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[ocelot]

LJ Interests meme results

1. biking:
   In the past six months, bikes have become my primary form of transportation, exercise, and recreation.
2. cats:
   I think this one is self-explanatory
3. dissahc:
   Just google it. I can't explain.
4. ender's game:
   This book slowly but surely took over my life for about 5 years.
5. grape jelly:
   Um, I'm not sure why. I should probably take it off the list.
6. kim stanley robinson:
   Good author. He lives in Davis. I'm a crazy fangirl.
7. madeleine l'engle:
   Good author. She doesn't live in Davis. I'm a crazy fangirl.
8. orson scott card:
   Good author. He doesn't live in Davis. I'm a crazy fangirl. I've even met him on several occasions, and he remembered me, which made my crazy fangirl self very happy. Except then he went all hyper-ultra-conservative on me.
9. security:
   My primary interest in computers, other than procrastination and time-wasting of course, has always been security issues.
10. toddlers:
    I have a toddler.

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Comments

[nolly.livejournal.com]

I didn't know Kim Stanley Robinson was in Davis!

Although I never finished the Mars trilogy....just too dry for me.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

I admit, I skimmed when it got too dry. Kind of like Les Miserables.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

I listened to that one as an audiobook. Hmmm, maybe I should see if Audible has the Mars books...
I've found that I can get through a lot as audio that I would bog down in reading.

[jabberwokky.livejournal.com]

I've seen him a handful of times at Sudwerk. He likes his beer and brats, I guess.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

koyote realized after seeing him on the back of one of his books that he talked to him on occasion when he (koyote, that is) was doing the demo kitchen at the co-op.

[jabberwokky.livejournal.com]

Orson Scott Card is my favorite kind of ultra conservative - he has his beliefs, voices them, believes in them and stands by them. He thinks his beliefs should be more common.

He also doesn't think they should be forced on people, he doesn't work them into everything he does, and he has a good amount of respect for people with radically different ideas.

He's actually a pretty good example of somebody I can respect and disagree with.

I interviewed him a couple times when I did my science fiction radio show... I asked him about Alvin Maker, the Seventh Son (with all the pagan imagery) and how it reconciled with his Mormon beliefs. He was very well spoken. Neat guy.