From strandist

Feeling kind of tired today, and I tend to be verbose when I’m tired, so
watch out…

1) What do you miss most about living in Statesville or a smaller town in general?

Suppose the standard answer is to miss knowing most people. But never
really lived in a town _that_ small (not to mention I generally have a fairly small
circle of friends). So can’t say I agree with that.

In a lot of ways, it’s just generally having less people. And less cars
and traffic. Etc. But thats kind of a boring answer.

Reasons I’d move back to Statesville or similar towns would
primarily be friends and family. That and cheap cost of living.

Never really been a person who put too much emphasis on
location though.

2) What’s one instrument you wish you could play but can’t?

I would like to be able to play anything really well. But I don’t
really have the ear to be a good musician.

But I think it would be cool to be a great drummer.

3) A person is introducing you from afar. Complete this sentence: “That guy over there is Adrian, he’s the guy who…”

tends to happen in reality:
“works at Red Hat”

around linux people:
“writes up2date”

in an imaginary ideal world:
“knows a little about everything”
“makes cool stuff”
“can learn to do anything”
“solves problems”

4) Tomorrow every door in the world will be painted the same color and it’s up to you which one. Which color do you choose?

White. How boring is that?

5) Which year (within the time of written history) would you say is the best year ever and why?

If I was better versed in history, I’d probabaly have a good answer for this. But
I haven’t had a real history kick yet, so…

For the sake of argument, I’d define best as “most important/influential”

And being a natural pessimist, hard for me to pick out the “best’ of something ;->

So, first thought is 1440. Gutenberg began using the version of the priniting
press that would eventually lead to the archiving of a substantial subset of
human knowledge in a format that would be widely accessible.

And yes, I know others had working printing presses first, sometimes centuries
before Gutenberg. But they didn’t catch on at the time.

I might update this later once I think about it some more.

Typical rules appy. If you want questions, ask. I’ll try to ask them. Though,
historical, asking people interesting questions isnt one of my strenthgs.