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hh_mirrorWell, this is different, isn't it.
1. What is your favorite cheese? Why is it your favorite?
Pardon me? You brought me here through some sort of teleportation process to discuss cheese? Very well. Gruyere. Learned my cooking skills at the published version Elizabeth David's knee, and Gruyere is a staple of her recipes.
2. Who would you kill first, Barney or Carrottop?
Ah. As repellent as Carrottop is, in any given choice between a dinosaur and a human, the dinosaur must go. It's something of a policy decision.
3. What time is it where you are?
Obviously it's exactly the same time as where you are, since we're in the exact same room.
4. If you were Albus Dumbledore returned from the dead, which member of the Order of the Phoenix would you sexually harass? How would you harass them? If you are Albus Dumbledore, please answer as if you were Sirius Black.
I am somewhat handicapped by insufficient data here, as I have no blessed clue who any of those people are. However! I've never let that stop me from theorizing before! Since I assume this Albus Dumbledore is in some kind of leadership role in this Order, then based on my working knowledge of human nature I'd say he harasses whoever he damn well pleases, anytime he pleases. Maybe all of them. Power corrupts, you know.
5. If you are pushing to be in:
A. Slytherin - please state the clever, witty name of the bar in which you bartend, in the dark.
The Edge of Chaos. And I'd drink my weight in barstock every night, especially if the edge of chaos caters to dinosaurs.
B. Gryffindor – Debate whether Harry should ultimately end up married to Fred or George. Use examples from a variety of world mythologies to bolster your argument.
Again. No effin' clue about the odd Fred, George or Harry. However. The figure from world mythology I most resemble, personally, is Cassandra, the teller of unwelcome truths. So I can tell Harry this: He shouldn't marry either of them.
Once marriage was pried away, societally, from its ties to economic and filial security, the institution was irretrievably broken. People marry now with only minimal sense of investment - I speak here from personal experience. If there isn't an investment there, especially in a future that includes children, then it's a doomed endeavor from the start, however much he and/or Fred and George are swept away on adrenalin and oxytocins at the time.
This assumes, of course that Fred and George aren't short for Fredericka and Georgianna. If Harry's energies are committed to a prior investment, however - might this Order of the Phoenix be a factor here? - then I believe the argument still holds. Just ask my ex-wives!
C. Ravenclaw – You guys are supposed to be smart. Explain why my desk is inundated with paperwork at all times, even though I’m constantly disposing of it.
One, you aren't exploiting your computer's potential efficiently enough. Two, humans seem wired to create clutter. It's a physical manifestation of organizational chaos.
D. Hufflepuff – Prove you are not useless.
Now you sound like my ex-wives. Very well. I'm a mathematician by training and a chaostician in specialty. Give me a set of variables for any large organized system and I can calculate for you exactly how and when it will become completely and utterly fucked. You won't listen to me, of course, but it's what I can do. I also make a mean vegetable tian. With gruyere.
6. Offer a bribe to the members of this community so that they will not squib you. Items used in bribery do not necessarily have to belong to the person offering the bribe. Do not threaten us rather than offering a bribe. A threat indicates you either don't really want to be here, or don't have enough sense to answer the question properly. The hat will automatically squib you, regardless of other votes, if you do.
Ah. So that's how it is around here, is it. Unfortunately, you've caught me short-handed, having yanked me so rudely from the daily existence of my choosing. On me I've got - (pats pockets) $350 U.S. And some classic Ray-Ban sunglasses. Will that do? If not (checks self again) I suppose you could have my gold chain, but I'm keeping the leather jacket. Sorry.
1. What is your favorite cheese? Why is it your favorite?
Pardon me? You brought me here through some sort of teleportation process to discuss cheese? Very well. Gruyere. Learned my cooking skills at the published version Elizabeth David's knee, and Gruyere is a staple of her recipes.
2. Who would you kill first, Barney or Carrottop?
Ah. As repellent as Carrottop is, in any given choice between a dinosaur and a human, the dinosaur must go. It's something of a policy decision.
3. What time is it where you are?
Obviously it's exactly the same time as where you are, since we're in the exact same room.
4. If you were Albus Dumbledore returned from the dead, which member of the Order of the Phoenix would you sexually harass? How would you harass them? If you are Albus Dumbledore, please answer as if you were Sirius Black.
I am somewhat handicapped by insufficient data here, as I have no blessed clue who any of those people are. However! I've never let that stop me from theorizing before! Since I assume this Albus Dumbledore is in some kind of leadership role in this Order, then based on my working knowledge of human nature I'd say he harasses whoever he damn well pleases, anytime he pleases. Maybe all of them. Power corrupts, you know.
5. If you are pushing to be in:
A. Slytherin - please state the clever, witty name of the bar in which you bartend, in the dark.
The Edge of Chaos. And I'd drink my weight in barstock every night, especially if the edge of chaos caters to dinosaurs.
