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| 1.Q |
Tell me
about the first time you remember being thrilled. |
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| 1.A |
Don't know.
Time is hard to measure when you time travel. |
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| 2.Q |
What’s the slightest thing
to have thrilled you? |
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| 2.A |
Going up
and down on the paternoster lift at the university |
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| 3.Q |
What’s the most frightening
yet thrilling thing you’ve done? |
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| 3.A |
Died, but
it was a dream. |
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| 4.Q |
Tell me
why you’re not completely sensible. |
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| 4.A |
Because
I'm completely insane. |
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| 5.Q |
What’s
the most uninhibited thing you’ve ever done? |
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| 5.A |
Flamed
Square and Enix for merging |
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| 6.Q |
What have
you considered doing for pleasure but were too concerned about
the risks? |
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| 7.Q |
Describe
the event in one sentence (there’s time to expand later) |
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| 7.A |
Deleted
windoze in 1/10 of a second |
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| 8.Q |
Tell me
a bit about yourself around this time. |
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| 8.A |
Anti-everything-except-Chrono-Trigger.
on leave of absence from uni. Nothing to lose. |
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| 9.Q |
List the
sequence of events leading up to your thrill. Try to remember
how you felt at each stage. The smallest detail could be important
(this is your chance to expand). |
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| 9.A |
Went to
a course at the Access Space (redundant technology center) about
installing and using Linux. We had a load of old computers but
some idiots had installed windoze on them all. So we had to
erase it. |
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| 10.Q |
What were
your thoughts and feelings at the precise moment of thrill? |
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| 10.A |
Eternal
power. Righteousness- I was deleting something evil. Like a
white mage healing a vampire to death. A feeling that I understood
my computer in a different way. |
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| 11.Q |
What did
you do afterwards? |
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| 11.A |
Put some
more ram in and installed mandrake Linux. |
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| 12.Q |
What were
the risks? |
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| 12.A |
Screwing
up my computer I guess. |
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| 13.Q |
What did
you imagine other people thought of you during and after the
event? |
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| 13.A |
I dunno,
I don’t talk to people. |
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| 14.Q |
How often
do you think about the event, and why? |
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| 14.A |
On dark
nights or when writing philosophy essays. Because it shows how
vulnerable all life is, we can wipe it out in an instant. |
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| 15.Q |
Some people
probably don’t understand how such a thing can thrill
you; explain it to them. |
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| 15.A |
Computers
are people to me. What happens on a computer is as important
as what happens in life. |
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| 16.Q |
What three
changes could have made the experience better, and why? |
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| 16.A |
Some Microsoft
paramilitary chasing us! |
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