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Want to be interviewed?

Here are the rules:
1 -- Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 -- I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 -- You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 -- You'll include this explanation.
5 -- You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

My answers to the questions

politas asked me are

1. How much mental effort does it take for you to pick up a new, unknown author to read?

Not that much. If I go out to buy new books I usually buy a mixture of known and unknown authors. As I now seem to have a circle of friends who are into sf fandom, I also get recommendations.

2. Are you more likely to start reading a brand new author, or an established author you haven't read before?

I don’t really think that I distinguish between them very much. If I haven’t read them before, they are equally unknown quantities. I’m more likely to go on whether the story sounds as if it will interest me.

3. What keeps you interested in the SCA?

Hmmm, complicated question – there are many aspects to it. People are one aspect, but they aren’t really what make the SCA unique. What I’m enjoying at this stage is all the new skills that I can learn from people who know. And the costumes, of course.

Oh, and I quite enjoy watching people in armour bash each other with sticks.

4. How many electronic gadgets do you normally take with you when you go out of the house?

Only 2 – mobile phone and pda. Oh, and a USB key if I’m going to work. If I’m taking public transport, I’ll also take an mp3 player. Ok, so 4.

5. If a neural interface was available, would you get one? Where on the scale of experimental - everyday would such a thing need to be for you to let people mess with your brain?

Depends on what it would enable me to do, how it gave me the information and how well integrated it was into my thought processes. And probably on how easy it would be to remove without damage if something went wrong. It would have to be well past the experimental phase. Early adoption has its limits. I like my brain intact.