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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[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.