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[oyceter]

Random delurking day! (well, on my LJ at least)

aka, I was really bored and came up with random questions that I wanted to know about people. Feel free to answer wherever (but I would love to see the answers!).

1. Describe your strangest pair of socks



2. Can I see pictures of your bookshelves (or book stacks or piles or boxes)?



3. If you were a hat, what kind of hat would you want to be?



4. What's the worst song you've gotten stuck in your head before?



5. My rats: evil killers of paper bags, cute sleepy fuzzballs or embarrassingly tame yogie-drop eaters?



6. Books or food?



7. If you could live in a book, what genre would it belong to? How come?



8. Stealing from the movie Wonderful Life (also known as After Life): if you were told that you could only carry one memory with you into the afterlife, which would you choose?



9. What do you know a lot about that most people don't? Most people here should be most people, not most people in that field. I specify this because I know how badly I prevaricate when I'm asked about something that I'm good at. Or if you still feel weird, what do you know a lot about that I don't (I don't know about a lot of stuff)? Why is it cool? Tell me about it!



10. What random bit of trivia do you know?



11. And finally, the question I've always wanted to know the answer to but was too embarrassed to ask: how in the world did you find my LJ and how come you're still reading?

Comments

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

1. I do not wear socks. If I ever have to wear socks, I swipe my wife's. Socks are evil, for they cause me to overheat instantaneously even if it is, in fact, winter. If I could live in sandals year-round, I would.

2. Sort of. This (http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/full_metal_librarian/detail?.dir=8693&.dnm=f27e.jpg&.src=ph) is a relatively old picture of the wall of shelves in the area we use for anime and manga storage and for one of my housemates' reference books. It still looks about like this, but has about 3500% more stuff on it, because one of my housemates can bend space and time like that. For example, the two bookcases to the right now both have the bottom three shelves filled with manga-- yet, somehow, all the original books are still in this shelving, and it doesn't look much fuller. I don't know how she does it. My wife and I have, uh, seven bookcases this size or larger between us, and the household has an additional three common bookcases used for temporary storage, random fiction, gigantic art books, and stuff we borrowed. No pics have been taken yet of the bookcases my wife and I have, though, because they're still undergoing organization.

3. I don't wear hats, either, but I rather like black Stetsons with metal tooling.

4. The Song That Doesn't End. No question. I would rather repeatedly stab myself in the foot.

5. Aw! Cute sleepy fuzzballs! Intelligent cute sleepy fuzzballs, but without the malice attendant in other intelligent small animals... never have a chinchilla. They plot your death and let you know about it.

6. Trick question. Books. Duh.

7. I could go for either fantasy or magic realism. Let's have something interestingly supernatural going on, please.

8. *THIS ANSWER SELF-CENSORED AND YOU ARE ALL GLAD IT IS*

9. Ancient Greek religion, Greco-Roman mythography and magic, classical paleography, orthography and textual transmission, translation theory, select portions of classical archaeology, practical city planning. Also millennarian cults and apocalyptic tendencies in contemporary art movements and the relations between the cults and the art movements. That last just kind of happened and I really don't know why.

10. The word 'sincerely' comes from 'sine cere', or 'without wax'. When clay pots are fired, minor cracks from the firing can be concealed with wax and slip, but they lower the quality of the product. It is an arduous and annoying procedure to hold all of the pots in a commercial shipload up to the light to see the light shine through the sealed cracks and determine the quality, so ancient Roman merchants used to get their loads certified 'sine cere' by a reliable third party-- although the assurance varied wildly in reliability. Eventually, 'sine cere' spread throughout business correspondence as a shorthand for 'quality inspected and guaranteed', and made its way into other correspondence as an affirmation of honesty and full disclosure. In English, it became 'sincerely'.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

11. Via coffee_and_ink. I think. And you have that wonderful quality of not only being a really cool person, but also of reading things that overlap my reading patterns by about two-thirds, so that I both know that I am probably going to agree with what you say and expect that you will be saying it about books I haven't read.