Howdy. I've been ambling around the forums without aim or purpose for a little while now, so I thought I should afflict you all with a proper introduction. I respond to most names as long as I know you're talking to me, but "Sam" usually works the best. It's holds no greater accuracy than any of the other noises used for identification, but I'm a creature of habit. On earth I'm 23 years old, 96 on Mercury, 35 on Venus. I probably won't live to see my first Birthday on Pluto, but the parties there ain't too hot so I don't let it worry me. I hide in the rural idyll of South Cambridgeshire for the most part of the year. I graduated from uni in 06' where I studied drama, nowadays (and against my better judgement) I'm trying to make my way in writing. My first play was on last September, and my book will be out in March. Amazingly, neither has made me famous yet, but despite nobody knowing me, I've gotten to know who lots of strange and interesting people are, which is an ample compensation. I've been a practicing Buddhist for about 7 years now, I still need more practice. I would say it has changed my life, but it would be a superfluous comment because everything that happens to anyone changes their life. Doubtless, not converting would have changed it too. A few years ago I finally despaired of humanity and decided to abdicate from the species, trading Homo Sapien for Homo Stultus, but I still take a passing interest in human affairs, and have a stuttering, stop-start level of activity in the Green Party. Despite having stood in a few elections, I tend to see myself as leaning towards Anarchist politics these days, as I become increasingly skeptical of democracy as a vehicle for change. I still vote, but only in the same way that a victim of a mugging sometimes punches back. I'm a brown-belt in Judo (the sport kind of runs in my family), but haven't practiced for some time, less influenced by my pacifism, and more by time constraints. I read, a lot. A few of my favourite authors are: Terry Pratchett, China Mieville, Ursula K. Le Guin, Spike Milligan, Kurt Vonnegut, Aldous Huxley... the list goes on. Don't ask me to recommend books, you won't escape. I play the mandolin, badly, and am a huge fan of Devendra Banhart. I have already gone on for far longer than can possibly be interesting, so I'll sign-off. You're free to interrogate, but I'll never tell you where I hid the bodies.
How do you feel about Pluto's demotion from planet status? Would a birthday on Neptune be just as good? Maybe not Uranus. It might get you some funny looks when people ask you where they party's at....
Pluto seemed unfazed when we thought it was a planet... it seems unfazed now. Pluto is totally cool, so if Pluto is OK with it, I guess I am. I'm thinking of celebrating ALL my interplanetary birthdays from now on
I'm marginally involved in the South Cambs party, but don't know anyone in the central cambridge party. I should be more involved really. The only two I know are our MP candidate and the chap who was my electoral agent. + a few of the young greens from across the country who I met at glastonbury
Hello... I was going to post in your intro thread but it was ooold and this one's much newer. You fell asleep at the wheel of your internet...I've seen you motoring around before, in other parts of cyberspace, now here you are! Cool. Will you have a coffee? Tea? Other? Are the wizard-based books the best Discworld ones? Or not? I'm building a big cardboard Unseen University. Have you seen any badgers recently? I haven't
I just wanted to say hi and i liked your post Im rubbish at thinking of questions. My husbands a practising Buddhist, and it rubs off. Its good to see others around. I may be back in a day or 2...or 3, when my minds kicked into gear Welcome:cheers2:
lol there are only a few other places on the net that I haunt with this username. And one of them I haven't been on for a loooong while. Oddly, I have seen a badger fairly recently, I was jogging near the end of August round dusk and damn near ran straight into one just outside of the woods near me. There was an awkward moment where we stared at one another (me wondering if I could outrun a badger - they can be vicious!-, he thinking whatever it is badgers think on long summer evenings), before it turned and bolted back down the path. I like the Witches books from discworld better than the Wizards, cos of Granny Weatherwax, though a few intertwine (Equal Rites). Granny Weatherwax is the man. Tea for me I likes my tea
Ooooh good question! Bonsai, yep think I've seen you in places you've been absent from for a while...or place anyway...I tend to lurk, and never post (a habit I'm trying to break!) so make little impact forum-wise, though sometimes I think it's just that everyone is too loud for me! Badgers are great. I never see them around here While I agree with your appraisal of the great Granny Weatherwax, and certainly wish to wake up in the morning the same shape as I went to bed, one cannot underestimate the greatness of Sam Vimes. Tea? Make that two
I'm not huge on pies, because I find pastry too dry for my taste, but I like spicy stuff. Does a curry cornish-pasty count?
Sam Vimes is a whole bag of awesome, I get the feeling he is Practhett's favourite character from his novels. Apparently badger populations are quite high at the moment, if you live in the country you can sometimes spot one at dusk if you know where they hang out (usually at bowling alleys or near news agents) and every now and again you might see one on the road... flat A deflated badger is a strangely depressing sight. If you live in the town, you can get a similar effect by getting a white cat and a black cat and taping them together. lol! Ah yes, I've not been back to that forum in quite some time I still chat to a few members on msn
Hmm. I live in a town and have access to several cats...no white ones, but maybe I can improvise. I'll have to give it some thought, or maybe not. A curry cornish pasty?? That sounds intriguing... I wonder if you can get them all the way up here...I've definitely seen curry pies. This requires investigation. I used to have a pair of 'Sam Vimes shoes.' Really they were just cheap and nasty, but calling them that made me feel better about being a poor student. I can admit now that I didn't really enjoy feeling connected to every road surface in such a direct manner. Seems very chilled here, almost no hissy fits. I like that. This may be too gigantic a question to answer in this one thread, but what was your play about? If answering with a link to someplace is easier, (I don't know if that's allowed, thinking about it?) cool...or feel free to dodge the question entirely, they make a nice wooshing sound as they fly by.
lol all my shoes at uni ended their lives as Sam Vimes shoes. I insist on wearing them to the bitter end. A curry pie sounds gooooooood My play was called "Citizen Goom - Saviour of the Universe." There was a website for our theatre company, I think the url may have expired, but it is still hosted on my personal website: http://www.socksofwrath.co.uk/nasite/ http://www.socksofwrath.co.uk/nasite/goompics.html And there are some pics of me and others performing it, to the horror of our poor audience. The play was about a Catholic priest who falls off the edge of the world shortly after discovering it is flat I think it doesn't count as completely shameless self-promotion, since the show finished over a year ago.
If you were a signalman on a bridge over a railway and you saw Noel Edmonds running along the tracks towards a small child, all the while screaming and yelling that he was going to kill the child because the universe phoned him and told him to, would you: a) Pull the lever to change the points and hope Noel would be confused and run off along the other track away from the child. b) Release a lever which would drop a train suspended from a crane onto the tracks into the path of the oncoming Edmonds, possibly killing him. c) Do nothing.
none of those three, but since the question doesn't allow for anything else... I would probably pull the lever, but if that failed, I would do nothing. It's wrong to kill, and it is impossible to save the life of a mortal.
Definitely. I would have fainted. I have a recurring nightmare where Noel Edmunds with no-trousers steals my favourite red bike. The pressure of seeing the object of my night terrors realised would be too much for conscious mind to bear
I think this is the best question weve had here, one that needs answers from everyone, if theyre to know themselves and the world around them
