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Here's a meme-y thing that I got from Egarwaen
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better! If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate!
3. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
So here and the questions I was assigned and my witty (no really) answers:
1) Do you believe it was a coincidence that your appearance is eerily close to Dave Davenport? Well the thing is I'm an overweight hairy geek we all look kinda alike, I never even thought of the resemblance until our interviewer a fellow Narbonic fan pointed it out. When Dave got the new hair cut it only cemented it further, then during an archive trawl I noticed in winter strips Dave wore a hat very similar to the one I had recently started sporting. I never took it seriously though until my sister who never read the comic asked me if my Dave LJ icon was a caricature of myself.
2) How did you start reading webcomics?
When I was in Jr high I started reading comics in general, shortly after that I got my first taste of the internet and I used it as a way to get free access to comic pages. My only options at the time being amateur works posted online by people with too much time on thier hands (amusingly enough some of these creators have on on to professional works like Brian Lee O'malley and Josh Lesnick) and these ended up being a gateway drug. From there the highschool computer labs had broadband internet and I began trawling archives when ever I finished my work early, which was always. I got hooked on sluggy and penny arcade and many others which have mostly ended or gotten very lame but before long my habit of checking for new updates during breakfast was started (as our dial-up provider didnt charge for time used before 700am) and I have been trapped ever since.
3) What got you interested in Neil Gaiman?
This is an easy one. In Highschool I found out that the librarys had comics besides the ones from the newspaper. One day a librarian pointed out a pile of graphic novels to an impressionable youth (I mean me) and I found a volume of Sandman, I think it was 'Dream Country', From there I ravenously read the whole series blatantly out of order. This spread to his novels then other comics then pretty much anything with his damn name on it. What can I say? if I find an author I like I stick with them.
4) How did you get interested in anime?
Like alot of anti-social youths I liked cartoons and I like odd story telling, No matter how bad If it was from japan and it aired on TV I watched it. After a very embarrassed and probably very poorly kept secret fixation with Sailormoon then Dragonball I saw Gundam Wing followed by Akira and some random Ranma volumes but still it was not enough. My first year of university I was introduced to Fansubs. For my first subtitled experience I was given a show and told to watch it but I was not told what it was or what it was about ...... That show was 'dum dum dum' EXCEL SAGA!!! So I think that explains alot about the kinda anime I watch.
5) Do you honestly feel that you learned much from Dal's CS course, or was the curriculum badly lacking?
Now this is a tricky wicket, I feel I came out of my degree with alot of knowledge that I did not have when I went in and I feel I learned how to actually work as I mostly coasted through my previous education but in the end my hands on skills could use alot of practice. One of the things I feel I really got out of the program was a mind set and a training that allowed me to think a certain way which will be very useful if I ever find a place I can apply it but my marketable skills are not really filling up my resume so much. So to sum it up, at least in the courses I took, the theory and structure were very useful and I think I have a great foundation that I never had before but I wish there were more classes or even just labs that required me to get down and dirty with things I would actual do in the real world other then abstract programming assignments.
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better! If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate!
3. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
So here and the questions I was assigned and my witty (no really) answers:
1) Do you believe it was a coincidence that your appearance is eerily close to Dave Davenport? Well the thing is I'm an overweight hairy geek we all look kinda alike, I never even thought of the resemblance until our interviewer a fellow Narbonic fan pointed it out. When Dave got the new hair cut it only cemented it further, then during an archive trawl I noticed in winter strips Dave wore a hat very similar to the one I had recently started sporting. I never took it seriously though until my sister who never read the comic asked me if my Dave LJ icon was a caricature of myself.
2) How did you start reading webcomics?
When I was in Jr high I started reading comics in general, shortly after that I got my first taste of the internet and I used it as a way to get free access to comic pages. My only options at the time being amateur works posted online by people with too much time on thier hands (amusingly enough some of these creators have on on to professional works like Brian Lee O'malley and Josh Lesnick) and these ended up being a gateway drug. From there the highschool computer labs had broadband internet and I began trawling archives when ever I finished my work early, which was always. I got hooked on sluggy and penny arcade and many others which have mostly ended or gotten very lame but before long my habit of checking for new updates during breakfast was started (as our dial-up provider didnt charge for time used before 700am) and I have been trapped ever since.
3) What got you interested in Neil Gaiman?
This is an easy one. In Highschool I found out that the librarys had comics besides the ones from the newspaper. One day a librarian pointed out a pile of graphic novels to an impressionable youth (I mean me) and I found a volume of Sandman, I think it was 'Dream Country', From there I ravenously read the whole series blatantly out of order. This spread to his novels then other comics then pretty much anything with his damn name on it. What can I say? if I find an author I like I stick with them.
4) How did you get interested in anime?
Like alot of anti-social youths I liked cartoons and I like odd story telling, No matter how bad If it was from japan and it aired on TV I watched it. After a very embarrassed and probably very poorly kept secret fixation with Sailormoon then Dragonball I saw Gundam Wing followed by Akira and some random Ranma volumes but still it was not enough. My first year of university I was introduced to Fansubs. For my first subtitled experience I was given a show and told to watch it but I was not told what it was or what it was about ...... That show was 'dum dum dum' EXCEL SAGA!!! So I think that explains alot about the kinda anime I watch.
5) Do you honestly feel that you learned much from Dal's CS course, or was the curriculum badly lacking?
Now this is a tricky wicket, I feel I came out of my degree with alot of knowledge that I did not have when I went in and I feel I learned how to actually work as I mostly coasted through my previous education but in the end my hands on skills could use alot of practice. One of the things I feel I really got out of the program was a mind set and a training that allowed me to think a certain way which will be very useful if I ever find a place I can apply it but my marketable skills are not really filling up my resume so much. So to sum it up, at least in the courses I took, the theory and structure were very useful and I think I have a great foundation that I never had before but I wish there were more classes or even just labs that required me to get down and dirty with things I would actual do in the real world other then abstract programming assignments.