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lederhosenAccording to an article in the Independent, "A newly discovered fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament indicates that, as far as the Antichrist goes, theologians, scholars, heavy metal groups, and television evangelists have got the wrong number. Instead of 666, it's actually the far less ominous 616." I can only imagine the grin on the faces of tattoo removalists and the guys who make Marilyn Manson's letterhead.
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freyaw asks:
1. Favourite meal that someone else cooks/cooked you. This can be a restaurant meal, something you remember eating once, whatever. It just has to be edible. And something that you can't do better.
Quite possiblyreynardo's apple cake, of which I've just eaten a slice :-) Otherwise, possibly the duck at Giovanna's (Italian restaurant near UNSW).
2. What things mean home to you?
Mostly, people. I love my books and stuff, but home is where family (by blood and otherwise) are. Which makes it hard to pin down, alas...
3. I'm a conditional genie. I grant musical mastery... Pick an instrument, and explain to your fans why you chose it. Borrowed this one fromenkorvaks who was asked it by someone else
I don't know a great deal about them, but possibly one of the idiophones. I can enjoy just about any instrument if played well, but things like guitar and piano have plenty of representation already. The musical saw has a beautiful sound, and the glass harmonica... well, how can I go past an instrument with a reputation for causing madness in its players?
4. If you had the opportunity to meet any one person, fiction or non-fiction, who would it be and why?
Hard to choose between Alan Turing and Stanislav Petrov, to each of whom the world owes a great deal; if it's a long meeting I'll pick Turing, because we'd have more to talk about, and I think Turing would be fascinated to hear how things turned out, but for a short meeting probably Petrov. Others high on the list would be Jesus Christ, Lord Byron, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and maybe Stanley Milgram. (I get the impression William Marston and his family would've been interesting, too :-)
5. Are you (and your lovely wife) available to have dinner some time between 23/7 and 5/8?
In Sydney or Adelaide? Yes to the former, not sure about the latter.
freyaw asks:1. Favourite meal that someone else cooks/cooked you. This can be a restaurant meal, something you remember eating once, whatever. It just has to be edible. And something that you can't do better.
Quite possibly
reynardo's apple cake, of which I've just eaten a slice :-) Otherwise, possibly the duck at Giovanna's (Italian restaurant near UNSW).2. What things mean home to you?
Mostly, people. I love my books and stuff, but home is where family (by blood and otherwise) are. Which makes it hard to pin down, alas...
3. I'm a conditional genie. I grant musical mastery... Pick an instrument, and explain to your fans why you chose it. Borrowed this one from
enkorvaks who was asked it by someone elseI don't know a great deal about them, but possibly one of the idiophones. I can enjoy just about any instrument if played well, but things like guitar and piano have plenty of representation already. The musical saw has a beautiful sound, and the glass harmonica... well, how can I go past an instrument with a reputation for causing madness in its players?
4. If you had the opportunity to meet any one person, fiction or non-fiction, who would it be and why?
Hard to choose between Alan Turing and Stanislav Petrov, to each of whom the world owes a great deal; if it's a long meeting I'll pick Turing, because we'd have more to talk about, and I think Turing would be fascinated to hear how things turned out, but for a short meeting probably Petrov. Others high on the list would be Jesus Christ, Lord Byron, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and maybe Stanley Milgram. (I get the impression William Marston and his family would've been interesting, too :-)
5. Are you (and your lovely wife) available to have dinner some time between 23/7 and 5/8?
In Sydney or Adelaide? Yes to the former, not sure about the latter.
