Meme via surliminal

[darth_tigger]

Oh dear, I'm still slacking at posting here aren't I. I'm good at composing posts in my head when I'm away from the computer, but they very rarely make it as far as the keyboard. Anyway, here's a quick meme.

"I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. But here's a thought: why not take this

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[kotenok]

Some things I like: owls, tea, gin, cocktails, charity shops, bees, bacon, cheese, steak, Radio 4, meerkats, creative swearing, penguins, cycling through London at night, manners, Attenborough documentaries, snowboarding, Hyperbole & a Half, XKCD, the Enigma, geeks, games, and Marvel films.

[darth_tigger]

Well I've never cycled through London at all, never mind at night,; never been snowboarding (though mountain boarding was fun), on't watch many documentaries these days and haven't heard of Hyperbole & a Half or the Enigma, but apart from that I'm with you on pretty much all the list!

[kotenok]

What's mountain boarding?

This is the best Hyperbole & A Half, in my opinion.. The others are very good as well, but this just *is* my life! ;)

The Enigma was a code machine used during WWII. Alan Turing (the godfather of modern computing) cracked it with a team at Bletchley Park (the head of Ops for most of our codebreaking then generally). The most awesome thing was that the Enigma had 158 quintillion (!) different possible settings, so breaking it was a pretty awesome thing that we did! The breaking of the Lorenz Cipher is even more impressive, as it had even more possibilities than the Enigma, and we never even had one of the machines - the whole thing was reverse engineered!

[dorianegray]

I like beer and knitting and books and my (still fairly new) smartphone and LARPing and trains and making documents make sense. And cats and musicals (but not the musical "Cats").

I also don't like literary fiction or umbrellas or pastel colours or elves or gin or people who share their music on public transport.

Question: Have you ever played any RPGs? If so, did you enjoy it/them?

[hawkida]

Now I'm trying to work out if I know you in person - we both follow the LT rss feed here and both know Fergal, but there's not much to go on. I find it odd when people from the SF circle turn out to be in the LT circles too. But hello, I think I'll add you.

[dorianegray]

Why, hello, I think I'll add you back. :-)

(Lots of people know Fergal, him having been a big noise in the Bards Guild for some considerable time. I think we probably don't know each other in person - at least, your LJ icons don't look familiar to me.)

[darth_tigger]

I have to say you were right about smartphones - steep learning curve, and now I can't do without it. I'm with you on pretty much all the others too except I do like the musical Cats - in my defence I was a massive fan of the poems before the musical came out and had a record of T S Eliot reading them, and was in a school production of the musical in my teens. Oh, and I like gin too.

I have dabbled in RPGs in my time, but it's not something I've done on a serious basis. As a teenager I went from the Fighting Fantasy books to the Fighting Fantasy tabletop game to a brief flirtation with D&D, but never really got serious about it. I also joined in on a weekly Cthulhu session some years ago, but then people moved away and it folded. I think the main reason I've not done more tabletop gaming is that my partner does it full-time (he's the creator of 6d6 and also has a regular gaming evening with people he's played with on and off for over twenty years) and I like to leave him to it and do my own thing

[surliminal]

I can't think of anything about myself I haven't advertised on LJ before. God I'm bored with myself. I went up in a micro lite once? I've got double joints?

[darth_tigger]

Hey, just because you wrote it on LJ years ago doesn't mean everyone will remember, or no-one will want to read about it again!

How did you come to go up in a micro lite? Was it an official book-a-session-and-get-taken-up-by-person-whose-job-it-is or did you have a friend who could pilot?

Are all your joints double-jointed or is it just one or two? Does it cause any issues for you?

[surliminal]

Aw :-)

It was in Glasgow years ago with the original Trout! I think Mike Molloy and Ian Sorensen organised it via a mate and I remember (a) they terrified me before it for weeks by saying we'd all have to be publicly weighed (which was a complete lie) and (b) I was FUCKING TERRIFIED the entire time - like hanging in the air from a kids trike - and am never doing it again, but I am glad I did it!

I guess all my fingers are double jointed - not sure about toes! - and all of me is pretty flexible - you might remember this makes me strangely good at yoga for a blob.. has never caused my trouble - hope it doesn't mean I'm more prone to arthritis or anything.. I do have a vague theory it's all sort of connected to my general back/musculo skeletal problems as my physio has said in the past i'm hyper mobile and also have soft tissue very quick to inflame.

[hawkida]

I'm nearly forty.

[darth_tigger]

So am I, but from the other side! Becoming less near all the time...