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Two more sets of questions, two more sets of answers for your amusement.

Heather got there first, so here’s hers:

1. “What have you found to be the answer to the question why do you (specifically and metaphysically) exist?” — I haven’t found that answer. I don’t even remember asking the question, lately. Maybe I’m just not that existential anymore. Hmm.
2. “What is your all time most cherished memory that makes you all gooey inside?” — My memory being what it is (namely, lousy) means that I cherish things as they come, nowadays. Luckily, it’s easy to pick out something that makes me all… well, I don’t know if I’d say “gooey inside” but, sure. Any time I get hugs from my kids, that gives me happy warm fuzzies. Every time.
3. “If you could impart a piece of true and sound advice, that you have amassed from your jurassic habitation on this planet, what would it be?” — Watch out for those velociraptors!

That busy lady, Lilith, finally came through with a set of questions as well:

1. “What’s the bravest thing you’ve ever done?” — Initiating a particular conversation, a couple of years ago…
2. “Where would you go (on this planet, sorry) for your dream vacation?” — It’d have to be a dream, because we all know that I’m not allowed to take a real vacation… but I think I’d go on an Alaskan cruise. (Yes, even though it would involve being out over deep water for days on end.)
3. “Would you like a foot rub?” — Why sure! I’m always up for that. Thanks!

Any other takers? Hmm? Am I going to have to come up with actual content tomorrow?

So far, response to yesterday’s meme has been… light.

Dawn asked,

1. “If given the opportunity to move anywhere, where would it be and why and who would you take with you?” — It’s crazy, but I don’t think I would ever want to leave Portland. It would take a phenomenal opportunity elsewhere to make me move, and even then it’d be an agonizing decision. Now, within Portland? I’d find a nice big house, possibly west of downtown but maybe someplace Laurelhurst-ish, and there’d be room for me and thee and a couple of guest rooms where friends or the rugrats or visitors could crash, and a big theater-basement (hey, I like Tom’s setup!), and all that good stuff. Yeah.
2. “If you could spend a day with one anime character, which one would it be?” — You are a cruel woman. Only one? Damn. Well, I’m going to weasel out of this with a coin-flip. It would be either the genius scientist (and goddess) Washuu or the late, great Maes Hughes, soldier, spy and proud papa extraordinaire. Now, if you’d asked what character I would want to spend a night with… well, let’s just not go there. Heh.
3. “Sunrise or sunset?” — Sunset. I’m not awake early enough to appreciate sunrises properly. Even if I’m up early enough, I’m still not awake enough. Besides, the ocean’s to the west of us, and sunsets over the ocean are the best sunsets.

Now, the roomie answered half of the meme but left out the questions. So I’m going to answer the sorts of questions that he might, as he put it, “blurt down the stairwell.”

1. No thanks, I already ate.
2. Sure, I’ll come take a look in just a sec’.
3. Go ahead, I bought enough so everybody could have some.

(Heh. I’m so damned clever.)

UPDATE: Mari chimed in, bless her Imperially Cute heart.

1. “Do you want to learn how to drive? Really WANT to learn, not just cause it’s the thing to do or anything like that.” — Not particularly, no. Never in my life have I had the thought, “Gee, I really want to be driving a car.” I’ve had the thought, “Gee, I probably should learn to drive at some point; it would certainly be useful at times.”
2. “What is my best or most attractive physical feature or personality attribute?” — Way to make this about you, cute stuff. (I tease because I love! Really!) Okay, seriously? Your most attractive personality attribute is your playful energy. Or energetic playfulness. Whatever you want to name it. Your “best” attribute is, I think, your willingness to call it like you see it coupled with your genuine concern for everyone involved in a situation. I’ve tried to learn from that, and I think I have some distance to go yet…
3. “What color underwear are you wearing right now?” — They’re a kind of dark blue/gray. (I don’t have any plain white underwear. Whoops, did I just cross over into TMI territory? Terribly sorry.)

So c’mon, what’s your excuse? Go on and give it a try; you know you want to.

Having grown somewhat discontent with the venerable XMMS, I cast about last week during quieter moments for a replacement media player to use on my Linux workstation. What I found was a media library system called “amaroK,” and so far I’m very happy with it.

And yes, that’s the inaugural image for a new section of the gallery. I realized today that I lacked a place for screenshots and other digitally-generated imagery. Hooray for progress, eh?

Anyway, if you run KDE and want a damned nifty media player that automatically updates its media library, gives you one-click lookups of album covers, and throws a pretty nifty playlist manager into the bargain, you could do worse than to give amaroK a try.