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

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Sunday, February 1, 2004, 23:24
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 ------- End of forwarded message -------

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