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[03 Oct 2007|02:36pm] |
From the thought provoking ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kurosau
1) Why is your chosen name Max?
In one of my early grades, (5th or 6th I think) there were something like 2 other guys with my given name, and 4 guys who went by the standard diminuative. So I picked something else. Later on in High School I experienced some hefty self-inflicted cognitive dissonance and decided I didn't want to be the same jerk I'd been, so I went back to going by Max. As for why Max...I like it. Depending on my mood it's either simply a short name that I like, taken from Mad Max which back in the day was my favorite movie due a love of the post apocalypse genre (and being too young to watch A Boy and His Dog), taken from the red robot in Black Hole ("Maximillion! Protect!"), or an adjective/warning. Sometimes, due to the way my accent pronounces it I spell it 'Macx' just to mess with peoples heads.
2) What is your favorite RPG?
That is a very difficult decision. Stylistically Gear Krieg is probably riegning champ. That was just a classy concept, done well without falling into pure pulp. They did WWII with mecha with the drama and gravitas of the Greatest Generation war sagas, instead of the pulp serials of the time period, and I think that was a good style choice. Castle Falkenstien runs a close second for using the 'Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' perspective for it's narration. Rules-wise I'm very fond of Cyberpunk for being quick and semi-realistic in a rutheless way. Right now my personal choice of a rules design set would be an obscene cross-breed of the R. Talsorian system pre-FUZION and Champions....except not FUZION which tried to do just that and failed. Some of my fondest memories though of are playing cheesy games like TMNT.
3) Do you have any siblings?
Nope. Only child. Some people think it explains a lot, I like to believe I'd be this big a screwup no matter what outside influences tried to convince me otherwise.
4) What food do you miss most from Seattle?
All of it. Fresh Pad Thai. the Cajun & Grill place at the mall that did bourbon chicken burgers. Fresh Sushi from a real sushi chef instead of a grocery store rice-roll short order trainie. The Philly cheese steak place hidden in the annex next to the Pike Place market. Beth's coffee.
5) Do you remember what we talked about when we had our crazy dialogues walking to the store from Andi & Charon's place?
The conversations I remember, exactly what they were not so much. Mostly philosophy or morality, starting from the jumping off point of some video game or RPG or movie. I miss having people around to have conversations like that with, but I think I also miss the desire to have such conversations. A lot of people claim, or want, to be a 'lifelong learner' or 'lifelong explorer', but most of the ones that at face value seem to succeed at that and continue exploring their universe past oh...30 or so, aren't really explorers anymore, they're crusaders. Dawkins, Stephenson, most astronomers, they're no longer looking to define their universe, to explore it. Instead they trying to prove their perspective correct. Of course, the vast majority don't even do that, don't even bother trying to prove anything they've been told, simply accept, so it's a step up. But the actual lifelong learners are rare as hen's teeth.
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1. Leave me a casual comment of no particular significance, like a lyric to your current favorite song, or your favorite kind of sandwich, maybe your favorite game. Any remark, meaningless or not.
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in your own post.
5. When others respond with a desultory comment, you will ask them five questions.
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[03 Oct 2007|11:00pm] |
Bookyards (new window)
Common Content (new window)
A Google Documents style site for Creative Commons liscensed works
Scribd (new window)
EbooksDB (new window)
An IT reference book resource
Manybooks (new window)
PDFCHM (new window)
Another computer reference site
Still The Greatest (new window)
The Baen Free Library (new window)
Everyone say 'Thank you, Mr. Nice Editor Guy Eric Flint for putting out free full novels as promotional material. The next time I go to a bookstore I will remember that I enjoy books published by Baen, and look for the books with the gold spine.' (Do they still do the eye searing gold color to catch attention? I remember having like an entire self of different series' all in that same Baen goldleaf color.)
ConvertLit (new window)
I love MsReader (possibly because it was made by a third party) but for when you want to stick books on your PDA, heres a link to help convert Lit files to opensource doc types.
WorldCat (new window)
Remember libraries? WorldCat lets you search them. All of them. Useful for finding out if a book or short story is still in print, or the name of an author etc.
Library of Congress Online Catalog (new window)
Y HULO THAR, GREATEST REPOSITORY OF KNOWLEDGE IN HISTORY.
Someday my collection will rival yours....someday.
That'll do. If someone runs out of books after all that, I'll post SUM MOAR.
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