Interests Meme
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major_clangerLJ Interests meme results
- astronomy:
I can't remember ever not being interested in the stars and space. I made the conceptual leap very early on of realising that I was on a tiny, tiny speck and what I saw at night was the whole rest of the universe, and after that I was hooked forever. - bridget riley:
Artist responsible for creating much of the 'pop art' that came to the fore in the 1960s. I enjoy the works of many modern artists, but Riley's are a particular favourite. - candles:
For some reason, I like collecting candles, especially ones with unusual geometric colour patterns or shapes. Now and again I actually get around to lighting them. - computer games:
An indulgence I have less and less time for these days, but ever since an early exposure to a Lunar Lander game I've enjoyed immersing myself in synthetic worlds of one sort or another. - fluxx:
About the simplest card game we own, and one which takes thirty seconds to teach to new players. Nonetheless, endlessly fun and very unpredictable. - hp-41:
Of my many Secret Sad Hobbies, collecting vintage calculators is probably the geekiest; Hewlett-Packard's HP-41 was the granddaddy of them all, and in many ways the ancestor of the modern PDA. - john otway:
I have a soft spot for barking mad singer-songwriters, and Otway is certainly one of those. And how can you not like a man who got a filk onto Top Of The Pops? - modern art:
My theory of modern art is that most people think 90% of it is crap, but that they disagree which 90%. I can certainly wander round any modern art museum and regularly find stuff amongst the 'oh yes, hmm, oh dear, ahh...' that makes we just stop in amazement. - rpgs:
Yet another interest I don't has as much time for as I'd like. I'm a bit guilty of being an Armchair Gamer, reading vast reams of gaming sourcebooks and background material but only rarely getting around to participating. Maybe next year... - science fiction foundation:
Well, I'm the Chair! But I do very much value my association with the SFF, and feel very honoured (especially amongst the august company of the committee) to have a role in it, even if it is a bureaucratic rather than scholarly one.
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Date: 2006-02-03 11:59 pm (UTC)Jordin does that too! Have you guys ever talked calculators? He also has a Curta. or is that Kurta? The cylindrical slide rule calculator.
MKK
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Date: 2006-02-04 08:52 am (UTC)I've seen Curtas, and they're very impressive, like something that fell through from a vaguely steampunk parallel universe. But they don't quite trigger my 'want one' urge in the same way old calculators do.
To be a bit more precise, I have a strong affection for calculators from the era when they were amazing and exotic, not to mention often expensive, and were marketed and sold as premium products rather than cheap consumer gadgets. This was around the time when I was a very young proto-geek, and could aspire to owning such a gadget (having an actual computer was almost unimaginable), so my subsequent collecting urge is probably a not-unusual manifestation of wanting to acquire that which one once desired. I'm particularly fond of early Hewlett-Packard calculators, but have a few others from the likes of Sinclair, TI and Commodore too.
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Date: 2006-02-04 04:25 pm (UTC)Oh, he has those too! You guys should really talk. Me, I'm so old my first husband had an HP 45 back in the days when they were new! (And then there was the time he objected to taking his brief case through the airport metal detector because, and I quote "My 45 is in there." You should have seen the looks on those peoples' faces!)
MKK
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Date: 2006-02-04 07:28 am (UTC)Of course, Cliff Stoll has a few, but I've never been to Cliff's house.