Category: Quora

Is your Quora avatar an image of you, or something else?  How did you choose it?

By: | Post date: September 1, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Personal, Quora

My answer is the same as Philip Newton’s, which is the same as KP Wee’s. I do have photos of me, but whenever asked for an avatar, I rummage in Spotlight for “Nick Jpg”, which is rather slimmer pickings. My avatar picture, courtesy of my wife, is me doing something uncharacteristic. Lying down in the […]

Why are all Quora moderators Satan?

By: | Post date: August 30, 2016 | Comments: 3 Comments
Posted in categories: Quora

I wished, my A2A’er and True Quora Master Scott Welch, to give you a well-informed theologically-based answer to this question. So I googled: “Satan does not”. Because there’s a lot of things that Quora moderation does not do. I got this from the Agape Geek blog as my first Google hit: Six Things Satan Doesn’t […]

Sierra in Trumpland

By: | Post date: August 16, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Quora

Sierra Spaulding’s answer to Are the media guilty of inaccurately portraying Trump supporters as uneducated and poor? captures the close encounter between the Sandersnista Sierra Spaulding and her aunt’s Trump-supporting friends, in deepest darkest San Diego. https://www.quora.com/Are-the-me… Hm… yes, I think I have access to some footage of this happenstance: Posted 2016-08-16 [Originally posted on […]

Dimitra drives to the Acheron

By: | Post date: August 10, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Quora

The Acheron river was reputed in antiquity to be the gateway to Hades. Dimitra Triantafyllidou’s answer to Are there any Greek towns built along the Acheron river in Greece? recounted driving through the drained Acherusian lake, and getting lost in the middle of the night, after a village festival. https://www.quora.com/Are-there-… On the 15th of August, […]

Dimitra in the lab

By: | Post date: July 28, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Quora

Dimitra Triantafyllidou’s answer to What’s the most embarrassing thing you have done in your work life? I was in my first year of my PhD. It’s that time when you try sooooo hard to impress your supervisor. You are so eager to prove yourself. You are the first one to get into the lab and […]

Zeibura undertakes some archaeology

By: | Post date: July 16, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Quora

This is not a drawing I drew. This is a drawing the most excellent Zeibura S. Kathau drew, demonstrating that just as he is no amateur linguist, he is also no amateur surrealist. As often happens with these cartoons, the artist gatecrashed banter between Quorans. The banter started here: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Lat… Robert Todd: Jeebus. Remind me […]

Sophia’s acidic wit

By: | Post date: July 13, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Quora

In my Antipodean bonhomie, I have asked the no-nonsense Sophia de Tricht if I can call her Soph. Starting at https://www.quora.com/How-do-bel… The exchange went swimmingly: —The last person who called me Soph won’t be playing the violin anytime… well, ever —So when I sold my violin and took up the mandolin a couple of years […]

VICE PRESIDENT SOPHIA DE TRICHT’S REIGN OF TERROR!!

By: | Post date: July 7, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Quora

Sophia de Tricht’s answer to Who would turn down Donald Trump if asked to be his Vice President? Sophia de Tricht welcomed the opportunity to become VP in an El Donaldo administration, in order to… creatively subvert it: My gaffes would be art. I’m talking about hung over vomiting in the Louvre on camera, calling […]

Anon fails to deliver

By: | Post date: July 6, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Quora

Who likes low quality questions on Quora? Noone, amirite? https://www.quora.com/How-are-st… An easily Googleable question from Anon? I’m going to be commenting this in to any low quality Anon questions I answer, from now on. Feel free to take this and go viral. Pictures of toy trucks will be fine too. Posted 2016-07-06 [Originally posted on […]

Edward Conway dreams of Fire and Ice

By: | Post date: July 4, 2016 | Comments: No Comments
Posted in categories: Quora

A sequel to Pegah and Lyonel’s mutually assured destruction. Edward Conway, bless him, commented: https://galleryofawesomery.quora… This brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “A Song of Ice and Fire”. I look forward to watching the battles play out between Lyonel Perabo’s frozen tourist zombies (powered by the northern lights and the awesomeness that is […]

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