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[twincityhacker]

Comment in this post and I will choose seven of your interests I would like you to explain more clearly in your journal. [taken from ludditerobot who asked me to explain...]



kubla khan

In Xanadu did Kubla Kan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

I first ran into this poem when reading something on how people draw inspiration from their dreams, and again when it's recited by a charecter in Torchwood, and again in my college studies.

I also just think the poem is neat - it doesn't entirely make sense, but the rymeing interplay is fun to read and say.


license plates

I collect them




never programing c again

Programing at the college level sucks. Mostly? Because when they teach a language, they expect to lecture on it. I just want the book, and I'll learn it myself. I'll never program C again because I have nothing to attach the code too - if I want to run code, I have to use SHH Shell, and while that's a lovely program to use the only thing I've thought to program would be to realize a program that would find an English word and translate it's etmology into a color code, so if I put foundational matter, foundation would be written in the Latin color, and matter in the French. ( Which both would be in the same color family, probably Laitin as blue and French as baby blue. ) Anyway, poetry would be evil to put into that program.


postcards

I collect these too




theater of the mind

When I'm thinking about a story, instead of getting a mental movie, I have a mental play. Sparse on setting and internal musings, but physical action and lighting are key. Especially the lighting, for that's my favorite tech of all, what I trained in, and we'd be in the dark without it.

we'll never conquer space

"We'll Never Conquer Space" is an essay written by Arthur C. Clarke that was in my British Literature book. The part I remember the best about the essay is the final part, about Vega, a star 20 lightyears away from Earth. And if humans ever get there, it will take half a lifetime to transmit a message to Earth and receive a reply. We'll never conquer space - space will conquer us as a people.

worldbuilding

I love sorting out all the finicky details about a fictional place. I have talked about The Baikal, right? So, I have whole pages of information about the various spacestations in orbit around Earth, a calender system, a chart of companies, two counting systems, two different "alphabets" to transcribe body and mental language... and I've probably written 300 words about the actual characters. I'uel is the "main" charecter. He's actually depicted in this icon that I'm using.

Yes, he looks almost exactly like a Japanese Maple. = )

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you never cease to amaze :D