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Fri Dec 8 18:04:00 1995

Name:
A: Ruthven

Email:
A: wraith@organic.com

Home Page:
A: http://www.organic.com/Staff/wraith

How do you FEEL about food? Why do you eat?
A: I feel about food with my fingertips, at first, making sure that nothing is going to bite me. Then if it is safe I feel about with my whole hand.. then my arms.. No telling what might happen after that. I eat because dry heaves are SO unpleasant.

What is your biggest flaw?
A: Bad timing. That and the fact that the universe hates me.

3 favorite authors
A: Ian M. Banks, Stephen J. Brust, and whoever wrote that big yellow novel with all the phone numbers...

What are the hallmarks of success in life?
A: Independence, mobility, camaraderie, and companionship.

What is your biggest mental fuck-up?
A:

What is your favorite animal?
A: The echidna. I am not kidding.
Describe it.
A: It is the spiny anteater of LUV!

How long do you usually know a girl before you kiss her?
A: No sooner than six hours.
Jump her?
A: No sooner than six hours.
Dump her?
A: I've dumped women from across a crowded room...

How old were you when you first kissed?
A: Seventeen. I was shy.
Had sex
A: Seventeen. It was pretty much all the same...
Smoked Pot?
A: Hey, isn't that illegal?

Do you use recreational drugs?
A:

What?
A: Huh? Doh!

When?
A: It's been years.

Still?
A: No

Have you ever been married/lived with someone?
A: Cohabitated

Who worked?
A: We both did
Who cooked?
A: We both did, but I cooked better.
Who cleaned?
A: We both did, but she cleaned better. It was fair.

Do you know how to cook?
A: Yes

Do you like to cook?
A: Yes

What are the things you cook best?
A: Food. Duh. I can do amazing things with whatever is in the kitchen...

Have you ever used any of the following (which?): gel hairspray mousse cologne deoderant conditioner zitcream aftershave
A: yes, no, yes, yes, yes, yes, no, no. Sheesh.

What was the most crazy thing you ever did as an adolescent?
A: By definition, nothing you do as an adolescent is crazy. They expect it all.
as a college student?
A: Crazy? Um, I double-majored in biology and computer science. Never do that. It is bad for you.
as a working stiff?
A: I left a secure job in Corporate America to go work for a funky startup.. Smartest crazy thing I ever did...

If you were a fruit or a vegetable, what would you be?
A: Stephen Hawking.
If I were, what would I be?
A: Who am I to presume to vegapomorphasize you? I would be uncomfortable with that...

If you were at a party, and across the room you saw a very handsome man and your girlfriend chatting quite animatedly, what would you do?
A: Do? You mean how would I feel? I suppose I'd be proud and happy that I had such a charming, witty, and entertaining girlfriend. Then I'd go get a sharp spoon and grin evilly to myself as I approached from behind.. step by step... bwa ha ha ha ha. No, not really.

Do you think there is life after death?
A: No

On other planets?
A: Yes

Are you psychic?
A:

Do you think you have any sort of understanding of what it would be like to completely insane?
A: Yes

Why?
A: Because as people grow things come into and go out of focus. I can imagine what it would be like if some of the things that were always in focus were to go out of focus... Also, caffeine psychosis (a geek mainstay) probably emulates insanity, somewhat.

Were you ever in the armed forces?
A: No

Did you ever kiss a girl who had big, hairsprayed bangs?
A: No

What was the most important scientific achievement in the last 50 years?
A: The development of the thermos. It keeps the hot things hot and the cold things cold... but how does it know..?

What is the biggest problem...

...all women have?
A: I assume you mean the biggest problem that women have that men don't have? in general, self esteem.

...all men have?
A: (Again, assuming you mean the biggest problem that men have that women don't have) Socialization.

...with our society?
A: A lack of empathy. This is the problem with any human society, I think.

Which do you prefer:
A: Animals

Why?
A: What is there to prefer about a plant?

If you won $1 million, what would be the very first thing you would buy?
A: a lottery ticket

The second?
A: I am a chicken. I'd put half in something safe. with lots of interest.

The last?
A: New York, London, Paris, Munich... or a weekend in Tokyo

Who has been the greatest influence in your life?
A: Speed Racer.

How do people describe you?
A: You'll have to ask some people about that. You may get lots of different answers.

How do you describe yourself?
A: A chameleon clinging desperately to a hazelnut tree branch in a fierce monsoon wind.

Do you subscribe to any magazines/newspapers?
A: No

Which?
A: I get into moods. I buy periodicals based on chance and the moment...

What are your favorite shoes?
A: My combat boots, of course.

Additional Comments
A: You and John are SOOOO cute together! ;)


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