Interview meme again!

[thorfinn]

This is the usual deal - if you want to be interviewed by me, comment here and say so, I give you 5 questions here. You post in your journal, offering the same interviewing service, and reply to the questions here with a link to your journal post.

Interview questions from morganjaffit:

1. The language of poetry and logic have been used to gain a glimpse into the nature of the Tao. How would you express it using the language of software architecture?

Tricky, but excellent, question. The tao of software architecture... Part of the difficulty is that there isn't a coherent "language" of software architecture. On the other hand, that's rather apropos. The whole point of software architecture, particularly in the design and implementation of it, is to choose from an infinite variety of "toolkit" one could be building, and instead build what is most necessary in this moment. That's fairly analogous to travelling along "The Way".

2. What makes you happy?
Trite answer: seedy_girl. Less trite answer: Most things I interact with. A few of the major highlights: good coffee, talking with friends via a variety of media, good food preparation and consumption, dancing, doing good work-fu. There's a lot that doesn't make me happy, but I'm rather good at attention triage these days, so I manage to dodge the vast variety of that.

3. What's the biggest change you've made between when I met you (10 years ago?) and now?
I suspect I have grown even less concerned with attempting to help people, unless they really really go out of their way to request it. I used to put myself in a reasonable spot to get certain requests for help - these days I don't.

4. What actions, in your day to day routine, are filled with the most meaning?
*grin* Everything and nothing. Well, slightly more accurately, before coffee, nothing, after coffee, everything. I do pretty much give every action I take the same significance and meaning, modulated purely by how awake I am. There's nothing that's particularly more special than anything else. There's things I enjoy more than other things, certainly, but that's not the same thing.

5. Whence bound in the future? What lies ten years down the track?
Whence bound in the future? Likely to still be working in technology as some kind of software toolsmith/architect/thingy, probably have a couple of kids by then. Either that or consumed by the techno-singularity. ;-)

Comments

[fizit.livejournal.com]

I like answering questions....

[thorfinn]

Most questionees are going to get the same first two questions. :-)

Also, fair warning, I'm not necessarily playing nice with questions. Feel free to decline to answer. :-)

1. Tell me about something good, including what makes it good.

2. Tell me about something bad, including what makes it bad.

3. So, relationships. You've had a few over the years, some of them ending a little tumultuously. Do you see yourself "settling down" into a relationship (or more than one) in the future, and if so, what do you see as being the nature of that?

4. What is it you do, exactly, at work?

5. What's your typical routine before heading to sleep at night?

[thorfinn]

Crossreferencing to answers: http://fizit.livejournal.com/277233.html

[naturalredhead.livejournal.com]

I'm curious. Questions?

[thorfinn]

Most questionees are going to get the same first two questions. :-)

Also, fair warning, I'm not necessarily playing nice with questions. Feel free to decline to answer. :-)

1. Tell me about something good, including what makes it good.

2. Tell me about something bad, including what makes it bad.

3. Between jobs right now, I see, and furiously applying for new ones. What do you want out of a job?

4. Why Canberra, and are you likely to stay forever, or leave eventually, and why?

5. What are the characteristics of "natural" redheads, as opposed to merely redheads?

[naturalredhead.livejournal.com]

Answers are here (http://naturalredhead.livejournal.com/857435.html).

[reddragdiva]

"Trite answer: seedy_girl."

I wouldn't call the domestic answer a trite answer!

[thorfinn]

It's trite only because it's the easy short answer. :-) It's still true, but it's a very long way from a full description of what makes me happy.

[thorfinn]

Oh, also, did you want questions? :-) I assumed this was just a comment on my answer, not a request for questions... let me know if you meant otherwise!

[reddragdiva]

Ehh, if you feel like it :-)

[morgan303.livejournal.com]

I'm up for questions, though I'm taking a while to answer things at the moment. And if you'd like some asked, I'm happy to.:)

[thorfinn]

Ask away. :-)

Most questionees are going to get the same first two questions. :-)

Also, fair warning, I'm not necessarily playing nice with questions. Feel free to decline to answer. :-)

1. Tell me about something good, including what makes it good.

2. Tell me about something bad, including what makes it bad.

3. Whenever I see you, you're always wearing some fabulous clothes, and are generally impeccably turned out. Why do you choose to do that? Do you ever just go out in "boring" clothing? If not, why not?

