Comments | matt_arnold: Ask me three questions.

matt_arnold

Ask me three questions.

Oct 08, 2004 13:57

A meme lifted from dawnwolf

Ask me 3 questions, no more no less. Ask me anything you want, and I will answer truthfully and fully. Then I want you to go to your journal, and copy and paste this, allowing your friends (including me) to ask you anything.

science fiction, introspection, transhumanism, sf, lojban, relationships

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3 questions wormquartet October 8 2004, 12:40:46 UTC

1. How's it going?
2. Do you like margarine?
3. What the hell?!?

-=ShoEboX=-

Re: 3 questions matt_arnold October 8 2004, 14:19:28 UTC

1. Uncertainty is up, expenses are down, issues remain stable. Slightly scheming today with 80% chance of improvement over the weekend. As of 5:00 p.m. I had 1,371,624,462 seconds estimated left to live.
2. Margarine is a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
3. You can say that again.

sothisislife October 8 2004, 15:46:28 UTC

1. What color is your bathroom?
2. If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?
3. What was the last movie you watched?

matt_arnold October 9 2004, 08:14:35 UTC

1. White, with blue tile in the shower. Since I don't pay attention, I had to wait until I was home to find out so I could answer this.

2. Wow, it's so difficult for a transhumanist to answer that question. Naturally-occurring species are all such incredibly sub-optimal "designs" from a biotech point of view. The short story 0wnz0red by Cory Doctorow recently inspired me with the perfect answer if I had to choose one thing: an interface between my autonomic processes and a microcontroller, so I can hack into my biology through a computer and change anything I want. We're able to wiggle our toes at will, but we're locked out of all the important stuff like immunoresponse and metabolism and cognition.
A sanitized metabolism that's hardened to viruses.
Make it no longer true that a human being has to excercise 20 minutes before starting to burn any fat at all.
Triple-jointed.
No longer need to sleep.
But the best things of all would be what could be done to my mind and personhood. Hacking into human nature itself:"The human emotions as ( ... )

sothisislife October 10 2004, 19:17:15 UTC

Matt, I can always count on you to supply a plethora of information that I had no idea I would find as fascinating as I do.

But where are your three questions in MY journal?

=)

matt_arnold October 11 2004, 09:44:59 UTC

This makes me very happy.

bobbimcmillin October 8 2004, 16:19:20 UTC

1. When were you at PCC?
2. What was your major?
3. What is your favorite Bible verse/passage?

matt_arnold October 8 2004, 20:37:20 UTC

1. September 1992 through December 1997.
2. Commercial Art with a minor in Graphic Design.
3. When I was a Christian I didn't have a favorite verse. If I had to choose the part that amuses me the most these days, it would be a toss-up between 1st Kings 14:10a, "cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall;" 1 Samuel 21 where the people of Ashdod get hemorrhoids "in their secret parts," that's a hoot; and Isaiah 32: "Tremble, ye women ... strip you, and make you bare ... They shall lament for the teats." Bonus points for that one.

bluehamster98 October 8 2004, 17:12:49 UTC

1) If you found out one of your best friend's lovers had been cheating on him, what would you do?

2) What kind of pie do you like?

3) If you could redo your college years entirely, where would you go, and what would your major be?

-Karen

matt_arnold October 8 2004, 20:58:47 UTC

1. I would advise the lover who had been cheating if she (or he if they were gay or if my best friend were a female) can't abide by her (or his) end of the deal, then she (or he) should release my best friend from an unfair one-sided committment to exclusivity. I'd say to stop pretending, it's never really permanent anyway, and openly and unashamedly embrace this new arrangement so that there would be nothing to hide any more. I would also start telling my best friend how great it is not to be in a committed relationship. I wouldn't mind the relationship with the third person in and of itself, I would only care about my best friend being unfairly restrained from seeking other people. So, I don't know how long I would tolerate it if the lover decided to continue keeping my best friend from having sex with others, although it's not really my business ( ... )

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Re: speak for yourself! <grin> matt_arnold October 10 2004, 10:41:02 UTC

1. Your question really puzzled me at first but now I'm writing this over again. It seems unlikely that you are asking me to make sweeping truth claims which I can logically justify, in which everyone else in the universe is less worthy than one narrow, myopic focus of infatuation; as if everyone ought to share an objective view of value ( ... )