Friday Fun -
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exedore, that today has turned into a slow day.
1. What drew you to Switzerland originally?
I married Cliff. Literally, I knew nothing about the place until I arrived there on honeymoon. I'm a quick study, neh?
2. You know Milka chocolate as well as I do. What are your favourite flavours?
I love the bars with whole hazelnuts in them - but just plain milk chocolate will get me by every time. Those special flavors at Christmas time were fantastic, but I think I liked the zimstern best.
3. You're in one of the earlier generations of animedom. What drew you to anime originally?
I was one of those lucky few who grew up in Southern California in the early 60's and got most of the commercial Tezuka properties off broadcast television - Kimba, The Amazing Three, others - Gigantor and of course, Astro Boy. (It is whack seeing the new show in color!) I can remember seeing Alakazam The Great when it was in the theaters (I even had the soundtrack), and that film has a copyright of 1961 - I was born in 1960.
I can't really remember a time when I did not like anime. I've always thought the artwork looked better, the stories made more sense and followed a more coherent path than American animated properties. Let alone had more than one type of female in the cast - people might bash me for liking "harem" anime, but I'm just glad there's more than a Smart Girl and a Pretty Girl to pick from.
And then we can talk about the music scores. BAABY!
4. What is your take on the Disney/Pixar fallout and how do you think it will affect the involved parties come 2006?
This is big. It's as big or bigger than losing Katzenberger to form Dreamworks, bigger than losing Frank Wells - but it's hard to say just how things are going to shift and change as a result of it. Disney has said they are divesting themselves of 2-D animation and have shuttered some of their studios. But the 3-D work is all Pixar, isn't it?
Perhaps Disney is just going to shop around for a replacement studio for Pixar - or try to recreate the technology in-house. Could they do that without getting sued?
But that's a long time in the future, and much could happen before then. One things for certain - all bets are off. I doubt we'll recognize either company by the time this separation occurs in 2005.
5. Kannst du and deine Deutsch errinern, oder musst du jetzt ein Wortebuch benutzen?
Was für mich schwierig ist, ist die Grammatik. Ich kann die Worte. Aber an nicht zu viele mich erinnern. Und sie zusammenfügend nach rechts kicks my ass. So I often double check my work with Babelfish - I do retain enough fluency to know when the wrong set of words has been used. Most of the time. I started learning the language at 30 by full-immersion with no classroom time to learn vocabulary or grammar - it works well to get started, but achieving a state of comfortable fluency has so far eluded me.
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That was fun! Anyone else want to be interviewed? Ask and ye shall be queried.
exedore, that today has turned into a slow day.1. What drew you to Switzerland originally?
I married Cliff. Literally, I knew nothing about the place until I arrived there on honeymoon. I'm a quick study, neh?
2. You know Milka chocolate as well as I do. What are your favourite flavours?
I love the bars with whole hazelnuts in them - but just plain milk chocolate will get me by every time. Those special flavors at Christmas time were fantastic, but I think I liked the zimstern best.
3. You're in one of the earlier generations of animedom. What drew you to anime originally?
I was one of those lucky few who grew up in Southern California in the early 60's and got most of the commercial Tezuka properties off broadcast television - Kimba, The Amazing Three, others - Gigantor and of course, Astro Boy. (It is whack seeing the new show in color!) I can remember seeing Alakazam The Great when it was in the theaters (I even had the soundtrack), and that film has a copyright of 1961 - I was born in 1960.
I can't really remember a time when I did not like anime. I've always thought the artwork looked better, the stories made more sense and followed a more coherent path than American animated properties. Let alone had more than one type of female in the cast - people might bash me for liking "harem" anime, but I'm just glad there's more than a Smart Girl and a Pretty Girl to pick from.
And then we can talk about the music scores. BAABY!
4. What is your take on the Disney/Pixar fallout and how do you think it will affect the involved parties come 2006?
This is big. It's as big or bigger than losing Katzenberger to form Dreamworks, bigger than losing Frank Wells - but it's hard to say just how things are going to shift and change as a result of it. Disney has said they are divesting themselves of 2-D animation and have shuttered some of their studios. But the 3-D work is all Pixar, isn't it?
Perhaps Disney is just going to shop around for a replacement studio for Pixar - or try to recreate the technology in-house. Could they do that without getting sued?
But that's a long time in the future, and much could happen before then. One things for certain - all bets are off. I doubt we'll recognize either company by the time this separation occurs in 2005.
5. Kannst du and deine Deutsch errinern, oder musst du jetzt ein Wortebuch benutzen?
Was für mich schwierig ist, ist die Grammatik. Ich kann die Worte. Aber an nicht zu viele mich erinnern. Und sie zusammenfügend nach rechts kicks my ass. So I often double check my work with Babelfish - I do retain enough fluency to know when the wrong set of words has been used. Most of the time. I started learning the language at 30 by full-immersion with no classroom time to learn vocabulary or grammar - it works well to get started, but achieving a state of comfortable fluency has so far eluded me.
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That was fun! Anyone else want to be interviewed? Ask and ye shall be queried.
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Date: 2004-02-07 10:19 am (UTC)2. Tell me what you consider to be the most overused words in the English language, and why.
3. Faith, spirtuality or religion?
4. You've got one mp3 player that can hold 25 songs. Any length, but that's it. You won't get another player and you won't be able to come back and get more later. You're leaving this planet and won't be coming back. Which 25 do you chose?
5. Why?
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Date: 2010-01-08 08:22 pm (UTC)1. He was far from perfect, but tried, and hopefully made a difference for the better more often than not.
2. Yes and no. They're handy words, obviously, and have their place, but I often feel people rip them off far too quickly as a means of closing down a line of conversation without truly expressing their own thoughts and opinions, much less whether they actually understand the given matter.
3. Personally, I don't quite fall under any of the three anymore. Although at the time this was posed I was more of a spiritualist than anything. Honestly, I don't tend to be overly averse to any of them in and of themselves, although I think each has a rather significant downside.
Faith is a powerful and beautiful thing. It gives hope and solace. Yet blind faith, and the willful ignorance which usually accompanies it, are both very destructive forces, in my opinion. Very little sours my opinion of humanity like seeing people who refuse to ask questions or accept that something they believe might be wrong, much more so those who take it as a personal crusade to try and rewrite reality to fit their vision of the world.
Spirituality tends to be a bit more difficult to codify. Generally, I'm a-okay with it. It makes people happy, and I can full well accept and understand that someone may appreciate some tenets of a number of religions, but not particularly accept any given one. I just tend to get a bit tetchy when dealing with people who take that to an extreme and use it as a catch-all excuse for whatever behaviour they want to get away with. It just doesn't often present an argument that holds water well, in my experience.
Religion... Cause for much good in the world and most likely an equivalent amount of suffering. I'll cut that off there just because there's too much which can follow from that. Suffice to say that when people are being helped and not indoctrinated or worse, I'm generally in favor.
4. Honestly, I don't know. Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (Ravel's orchestration) would most certainly be the first among them, but beyond that, I'm really not certain. As my grandfather once quipped to me, "My favorite song is the one I'm listening to."
5. Why not?
Okay, well, in reference to the song, presuming that's what the question was referring to, it's because it is one of the few pieces of music which can move me to tears and I almost never tire of hearing. This is in no small part aided by the knowledge that my brother's choice of funeral music, should he have died while out with the fishing fleets, was The Great Gate of Kiev from that particular piece.