Interests Meme

[nmg]

thegreatgonzo questioned these seven interests, if you want me to ask about yours, comment below.

4ad

A rather good independent record label. The people who brought the world The Pixies, Dead Can Dance, The Cocteau Twins, M/A/R/R/S, and so on.

ansible

Dave Langford's multi-Hugo-winning fanzine/semi-prozine. Also an anagram of 'lesbian'.

looney labs

A small games company with a reputation for quirky games: Fluxx, Chrononauts, Icehouse.

magic realism

I'm rather fond of the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges.

plokta

Another Hugo-winning fanzine.

salt and sauce

The only thing worth putting on chips. I sneer at your gravy.

xanadu

I remember when this World Wide Web was all Silverstands... One of the great what-ifs of computing history (second only to Babbage, I'd say), Xanadu was Ted Nelson's plan for a global hypertext system. In (sporadic) development since the 1960s, and arguably no closer to a releasable product than it was then, sadly.

Comments

[professoryaffle.livejournal.com]

go on then

[nmg.livejournal.com]

cake mix
the smell of insulin
the wheel of liz
old cookbooks
kitchen gadgets
story telling
secondhand bookshops

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

do me?

[nmg.livejournal.com]

avoiding learning finnish
chroming the moon
socratic irony
incongruous furniture
conlangs
pretending to be welsh
bleeding ears

ps: happy birthday!

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like this meme. Please?

[nmg.livejournal.com]

stockings and suspenders
purple marmite woe
not being a goth
builder's tea
sea of doctor socks
sheep
acting the slut

[clarehooper.livejournal.com]

Entirely unrelated, but I mentioned your Lunchtime AI Rant to Ali just now, and he promptly recreated it. Apparently you guys have a similar opinion about that particular half hour of that particular film :)

[nmg.livejournal.com]

See! Eminently sensible chap you're married to...

[alisdairo.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I never imagined that they could screw it up that badly.

[ruthj.livejournal.com]

What will you come up with for me I wonder?

[nmg.livejournal.com]

That'll be an empty list, because you have no interests listed here. Now you're on maternity leave, you'll have plenty of time to remedy that situation... :)

[coffeeandtv0.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it won't be as interesting as some, but you could ask me.

- Rob