The Never Ending Toadfish Interview Cycle!

[Griffin NoName]

1. Which is really more important to you in your daily life, being fair or getting your way? Why?

Being fair. But it is always so important that it is getting my way because my way is fair. I am a justice freak. My way doesn't have to mean it's nice for me.

2. Sunglasses: You KNOW you should wear them year round, right? OK, so do you want gray, green or blue lenses?

Well I don't get to see much sun, but green.

3. You have the equivalent of $500 USD that you can't spend on yourself or your friends/family. MUST go to a charitable cause. Which one(s)? Why?

The Samaritans.

I don't trust charities to disburse money. Reading their accounts always makes me freak. I get so angry.

The Samaritans do a single straightforward job extremely well. You are feeling entirely alone and desperate and you pick up the phone and they are just there and you aren't alone. And the better listeners even help you feel less desperate.

It's why I do the mental health support line. Which I have just been told I may not be able to do any more because it is too expensive (at £5 a month) to divert the phone lines so we can be on the line at home (and in my case in bed). But I wouldn't give the money to our outfit because their administration is crap and goodness knows what it would get spent on.... the support line is peripheral.

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1. Which actors voice is your favourite? How would you describe it?

2. What's the longest you have ever slept and the longest you have ever been awake?

3. If you didn't have your life, whose would you like to have ?

[Sibling Chatty]

1. Which actors voice is your favourite? How would you describe it?

ALAN RICKMAN!! Yeah, Depp's voice is OK, but Rickman can pull deep down inside me and 'get' me...

Describe it?? Infinitely flexible. And generally sexy...

2. What's the longest you have ever slept and the longest you have ever been awake?

Slept without need to wake and potty (cath after surgery) was 31 hours. Not in a coma, just sleeping. Slept, waking only to potty and crawl back in after a drink of water? 58 hours...right after one of my longest awakes. Probably about 76 or 78 hours, floral holiday combined with huge funeral flower orders. (Mother's Day I think...)

3. If you didn't have your life, whose would you like to have ?

Somebody with decent physical well-being and a damn BOATLOAD of money. HRH the Queen? Mrs. Bill Gates? Heck, I would settle for the functional body and a livable income (Define livable? OK, $35K for 2 people, or $55K if we have to buy insurance.)

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Same Q's as bottom of last page...

Part the First: Are there specific phrases/'common word useages'/figures of speech that get on your nerves or make your blood boil?? What are they?

Part the Second: Wanna come help Bill move tomorrow?? I'm cookin', but I ain' gonna lift a thing... Mr Green (Aaaauuuughhhh, arrrrggghhhh...oh, well, same crew that helped us move, and helped us move Denise and Michael...we're all just gettin' older. director)

Part the Third: Ummm....I dunno. Denise just called. they've told her it's time to put Michael on hospice and stop dialysis--just bring him home to die.

So, would you choose to let a loved one die a peaceful but inevitable death, or would you want to go 'full-tilt' with every invasive and painful life extending procedure?

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Part the First: Are there specific phrases/'common word useages'/figures of speech that get on your nerves or make your blood boil?? What are they?

"God Said"   without any qualifying statements, like "I believe that..." or "In my opinion..."

There is NO possible compromise with 'God Said'

The ONLY possible thing is to say, 'No He Didn't' or some more polite variation on that, such as 'You're Mad! Completely Bonkers'

The phrase sans personal qualifiers is both arrogant AND prideful.

It is pride to assume that the speaker actually communicates with The Creator Of All.

It is arrogant to assume that the speaker is able to actually comprehend what Was Said.

It is arrogant AND pride to assume that the speaker is the ONLY person so Blessed.

Okay, enough belaboring that point. 

Part the Second: Wanna come help Bill move tomorrow?? I'm cookin', but I ain' gonna lift a thing... Mr Green (Aaaauuuughhhh, arrrrggghhhh...oh, well, same crew that helped us move, and helped us move Denise and Michael...we're all just gettin' older. director)


I would, except that currently, I don't have a personal car-- just a company truck (10 mpg Diesel, at $4/gal) so I don't see how I could get there.

But I would help, if I could....no really!     Honest!   

Part the Third: Ummm....I dunno. Denise just called. they've told her it's time to put Michael on hospice and stop dialysis--just bring him home to die.

