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Christina is back with 5 Questions! 🤔

I wrote some questions for October...

(which you can still answer if you like)

...but the better person to set these is Christina, who's back for November.

5 Questions on gopher

Q and A

1. Name five things you'd like to learn or do, that you do not care whether or not you'd be terrific at doing, only that they seem interesting or fun.

Walk on a slack line; knitting; parachuting; doing henna tattoos; don't have a fifth one

2. What's the best book you've read this year? Fiction, non-fiction, as long as it has an ISBN.

I'm currently reading The Painswick Line by Henry Cecil. It's 1950s humour about various legal things and a vicar who can predict horse races. I bought it in a second hand book stall. I don't think that ISBNs were a thing when it was published.

3. I made a delicious hot chocolate today then remembered I have lactose intolerance. What foods do you wish you could still enjoy?

When I was a kid, I liked ice cream. I remember getting them on the beach: a little block of it that you held between two wafers. Making a mess was inevitable. I also liked Rum and Raisin and Raspberry Ripple, neither of which have I seen for years. Nowadays, I don't much like ice cream, but I pine a little for the old enjoyment.

4. Is there any simple tip or trick for people to lead happier, healthier lives that you've given up sharing or kept to yourself because most don't seem interested or receptive?

I don't think that people are receptive to advice. You have to learn things for yourself. And there's a fine line between a platitudinous truism and something meaningful. Anything I suggest might well be on the wrong side of that line.

5. Describe a perfect day spent indoors at home.

I have no deeds to do an no promises to keep. I spend the morning in bed with my laptop writing software. In the afternoon, the Grand Prix is on TV. Then I spend the evening with my family. We sit around the dinner table for ages after the meal, just having a chat.

Uh-oh, bonus questions!

Bonus Question for the Morbid, because it's that kind of month: Have you noticed absences of online people you're friendly with? Do you wonder more often now if they're healthy, rather than wonder where they toddled off to? Do you imagine someone is wondering where you toddled off to?

I wondered where Christina was. And the bloke who wrote about his house (Turpis Domum? Something like that). But I always assume that people just have other things that are taking up their time.

Bonus Question for the Capable and Helpful: [snipped - it was about 'ssh-keygen']

No idea. If I ever need to do that sort of thing, I search.

Bonus Question for the 'still reading in hopes of controversy': vim or emacs?

I can use vi - I'm answering these questions with it now. I assume it's really vim, but I never learned any of the 'm' parts. I tried the emacs tutorial once, and half an hour in I was still learning how to move around a file, so I gave up. I recently learned to use ed. But mostly I use GUI editors. I've been using EditPlus for many yars.

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