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I'm busy as hell at work, am not exactly forthcoming, and always make fun of things like this, but I'll post it anyway:
The problem with LJ: We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.


Necessary modifications:
We know something about each other. Anyone who says "you only know what I post here" paints a stupid picture because well, yes, that is what we know about you, and therefore all the material we have to judge you by. If I come across as a know-it-all in LJ, then you know me as a know-it-all unless we've otherwise interacted. So you know about me what I ~want~ you to know about me, and that's cool. I probably know less about you than you want me to know because I have a mind like a steel sieve.

I have no illusions that I'm close with many of you.
I hope the inverse is true.
And that's fine. It would be incredibly rude to tell any person "You're not my best friend" although it is (almost) necessary for any number of known people to not be a "best friend". It's simply in the telling. On the other hand, there's a weird expectation that LJ-Friend = Friend, and that "Friend" means vastly different things to different people at different times.

So instead of posting anything that matters in the slightest, and not doing work for 10 minutes, I examined a Livejournals meme.
I'm so cool it hurts.

Ask as you will.
I'm screening comments because of the um...mixed audience this journal has, and so you may ask almost anything with impunity.

WARNING: I might lie.

Date: 2006-01-09 04:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] murnkay.livejournal.com
What's your favorite angry music?

Date: 2006-01-09 04:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
Tough one!
Angry music for when I'm angry: Frontline Assembly or Suicide Commando
Angry music for existential crises: Coil
Angry music for angsty programming: UNKLE
Angry music for sex/fighting: This Morn Omina
Angry music for pissall anger's own sake!: Consolidated

Date: 2006-01-09 04:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_amaranthe_/
Name 3 people most influential in your life.

Date: 2006-01-09 05:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
I'll bring this to "people I know" versus possible historical influences, because it's easier.

My father - people still mistake me for him on the phone
My grandfather - we still talk in dreams
Faidra - because love's the only engine of survival

Date: 2006-01-09 05:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] delathi.livejournal.com
Why one birdhouse?

Date: 2006-01-09 05:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
It doesn't make any fucking sense!
There should either be NO birdhouses, because it's the fucking woods and they can make their homes in the trees, or there should be enough birdhouses for ALL of the birds!
I propose we cut down the entire forest, use the wood and area thus provided to build ten thousand birdhouses, and it'll all make MUCH MORE SENSE.

Date: 2006-01-09 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unrepentant.livejournal.com
Why don't we take some kind of group vacation together?

Date: 2006-01-09 07:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
The idea hasn't been presented?

Date: 2006-01-09 05:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] servingdonuts.livejournal.com
Do you really think there are 263 people who think you're as cool as I do?

Date: 2006-01-09 07:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
I find it unlikely - you've indicated a decent level of appreciated coolness for me, and I believe you. I think there's a Bell Curve, with the big lump at "Ambiguous Positive Feeling, but Skim What I Have to Say".
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Date: 2006-01-09 07:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
It all happened so naturally, it's hard to pinpoint.

It had something to do with Jean Baudrillard, best known for his formulation of the notion of hyperreality, and in particular hyperreality in the United States. According to Baudrillard, America has constructed itself a world that is more 'real' than real, and where those inhabiting it are obsessed with timelessness, perfection, and objectification of the self. Furthermore, authenticity has been replaced by copy (thus reality is replaced by a substitute), and nothing is "real," though those engaged in the illusion are incapable of seeing it. Instead of having experiences, people observe spectacles, via real or metaphorical control screens. Instead of the real, we have simulation and simulacra.

But really, things tended to unfold as they should. We communicate. She is able to pry thoughts and feelings out of me like no one else ever has been able to do, but more often than not, doesn't have to pry. We have wild weasel sex. She's the kindest person I ever met, challenges me, and believes in me.

Date: 2006-01-09 05:18 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] adrienmundi
Ideal world, where all material needs are met, as well as all material needs of anyone else you might ever be concerned about: how do you fill your days/what do you do to feel fulfilled?

Date: 2006-01-09 08:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
Indulging leisure, seeking to improve the capacity of ~all~ to reach the same state.

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Date: 2006-01-09 05:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gedanken23.livejournal.com

How do comments about being asian really make you feel?

Date: 2006-01-09 07:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
From friends or general positive audiences, kinda funny-good. I've only been able to embrace this portion of myself in relatively recent years, and that embracing has included being able to mock the stereotypes and limitations the label would seem to suggest.

Roundeyes.

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Date: 2006-01-09 05:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhino777.livejournal.com
Somewhere between the tkk email list and livejournal you stopped emphasizing that you were a christian. Did you decide to try something else or are you still one and I just haven't noticed it?

Also, who's your favorite cock?

Date: 2006-01-09 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
In that time, I was vascillating between being a Fundie and diving into a reactionary, fundamentalist anti-Christian, a state I suspended myself within for a few years. I essentially burned the label out of me, learned new things about different beliefs, and then curved back around into what is essentially Christianity, but in a larger, universalist mindset. Some people call it Taoism.

Date: 2006-01-09 06:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thegreyman.livejournal.com
What shatterd your faith?

Date: 2006-01-09 07:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
Reason. It also helped bring it back!

Date: 2006-01-09 06:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grrlreloaded.livejournal.com
Do you have any unusual moles?

Date: 2006-01-09 07:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
I do have a 'beauty mark' on my cheek <3

I also have a birthmark on my right side abdomen, balanced carefully with a small mole on the opposite side of my body. I'm pretty sure the mole holds the birthmark in place.

Date: 2006-01-09 06:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karzon.livejournal.com
Did you have sex with teacher?

