Meme: Getting to know you

[spudtater]

It's the return of the magnificent five-question meme! Questions from gominokouhai follow:

1. What are you going to tell your descendants of 50,000 years hence?

   It's a tricky one, because you wonder: what would people 50,000 years in the future want to hear about? From the selection of examples on their web page, I saw the following entry:

   "I'm Billy, 11 years old, and I live in Canada. This is how you make a good hamburger: ..."

   And I rather liked that, because (IANAA, but) it's always the case that the things that tend to interest archeologists the most — and that strike the casual observer as well — tend to be the trivial, the mundane; the things that show what life was really like in the days in question.

   Perhaps I should just fill it with a bunch of livejournal posts!   8^)

   I'm going to have to put in my name and some basic details, for the record. And I'm going to have to put in a bit about my heartfelt beliefs; of humanism and hope, open-mindedness and looking to the future. Then I might expand that with some context. So, in conclusion: I've been thinking about it quite a bit. Perhaps too much.   8^P

2. What's the most important problem facing the world today?

   Well, there's the energy crisis, and global warming (and now we've got global dimming as well), and then there's the apparent swing of society from rationality back into superstitious thinking, which has been bothering me. But I think the biggest is pretty simple, and that is: overpopulation. There are too many people on Earth, and they're having too many children, and the whole thing's getting way out of control.

   It in turn is causing many of the other problems. The energy crisis would be a whole lot less critical if we had less people, and hence lower energy consumption. And global warming might not be spiralling quite so badly out of control either. And if it weren't for the oil crisis, the Middle East wouldn't be quite so f*cked up, which means that islamic fundamentalism would be less appealing to the people living there. Which might, in turn, might mean that people in the west won't turn to christian fundamentalist f*ckwits *cough*Bush (and just f*ckwits in general *cough*Blair) to oppose this force and now I'm ranting.

3. What will you be doing in five years' time?

   Hopefully not composing CVs. Preferably, web design, or something equally decorativeconstructive. Failing that, programming. Failing that, anything in IT. Failing that, anything where I get to sit in front of a computer (and preferably read LJ).

4. Should that have been ``years' time'', ``year's time'' or ``years time''?

   The first one. Cf. "The cats' tails".
   The one I always get fussy about is "Freshers' week".

5. Sir Humphrey Appleby and Bernard Black in a locked turbolift. Only one can survive.

   Clash of the titans! Neither of which I can see engaging in any form of physical combat (Sir H. because he'd never deign to do anything so resembling actual work, and B.B. because he'd just fall over.) So I can only presume it would be an annoy-each-other-to-death fight. Which Sir H. would ultimately lose, because he's the one who would actually bother to listen to what the other was saying. The winner: Bernard Black.

Comment below if you want questions from me, then post the answers on your own LJ and propagate the meme. Or don't. I wouldn't presume to tell you what to do or not to do.

Comments

[digitalraven]

Ask me.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

3. Are science and magick irreconcilable?

5. What would your biograph[y/ies] be called? Subtitled?

2. Why is "apotheosis" on your LJ user interests? Are you literally interested in the becoming a deity? If so, how's that going?   8^D

1. How do you and gominokouhai know each other? (I probably knew this at some point, but I forget.)

(2i)²e^iπ. In the 20^th century, space flight proved to have much less effect on people's lives than it had initially promised. Computing, meanwhile, surprised us with its ubiquity and applicability. What does the near future hold in store? What's the most overhyped of new or forseeable inventions, and what can you see making the most actual difference?

[galaxy-girl00.livejournal.com]

me please.

Okay, that's more like nine, but who's counting?

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

1. What is your name?
2. What is your quest?
3. What is the capital of Assyria?

1. If you were a deity, what would you be the Goddess of? And what would your powers be?

2. Have you ever wished you had a sister?

3. Philosophy class! "You should choose your actions to cause the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people": agree or disagree?

3.1415. Which pie is the best? Is it... beef pie?

4. What's the most embarrassing album that you own? Most embarrassing track on your iPod?

5. A genie grants you two wishes: one to use selfishly, and one for the good of everybody. What do you wish for?

[markadm.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew who Sir Humphrey Appleby and Bernard Black were...

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Appleby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Books

[markadm.livejournal.com]

Ah! All those people! :)

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

me please

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the ridiculous delay; have had writer's questioner's block.

1. What would your ideal movie be like? Who would it star?


2. Should people be allowed to choose the genes of their children? If so, should there be any limitations?


3. What countries would you like to visit?¹


4. Can pretty stones really affect mind, body and soul, or are they just nice to look at?


5. If you were going to take over the world, where would you build your evil lair?

[1] Or, if I asked you that last time, then what time would you visit, had you a time machine?

[gominokouhai]

You may ask me five questions in revenge if you want.