Re: OT-ish:Conlang Census (cont.)

This too was sent from the wrong account, just a couple of minutes
ago....

And again, I just sent it from the wrong account a second time.
What're the odds of that. Here it is again. Dangit.


> >(14) Favorite color:
Teal. More or less. That seems to be another of The Key Conlang
Demographics. There's an overwhelming number of responses in the blue
half of the spectrum.

> >(15) Birthday:
12 July 1976

> >(16) Conlanging since:
Late 80s, I guess.

> >(17) Other hobbies:
Hm.

Computer games, Call To Power II being chief among them at the
moment (even though Civ III was technically superior, it never held
my
attention as much as CTP II does), as well as UT2K3, which struggles
a
bit on my PC. I need a new graphics card. Right now, I have a GeForce
2 MX-400, and I have my eye on the Radeon 9800 Pro, but it's out of
my
price range right now.

Programming. It used to be my career, and still ideally would be, but
I've been out of the game for a couple of years, gigging as a tech
writer. Currently starting to look into using uncommon languages for
3D stuff -- my project right now is Euphoria, and EuGL, the Euphoria
interface to OpenGL.

Movies. I'm a DVD collector, and would probably be a serious
videophile (and probably audiophile) if I had the funds and time to
donate to it. On the other hand, I haven't been to a movie theater
since The Matrix was released.

Recently, I've gotten into music synthesis, using something called
CSound, which is apparently the number one choice for people doing
serious scholarly work in the field of synthesis. It's a 100%
programmable synth, thus literally limited only by the imagination of
the programmer(s), yet easier to program than trying to bodge
together
raw C code by hand. I know nothing of the field, and I'm slowly
starting to learn and experiment.

> >(18)  Favorite music/artists:
There's a question. A wide range of stuff. In no particular order:

Creedence Clearwater Revival
Led Zeppelin
Jimi Hendrix
Wonderstuff
Ozric Tentacles
Prodigy
Lou Reed
Ultraviolence
Half Man Half Biscuit
DMB
Frank Zappa

> >(19) Favorite book:
Hm. Don't know. Trask's _Dictionary Of Grammatical Terms In
Linguistics_ gets leafed through and referred to quite a lot. I have
re-read the first Dune book more often than any other novel.

> >(20) How'd I get to the list?
Don't remember. I think it started on a web search for auxlangs to
learn, back before I knew the term "auxlang", and I stumbled into a
bunch of artlang pages, and somehow found the list.

> >(21) Beard/Glasses?
Full beard and moustache, currently at winter-length, i.e. somewhere
between "bushy" and "OMFG". Never needed glasses, but I'm starting to
think I might have to consider getting my eyes checked in the next
year or so. My left eye has been starting to seem slightly weaker
than
the right over the last couple of years. It's very slight, and almost
never an issue, but it isn't right.

> >(22) Smoker/Alcoholic?
Smoker? Yes, though not heavily. Maybe ten cigarettes a day, and
they're American-strength milds, which are English-strength
ordinaries. Back in the old country, I used to roll my own (there is
not the same stigma in the UK as there seems to be in the USA), and
possibly smoked a couple more per day. I've touched both cigars and a
pipe in my past, but both unfortunately take far too much time to
enjoy meaningfully in a five-minute break at work.

Drinker? Yes, though neither heavily nor regularly. I like
traditional British ales (i.e. brown, all but flat, and cool rather
than cold), stouts, a few single malts (sometimes with water or
ginger
ale), and have been known to consume small amounts of vodka, neat and
straight from the freezer.

Alcoholic? I think I might have been, at one point in my life, but I
got over it without really trying, so probably not.

> >(23) I'm rather like Andreas in being able to visualize things and
> >cite facts from memory like that.
Not I. My memory works in hard-to-describe ways, but it's rarely
purely visual.




Paul


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