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1. New York City or Los Angeles? Why?
2. What is your favourite game, and why?
3. Breakfast Club or Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
4. You can have an abundance of only one - what do you pick and why (CPU GHz, CPU Cores, RAM, Storage).
5. If one must die, which would you kill: Linux or Firefox?
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1. In many, many ways, I prefer NYC. It is textured, it has character, and a rich multitude of subcultures and districts, all connected by great public transport and decent walkability. NYC is vibrant and alive, and is almost a universe unto itself in terms of density of content and intrigue. But I do recognise in some ways that this is underplaying Los Angeles. I have enjoyed time in LA, but in some ways I feel it is a little bit more of a mono-culture. This is probably not true, but it is my experience of it. I encountered a larger concentration of disagreeable people who I did not click with in LA, but I also have spent more time there, so that was inevitable (I also spent more time in nightclubs, so there is that). I loved the weather in LA, and also some of the surrounding areas such as Malibu, Griffith Park, etc. New York is very expensive, and I'm not sure if I'd like to go back into the kind of work that would make it affordable. Getting too old for the rat race. You know what, nuke both of them; I pick San Diego.
2. I'm not hugely into gaming, but I do play the odd game. I like FPS games because they can be played casually, develop skills that are transferrable between various games, and offer a cathartic sink for life's various stresses. I also always liked playing commando and hide-n-seek based games (as well as laser tag) as a kid, so these satisfy that itch. My favourite to date has been Call of Duty 4 - mostly due to its setting in and around Pripyat, which places it firmly in the zone of piqued interests for me. It is actually the only game in which I have completed the whole campaign. So I guess my favourite game is laser tag, but I can get a lot of its enjoyment without the benefits of exercise by playing the likes of COD.
3. Gee, I'm asking some questions that are hard for me to answer. I love both, and Breakfast Club is really slick and mega-nostalgic, but I think I will go with Ferris Bueller's Day off becuase it elicits the most belly-laughs.
4. I may be a minimalist, but I am a digital pack mule. Storage please. Most of what I do computationally can be done with more modest processing resources.
5. Firefox. I only use it for TOR based stuff, and I'm sure that the Features welded into Firefox by the TOR clan can be migrated to another browser. Linux runs a lot of what we hold dear, so it really needs to be nurtured. Not that I want to see Firefox go; diversity is important in all ecosystems, and I'm not happy to see what is happening to either Linux or Firefox at the moment.
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