so let’s check out The Thursday Thumb-Twiddler (trackback)
1. You’ve been diagnosed with a presently incurable disease, with no more than three months to live. If you had a modest chance of surviving cryogenic freezing in the next week, to be awakened in a thousand years to live a greatly extended life … would you do it?
Frankly, I have some strong doubts about what society (if any) would be there to receive me in a thousand years.
Sure, there’s the draw of living in a sci-fi world, I suppose, but to leave my family and friends to selfishly survive in some other era.
Then again, I’m leaving anyway…
I don’t know. I think I would stay here and take care in making sure that I got all my ducks in a row for my family. It was, after all, ‘til death do us part’, not ‘til death scares me and I run away’.
2. A friend asks for your opinion about an original novel (painting, sculpture, song) they’ve created. You think it is utterly dreadful. Do you lie about it, diplomatically tone down your true feelings, or tell the complete, unvarnished truth?
I’ll try to find the good parts and mention them first, then I would (carefully!) ask about the areas I think are weak… what they were going for there, et cetera.
Myself, I crave honest criticism. Tell me what parts lost your interest or slowed down too much (or went too fast for that matter).
Talk about writing here, people; getcher mind outta the gutter.
3. In honor of the weather, what do you think is the most enjoyable thing to do in the snow?
Skiing. Bleah. I really need to get back to doing that this year.
