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I tried once when it first started, maybe 1998. I filled in some kind of questionnaire and never heard back for a year or two.
I was matched with one person who lived on the other side of the world. In two years they found me one person. I guess my personality wasn't terribly compelling. Ha. I didn't pursue it.

Can you change a car tire?

No, because I don't drive.

If you do own a car, what is the make and model of it?

I own a Morris Minor (well, a 1/25th scale Corgi model of one - I'd love a full size one if I could drive!)

What's your favourite piece of technology that was invented in your own lifetime?

In my lifetime, I'd say the internet. Obvious, but imagine living without it.

Here's me at University:
- Get assigned a paper during a lecture I had to attend in person, because there were no video links for class
- Physically walk to the library no matter the weather or the distance or the time of day
- Physically search through a card catalogue (Dewey), to locate books of possible use, only going by the "subject"
- Find a carol to stash my things in and hope no one steals them
- Physically write down all the options and call numbers
- Physically hike around the library to locate said books
- If another student beat me to the required books, I was out of luck
- Haul the books back to my study carol
- Go through every index to see if there was helpful information
- Record all the page numbers
- Read all the pages
- Physically transcribe every quote I wanted to use, by hand (pen)
- Record all the bibliographic information (which had very strict formatting requirements)
- Write my papers by hand (up to 10 000 words), usually in the library so I didn't have to carry the books out
- Walk back to my apartment, usually in the pitch dark
- Type my papers on a manual typewriter, having to re-do entire pages any time I made a typographical error
- Run the risk of keeping my flatmates awake because of the noisy typewriter
- Physically walk the document to my professor on time
- Physically attend class to retrieve my paper / grade

I was thinking the other day, how different it must be to write a paper using the internet. It might be more challenging to sort the barrage of information, but at least today's students can conduct research at home and edit at will, silently.

Question:
Would you rather be too hot or too cold?

Too hot, on the grounds that it's (probably) less life-threatening.

Have you ever voted in a referendum, and if so, which one(s)?

No. I was entitled to but I couldn't for personal reasons.

When you take a bite, is the fork in your right hand or your left?

Left Hand

What is the most impressive older (ie pre-20th century) building you have ever been in?

Some forts in the 1800's were rather neat, in Minnesota even though the Army didn't do much other than sit around there, and a villiage called Murphy's Landing in Shakopee.

Same question.

i don't know. some older buildings in guadalajara are pretty nice.

do you have a "summit girl"?

The US Capitol Building.

Have you been to your national capital, or live in it?

I didn't go to Washington, DC, until I was 33 years old.

I lived in our national capital city for 27 years (though I'm not from there).

Have you ever played golf?

ha. no.


would you wear eyeliner?

My Dad dragged me along once when I was a kid. If you ever need someone to plough a field very slowly with a blunt stick, I'm your man! (oops cross-posted, that was about golf!)

Would I wear eye-liner? If it were for a deliberately crazy costume, yes, and I have done, but otherwise no.

What is your favourite foreign or regional accent?

I like the Russian accent, even more so since the meerkat adverts came along.

Meerkats or Ferrets?

a lot of people, especially where i'm from, find southern american accents lowerclass and associate with redneck stereotypes but i think they're really nice, coming from a girl especially.


no surprise there...

i also like israeli accents.

also ferrets.

same question.

Meerkats

Will humans land on Mars in the next 20 years?