So, would you choose to let a loved one die a peaceful but inevitable death, or would you want to go 'full-tilt' with every invasive and painful life extending procedure?


It would have to depend on the Last Wishes of the person so affected.  And, I'm sorry to say, the availability of funds.  Grim knows that _I_ am not wealthy, so if the person in question had insurance, and it was their desire-- yes, I'd go Whole Hog as it were.

But, I would not place their family in financial ruin, just to buy a few more days/months.   It sounds harsh, but that's Reality.

Of course, there is almost always compromise.  Half-Hog, as it were.  If this buys quality time for them to make a graceful exit from their family? Certainly.   Especially if it was not going to break their bank.

Sometimes you have to consider the whole hog, before starting on a bar-b-que.   Once the person who's afflicted dies, the rest of the people affected have to go on living.

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en primus.  Favorite Day of the Week:  Busy, get-down-to-doing-SOMETHING, Monday?  Or lazy Sunday Afternoon, too late to do anything constructive, may as well sit/lay around drinking beverage of choice?

en secundus.  Favorite Time Of Day:  Oh, goody!  It's Morning!  Get up, start the day.   Or At Last!  It's evening!  Start to Par-tay!  Or something else?

en tertiarus.  Do you look forward to Interviews, or do you loathe them?  If the latter, why are you answering this silly quiz?   

[Swatopluk]

en primus.  Favorite Day of the Week:  Busy, get-down-to-doing-SOMETHING, Monday?  Or lazy Sunday Afternoon, too late to do anything constructive, may as well sit/lay around drinking beverage of choice?
Friday (especially, if there is duck on the menu at the university)

en secundus.  Favorite Time Of Day:  Oh, goody!  It's Morning!  Get up, start the day.   Or At Last!  It's evening!  Start to Par-tay!  Or something else?
after 8pm (then at last I am able to be actually productive, pre-noon I am useless)

en tertiarus.  Do you look forward to Interviews, or do you loathe them?  If the latter, why are you answering this silly quiz?   Grin
depends on the type of interview. If nothing depends on them (like here ), I am willing.

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Hastati) What legal rights should animals have?

Principes) Given that meat production consumes many more calories (provided by feeding the beasts) than can be extracted from it, should we go back to the days of meat only on one day per week?

Triarii) How "ethical" is your food consumption?

[pieces o nine]

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Of course, there is almost always compromise.  Half-Hog, as it were.  If this buys quality time for them to make a graceful exit from their family? Certainly.   Especially if it was not going to break their bank.

Sometimes you have to consider the whole hog, before starting on a bar-b-que.   Once the person who's afflicted dies, the rest of the people affected have to go on living.
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The funeral bar-b-que whole- or half-hogs may temperately furnish forth the marriage tables...

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Hastati) What legal rights should animals have?
1. Enough space left for wild creatures to live, in their natural, properly balanced habitats, throughout the world. The animals to be left unmolested and their space left 'undeveloped' by humans, protected by tasteful, environmentally suitable combinations of natural and man-made barriers. For the most part, they will keep themselves in check. If they stray into domesticated areas, vet/tech specialists would be available to capture and return them whenever possible, or to kill them swiftly and humanely if absolutely necessary.
2. As long as I am talking crazy: animals bred for human consumption (meat, eggs, dairy, leather, fur, wool, down, whatever) to be kept in humane conditions. Animals intended for slaughter to be put down by properly trained butchers, with respect: swiftly, painlessly, and out of the sight of their fellows. Something along the lines of 'shochet'. (Po9 repents of chikkin hot tubs parties here.) Educate -- OK...indoctrinate -- from early grades that feathers, fur, leather, etc., are not to be used in frivolous or throwaway purposes, as lives are taken to provide them.
3. Hunting to be de-glamourized and de-machismoed in non-indigenous areas. As long as I'm talking really, really  crazy, hunting to be pretty phased out in industrialized, non-indigenous populations. License for hunting or fishing to require proper training in proper weapon maintenance, and safe and accurate usage. Shift culture away from 'trophy' mentality and emphasize respectful sportsmanship (no super-duper-overkill calibres, for example). Humane and responsible bows respected more than rifles here. Serious repercussions for hunting on preserves, without licenses, driving around with trophies strapped to vehicles, or drunken or frivolous killing.
4. Animal product testing to be reduced to barest minimum. Applications for permits to use animals must show serious need. Test animals to be cared for with respect, in humane conditions and never subjected to torturous experimentation. Full public disclosure to be made on any permits issued, detailing product, reasons, process, and results. High-tech computer models and interactive computer graphics are already sophisticated enough for virtual dissections for vet or med students.
5. Pets to be cared for by responsible people in humane conditions. If animals are mistreated, they would be removed from the offending residence and those responsible prosecuted for cruelty to captive creatures. As long as I'm talking really crazy, reduction of obscene waste elsewhere in society would free up enough money to ensure spaying, neutering and proper medical care is available for all pets. [edit] Providing proper food, water, shelter, exercise and affection (as suitable for the species) should  go without saying, but I'd better say it anyway. [/edit]

