{"id":661,"date":"2007-08-21T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2007\/08\/21\/interview-with-a-fanboy\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T14:23:00","slug":"interview-with-a-fanboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2007\/08\/21\/interview-with-a-fanboy\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview With A Fanboy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Questions from jazzfish<\/a> <\/p>\n

1) What was your first exposure to SF fandom?<\/b><\/p>\n

The first convention I went to for real was RoVaCon 8, in 1983. I met Starfleeters, gamers, low-budget filmmakers, and costumers, and knew immediately that this was my crowd.<\/p>\n

I wish I remembered more of the details, but it really was a long time ago. I remember being overwhelmed by the sense of finally finding something for which I’d been searching.<\/p>\n

2) How many different places have you lived?<\/b><\/p>\n

I was born in Roanoke, lived as a toddler in New Jersey for a little while, came back to Roanoke, finished high school in upstate New York, returned to Roanoke once more, moved to Salem, for a few years, and then bounced to Virginia Beach and to Norfolk and to Portsmouth in quick succession. 9 different domiciles, with the same house in Roanoke covering almost 3 decades of that.<\/p>\n

3) When did you go Mac?<\/b><\/p>\n

Sometime in 1987, I believe. The Blacksburg Starfleet chapter, USS McKay<\/i>, built its newsletters on the Macs of Virginia Tech and Bluefield State College, and I helped out. (No hard drives back then – imagine having to pass around the floppy disk with the OS every time someone wanted to change fonts!)<\/p>\n

My dad really thought I should have a PC, but I had already gotten used to the MacOS, and rattrap<\/a> gave me my first one as a gift a few years later. (It still functions quite well.)<\/p>\n

4) Do you worry about money?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yep. I learned what little I know about managing money late in life, and I still seem to have two mental states: “Don’t worry about the expense, we’re fine” and “OMG we’re not going to make it to the end of the month how did this happen!”<\/p>\n

But the bills do get paid somehow.<\/p>\n

5) What’s the weirdest thing you’ve done?<\/b><\/p>\n

That’s a hard one – I suspect my definition of “weird” is a little skewed. Discounting anything that happened at a con or a VTSFFC party, and filtering out anything over a PG rating, I would have to say certain starlit mountaintop ceremonies in which I participated while searching for answers to the Big Questions. The sensations and emotions remain indescribable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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