![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Meme of five questions
May. 25th, 2010 08:48 amFrom ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rubynye
- Leave a comment saying "Beam me up Scotty!" [I'll take four] Okay, we've got four aboard, that's it.
- I'll respond by asking you five questions to satisfy my curiosity that are hypothetical and probably related to Star Trek. [Unless they're related to some other fandom we have in common or ... whatever, we'll figure it out.]
- Update your journal with the answers to your questions.
- Include this explanation and offer to ask other people questions.
1) Would you rather work on a starship, a space station, or Memory Alpha?
Okay, so I had to google Memory Alpha to be sure that it was more or less what I thought it was since I had only really run across the Wiki by that name before now (and while working on wikis is cool and everything it is not really in the same class of life opportunity as working on a starship or space station).
That said, yeah, Memory Alpha! Um, especially if it's after they've worked out the everyone-inexplicably-dying-and-data-getting-erased thing. I would especially like to be on the recovery team who has to go in and fix things after the disaster--I like fixing things, and working in libraries gives one a fairly limited scope of things to fix.
2) Do you think tattoo technology will change between now and then, and if so, how?
That does seem somewhat inevitable--I would assume we'll get smart inks that can be reprogrammed after they're implanted, so that you can change/fix/hide a tattoo very easily. Or animate it, if you're into that sort of thing. But there will always be people doing it the barbaric old-fashioned way with no (well, fewer) takebacks just to prove how badass they are.
3) If you could have any one of the characters with names and lines from Star Trek XI to dinner, who'd you invite and what would you feed them?
Wow, now I'm trying to think of who, in the entire movie, I would not get horrendously tongue-tied over and just stare at in embarrassingly mute adoration--oh! oh, I would like to have Amanda Grayson over for dinner. We could eat pizza or I could make her some nice messy lasagna and we could talk about her amazing adventures.
4) In "Sing About Tragedy" you mentioned a contraceptive I've always wanted to ask you more about. So I'm asking. ;)
Oh man, now I have to look and figure out what I said...
( Okay, yeah, we'll cut-tag the NC-17 contraceptive description... )
I think my basic thought was, you know, surely in the future they could have gotten the lube + condom step down to one product with both functions? And since nanotechnology is my generation's idea of a sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable from magic, I just made it nano-machine-carrying smart lube that when, um, activated, serves as a solid-like barrier to pathogens and reproductive material. The more I think about it the more it sounds like the setup for "then the robots got control of Skynet and no one's reproductive organs were ever the same again" but I assume that's just my 20th century technophobia crawling up out of the hindbrain...
5) A Bujold's Nexus question -- do you think you'd want to try being a quaddie, if you could?
Ahahaha, hooboy. I have a lot of difficulty coordinating halves of my body to do anything, so I feel like unless I got some major neurological reworking in the deal I would make a really clumsy quaddie. (That sounds like a Quaddie children's book. The Very Clumsy Quaddie, like the ugly duckling or something.) If I did get some major neurological reworking out of the deal, I suppose that would be a novel experience in several directions at once, so it'd probably be worth giving a whirl. But even assuming a Quaddiespace to hang out in as a Quaddie, it's not a form of bodily transformation that holds any instinctive appeal.
Unlike some of the other options available in the Nexus... *g*
rubynye- Leave a comment saying "Beam me up Scotty!" [I'll take four] Okay, we've got four aboard, that's it.
- I'll respond by asking you five questions to satisfy my curiosity that are hypothetical and probably related to Star Trek. [Unless they're related to some other fandom we have in common or ... whatever, we'll figure it out.]
- Update your journal with the answers to your questions.
- Include this explanation and offer to ask other people questions.
1) Would you rather work on a starship, a space station, or Memory Alpha?
Okay, so I had to google Memory Alpha to be sure that it was more or less what I thought it was since I had only really run across the Wiki by that name before now (and while working on wikis is cool and everything it is not really in the same class of life opportunity as working on a starship or space station).
That said, yeah, Memory Alpha! Um, especially if it's after they've worked out the everyone-inexplicably-dying-and-data-getting-erased thing. I would especially like to be on the recovery team who has to go in and fix things after the disaster--I like fixing things, and working in libraries gives one a fairly limited scope of things to fix.
2) Do you think tattoo technology will change between now and then, and if so, how?
That does seem somewhat inevitable--I would assume we'll get smart inks that can be reprogrammed after they're implanted, so that you can change/fix/hide a tattoo very easily. Or animate it, if you're into that sort of thing. But there will always be people doing it the barbaric old-fashioned way with no (well, fewer) takebacks just to prove how badass they are.
3) If you could have any one of the characters with names and lines from Star Trek XI to dinner, who'd you invite and what would you feed them?
Wow, now I'm trying to think of who, in the entire movie, I would not get horrendously tongue-tied over and just stare at in embarrassingly mute adoration--oh! oh, I would like to have Amanda Grayson over for dinner. We could eat pizza or I could make her some nice messy lasagna and we could talk about her amazing adventures.
4) In "Sing About Tragedy" you mentioned a contraceptive I've always wanted to ask you more about. So I'm asking. ;)
Oh man, now I have to look and figure out what I said...
( Okay, yeah, we'll cut-tag the NC-17 contraceptive description... )
I think my basic thought was, you know, surely in the future they could have gotten the lube + condom step down to one product with both functions? And since nanotechnology is my generation's idea of a sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable from magic, I just made it nano-machine-carrying smart lube that when, um, activated, serves as a solid-like barrier to pathogens and reproductive material. The more I think about it the more it sounds like the setup for "then the robots got control of Skynet and no one's reproductive organs were ever the same again" but I assume that's just my 20th century technophobia crawling up out of the hindbrain...
5) A Bujold's Nexus question -- do you think you'd want to try being a quaddie, if you could?
Ahahaha, hooboy. I have a lot of difficulty coordinating halves of my body to do anything, so I feel like unless I got some major neurological reworking in the deal I would make a really clumsy quaddie. (That sounds like a Quaddie children's book. The Very Clumsy Quaddie, like the ugly duckling or something.) If I did get some major neurological reworking out of the deal, I suppose that would be a novel experience in several directions at once, so it'd probably be worth giving a whirl. But even assuming a Quaddiespace to hang out in as a Quaddie, it's not a form of bodily transformation that holds any instinctive appeal.
Unlike some of the other options available in the Nexus... *g*