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Five questions for September, from Christina

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1. When was the last time that you laughed out loud? What made you laugh?

A half hour ago, as my son decided that my wife was in fact not being funny...

2. Do you like re-makings/re-imaginings of films and TV series?

In general yes! See Scarface for example, the Al Pacino remake is excellent while the original is meh, Nolan's Batmans are an improvement on the previous movies, which are also quite good. I loved the newer ghost busters. The Clooney Oceans 11 is a shit tonne better than the Brat Pack one.

But there are always exceptions.

Not a fan of American remake of "The Office", Hunger Games is not as interesting as Battle Royal (One could debate wether that's a remake or not), the hollywood Ghost in the Shell wasn't great.

I'm not sure where the Toby McGuire Spiderman's sit with the newer versions? (I've not seen all the new ones yet).

3. You are assigned to write two or three fortunes to be put into fortune cookies. What will they be?

* Don't be afraid of change

* May you live in interesting times

* (Guest contribution from my daughter): Count on your luck!

4. If you are in a bad mood, do you prefer to be left alone or have someone to cheer you up?

Definitely left alone. I generally go off and do something involved and technical or just go back to bed with my book.

5. What would have been your dream subject at school, or your dream syllabus lesson?

From here, 20 years later, I would love to have had more maths in high school, as while studying for my Bachelor of Science I really struggled with the maths aspect of it. Never really got the hang of maxwell's equations and 3 dimensional field analysis. I'm sure at the time I would have very much hated. I have since worked a bit at vector calculus and field geometry stuff, but I don't find it much fun!

What I wanted at the time was a useful IT/Computer Science course. But in the end I went and learned a lot myself by doing a lot of reading and also by just building computers out of scrap and getting all the free stuff I could find down our 56k pipe to the information superhighway. Slackware linux, various shareware games. BBS stuff etc.

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