Principes) Given that meat production consumes many more calories (provided by feeding the beasts) than can be extracted from it, should we go back to the days of meat only on one day per week?
I wouldn't mandate the frequency. I would also like to see the 'cowboy mystique' de-glamourized in the process of finding alternative work for those in the industry. Perhaps training to manage/protect the wild preserves specified in Q1 or to manage special, additional conservation parks which can be visited to observe and enjoy animals in their natural habitats...
(NB: I've met my share of ranchin types in my life, so I'm not naive about the cultural shift this would represent!)

Triarii) How "ethical" is your food consumption?
Not as ethical as it was previously. Cannot wait to recover from current neocon socio-economic 'negative enhancements' in my life. But that's  a whole different whole rant, isn't it?

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wanci:
Do you dress more for style, more for utility, or for a combination of the two? Is there a significant difference between your preference for home or dress and what is required for your work?

nunpa:
What vanity enhancements do you use? (Contact lenses or Lasik over corrective lenses; dying hair; makeup; etc) Is this for your personal comfort or to conform to work, [dating/marriage], or other social expectations?

yamni:
If you could change the 'normal' human aging process, what changes would you effect and why?


[Numbering courtesy of a Lakota language site.]

[Griffin NoName]

wanci:
Do you dress more for style, more for utility, or for a combination of the two? Is there a significant difference between your preference for home or dress and what is required for your work?

Equally for style and utility. Has to fulfill both. When I worked in the Uni dress was same home and work. Other places it was different. Now it's the same again but for a different reason - I dress up not down all the time -when I am dressed at all (actually I am beginning to dress up in bed as well - but that's another story). I have adopted this as a method of overcoming disability. There's nothing like looking as good as possible for banishing the aura of ill health. It's good for me psychologically and it fools other people who often now say wow you look so well.

nunpa:
What vanity enhancements do you use? (Contact lenses or Lasik over corrective lenses; dying hair; makeup; etc) Is this for your personal comfort or to conform to work, [dating/marriage], or other social expectations?

Nail varnish. (see above - same reason). Muck around with hair colour (see above - same reason - though this now extends to liking looking young).  Wear makeup at Christmas LOL.

yamni:
If you could change the 'normal' human aging process, what changes would you effect and why?
All of them. No aches and pains. Skin like a baby's. No degeneration of body parts. Definitely no brain loss function. I'd let everyone know their check out date and be perfect til the last moment with time to set their affairs in order. And I'd also make womens stomachs (and other bits) return to normal after having babies in them.

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One of Three:  If you had to do without one body part which would it be and why?  (excluding ones that make not much difference - appendix et al).

Two of Three:  If you could save your child but 2 other people would be killed, or you could save the 2 people but your child would be killed, which would you do?

Three of Three: What do you think life would be like if your upper and lower bodies were separate but connected via a tube or some other connecting method?

Bonus: where have the froggart questions gone?

[beagle]

One of Three:  If you had to do without one body part which would it be and why?  (excluding ones that make not much difference - appendix et al).

I'm quite attached to all of them. I could probably spare a toe now my premier league days are over.


Two of Three:  If you could save your child but 2 other people would be killed, or you could save the 2 people but your child would be killed, which would you do?

What did the kid get me for Father's day? Are the two politicians or timeshare salesmen? Need more information.


