Since this seems to come up so often, and I *always* forget something or other, here's my canonical list: (based on the Spring 1998 version as posted by Oddlystrange, revised Aug 19/98, re-revised Sept 28/98, re-re-revised Jan 99, oh forget it: last updated: May/03 DESCRIBE YOURSELF TO THE NETSCRAPE ================================== > _PART 1: THE BASICS:_____ > > NET-NAME: silentq - arose from trying to find a nick for IRC, and InUse suggested adding a silent q to my real name. > REAL NAME: Nicole > LOCATION IN THE WORLD: Boston, MA, USA > BIRTHDAY: 20 Sept. 1972 > HEIGHT: 5'3" > WEIGHT: 128 (more reaisitically 130 +/- 5 lb) > CURRENT HAIRCOLOR: changes colour depending how ambitious I'm feeling (black and burgundy are usual suspects) > THE HAIRCOLOR GENETICS GRANTED YOU: brown with silver hairs here and there, and red highlights > HAIRSTYLE: shaved > EYE COLOR: green/blue/grey, depending on the light, what I'm wearing, my mood > SHOE SIZE: US men's 4.5 in boots, about 7-8 in women's shoes > SEX (not the kind you HAVE the kind you ARE): female > SEX (the kind you have): goth > OCCUPATION: rocket scientist and computer vision programmer > RELIGION: recovering Catholic > BACKGROUND: French Canadian (Acadian, Dad says that our family was one of the first 7 to come over from France)/ Jamaican (with ancesestors from UK and France) > COMPUTER YOU'RE ON: The Addams Family: a K6-2 450Mhz CPU, 64M RAM, 6.4G hard drive partitioned with drives named after the four main characters in Charles Addams' family. I'm very happy with Mandrake Linux, though it gets finicky about new hardware. It dual boots with Win2k. I'm quite proud of having assembled it myself from components, despite a long standing mental block about hardware. Maybe taking that auto mechanics course helped after all. It's a big upgrade from my old Monster: a 386-33 machine running DOS > TIME YOU'VE BEEN ON ALT.GOTHIC (the how big is your dick question) Aug 1994 and I've only missed one Convergence so far (C3) > ____ PART II: FAVORITES ____ > > BANDS OR MUSICIANS: Tom Waits, Hungry Lucy, Sigur Ros, Vivaldi > BOOKS: Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett but more generally: Historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, atlases, and a few guilty romances > AUTHORS: Guy Gavriel Kay, Mercedes Lackey, Neil Gaiman > POEM: can't think of one in particular, I don't read many > POET: Twilight, Baudelaire > MOVIES: Rosencratnz and Guildenstern are Dead, Princess Bride, Star Wars, Wizard of Oz, Addams Family, Kikki's Delivery Service, Nightmare Before Xmas, The Killer, The Professional, The Lord of the Rings > TELEVISION SHOW: Simpsons, Black Adder > FOOD: anything that I bake that comes out well, thai food, curry, chocolate, ice cream, apples (macoun, braeburn, spartan, crispin, granny smith, empire, macintosh) > DRINK: water, milk shakes, those weird fruit drinks you can get in Vietnamese restaurants, amaretto and cranberry, stoli vanil and OJ, strongbow cider > TIME OF DAY: when I wake up rested with nothing to do, or late on a clear cold night with a full moon and a myriad of stars > COLOR: hunter green, deep dark purple > ___PART III: OPINION QUESTIONS-n-STUFF (aka psychology)_____ > > *IF YOU COULD TRAVEL IN TIME AND LIVE IN ANY TIME PERIOD, PAST, PRESENT OR > FUTURE, WHERE WOULD YOU LIVE: feudal Japan as a court lady or a courtesan or 1920s Chicago as a flapper > *IF YOU WERE IN A HIGH TOWER, AND ON THE FEILD BELOW THERE WAS A BIG > GATHERING OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD YOU DON'T LIKE. AND GOD GAVE YOU > A GUN WITH ONE BULLET IN IT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? I'd rather just deport them to the other side of the world > * WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PASSTIME. Losing myself in a good book. Letting