Palfrey's life

From thessalian

You are the Low-Fidelity All-Star. You were born
with your cool, and it's totally natural. You
run the gamut from Hipster Supreme (only they
can ingest as much coffee as you) to the geeky
hipster (Mario Kart, anyone?).


What Kind of Hipster Are You?
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From jemmie
JANUARY:
Stubborn and hard-hearted. Ambitious and serious. Loves to teach and be taught. Always looking at people's flaws and weaknesses. Likes to criticize. Hardworking and productive. Smart, neat and organized. Sensitive and has deep thoughts. Knows how to make others happy. Quiet unless excited or tensed. Rather reserved. Highly attentive. Resistant to illnesses but prone to colds. Romantic but has difficulties expressing love. Loves children. Loyal. Has great social abilities yet easily jealous. Very stubborn and money cautious.

(Ok, maybe the "Loves Children" - but only with soy sauce)

Also from thessalian here. Many answers not changed, 'cause lazy/they're already right.

1) Dietary Requirements

a) Give your personal interpretation of the four basic food groups.
-- Fat, carbohydrates, protein and caffeine.

b) If the following food was removed from the face of the planet entirely, you would be inconsolable.
-- Tea (not technically a food, but sod it)

c) If the following food was removed from the face of the planet entirely, you would throw a party.
-- Quiche

d) Those pesky vitamin things: how do you get your daily dose?
-- Fruit, some veg (peppers mostly it seems)

e) What's your ideal three-course meal?
-- Palma ham to start, Rabbit flank with butter (small amounts of, i'm referring to a particular dish in my head), and mango sorbet for dessert.

f) Caffeine -- dietary requirement, evil chemical of doom or "meh, whatever"?
-- Dietary Requirement. See the caffeinated Dune pisstake a while back.

g) If you intake caffeine, preferred method:
-- Preferably strong English Breakfast tea. Given the low odds of getting that decently in the Netherlands, currently drinking a lot of espresso/hot chocolate mix.

2) Entertainment -- Written

a) How many books do you read per month?
-- Probably no more than 3 or 4 these days. Wish I had more time

b) In your bookshelf at home, which genre (if any) turns up with most regularity?
-- Sci-fi (mostly cyberpunk, modern baroque space opera, post-cyberpunk, hard sci-fi) and a bunch of comedic fantasy (read: Discworld)

c) Which author turns up with the most regularity?
-- Iain Banks/Terry Prattchett

d) Which book has caused you to think fondly of the firemen in Farenheit 451, it was so bad?
-- Uh, can't think of anything much. Didn't like Catch 22 tho.

e) Fan fiction -- like it or loathe it?
-- Haven't found anything really good yet, but still hoping

f) What's the oddest book you ever read for fun?
-- Prolly The Wasp Factory. Good book, but sick and twisted

g) If you were stranded on a desert island, what five books would you want with you?
-- Star Fraction (Ken McLeod)

3) Entertainment -- Video

a) Do you watch television?
-- Rarely.

b) If you do, or ever did, what are your favourite programmes?
-- Star Treks (*not* TOS, preferences for DS9), Babylon 5, Farscape, Buffy, Angel

c) Any programmes you'd gladly see axed, and the creators summarily executed?
-- Any soap or reality TV programme.

d) Favourite film genre?
-- Sci-fi

e) Which five films would be a part of your ideal movie night?
-- Spaceballs, Sneakers, Existenz, Battle Royale, Star Trek: First Contact

f) Which five films serve as your example of the ultimate waste of celluloid?
-- U571 (haven't seen, but have no wish to watch the Americans re-write history), uh.. dunno. Saw and enjoyed Plan 9, so hey my standards are pretty low.

4) Entertainment -- Audio

a) Favourite music genre?
-- Most things that count as "rock" - soft thru to hard

b) Genre that makes you plaster your hands over your ears and run screaming for cover?
-- Reggae/Bangra

c) If you can narrow it down that far, pick your favourite artist.
-- I can't narrow it down that far, but R.E.M. is pretty close I guess.

d) Stranded on a bus for 31 hours -- what five albums would you bring? (note: home-made mp3 burns do not count.)
-- R.E.M. (Out Of Time, or quite frankly any of their other albums), Foo Fighters (Colour And The Shape), Sneaker Pimps (Becoming X), Everclear (So Much For The Afterglow), Coral (Coral). Bit of a random list, and the last is because I want to try and get into it more.

e) What's the best way to listen to music -- a good stereo system or live at a gig?
-- A gig probably, but have lost the will to survive much in crowds (survival instincts somewhat kick in)

5) Employment

a) What do you do for a living?
-- PhD Student

b) What do you want to do for a living?
-- As little as possible, so I can piss around and do the random projects I want to do.

c) What do you really not want to end up doing for a living?
-- Anything dull.

d) What's the best job you ever had?
-- Shrug knows. They've all had their ups and downs.

e) Worst job?
-- Doing a paper round over xmas/new year

6) Home Life

a) Neat freak or slob?
-- Slob.

b) What's in your fridge?
-- Some eggs, half-finished container of tomato sauce, milk - probably more things when I go shopping soonish

c) Do you own any clothes that are "Dry Clean Only"? If so, how often do they see the inside of your dry cleaners?
-- Just the suit. Which gets washed rarely, on the basis that it gets worn rarely (deaths, marriages, my graduation)

d) Do you drive? If so, do you endanger your life, the lives of your passengers and/or the lives of pedestrians and other motorists when you take the wheel?
-- No, and I probably will when I do.

e) What side of the bed do you sleep on? And are you a covers-thief?
-- Left, and yes.

f) Do you cook? If not, is it "can't" or "won't"?
-- I cook.

7) Hobbies & Interests

a) Are you fanatical about a particular sport, as either a spectator or a participant?
-- Nope.

b) Play a musical instrument?
-- Nope.

c) Do you work in any visually artistic medium (sketch, paint, sculpture, graphic design)?
-- Artistic talent? Moi?

d) Do you write (poetry, prose, fanfic even)?
-- Occasionally

e) Computers -- tool, pet, lifeline or really expensive paperweight?
-- Lifeline, pet, companion thru the ups and downs.

f) Oh, hell -- just list your hobbies.
-- Fuck it, just read my interests

g) Of those, which takes up most of your free time?
-- Computer stuff. Generic pissing around.