Oh, what the heck.

[unixronin]

Three questions.  Go for it.  No more, no less.  I reserve the right to take the Fifth.

Per the meme, you should then present yourself for interrogation um, solicit three questions in your own journal.  Ve haff vays to make you ask, Englisch schweinhund!  Er, that is... um ... well.  Anyway.  If you participate, propagate.

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[k-crow.livejournal.com]

What do you regret in your life?

What would be your absolutely ideal job?

What fiction would you choose to live in, of all the fictional universes in all the books you've ever read?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

What do you regret in your life?

A great many things, if the truth be told. Trusting Berdeen Coven, leaving Cardima to go to Cygnus, waiting as long as I did to leave Cardima and go to Cygnus, buying a house in Tracy, buying a house in San Jose, using the realtor we did, various times when I've failed people in one way or another, various opportunities I've missed or decisions I've made the wrong choice on.... If I start thinking about it, it seems there are almost infinite regrets. So, honestly, I try not to think about it too much. On that road lie madness and despair.

What would be your absolutely ideal job?

The honest answer to that question is, I don't know. My chosen career doesn't seem to have worked out too well. I've always wanted to fly, but it's never worked out. I guess if I could somehow get into the program, I'd like to be a pilot for one of the commercial space lifters that are going to start appearing; but I'm probably too old to start now.

What fiction would you choose to live in, of all the fictional universes in all the books you've ever read?

And that's the hardest question of all, because there's so many good ones. The universe of Honor Harrington, perhaps, or of Lieutenant John Rico, or of Lazarus Long, but there's so many. Some fiction where there's useful work for everyone who wants it, and automation handles the menial labor, and where governments are the servants of the people, not their masters.

[smileswhf.livejournal.com]

I first post I ever read in your journal was a detailed description of the oozing hole in your toe. What exactly happened? (A link to a previous lj entry would be fine if you don't want to recap).

Is there one adventure you would really like to have in your life that you don't think you ever will?

What's your favorite book? (If you can't narrow it down to one, it's fair to give a couple of answers)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

What exactly happened? Well, that's a pretty long story. And I doubt you mean just why did I have an abscess at that point in time. Probably the best I can do is point you at these posts: 1 (http://unixronin.livejournal.com/2872.html) 2 (http://unixronin.livejournal.com/3693.html) 3 (http://unixronin.livejournal.com/10300.html) 4 (http://unixronin.livejournal.com/22886.html) 5 (http://unixronin.livejournal.com/23147.html) 6 (http://unixronin.livejournal.com/25913.html) 7 (http://unixronin.livejournal.com/26201.html), which I think should bring you up to where you started reading. But the first of those is the major part of the backstory.

One adventure I'd like to have but probably never will: well, there's a lot of those. I'd like to pilot a supersonic jet. I'd like to climb K2 (not Everest; everyone and their grandmother has climbed Everest. It's getting too crowded up there. Besides, K2's more challenging.) I'd like to walk on Mars. But probably the top of the list is I'd like to step out from a lander onto the surface of a world orbiting another star, as part of a colony expedition. A private one, not beholden to any Earth government.

Favorite book: Difficult question indeed. I'm not sure I could possibly narrow it down to one, or even two or three. I've been reading good books for 35 years. However, the top contenders would have to be drawn probably from the following list:

• Lord of the Rings, plus the Silmarillion and the Unfinished Tales;


• Glen Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company;


• Steven Brust's entire Vlad Taltos and Adrilankha corpus;


• David Weber's Honor Harrington novels;


• Lots of Robert Heinlein, notably The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress and Starship Troopers;

.....well, you get the idea.