| i suppose the easiest way
to do this is via a semi scientific fake interview, so here goes... this
interview took place on the 23rd of june 1999 (last updated 16th december) in the comfort of my own
mind...
q. what's your name?
a. on the net i like to be known as 'the auroran
sunset', in the less real world i'm generally called fennel.
q. is fennel your whole name?
a. no... it is fennel zaaron kingfisher teacher
aurora.
q. poor you... you're parent must have been really
screwed up.
a. not at all, i love my names.. if i didn't
i'd have changed them long ago as i did with my surname.
q. didn't family mind?
a. i've always been told it's my name, do with
it what i will.
q. ok enough about your name... what about the
rest of the irritatingly boring stats that people like?
a. right... i'm male, 19, just over 6', about
64kg.
q. some people seem to think your homosexual...
do you have any comment?
a. yeah... don't be silly, i've got good taste...
though why it'd bother them is beyond me. q. do
you have a girlfriend?
a. no.
q. where do you come from?
a. pluto... the irish quarter.
q. and you expect me to believe that?
a. what you believe is your business... nationality is
something i most definitely don't take seriously.
q. where do you live?
a. oxford.
q. what do you look like?
a. according to the st.anne's jcr, i am both
the worst dressed and the second best dressed guy in college. i attribute
this to blatant cheating on the part of certain 2nd years... in keeping
with my view that the world should all be as pretty and colourful as the
acropolis and other temple/churches were before the puritans, i dress in
bright colours and generally pretty clothes. my hair is blue with a pink
front, and is currently in the process of being grown v. long. i wear a
tie most of the time.
q. what's your current occupation?
a. i'm just about to start first year at st.anne's
college(oxford) again, but this time on a new course: computation... i also
work for the family software firm doing asp programming in the holidays. q. what
happened to the first first year?
a. i was doing engineering and hated it. q.
do you have hobbies?
a. yes.
q. that wasn't very helpful... what else do you
do?
a. as tom lehrer says: if you ask a silly question,
you get a silly answer...
i've also been elected secretary of the guild of assassin
and i do loads of sports on a when i can basis: running, tennis, badminton,
cricket and table tennis. i'm also playing a lot of chess online at chessed.com,
where i've got a rating of about 1720 elo (i'm 'dawnsunset').
q. hmm, that's quite a bit... i noticed there
was nothing about music (i would being you)... does that mean you
don't listen to music?
a. far from it: i pretty much permanently have
music on, even while i sleep... i find it helps to have non-random noises
drowning out the random noise so that i can more easily filter out the
lot... it helps concentration.
q. what sort of music do you like?
a. my main thing is definitely motown, but i listen to
loads of other stuff.
q. how about films?
a. my favourite type of film is the kung fu film...
not hollywood or jackie chan type films (although i like his stuff), but
the really stylized hong kong stuff... for example 'the buddhist fist'...
the next genre i go for is the satire or black comedy, for example 'bulworth',
grosse pointe blank or 'trainspotting'...
i'm also happy to watch a good comedy or just
a plain pretty film, like 'the eel'. just for the record: i didn't like the
first three star wars films.
q. what do you read?
a. loads of scifi, particularly social scifi,
like heinlein or van vogt... historical novels like colleen mccullough or james
clavell... books on science, psychology or economics... books on japanese
history.... many more. q. what do you do on your computer, apart from
talking gibberish to the natives?
a. my main interest is web page design... i work
programming asp, javascript and html... at the moment mostly database stuff...
i also play games like civ or alpha centuri, although that happens less often
nowadays.
q. what do you eat?
a. food.
q. i suppose you think that's funny... come what
sort of food?
a. the edible kind.
q. fennel, please.
a. oh, ok... i tend to eat loads of pasta/noodles...
i love chocolate, the higher the percentage the better. for breakfast i
invariably eat alpen (50% sugar can't be bad)... scrambled egg is another
favourite... once yeast based (or whatever they come up with) alternates
to meat become good enough i'll go veggie.
i also loved the food while i was in japan... i particular ramen, yakitori,
tempura and sashimi... they also have a gorgeous desert made with green tea ice-cream
and crushed ice covered with sweet red beans.
q. what about drink?
a. i mostly drink water and orange juice... dr
pepper is also very nice. in the alcohol department, spirits is the name
of the game, with emphasis on liqueurs like bailey's or curacao bleu.
q. what's your favourite colour?
a. blue... electric blue being the best variety.
q. what's the best way to get into your bad books?
a. smoke... just as shitting in the street is
no longer accepted behaviour, i expect and will campaign for smoking to
become unheard of in civilized society.
q. what's the best way to get into your good books?
a. be a friendly, non aggressive and interesting
person who talks to me.
q. do you have any final messages?
a. if (intelligent) {wear sunscreen} else {don't
breed}
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