4. If I recall correctly, your work history is somewhat eclectic? What was your favourite job, and why?

5. So, the Internet. You're on it, obviously. What's your favourite thing about it, and why?

[morgan303.livejournal.com]

Sorry this took a while - cool questions, will take some answering...
And here are some in return!
1. If it's not too private, can you tell us the history of your name? Your wedding was the first time I've ever heard you called anything else!
2. You seem to really enjoy working with computer languages, but if you didn't do that, and instead could live out your dreams of having any job in the whole world, with qualifications and all the other tedious bit of reality not an impediment, what would you be doing?
3. What's your favourite piece of culture (book, film, computer game, comic, whatever...)? Why?
4. Which fictional character do you feel the most kinship with? Why?
5. Which skill/attribute do you wish you had, that don't already?

[thorfinn]

Answers: http://thorfinn.livejournal.com/43126.html

[sophronia.livejournal.com]

hey there Oh Friend of my Friends, :)

Interview me.

[thorfinn]

Most questionees are going to get the same first two questions. :-)

Also, fair warning, I'm not necessarily playing nice with questions. Feel free to decline to answer. :-)

1. Tell me about something good, including what makes it good.

2. Tell me about something bad, including what makes it bad.

3. So. Sydney. It's a rough and tumble city, violent at times. Have you encountered that violence personally at all, and either way, what do you do about it?

4. What makes you passionate, and why?

5. Do you identify with any particular cultural and/or subcultural groupings? If so, what are they, and why? If not, why not?

[sophronia.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm replying on my LJ now.

Did you want questions in return.

[thorfinn]

Sure, ask away. :-)

[sophronia.livejournal.com]

1. In a post apocolyptic society, what service/contibution do you make to your immediate community? (assume any new skills you like).

2. In your current real world life; What is your primary method of communication and why?

3. Your violence question was a good one and Melbourne has had it's fair share of blood and guts. So back at you: Have you
encountered that violence personally at all, and either way, what do you
do about it?

4. On that note, George Orwell once argued "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. " Agree/disagree?

5. I'm fairly certain we've met. Can you confirm this at all. (A Yum Cha in Sydney a few years back maybe?)

[thorfinn]

Answers: http://sophronia.livejournal.com/509929.html

[strang-er.livejournal.com]

*raises hand for questions*

[thorfinn]

Most questionees are going to get the same first two questions. :-)

Also, fair warning, I'm not necessarily playing nice with questions. Feel free to decline to answer. :-)

1. Tell me about something good, including what makes it good.

2. Tell me about something bad, including what makes it bad.

3. So, you've been around this Internet thing a good long while. What do you think the most positive change in it over that time has been, and why?

4. What do you think the most negative change in the Internet has been and why?

5. Are you actually studying martial arts, or martial sports, or self defense, or some combination of the above? Why, and to what purpose?

[thorfinn]

Crosslink to answers:

http://strang-er.livejournal.com/101939.html

[drzero.livejournal.com]

*similarly puts up hand*

[thorfinn]

Most questionees are going to get the same first two questions. :-)

Also, fair warning, I'm not necessarily playing nice with questions. Feel free to decline to answer. :-)

1. Tell me about something good, including what makes it good.

2. Tell me about something bad, including what makes it bad.

3. Marriage, huh? In the first place, why? In the second place, what do you think will change, if anything, afterwards?

4. Why, of all the zillion interesting things there are to engage in, poetry?

5. Your partner now owns a very fine shop... and as a result, keeps shopkeeper's hours. How has that affected you?

[thorfinn]

Answers - http://drzero.livejournal.com/183436.html

[morganjaffit.livejournal.com]

Count me in!

I like the standard questions - everyone I asked got the "what makes you happy" one.

[thorfinn]

Warning skipped, of all people, you don't need it from me. ;-)

1. Tell me about something good, including what makes it good.

2. Tell me about something bad, including what makes it bad.

3. So, you used to be a happy-go-lucky town clown. You aren't any more. Why?

4. Why qamar, in particular?

5. Is your current workplace fulfilling your expectations? How?

[thorfinn]

Answers: http://morganjaffit.livejournal.com/31801.html

[jeshyr]

Me please...

[thorfinn]

No disclaimer for you, two weeks! ;-)

1. Tell me about something good, including what makes it good.

2. Tell me about something bad, including what makes it bad.

3. So, you have a whole suite of uncertain and non-deterministic illnesses. What would you say are the top few things that are bad about that?

4. You now have had had a cat and a housemate for a while, both of which have been positive things. What are the similarities and differences in their interaction with you which makes them an overall positive thing?

5. Given your overall energy levels, I'm assuming you still have to severely triage what it is you do. Is that a conscious process, and if so, what's your decision tree look like? If it's not a conscious process, how do you manage what you can do?

[jeshyr]

*LOL* Yessir, nosir, threebagsfullsir :)

Please keep linking answers back to questions - our flists don't overlap much but you ask interesting questions!

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[thorfinn]

*chucklegrin* Am doing so. :-)

[fnoo.livejournal.com]

*plunk*