Date: 2006-01-09 07:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
No, and that haunts me to this day :(

"Yeargh! Sponges!!"

Date: 2006-01-09 06:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grendel317.livejournal.com
Why the leather chaps?

Re: "Yeargh! Sponges!!"

Date: 2006-01-09 07:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
The monkey's a picky bastard :(

Date: 2006-01-09 06:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theinnocence.livejournal.com
I have no illusions that I'm close with many of you.
am i part of any?

Date: 2006-01-09 07:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
You're specifically part of the very, very few.

why ask obvious qwestions, again?

Date: 2006-01-09 06:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schartok.livejournal.com
what were you really good at in early elementary school?
given the choice do you prefer working with people, animals, or machines?
what is the most exhausted you have ever been?
what is the most expensive thing you have ever broken?
where would you be now, and doing what, given the wherewithal?
which of your ingrained tendencies have you had cause to haul out and examine lately?
which language would you like to learn most?
what's the title of the book you'd like to write?
[other than lj, i guess] what do you do when you should be working?
when was the last time you did something that was previously out of the qwestion?

Re: why ask obvious qwestions, again?

Date: 2006-01-09 08:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
what were you really good at in early elementary school?
Being bullied by girls.

given the choice do you prefer working with people, animals, or machines?
Specific people.

what is the most exhausted you have ever been?
Eustress: long night of dancing, panting on the floor.
Distress: dehydration under similar circumstances, panting on the floor.

what is the most expensive thing you have ever broken?
Either my father's Suburban truck, or some nice girl named Kim.

where would you be now, and doing what, given the wherewithal?
a single finger trailing in the meditteranean

which of your ingrained tendencies have you had cause to haul out and examine lately?
assuming the worse for closer friends

which language would you like to learn most?
Greek and/or Korean

what's the title of the book you'd like to write?
Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit

[other than lj, i guess] what do you do when you should be working?
Reading random crap on wikipedia, occasionally sneak into WoW to check on guild things. It ain't easy being Caliph!

when was the last time you did something that was previously out of the qwestion?
Besides the 12 impossible things before breakfast, I'd say -- against societal mores, New Year's Eve *wink to co-conspirators*, against personal habit, last night, another open conversation with The Greek.

Date: 2006-01-09 06:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vulgarlad.livejournal.com
if money weren't an option, where would be your ideal place to live & why?

~the lad

Date: 2006-01-09 08:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
In my limited travels, I'd say Greece held much attraction to me -- for all of the problems of resources, pollution, whatever, it was very lovely and comfortable.

Some place like New York would have a limited time appeal for me, just for the sake of being in it.

Date: 2006-01-09 07:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seigebell.livejournal.com
What was your favorite sort of activity (or television show, if that was the activity) prior to junior high?

Date: 2006-01-09 08:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
Cartoons - no matter how inane.
Setting fire to things down by the creek.
Regress a little further for catching reptiles and amphibians.

Date: 2006-01-09 09:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] judecorp.livejournal.com
How did you meet the Greek?

Date: 2006-01-09 09:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
Transitionally, in clubs via friends. She crushed one of my friends in a game of MERCY and he introduced her to us. She seemed nervous and scattered quickly.

Later, we began chatting via an email list, began meeting in person and she hunted me down/I stole her.

Really, Baudrillard had lots to do with it.

Date: 2006-01-09 10:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prncesbuttercup.livejournal.com
Although I have only met you about three times, I do know of you from LJ and from mutual friends that we have and so I do feel like I know a bit about you and do concider you a friend.

Date: 2006-01-10 04:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
Yeah. Weird how it works, isn't it? ;)

Date: 2006-01-10 12:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heathrow.livejournal.com
What is your one big regret/decision you'd go back and reverse? (Assuming you doing so wouldn't through the world off its axis, etc..)

Date: 2006-01-10 04:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
A recent reemerged one - I never went to Germany with my grandfather.

why?

Date: 2006-01-10 01:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] songofthesiren.livejournal.com
Why have we never found a way to do more than just this?

~b

Re: why?

Date: 2006-01-10 04:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
Because we're all ignorant apes who don't let ourselves realize more.

Date: 2006-01-10 02:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skiadaimonos.livejournal.com
To bok or not to bok?

Date: 2006-01-10 04:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
Oh, goodness BOK!

so...

Date: 2006-01-10 08:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ubu.livejournal.com
of all the events chronicled in your LJ in the past five years that I, as very much the outsider, may have been a passingly familiar observer, what would you change, or at the the very least, have approached differently?
(and feel free to bypass any ultra sensitive topics, I'm more interested in hearing what changes in perpective may have resulted over the this period)

Re: so...

Date: 2006-01-10 04:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
Every opportunity that I thought I'd make a good Arbiter of Tough Truth.
Sometimes people need to hear difficult things. I tend to despise the "Oh, I'm honest therefore I'll be a bitch/bastard" sort, so I try to be someone who can be helpfully critical of someone's life/attitude/behaviour/problems without being a bitch/bastard. I have tended to fail at this, and have lost friends. This has been variably worthwhile - some I regret, some I don't but I miss them, and some were right but caused more pain than was worth it. This is probably the widest ranging point I'd have changed, if not necessarily the deepest.

Date: 2006-01-10 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moncrief.livejournal.com
If I were to post this meme thing on my LJ, what would you ask me?

Date: 2006-01-10 04:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottopic.livejournal.com
I'd actually have lots of questions. I trust our friendship will continue in such a manner which would allow them to be discussed :)

But to answer your question:
In a general sense, are you happy now? What can be done to increase your happiness?

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