Three of Three: What do you think life would be like if your upper and lower bodies were separate but connected via a tube or some other connecting method?

Weird, even more dateless,  and not suitable for pre-watershed viewing.


Bonus: where have the froggart questions gone?

We lost the franchise, but we're pitching for athletes foot powder, and there's a possibility of Weetabix.

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1)  Where did you get the weird questions?

10)  Which is the best breakfast cereal (think carefully).

11) Will you ever write an essay again?

Bonus)  I like Weetabix because...?

[Swatopluk]

1)  Where did you get the weird questions?
I am a perweird, so no sur-prize there.

10)  Which is the best breakfast cereal (think carefully).
None of them. The only cereal for breakfast is whole-grain bread

11) Will you ever write an essay again?
The answer to this question is quite a complex one. As Durbin Quatfield said in his 1864 treatise on the common horsebug in a slight digression taken  from Stern Laurentz in his first Auntie Booby collection that he published after the great fleamarket riots following the coronation of Cedric, son of Ethelbert...eh, I think I am digressing a bit. What was the question actually?

More serious, does an PhD thesis count as essay?

Bonus)  I like Weetabix because...?
(Almost) Everything one does not know seems interesting. What will happen, if I press this red button marked "DOOM"?

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1) What do you expect to be the reason for your death?

2) Does that bother you?

3) Now, he's into morbidity (after sex and alternative lifestyles) What may be the reason and what will follow from that?

Bonus: Now we had binary a second time. are there no more obscure counting thechniques?

[Sibling Chatty]

1) What do you expect to be the reason for your death?

Carcinoid cancer or a side-effect thereof.

2) Does that bother you?

Nope. Gotta die someday, and I just don't want to be in pain when it happens.

3) Now, he's into morbidity (after sex and alternative lifestyles) What may be the reason and what will follow from that?

The reason for my death?? Really REALLY bad luck in the genetic lottery... What will follow from that? I hope my siblings and their progeny will catch the idea that GENETIC means "This could happen to YOU, too."

Bonus: Now we had binary a second time. are there no more obscure counting thechniques?

I'm thinkin' there are more languages to be explored...



one: Do you worry about your mortality--aging, memory issues, etc? NOT afterlife issues, just end of life issues.

two: About those afterlife issues? Whadda ya think?

many: Your stance on assisted dying/euthenasia/mercy killing--whatever ya wannacall it?

lots: (bonus) Which would bother you more--looking old or acting old?

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

one: Do you worry about your mortality--aging, memory issues, etc? NOT afterlife issues, just end of life issues.

Yes-- the loss of mental function.  To me, dying "gracefully" means your mind is good until the end, or just before.   Since I'm a rationalist, to me, all else is vanity. 

two: About those afterlife issues? Whadda ya think?

I have not drawn a definitive conclusion.

However, over the past 3 years conversing with various sorts, including zealots of several stripes, I have become a "hard atheist" with regards to the Traditional God.  (whatever flavor-- doesn't matter-- don't believe It/Him/Her exists as Advertised).

I think that god, if god exists, is nothing like what people claim or imagine.   The evidence is just not supportive of their claims.

On the other hand?  What if it IS a test?  But, what if the fundie-zealots have it exactly backwards?  What if the test, is for rationalism?  And that god, being ultimately rational, is interested in weeding out rational minds, for Interesting Discourse.   But, what of the fanatical-fundies?  God, being ultimately rational, has a place for them, too:  yes, it's crassly furnished in gold leaf, with marble, yada-yada-yada.  Harps issued to each at the door....

Bottom line:  all humans (barring the unusual specimen) demonstrate at least the capacity for rational thinking.

If humans are even a remote reflection of the Ultimate Creator (god--duuh! ) then that Being is rational as well, yes?

If so-- the only rational "conclusion" from where I'm sitting, is:  "I do not know.  I am awaiting more information."

Once we die-- if there is an afterlife, I think that "more information" would be available in abundance, yes?   At the very least, what IS and what IS NOT would be apparent.

At that time, then, I would attempt to draw a conclusion.

I would think that a rational being could well understand that, and not hold it against me that I waited until I was dead....

many: Your stance on assisted dying/euthenasia/mercy killing--whatever ya wannacall it?