myself dance until I'm totally enthralled by the music. Good conversations with intelligent people. > * WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU ARE MOST PROUD OF I've made some people's lives a bit better for knowing me. > * WHAT DO YOU REGRET? How I've treated some people, not finishing my thesis > * IF YOU WERE STRANDED ON A DESSERT ISLAND, WHAT THREE THINGS WOULD YOU > WANT WITH YOU? - the mother of all swiss army knives - sun block - a pile of books including the Acme Desert Island Survival guide > __ PART IV: ESSAY SECTION ___ > > DESCRIBE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO SAY ABOUT YOURSELF AND YOU DIDN'T THINK > THIS ADEQUATELY SAID FOR YOU: I procrastinate too much, but then again, this whole thing basically says that. :) More stuff from another version: > SIBLINGS: Sue, 2 years younger than me Marc, 6 years younger than me > CHILDREN: Hah! Not if I can help it. > PETS: none > FAVORITES: > SONG: No real faves, I like things I can sing along with when driving: Particle Man, If I Had a Million Dollars. Songs I can dance like a maniac to: Juke Joint Jezebel, The Blade, Lifeline, Surface Patterns, Assimilate. Songs I can put on to lull me to sleep: Enya, Faith and Disease, Stoa, Sigur Ros. Cool stuff: Nick Cave's ballads, Tom Waits' love songs > BOARD GAME: Trivial Pursuit when I can find someone willing to be beaten soundly. :) > COMPUTER GAME: Monkey Island. > OTHER GAME: Solitaire. > MAGAZINE: The Journal of Improbable Results, IEEE Robotics and Automation > PLACE TO VISIT: Earth, all of it. > MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS: > WHAT OTHER NEWSGROUPS DO YOU READ: None, right now. > WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR HOBBIES: Skiing, reading, sewing, cooking, fitness, organising information, traveling > WHAT¹S THE MOTTO YOU ADHERE TO: Everything is relative. > WHAT¹S IS YOUR PERSONAL STUPID HUMAN TRICK: I can drive for most of a day on road trips and then shake a lot. I can find my way around strange cities without getting lost (for too long). > WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE DOING 10 YEARS FROM NOW: Working a satisfying job with lots of time off for travel. Being healthy. > WHAT IS THE ONE THING/SKILL THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE NOW THAT YOU WISHED YOU > POSSESSED: Singing. > WHAT DO YOU THINK IS YOUR BEST ASSET: Empathy. > WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE WORST THING ABOUT YOU: I'm too nice. And too shy. > WHAT DO YOU VALUE MOST IN A FRIEND: Respect: honesty, promptness, trustworthyness > FAVOURITE THREAD: I like the beginnings of the big discussions on serious issues, but tend to get bored of them quickly. Book discussions, sex threads, movies, ones where I learn stuff. > HOW DO YOU VIEW ALT.GOTHIC: As if the person who's post I'm reading is sitting with me and saying the words on the screen. > Winter 1999: aka was your new years resolution to fill this out each season? Since others are adding in New Year's resolutions, mine was to stop worrying so much. > WHAT TYPES OF THREADS ARE YOUR FAVORITES? Stories and glimpses into people's lives > WHY DO YOU READ ALT.GOTHIC? Stalking purposes, have to keep an eye on what you're all up to. Plus it makes me laugh on occasion so hard I snarf. To keep up with stuff going on in places I might visit. > WHAT IS THE WORST THING ABOUT ALT.GOTHIC: When the cycle hits flame wars and too much fluff. > GENERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE: > > DESCRIBE THE KIND OF GOTH YOU ARE (briefly PLEASE): Cynically romantic Perkygoff that can be mistaken for an industrial grrl on lazy days. > > WHAT IS THE TRAIT YOU WISH COULD BE TOTALLY ELIMINATED FROM THE GENE POOL: Hate. > WHAT¹S ON YOUR NIGHTSTAND: Books, unpaid bills, rings, a glass of water.