Answers to poll questions....Part 1

[senoritafish]

(...which you can still take here if you missed it....)

Thanks, you guys. I have warm fuzzies stored up for a long time now. *Hugs you all*

I will endeavor to put quizzes and such behind a cut. I only post the ones I thought were funny/silly/accurate (?), or I thought the questions were amusing, and I usually try to say something about why I liked it. Or maybe I just liked the picture. But they're usually fairly harmless and for general public consumption when I'm feeling lazy or braindead, so I can't see making a filter. Hope that's ok.

So, the short ones first.

dipster - Well, he'd chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could. Probably at your head. Heh.

metalmensch - I love the rain. Since I was raised in southern California, which is mostly desert, rain is a novelty for me. We probably average about a dozen storms a rainy season, more during an El Niño, less during a drought. One or two of those is electrical. I went to college at Humboldt State University, which is the southern part of the Pacific Northwest (Eureka/Arcata CA), and the novelty never wore off. I used to go for walks in it in a wool sweater and a wind breaker and my fedora pulled low over my eyes. The only thing I disliked was one house we lived in that wasn't weatherproofed very well. I lost a lot of my clothes to mildew and we had mushrooms growing in the shower. I still miss it there though. I keep hoping there'll be an opening in the Eureka office of my agency, so I can transfer up there, but I don't think I could get John to move.

puddinhed - You can come visit anytime. Bring that guy with you, too. ;) Just give us a week or two warning - we suffer from CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome), and I wouldn't want to completely gross you out. This is mostly my fault, not John's.

megthelegend - Ooh, that's hard. Only one fiction author? I don't think I can choose...I love Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover books... most of David Brin's stories have a lot of nifty aliens, and he's a physicist as well, so his science is not far off either...Anne McCaffrey's dragons (damn, I want my own fire lizard)...Steven R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, I never wanted to end...Sorry, the list is endless...I can't pick just one... aagh, brain melting, melll-tinnngggg...

tenbones, angelsmum and talonsage, your answers may require separate posts; it's nearly 1 am and unlike Angus, I don't have this week off, so I'm gonna hafta get to them later.

Thanks again. :)

Comments

[megthelegend.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I dug the hell outta Thomas Covenant, too, but I read it many years ago and haven't been game to try it again. It was just so damn DARK and depressing.

I want my own fire lizard, too. :)

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Most people I know can't get past the first book. The main character rapes someone, for god's sake. However, it's not the main character, but his surroundings and the other characters that make it. And he eventually does come round, although I wanted to beat him severly through most of the first trilogy.

I loved the Giants. Foamfollower especially.

Donaldson seems to have a thing for protagonists who do awful things, but are somehow redeemed. His Gap SF series was the same way.

Quizzes

[megthelegend.livejournal.com]

Fwiw, I have no problem with people posting quizzes. Not really my cup of tea, though I do take a few of them & occasionally post -- but I generally just skim 'em. Doesn't piss me off or anything. There are a lot of things that people post about that I skim, and I'm sure that different people skim different posts of mine, too. No biggie.

Re: Quizzes

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

I have none either. I don't actively seek them out, but I find them amusing once in a while. I'm not going to inflict them on people who activiely dislike them, though.

Skim? Never! I await every word with baited breath!

(I had anchovies for lunch! XD HAHA! Ba Da BOOM!)