegard of bingen
4. polyfuckery
5. role playing games
6. sacred sex
7. writing
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Date: 2008-04-19 07:37 pm (UTC)Oh, you picked 7 good ones... :)