{"id":990,"date":"2009-01-05T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2009\/01\/05\/inside-the-borg-studio\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T11:01:00","slug":"inside-the-borg-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2009\/01\/05\/inside-the-borg-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Borg Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, it’s Interview Meme time again. kittenchan<\/a> asked the questions, and I provide the answers. For those who wish to play along at home, the rules are (c’mon, you know this by now):<\/p>\n

1. Reply to my post asking me to interview you.
\n2. I reply to your post with five questions.
\n3. You post your answers and this meme on your LJ.<\/p>\n

1. What’s the craziest (PG) thing you’ve ever done?<\/b>
\nPG, huh? Probably in my teens, when I used to attend USS Heimdal<\/i> meetings in Lynchburg, the other car in our convoy would race us there and back. 110-120 MPH speeds were known to occur. I wasn’t driving, but I didn’t exactly try too hard to talk the drivers out of it, either. I’m glad that we all grew out of that before something terrible happened.<\/p>\n

2. Why did you first join VTSFFC?<\/b>
\nIt wasn’t really on purpose! When Tom Monaghan started attending Tech, he invited me along on a VTSFFC trip to Stellarcon. I rode with Scott Gosik, whom I had not met before that day, and weathered a barrage of cryptic anime references; witnessed a car accident in our convoy and spent an evening in an Emergency Room with a delirious Rosethorn (also a total stranger); and entered the con costume contest on five-minutes’ notice, using random items I’d happened to pack. The general consensus was that I had passed the initiation whether I’d intended to or not.<\/p>\n

3. Do you still draw?<\/b>
\nI have not drawn anything in 2008, I fear, besides some crude notebook sketches of my Legion of Liberty superhero. I have several drawings in my head, though, and 2009 will not be artless.<\/p>\n

4. Do you ever miss working at the TN?<\/b>
\nI miss a lot of the people I got to work with at the TN, but I don’t miss the late Tuesdays (even the abbreviated ones) or the desperate deadlines! Honestly, I wish there was a NASA facility in Blacksburg; the work I’m doing now is great, and I still enjoy causally saying “oh I work for NASA” when asked, but I miss my friends and family up there a lot.<\/p>\n

5. What’s your favorite restaurant of all time and why?<\/b>
\nAfter lengthy thought – there are two close runners-up – I’d have to say Sakura, over in Salem. The prices are moderate, the service is very good, the decor is attractive and simple, and the food is addictively good. I can name restaurants that have been better in one or more categories, but this is the all-round winner. I think a certain someone’s impromptu reception dinner was held there, as well \ud83d\ude42 Stinks that I’m 5 hours away, now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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