I have already put plans into effect, with regards to myself.  Were I to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's, or other mentally-degrading condition, I will exit gracefully, likely by my own hand.   If I'm facing a life of increasing pain, and less and less physical function-- again, I will exit gracefully before things get out of hand.

So, obviously, I think that it ought to be a RIGHT of anyone who's mind is otherwise functional, to choose to exit gracefully.  To kill themselves with dignity, and without stigma, if you don't like euphemisms.

To quote Robert Heinlein' character, Lazarous Long, in Time Enough For Love:

"Where is my friggin suicide button?  It is supposed to be right there on the arm of my hospital chair-- I can see where it's been removed!  I want that button re-installed, pronto!"

lots: (bonus) Which would bother you more--looking old or acting old?

Acting old-- definitely.   Not a big worry about how I look.


                     
       
ένας - Do you believe essentially the same things as you grew up with, or have you changed some, a little, or a lot?  To what?  (or not.. )

δύο - Watch much TV?  Favorite show?  Or favorite alternative to TV if you don't

τρία - Speak more than English?  Go ahead-- brag. 

Bonus:  what language did I number these?

[Opsa]

ένας - Do you believe essentially the same things as you grew up with, or have you changed some, a little, or a lot?  To what?  (or not.. Smiley )

Essentially, I am just about where I always was, belief-wise. It's just gone through various fine-tunings along the way. My Mom was Episcopalian, but I never got into the whole Christian thing for some reason, even though my three other siblings did. My Dad was Unitarian. More my speed, but a bit vague.

For the past nine months I have been studying the Medicine Wheel ways.  I really like them because they require no faith. What you see is what you get. All you have to do is make a practice of looking and feeling. If you are able to find the great spirit outside and inside, then lucky you. You don't need afterlife if you can find heaven here. Just like anything else, it's temporary. All the more reason to appreciate it whenever it moves through your life.

Also- it is the most adaptable philosophy I have ever met. Rules may be modified or broken. It evolves!  That makes very good sense to me.

δύο - Watch much TV?  Favorite show?  Or favorite alternative to TV if you don't

I like unusual movies and The Daily Show with John Stewart.

τρία - Speak more than English?  Go ahead-- brag.  Mr Green Mr Green
Nur ein bischien Deatsch buchstabiere ich sie schlecht.

Bonus:  what language did I number these?

It's all Greek to me.


1) How often (if ever) do you take time to meditate?

2) Would you rather be made of wood or made of stone?

3) How self-conscious would you say you are?

[Griffin NoName]

1) How often (if ever) do you take time to meditate?

Once or twice a year. Used to be often, but I lapsed.

2) Would you rather be made of wood or made of stone?

I think I am more likely to turn into a pillar of salt, but if you insist then stone, black smooth carved flowing hint of feminine shape like what my sculptor friend makes. (or maybe I'd like to be one of Constantin Brancusi 's works).

3) How self-conscious would you say you are?

Used to be excrutiatingly but could completely put it aside. Something snapped about 15 years ago and now I don't give a fart's curse.

I could never speak up in large groups. Now I can. I can even be the one addressing a large group. Even having forgotten to put on my false breast.

I really don't know how I changed so totally but it had something to do with a workshop where I had to crawl around on the floor in front of strangers.

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1.  Which bit of your body do you like best and why?

2.  What are the sorts of initial rational thoughts you have on waking... examples... give as many as possible

3.  What's the most embarrassing item of clothing you have ever worn or had to wear and how did you cope with it?

[Sibling Chatty]

1.  Which bit of your body do you like best and why?

Hair. It's easy to keep it out of my way and it rarely hurts.

2.  What are the sorts of initial rational thoughts you have on waking... examples... give as many as possible

"Rational" and "on waking"? Can those two terms co-exist? Not in my subjective experience...

OK, usually, I wake up to either the thought of "to the potty NOW" or "will someone convince the dog that just because HE is awake, I don't have to be awake, too". My favorite is "Hmmm, nothing really hurts much." One of my least favorites is "Oh, damn, damn, damn that hurts" which can be anything from muscle spasms and cramps in my feet and legs to a torsion-type pain in various places in my abdomen.

I used to wake up thinking about work, the meaning of work and why I needed to work. (Hated bosses, torture by others, needed the money...) Periodically, I wake up thinking that the world would be a much nicer place if there had been a universal flush system installed at the beginning, so that it could easily clean up us and our messes.

