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I am not having anything, just maybe a bit buzzed from the fumes off the meth lab next door.

What are you having (in the context of root beers question)

I haven't had it since high school which is like 16 years ago. The username and its various permutations that I've used on different sites were a combination of two things I thought I like a lot many years ago, "root" the global administrative account on *nix systems, as I was an avid Linux user for many years, and "beer", the obvious alcoholic beverage, that the younger me though I like a lot (in reality I'm quite picky). Put together they form the name of a beverage I had a lot of when I was younger. It stuck.

And the interview question in this quote is where?

ginger - ale??

i fly a see, loud and clear
what do you hear?

I hear the effects of my bean burrito keeping me awake.

If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?

Grayish, presumably because you stop the blood flow.

Do you like staying up late? Are you a night owl?

I like staying up late but I'm a morning person so it contradicts itself. Hence naps are my best friend in the day. A study even showed a 20-60 minute nap in the day to be productive

Do you have any allergies?

Pollen.

same q

Just some irritation from pollen. Also, BS, whining, and closed minds.

Recall an instance where you were mischievous as a child.

I taught the next door neighbor kid how to start his dad's lawn mower. Did it in the garage. Didn't expect it to start on the first pull, so was surprised when it started. He ran out of the garage, leaving me to figure out how to turn it off while his angry mother came running into the garage.

Same Q.

It was in summer camp... There were groups of different ages in the same camp, three age groups in total, think of it as elementary, middle and high school, and I was in the middle age group, or borderline between lower and middle. There were much older guys like 16-17 years old vs me who turned 11 that summer. I was getting bullied a lot by the older guys in regards to access to game room equipment like foosball and pool tables. I procured a box of pencil stick firecrackers that I messed around with a lot. I blew apart a dead tree, some glass bottles, and made other kinds of messes. So one day after another round of bullying I found the older guys showering and decided to teach them a lesson by tossing one of my firecrackers into the showers, I figured the sudden pop in an enclosed space would give them a proper scare. I lit the firecracker but then remembered how much damage they can do, and got concerned that someone might lose a toe if it lands next to their foot, and I chickened out. But it was already in my hand and lit. So I tossed it into the nearby toilet adjacent to the showers, hoping the water in the bowl would put it out. When it blew the porcelain toilet cracked and split, and the water and everything that was in the toilet bowl was dripping off the ceiling and running down the walls, and there was a foggy haze. The carnage was epic, there was even toilet water inside the ceiling light. Somehow I got the respect of older guys after that. Odd. Camp staff were searching for who had done it but nobody said anything. It was a pretty good lesson in physics though, and a good reminder not to mess around with firecrackers however small they may look. Some of the small ones can be pretty potent.

Did you do any extracurriculars while you were in school?

no, don't think so, or in translatiion, yes all these things
one year we went to London, in the middle of the kate bush/ blondie wars (eg, on the buses)
when the pubs had restrickted openingtimes, very complicated you couldn't find a thing to eat all day
and there was synthetic bedding on the beds, weird

same question

Yes. I was on the Netball team and the jazz band in my first high school. Nothing in my second.

If you could be a fictional character who would you be?

Have to think about it hard for a minute. A lot of interesting characters I encountered in science fiction can only really exist in their setting, and it's often kind of dark and gloomy (cyberpunk generally is). I probably won't want live in an environment like that and live a life scarred by great loss. How about some happy characters? I liked the mature wisdom and happiness of Lars Fillmore from Futurama. Also his story arc was somewhat symbolic to me at one point... Or I could just be Falkor the luckdragon from The Neverending story.

Same question.

I'd be Isabella Linton, for obvious reasons.

I'd also be Lucy Snowe so I could meet Ginevra Fanshawe, and hook up with M Emanuel. I'd let him rummage about in my writing desk with his big hands, smoking a cigar. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.



same question

And I would be Temeraire of course.

If you could change anything in the world, what would it be?