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Category: Personal
How old were you when you first flew on an airplane and what was it like?
I was 8: it was the flight on which we returned to Greece from Australia for four years: 1979. Singapore Airlines, I believe. I don’t remember much about the last time I flew to Sydney, let alone anything from the ’70s. But I do remember: Cool exotic beverages, the like of which I had never […]
What is your best music composition?
Eh… I looked through Compositions for the pieces I composed and put into music software in 2000. (I composed as a teenager, but didn’t quite know what I was doing; 2000 was when I had enough free time to try and polish things.) (Not that I quite knew what I was doing in 2000 either.) […]
If you could go back time to 500 years ago, with your current skill and career training, what kind of job would you do? List your current job or your major in college. Feel free to disregard gender or social status factor.
Well, Lyonel Perabo mon vieux, this is going to be an unimaginative answer, but thanks for asking. University education: Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Well, no electricity, so that’s irrelevant. Good, I hated engineering. University education: Bachelor of Computer Science … No computers either. And too much damn competition from all the other time travelling geeks. […]
Alas I’m forty
I’m turning 45 in a month, actually; but this Cretan song I heard in my youth has been haunting me since I turned forty. I even had the first verse of it as my Skype mood message for a fair while. Άχι και σαραντάρισα, δεν κάνω μπλιο γι’ αγάπεςκαι μου ’ρχεται να τροζαθώ και να […]
Where did you meet your spouse, what were your lives like when you met, and what were the key events and circumstances that led to you being together?
Well, Anon, I was 39. Had had two and a half girlfriends, and had just been dumped by one of them after a six month relationship. I’d pretty much resigned myself that I was going to hit 40 without a partner, and that would be the end of it. People at my workplace heard too […]
How would you describe the dialect and accent of the languages which you can speak?
Ooh! Ooh! All the good people are here! (And if not, they will be, dammit.) The languages I speak or have spoken with some degree of spontaneity: English, Greek, French, German, Italian, Latin, Esperanto, Lojban, Klingon *deep breath* English Australian English, probably General vanilla. Nothing particularly “ethnic” about my accent (the “woggy” accent of my […]
To my wife, on our five-year anniversary
Reposted from: To my wife, on our five-year anniversary My love, whose smile is wide enough to claspthe heavens in; whose sorrow can expendthe deep-dug wells of earth; whose anger’s graspno whisper can unravel; whose amend no benison of rainbows can surpass;whose passion strides where armies never went,and lays what claims it pleases; and whose […]
How many nationalities have you met?
A fun question! And I’m not going to win. But I do live in God’s Own (Australia), which gives me an unfair advantage. I’m listing people I’ve had conversations with In Real Life. Albania: random guy at a shopping centre cafe a months ago, several in Greece in various capacities. Algeria: boyfriend of a fellow […]
How did you get your nickname?
They’re defunct nicknames, and I’m answering this for my fans. 🙂 When I was in Year 8 in high school: Acka Nicka. Because I hit puberty a little early, and acne (Australian slang: ackers) followed soon after. When I went to a less Lord Of The Flies high school in Year 9: Nick Squared. Because […]
Without saying the number, how old are you?
Another unnavigably long trail of Quora answers! Rejoice, rejoice oh ye peoples! I am old. I am old. I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Hendrix was alive when I was born. Stravinsky wasn’t. One of my earliest memories is the death of Elvis. PacMan was a diverting novelty to a preteen in […]