Meme time, I guess
Oct. 29th, 2009 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularTagged by thanatos_kalas:
• Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions (I'll also answer more, if asked)
The questions:
1. What do you think has been your greatest achievement in life?
Depends on how you define "achievement," I suppose. My work on the ambulance crew, way back when, might qualify for the effect it had on others, though that was a small-scale thing. Then again, there's getting through law school and passing the New York bar, which even here in Greece, is recognized as something really damned difficult to accomplish.
2. I've offered you the chance to replace one major US government figure. Who is it, and why?
Antonin Scalia. I know that he's intelligent, but some of the causes to which he brings that intellect to bear, frankly, scare me. And he may be influencing the course of American law for decades to come.
3. What do you find was the most surprising thing about moving to Greece?
Oddly, I'd have to say the traffic lights. Especially the walk/don't-walk signs which go green for maybe three seconds, leaving you halfway across the road when they go red, even if you start crossing the moment they go green. It seems to reinforce an attitude I see generally, that treats the rules as inconveniences to be evaded whenever possible.
4. Pirates or ninjas?
Ninjas. You can still be honorable.
5. Person (living or dead) you'd most like to kick in the shins.
Living, at the moment, perhaps Robert Mugabe, for putting power politics and ideology ahead of a genuine severe crisis that requires solutions that don't seem to be within his toolbox. Dead? I'd be at it until my own legs fell off.
thanatos_kalas:• Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions (I'll also answer more, if asked)
The questions:
1. What do you think has been your greatest achievement in life?
Depends on how you define "achievement," I suppose. My work on the ambulance crew, way back when, might qualify for the effect it had on others, though that was a small-scale thing. Then again, there's getting through law school and passing the New York bar, which even here in Greece, is recognized as something really damned difficult to accomplish.
2. I've offered you the chance to replace one major US government figure. Who is it, and why?
Antonin Scalia. I know that he's intelligent, but some of the causes to which he brings that intellect to bear, frankly, scare me. And he may be influencing the course of American law for decades to come.
3. What do you find was the most surprising thing about moving to Greece?
Oddly, I'd have to say the traffic lights. Especially the walk/don't-walk signs which go green for maybe three seconds, leaving you halfway across the road when they go red, even if you start crossing the moment they go green. It seems to reinforce an attitude I see generally, that treats the rules as inconveniences to be evaded whenever possible.
4. Pirates or ninjas?
Ninjas. You can still be honorable.
5. Person (living or dead) you'd most like to kick in the shins.
Living, at the moment, perhaps Robert Mugabe, for putting power politics and ideology ahead of a genuine severe crisis that requires solutions that don't seem to be within his toolbox. Dead? I'd be at it until my own legs fell off.
