Interests Meme

[mandysee_mandydo]

fossilapostle chose seven of my interests for me to explain. Comment and I'll pick seven of your interests for you to explain in your own LJ post.

68k - I am a classic Macintosh enthusiast, and by classic Macintosh I mean the old SEs and LCIII and such made with the Motorola 68k processors. Also, the Commodore Amiga line was manufactured using the Motorola 68k processors, too, and I happen to be an Amiga enthusiast. Believe it or not, I have a fully functional Mac SE FDHD running System 7.3 and AppleShare Server 3.0 with an external 20 GB SCSI hard drive. I also own a Commodore Amiga 2000HD with Video Toaster. This makes me happy. :)

bobbo byrnes - Bobbo is the guitarist and vocalist for The Fallen Stars. He used to be the lead guitarist for one of my all-time favorite Nashua bands, The Gypsy Mechanics. I miss the hayday of the Gypsy Mechanics playing at the since defunct Red Square in Nashua. He was always wild at live shows. I remember one time he wandered off mid song while still playing and went dancing in the dance club in the next room (gotta love wireless!) and came back in to finish the song with the band. Good times. :)

cooking - I do all of the cooking at home and, as much as I grumble about having to cook and would like painted_wolfto cook for me once in a while, I still really enjoy cooking. It's very much an art. I seem to have a very good knack for just grabbing ingredients and turning them into something tasty. It's very helpful when times are tough!

evilman - Evilman was a comic title released by Moonstone and was very wonderfully odd. Evilman is (as seen in my userpic) a bean-shaped dude whose belly button was a portal to another dimension. They only released a few issues and I'm only missing one or two of them.

fry bread - After European settlers made contact with Native Americans they started trading with them, including dry goods. Native Americans used the flour, sugar, milk and butter they got from the whites in all sorts of creative ways, including making fry bread. It's kinda like fried dough and it's absolutely delicious. Some ways of eating it include topping it with the usual fried dough topping, topping it with wojapi (a Lakota berry pudding) or topping it with taco ingredients (which is aptly named an indian taco).

glbtq - Well, I suppose since today is National Coming Out Day it's only appropriate that I start by saying that I happen to be one or two of those letters. ;) GLBTQ stands for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning. I am very much interested in equal rights regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity and expression.

snmnmnm - SNMNMNM is a marvelous geek rock band kinda like They Might Be Giants. Instead of bass they use tuba and often they forgo guitars instead using accordians. It's fantastic!

Comments

[wizardru.livejournal.com]

You ever see the movie 'Smoke Signals'? They talked about Fry Bread a lot in that movie. :)

[srturtle.livejournal.com]

I actually haven't seen it yet, but I really want to. I've heard a bunch of quotes from it as I know several people that have seen it. :)

Awww, you don't have any interests from which to pick! I guess pick seven things you like and explain them if you wish? :)

[wizardru.livejournal.com]

Don't I? I guess I never really set that stuff up.
I can wing it, I suppose. :)

[srturtle.livejournal.com]

Yay! ^_^

[quantumswordsmn.livejournal.com]

Jeebus, I had forgotten all about Bobbo...and Red Square for that matter.

[srturtle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had almost forgotten about Bobbo at one point until I thought, "Gee, the Gypsy Mechanics kinda went crappy when he left. I wonder what ever happened to him?" Google was and still is a wonderful thing. :)

I really like the music he and his wife Tracy are making with The Fallen Stars.

Let's see... please tell us more about active galactic nuclei, el mariachi, greg rucka, interferometers, juggling, parenting and tea.

[aunrea (from livejournal.com)]

We had a Commodore Amiga when I was growing up. It broke down in 1995 but then the internet was becoming popular so we got an IBM with Win 3.0 which looked strangely like workbench in the Amiga. My favorite Amiga software was the game "Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders" (which was a hilarious game that I never got to finish) and Deluxe Paint IV (even then I was doing Graphic Design).

[srturtle.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite Amiga game was Lemmings! As for the similarity between Win 3.0 and Amiga Workbench, that was because they were both based off of the old Xerox GUI, as was MacOS. I did notice, though, that in Windows XP when you open up a folder full of photos it gives the window a watermarked background that has a black & white version of the checkered ball signature from more recent versions of the Amiga OS. Kinda fishy...

Let's see, you don't have any interests listed in your OpenID profile so I will grab seven tags from your blog and you can feel free to explain them there if you wish. :) Please tell us more about adsr, atomic cupcake, japan, jeanine baechtold, liam, rakscraps and scrapbooking.

[aunrea (from livejournal.com)]

I forgot about Lemmings. Maybe because I now have a Windows version of it. Actually the first version of Lemmings I had was to play on tv. Another game was Populas.

[srturtle.livejournal.com]

I actually have Populace! I don't know that I've played it, but I do have it. It's one of the classic Amiga games.

[vireo-blues.livejournal.com]

You know, I've always wondered who that guy in your userpic was. I just figured he was some sort of rocking-out thumb.

[srturtle.livejournal.com]

That's Evilman! :) I think my favorite issue was when he ended up in another dimension in the middle of a war between two factions battling to decide if the spoon/fork is a spork or a foon.

Let's see... please tell us more about chococat, driving aimlessly, halvah, kinder eggs, nonograms, tom kha gai and weird nail polish.