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sorry, but to quote the inimitable h.l. mencken, "i hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense."

Q- given a choice between watching the world series, and doing a thorough exploration of an enthusiastic beyonce, which ONE would you choose to do?

A great answer! (and I quite agree).

Q-- Ever sat staring out in space for long period of times?

Many, many times. Usually when I'm amongst NTs and they're chattering away about nothing, although I also do it at random times. It's very relaxing.

Do you like playing with magnets?

Do you like playing with magnets? Yes, when I was a kid for, I'd spend hours upon hours toying with magnets..



What would you say was, the strangest toy you had during your childhood?

Strange to others maybe, but not to me: a gyroscope. Completely hypnotic and I'd spend hours with it.

Same question.

A 386 with 40KB RAM running 3.1 upon which I would play MiG 29 which was an awesome flight simulation game for its day.


Is it annoying when your internet crashes?

Hmm - "my" Internet? I don't have one, but the one I connect to has never crashed. Not once.
And neither have my computers, quite probably because I don't use that MS stuff.

What will happen in Egypt?

What will happen in Egypt? Probably death, death, and more death, followed by rhetoric about how evil America and Israel are as well as the West in general, some promises of lots of eternal sex if they die in combat, and then more and more death.



If you could live in an habitat on either the moon or Mars or a centrifugal space station, which would you choose and why?

Neither. I have no desire to live in either place and you didn't say I had to choose one. So I'll just stick to Earth, bro.

If you ever have a daughter (or already have a daughter), what is/will be her name?

i would name her "Andromeda" because it sounds so timeless and graceful- it is composed of the elements andros "man/warrior" and medomai "to think," hence "thinks like a man/warrior." In mythology, this is the name of the daughter of Cassiopeia who was to be sacrificed to the sea monster Medusa but was rescued by Perseus. Andromeda is said to have been an Ethiopian princess and ancient Ethiopians considered her and Perseus to be the progenitors of the black race.

Q- if you had a son,
*would you ever consider naming him "Sue"?
*how 'bout "Bill or George"?
*any damned thing but Sue?

please choose one answer and explain your choice.

"Any damned thing but Sue". First of all, this is suppose to be a name for a boy and unless Sue is supposed to be derivative from a masculine form of the Gaelic word for Englisher, that would just plain be mean if nothing else. Second, my mother-in-law's name is Suzanne, so no on two counts. My wife and I have decided names like Michael, Clark, Isaiah, etc would be such that we'd use.



Do you think it is kind for parents to issue androgynous names to their children, especially if they know it will incline their childhood to be saturated with verbal abuse?

it is at a minimum, cluelessness, and more likely it is just subtle child abuse, to burden a child with a name that will make trouble for that child. i mentioned "Sue" in my previous post/reply because my frenchness-loving grandmother thought a great name for her oldest son would be "LaVon" when at the time [the roaring 20s when french things were popular in america] lots of parents were naming their daughters "LaVonne" - so my dad was similar to the character in the famous johnny cash song about "a boy named sue" in that he had to "grow up quick, and grow up mean" to cope with schoolyard bullies who picked on him and his french name that the dunces confused with the french feminine form "LaVonne."

Q- choose one- french fries dipped in pomegranate sauce, or pomegranate tarts dipped in beef gravy?

I do like french fries.

If money suddenly lost all of its value and everyone started over penniless, do you think people would do the same thing all over again?

Perhaps so, if by "start all over again" it is meant going by barter trading items for items and such.



Do you think that it is nice that computers are rather cheaper nowadays in comparison to the '90s?

Yes, but they seem to be in a constant state of repair. I may have to turn in my asperger's card because I don't love computing as much as most of you guys seem to.


Given the current state of events in the world, how important do you think it is for someone to learn survival skills? Could you make it long without power or easily available food?