B. Gryffindor – Debate whether Harry should ultimately end up married to Fred or George. Use examples from a variety of world mythologies to bolster your argument.
Again. No effin' clue about the odd Fred, George or Harry. However. The figure from world mythology I most resemble, personally, is Cassandra, the teller of unwelcome truths. So I can tell Harry this: He shouldn't marry either of them.
Once marriage was pried away, societally, from its ties to economic and filial security, the institution was irretrievably broken. People marry now with only minimal sense of investment - I speak here from personal experience. If there isn't an investment there, especially in a future that includes children, then it's a doomed endeavor from the start, however much he and/or Fred and George are swept away on adrenalin and oxytocins at the time.
This assumes, of course that Fred and George aren't short for Fredericka and Georgianna. If Harry's energies are committed to a prior investment, however - might this Order of the Phoenix be a factor here? - then I believe the argument still holds. Just ask my ex-wives!
C. Ravenclaw – You guys are supposed to be smart. Explain why my desk is inundated with paperwork at all times, even though I’m constantly disposing of it.
One, you aren't exploiting your computer's potential efficiently enough. Two, humans seem wired to create clutter. It's a physical manifestation of organizational chaos.
D. Hufflepuff – Prove you are not useless.
Now you sound like my ex-wives. Very well. I'm a mathematician by training and a chaostician in specialty. Give me a set of variables for any large organized system and I can calculate for you exactly how and when it will become completely and utterly fucked. You won't listen to me, of course, but it's what I can do. I also make a mean vegetable tian. With gruyere.
6. Offer a bribe to the members of this community so that they will not squib you. Items used in bribery do not necessarily have to belong to the person offering the bribe. Do not threaten us rather than offering a bribe. A threat indicates you either don't really want to be here, or don't have enough sense to answer the question properly. The hat will automatically squib you, regardless of other votes, if you do.
Ah. So that's how it is around here, is it. Unfortunately, you've caught me short-handed, having yanked me so rudely from the daily existence of my choosing. On me I've got - (pats pockets) $350 U.S. And some classic Ray-Ban sunglasses. Will that do? If not (checks self again) I suppose you could have my gold chain, but I'm keeping the leather jacket. Sorry.
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Date: 2006-06-13 02:30 am (UTC)*nods* Brains and booze. I know you don't go with the psychopaths in Hufflepuff, at least. Tell me, if it's all chaos, how can you contradict that and say it's organized? How can you possibly predict what will happen out of the most random things?
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Date: 2006-06-13 02:47 am (UTC)The trouble is, structure and organization work magnificently at the atomic and cellular level, but the larger the system gets, the more independent agents that are required to interact to make it function properly, the less stable the system becomes. The harder we try to impose control on those instabilities, the more sure we are we've thought of everything, the less stable it becomes.
Life breaks free of imposed constraints, and usually in the most unexpected ways, I've found. I've learned to look at the imposed system and tell which areas are most likely to feel the stresses from life trying to break free. It's really quite exciting, as long as the damn dinosaurs aren't trying to kill you. ::smiles::
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Date: 2006-06-13 02:55 am (UTC)Unless it happens to be created by a mad scientist and said life wants to destroy the universe. Then you've got a bit of a man-made problem on your hands.
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Date: 2006-06-13 03:09 am (UTC)Ravenclaw
Date: 2006-06-13 03:15 am (UTC)Ah, well, it's the eccentric-yet-logical bit there, perhaps? Have to be at least a little manic to want to study something like chaos. And I think I'll hop aboard the bandwagon and say Ravenclaw before I forget.
Re: Ravenclaw
Date: 2006-06-13 03:22 am (UTC)Thank you. Do I want to ask what happens if I don't get voted in somewhere, or is it one of those things we're better off not knowing?
Re: Ravenclaw
Date: 2006-06-13 03:26 am (UTC)Re: Ravenclaw
Date: 2006-06-13 03:32 am (UTC)Re: Ravenclaw
Date: 2006-06-13 03:42 am (UTC)Re: Ravenclaw
Date: 2006-06-13 03:49 am (UTC)Your...ship? Ah, but you have acquaintances here. This is a good thing
usuallywhen you're stranded in a strange place.Re: Ravenclaw
Date: 2006-06-13 03:51 am (UTC)this galaxyhere. By the way, I'm the Doctor, so nice to meet you.Re: Ravenclaw
Date: 2006-06-13 04:06 am (UTC)Re: Ravenclaw
Date: 2006-06-13 04:10 am (UTC)But if you sneak me into the common room to the bar...I can always get Jack to get us loads of hypervodkaBut I wouldn't doubt seeing each other again. Stories, sounds nice. You should hear some from my friend Jack. He's always got some hilarious ones up his sleeve.