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Fri. Mar 18, 2005

Five Questions Meme, Part Two

This has really been a fun meme for me (say that three times fast), but answering five questions is the easy part. Coming up a bunch of probing questions for others is harder. I’m not a “what’s your favorite color” kind of guy. Despite my desire to ask questions quite specific to each individual, there were also a couple of general questions that I wanted to ask each of them (plus three more for each person).

So here’s all the questions, and I’ll try to link to the answers as they come in.

General Questions:

Tell me the reason(s) you bought your first home computer … what in the world did you think you were going to do with it?

After witnessing the recent US election cycle and its aftermath, give your impressions of the impact weblogs have had on politics … positive, negative, negligible, or whatever … and the direction they would now take in Your Perfect World.

Questions for Jim:

You have been known for discussing rather … intimate … details, of your own and your family. Has this ever caused tension? Tell us what your various family members think of your web site.

How has the somewhat nomadic life of the past year and a half affected your family, and how have those stresses been released in your lovely new/old home?

Speaking of homes, JimFormation.com came into being in October of 2000. By July of 2001, you were saying, “JimFormation as you know it is gone.” This has been such a recurring theme over the past four years (in terms of both figurative design and literal archives) that you were recently given The Anti-Google Award. Even the link in this paragraph to your words is not to your site, but to the Wayback Machine. Please defend describe your approach to the web and the creations you place on it.

(yeah, I know, that last one had to hurt, but you had to know it was coming. Take a knee and get over it)

Questions for phaTTboi: (and his answers)

In a newsgroup long ago and far away, you once enlightened us on the prospect of “ISDN Clouds” that would allow more people “high speed” access to the Internet. You also said (in 1995), “There are few immediate
services that require either SDSL or ASDL, and so there is no compelling
reason to deploy it,” and yet, less than four years later, it arrived in my home. Were we insane to consider 12KB per second “high speed,” and now that you have 6.0M cable connection, what kind of clouds do you see for the future?

After many years of viewing the web as … chaotic … you’ve now been blogging for nearly a full year (much to my pleasure, I might add). Is your opinion of the web changing, and if so, how?

If you were a domain, what domain would you be? To de-Babwa that, as someone who has more computer and ‘Net experience than 99.9% of the people I know, how and why have you gone so long without owning a domain?

Questions for Paul: (and his answers)

You’ve gone through quite an evolution since your start at chewbacco.blogspot.com, and it seems your thoughts about blogging have evolved radically, too. Describe how you got from “chewbacco” to “digitalwarfighter,” and why, as well as how your thoughts about blogging have changed over that time.

Describe the difficulty and contradictions between having a blog where you can “say any damn thing you please” and the obligations of your oath to the Armed Services, especially in an era when the military is in the forefront of the news.

I can’t decide if the island on Lost is inhabited by a RoboZilla, or if there’s T-Rex inside that metal structure Locke and Boone are excavating (very slowly). Tell me how this season of Lost will end.

Questions for Adrian (and his answers)

You’ve spent a good bit of time in the South Atlantic, an area most think of as rather inhospitable, but one of which you seem quite fond. What brought you there, and what kept you there?

You’re in the somewhat rare position of having America as an adopted homeland, and therefore likely have insights about this country and/or its people that “we” don’t. Care to share some of them, good and bad?

Similar question, in a micro form; tell us about any odd cultural differences you and Robin have bumped into during your relationship.

Questions for Noah: (and here’s his answers)

You’ve long been known for being creative in multiple mediums, from drawing, to “software artistry,” and eventually photography. Though I know your transition to photography was a long evolution, was there any particular point at which you realized, “this is it.”

When I first “met” you four long years ago you led a much more … restricted … life. If someone had told you then that in four years you would be living a very happy life in California surrounded by people you love doing the work you wanted, what would have been your response?

Where do you hope to be four years from now?