Interview meme, back again
Apr. 27th, 2005 06:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladynox25From lederhosen:
1. Chemistry - which branch is coolest?
Organometallic. I find the atomic structures of complexes to be aesthetically quite beautiful.
2. Biggest irrational fear?
Success *and* failure, at the same time, about the same thing.
3. Opera: are modern adaptations a wonderful idea, sacrilegious rubbish, or somewhere in between?
If you're talking "rock operas" ala Webber and Les Miserables, hell yeah, they're wonderful!
4. Ireland: when did your ancestors leave it, and why?
Multiple on that, since I have it via several distant lineages but the most recent was my grandfather's family and I think it was either his parents or grandparents. Not sure why, although probably the same economic factors as most Irish.
5. If you moved out of Texas, would you still be texas_tiger?
I'm not that Texan. Yes, I live here, but I actually came up with the ID before I moved here. I just wanted something alliteral to go with "tiger". So yes, I wouldn't change it, but not because I identify with Texas. It's simply too much work.
If you want to be interviewed, reply in a comment and I will answer with five questions. You answer them in your own LJ and post this offer to your friends.
lederhosen:1. Chemistry - which branch is coolest?
Organometallic. I find the atomic structures of complexes to be aesthetically quite beautiful.
2. Biggest irrational fear?
Success *and* failure, at the same time, about the same thing.
3. Opera: are modern adaptations a wonderful idea, sacrilegious rubbish, or somewhere in between?
If you're talking "rock operas" ala Webber and Les Miserables, hell yeah, they're wonderful!
4. Ireland: when did your ancestors leave it, and why?
Multiple on that, since I have it via several distant lineages but the most recent was my grandfather's family and I think it was either his parents or grandparents. Not sure why, although probably the same economic factors as most Irish.
5. If you moved out of Texas, would you still be texas_tiger?
I'm not that Texan. Yes, I live here, but I actually came up with the ID before I moved here. I just wanted something alliteral to go with "tiger". So yes, I wouldn't change it, but not because I identify with Texas. It's simply too much work.
If you want to be interviewed, reply in a comment and I will answer with five questions. You answer them in your own LJ and post this offer to your friends.
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Date: 2005-04-27 12:27 pm (UTC)I was thinking modern settings of classic operas - things like Rigoletto with 1950s gangsters in New York, that sort of thing - but it's all good :-)
Interview me!
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Date: 2005-04-27 09:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-27 10:37 pm (UTC)1) Where are you from and is that where you're currently living? If not, why not?
2) Why optics? And while you're at it, could you explain what it is you actually do in three sentences or less?
3) As a sort of quid pro quo on your question, what kind of music turns you on? What sort do you avoid like the plague?
4) Why are you so interested in the Irish?
5) Rock, paper, or scissors? Why?
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Date: 2005-04-27 03:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-27 10:33 pm (UTC)2) As you are a native New Yorker, I don't suppose you'd ever consider any other place equal to your hometown, but if you had to pick just one other place, what's your favorite?
3) That having been said, Mets or Yankees?
4) Just out of curiosity, since you just posted about it in your LJ, what's your favorite part of the Seder?
5) Don't you think "Yo" is getting to be too "90's"?
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Date: 2005-04-27 03:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-27 10:35 pm (UTC)2) Why physics?
3) What do you consider to be the most tragic event that occured in your lifetime and why?
4) What about the most significant?
5) Where do you see yourself in ten years?