interviewed by kyleri
I'm afraid I've had to redact two of your questions from this public
post. :-) You are welcome to ask two others, though I will answer
the others privately.
1) What's your favourite food ever?
Wow, just one? That's hard.
This week the answer is good, fresh, sushi. If forced to be more specific, salmon, with a bit of wasabi and the obligatory pickled ginger on the side. But I also enjoy tuna, yellowtail, inari (that's the tofu pocket thing), oshinko maki, and the various "some of this, some of that" makis that are made from kosher ingredients.
When I ate non-kosher food, my favorite sushi was grilled eel. And I never did like squid in any form, even when it was permitted.
4) If you could change one thing about the SCA, no questions asked, no political repercussions, what would it be?
I would make it such that the corporation had not come into existence. Not "I would make the corporation go away", as it has already done damage I don't think can be repaired. Rather, I want the SCA to have grown up as a federation of groups working together, not one power sitting at the top and being overly involved.
I originally wrote "had never come into existence", but jducoeur just answered this question and I think he has a good point: the timing is a big part of the problem. So if my ideal federated SCA had chugged along for a decade or so (I am more conservative in this regard than Justin) and found that it needed to form a corporation to serve its needs, I wouldn't rule that out. But it would have to be a considered act of a more mature organization. The corporation we have grew out of a vague idea that "we need a corporation to be a Real Group!", and it served us very poorly.
5) You're packing a bag to go anywhere in the world (and you've been assured that Erik will still be there when you get home, so there are no concerns about travelling). Where are you headed?
Assuming Dani would come along (it's not like we've discussed exotic vacations), I'd like to take a nice tour (self-guided, not with a group) through parts of southern Europe into the middle east. I don't know if this better takes the form of a Mediterranean cruise or a rail pass (or both), not having done even the tiniest bit of research. :-) Spain, Italy, Sicily, Greece... end in Israel (with a side trip to Petra) and then fly home from there? Something like that. (Yes, I know I'm skipping vast parts of the area; I'd rather do the ones I care about in a later pass than have a really really long trip.)
1) What's your favourite food ever?
Wow, just one? That's hard.
This week the answer is good, fresh, sushi. If forced to be more specific, salmon, with a bit of wasabi and the obligatory pickled ginger on the side. But I also enjoy tuna, yellowtail, inari (that's the tofu pocket thing), oshinko maki, and the various "some of this, some of that" makis that are made from kosher ingredients.
When I ate non-kosher food, my favorite sushi was grilled eel. And I never did like squid in any form, even when it was permitted.
4) If you could change one thing about the SCA, no questions asked, no political repercussions, what would it be?
I would make it such that the corporation had not come into existence. Not "I would make the corporation go away", as it has already done damage I don't think can be repaired. Rather, I want the SCA to have grown up as a federation of groups working together, not one power sitting at the top and being overly involved.
I originally wrote "had never come into existence", but jducoeur just answered this question and I think he has a good point: the timing is a big part of the problem. So if my ideal federated SCA had chugged along for a decade or so (I am more conservative in this regard than Justin) and found that it needed to form a corporation to serve its needs, I wouldn't rule that out. But it would have to be a considered act of a more mature organization. The corporation we have grew out of a vague idea that "we need a corporation to be a Real Group!", and it served us very poorly.
5) You're packing a bag to go anywhere in the world (and you've been assured that Erik will still be there when you get home, so there are no concerns about travelling). Where are you headed?
Assuming Dani would come along (it's not like we've discussed exotic vacations), I'd like to take a nice tour (self-guided, not with a group) through parts of southern Europe into the middle east. I don't know if this better takes the form of a Mediterranean cruise or a rail pass (or both), not having done even the tiniest bit of research. :-) Spain, Italy, Sicily, Greece... end in Israel (with a side trip to Petra) and then fly home from there? Something like that. (Yes, I know I'm skipping vast parts of the area; I'd rather do the ones I care about in a later pass than have a really really long trip.)