3.  What's the most embarrassing item of clothing you have ever worn or had to wear and how did you cope with it?

In a one-act play, I had to wear a lacy slip with nothing under it but a bra and panties. It had to look convincingly like I was wearing just my underclothing.

I wore flesh toned tights, so that when I started out putting on the thigh-high white lace hose, there was already something on my legs, and wore a tightly fitted, boned 'merry-widow' type corset (bustier) onto which we attached what looked like bra straps. Thus, I had sufficient layers of clothing on that I wasn't embarrassed about wearing "just my undies" on stage.

That I had to do this at a regional (6 state area) theatre competition in front of 3,000 plus people?? We don't discuss that. Also, my hair was waist length, and I was allowed to have it down. At that time it was thick enough to be quite concealing. (Think Cousin Itt from the Addams Family...)

The play was Tennesee William's 27 Wagonloads of Cotton, which was made into the film Babydoll.

Tennessee Williams can really write 'em...



1) Have you ever done any theatre? Acting, singing, even stagework? If so, did you enjoy it?

2) If you could be a Shakesperian character, which one would you choose? (Not act the part, but BE the character.) Why?

3) If you could be a character in a novel, which one in which novel? Why?
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[anthrobabe]

I am going to answer these but
I really want sibling Zono to come and answer them as well! Seriously-

1) Have you ever done any theatre? Acting, singing, even stagework? If so, did you enjoy it?
I was in my 6th grade play. I played an old woman who had one line. I got to walk with a cane, I gave the smart mouth kid who had the lead a bloody head with it 

2) If you could be a Shakesperian character, which one would you choose? (Not act the part, but BE the character.) Why?
Cordelia-- King Lear, she's a nice person, balances evil people, is honorable, has mercy-- she's just a nice person who plays nicely with others. And the name is cool also  . My grandmother is Cordellia Izora and I am S. Cordellia.


3) If you could be a character in a novel, which one in which novel? Why?
I don't know-- first to mind Jo March (Josephine-Little Women), she is independent, does her own thing, loves deeply, is intelligent, and is loved by others.
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here take this little pill and call me later.




?: Are you a Trekkie? why/why not?

??: Or is Star Wars your thing? why/why not?

: If you learned that in fact you had 30 minutes to live, what would you do?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Someone summoned me.

In a big RED font.

Hence...

1) Have you ever done any theatre? Acting, singing, even stagework? If so, did you enjoy it?
Straight theatre, in highschool on a small rol. Nothing to write home about. Singing, 3 years of vocal technique, a few school concerts and soloist works a couple of times. Choral work, since high school, then University chorus, music department chorus, and professional choruses both in Bogotá and in South Florida, including (the now defunct) Florida Philharmonic Orchestra and Palm Beach Opera.

Lots of respect for stage hands & work but never done it myself. It is a very unforgiving job (miss a cue and everybody will voice how incompetent you are).

2) If you could be a Shakesperian character, which one would you choose? (Not act the part, but BE the character.) Why?
Hamlet: idealistic, deranged, insane... I can see part of myself in him.

3) If you could be a character in a novel, which one in which novel? Why?
Phew! That is a hard question, while I do identify myself with certain characters while reading a novel, none come to mind in this moment as one I could claim.

Or perhaps Casaubon from Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum?
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?: Are you a Trekkie? why/why not?
No. The canonic definition crosses the line into a level of fandom I'm not prepared to embrace. Now, I do love the series and the idea of a human world in which rationality is above self interest, the hope of a future in a real sense. Sadly a future so morally distant it vanishes into the impossibility.

??: Or is Star Wars your thing? why/why not?
As fun scifi? Of course, what could be cooler? Regarding the serious themes in it, I do recognize the Jedi ethos and the politic pathos in the series, but sometimes if falls into a caricature of those.

: If you learned that in fact you had 30 minutes to live, what would you do?
Use meditation to get ready for my passing. Not enough time for meaningful goodbye's.
 
1. Irony or cynicism? Explain.

2. Does satire influence people or it is simply a way to let some steam out?

3. Do you expect to see humans behaving rationally at some point? Or perhaps in certain situation?