Questions from sabotabby
Nov. 19th, 2009 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marnanelI can't promise to give five good questions to everyone who comments, though.
1. Who would win in a fight, Delirium of the Endless or Cthulhu?
This is one of those "irresistible force meets immovable object" questions. But thinking over it carefully, I reckon it would go something like this:
2. How would you explain copyright/copyleft and the open source movement to a slightly slow 16-year-old?
That's a great question. I think I will actually try to write something up as a good explanation aimed at middle-school kids. But a good start on the answer was already made by Chumbawamba:
The Boy Bands Have Won, and All The Copyists and The Tribute Bands and The TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture To Be Shaped By Mimicry, Whether From Lack Of Ideas Or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try To Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother’s Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don’t Just Regurgitate Creative History, Or Hold Art And Music And Literature As Fixed, Untouchable And Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try To ‘Guard’ Any Particular Form Of Music Are, Like The Copyists And Manufactured Bands, Doing It The Worst Disservice, Because The Only Thing That You Can Do To Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It’s Over, Then It’s Done, and The Boy Bands Have Won.
3. Which was your favourite Narnia book?
"Dawn Treader", because of all the wonderful geography and the living stars. It's followed closely by "The Magician's Nephew", but that's not surprising: I realised many years ago that most story books hold my interest insofar as they are similar to the works of E. Nesbit, and "Nephew" is almost entirely ripped off from "The Story of the Amulet".
4. Are there any recurring themes in your writing?
Both personal autonomy and Cambridge University Library tend to crop up over and over.
5. When will Joule be back up? (Sorry, sorry!)
Well, I need to wind back the database to the old format. Then I need to decide whether we're going to host it; we possibly will, but someone else has also quite generously offered us space, so maybe it'll go there instead. The weekend's coming up, which would seem to be a good time to put in the last few hours on it. I know a lot of people are being very patient.
1. Who would win in a fight, Delirium of the Endless or Cthulhu?
This is one of those "irresistible force meets immovable object" questions. But thinking over it carefully, I reckon it would go something like this:
2. How would you explain copyright/copyleft and the open source movement to a slightly slow 16-year-old?
That's a great question. I think I will actually try to write something up as a good explanation aimed at middle-school kids. But a good start on the answer was already made by Chumbawamba:
The Boy Bands Have Won, and All The Copyists and The Tribute Bands and The TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture To Be Shaped By Mimicry, Whether From Lack Of Ideas Or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try To Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother’s Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don’t Just Regurgitate Creative History, Or Hold Art And Music And Literature As Fixed, Untouchable And Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try To ‘Guard’ Any Particular Form Of Music Are, Like The Copyists And Manufactured Bands, Doing It The Worst Disservice, Because The Only Thing That You Can Do To Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It’s Over, Then It’s Done, and The Boy Bands Have Won.
3. Which was your favourite Narnia book?
"Dawn Treader", because of all the wonderful geography and the living stars. It's followed closely by "The Magician's Nephew", but that's not surprising: I realised many years ago that most story books hold my interest insofar as they are similar to the works of E. Nesbit, and "Nephew" is almost entirely ripped off from "The Story of the Amulet".
4. Are there any recurring themes in your writing?
Both personal autonomy and Cambridge University Library tend to crop up over and over.
5. When will Joule be back up? (Sorry, sorry!)
Well, I need to wind back the database to the old format. Then I need to decide whether we're going to host it; we possibly will, but someone else has also quite generously offered us space, so maybe it'll go there instead. The weekend's coming up, which would seem to be a good time to put in the last few hours on it. I know a lot of people are being very patient.
