{"id":1659,"date":"2003-08-27T14:23:02","date_gmt":"2003-08-28T04:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/27\/interview-me-ii-from-phil\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T14:14:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:14:59","slug":"interview-me-ii-from-phil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/27\/interview-me-ii-from-phil\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Me II: From Phil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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Rules come first&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>If you want to participate, leave a comment saying &#8220;interview me&#8221; (or something that gets that point across).<\/li>\n<li>I will respond by asking you five questions &#8211; each person&#8217;s will be different.<\/li>\n<li>You will update your journal with the answers to the questions.<\/li>\n<li>You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the same post.<\/li>\n<li>When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8230;the interview comes next:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  If someone offered to sponsor you to head back to college no matter the cost, would you accept, where would you go, and what would you study?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would I accept? No question about that &#8212; definitely.<\/p>\n<p>Where would I go? Not the foggiest. Off the top of my head, I&#8217;m fairly happy in Seattle right now, so the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/\" title=\"University of Washington\">University of Washington<\/a> is an obvious possibility, but I&#8217;m not going to say that&#8217;s the <em>only<\/em> possibility. Though&#8230;would an exchange program to a good university somewhere in Europe be out of the question? ;)<\/p>\n<p>As for the &#8220;what&#8221;, three things immediately pop into my mind.<\/p>\n<p>First off, and fairly obviously, it&#8217;d be a really good idea to get some sort of formal schooling and certification in computers. I&#8217;ve been working with them for years, and like to think that I&#8217;m not to shabby, but the downside to being self taught is that I&#8217;ve ended up something of a jack-of-all-trades. A little bit of experience across a wide field. As good as that is, it&#8217;s a little hard to put on a resume or job application, especially when none of the projects I&#8217;ve pursued have ended up with any sort of &#8220;proof&#8221; or certification.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, my original intent when I graduated high school was to be a theatre major. I was involved in high school theatre from my freshman year through my senior year, and then even for a couple years afterwards, as I was one of the few people around Anchorage who had any clue how the antiquated equipment in my high school&#8217;s theatre worked. I was only onstage once, but I had an absolute blast working on the tech crew the entire time I was involved.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if I were to pursue that, it&#8217;s a very good thing that I didn&#8217;t go into it back then. I&#8217;ve done a lot of growing into myself since then, and would be far more likely to be able to get onstage now. Back then, I was far too self-conscious to be able to be on stage. Now, though, I think that if I looked into it, I&#8217;d either not completely embarass myself &#8212; or if I did embarass myself, I&#8217;d at least be comfortable enough to have fun with it.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, one possibility that&#8217;s been bouncing around in my head for the past few years is going into teaching. I&#8217;ve had more than a few people mention that they could see me as a really good teacher &#8212; strong communication skills, a large amount of patience, an ability to get along with all sorts of people, and a genuine enthusiasm about the subjects I have an interest in. Were I to go that direction, it would have to be something in the arts or humanities (I am <em>so<\/em> not a math or science person) &#8212; history is a field that I&#8217;ve been thinking about. The older I get, the more fascinated I get not just in what&#8217;s going on around me, but in how we got where we are.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  What&#8217;s the one thing you&#8217;d like to say to the MS flunkies at your workplace concerning the Mac vs.\u00a0PC arguments?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mostly, that in the end, it&#8217;s a silly argument. It can be a <em>fun<\/em> argument if you don&#8217;t approach it from a zealot&#8217;s point of view, but it&#8217;s essentially silly. What works for me works for me, and what works for them&#8230;well, it doesn&#8217;t really work that well, but they seem to be fine with that. ;)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and that I&#8217;m right and they&#8217;re wrong. Nyeah-nyeah. Windows 5uXX0rZ!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  When it comes to having information available at your fingertips, are you a voracious consumer, or do you fear information overload?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hrm&#8230;yes. I&#8217;m a voracious consumer, <em>and<\/em> I fear information overload. Or, rather, I revel in it. I&#8217;ve got 100-some sites subscribed to in <a href=\"http:\/\/ranchero.com\/netnewswire\/\" title=\"NetNewsWire\">NetNewsWire<\/a>, and if I go for more than a day without checking in, I&#8217;m convinced I&#8217;m missing out on something incredibly important. I&#8217;m usually not, but the compulsion to find out is always there. Of course, the downside is that I can&#8217;t keep everything in my head, and I&#8217;m constantly saying that I &#8220;just read something about that&#8230;&#8221; but have no clue where I read what I&#8217;m talking about. But even then, as long as I&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\" title=\"Google\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedster.com\/\" title=\"Feedster\">Feedster<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/\" title=\"Technorati\">Technorati<\/a>, than I&#8217;m good to go.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  If you could instantly master one skill you know nothing about now, what would it be and why?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.muppetcentral.com\/\" title=\"Muppet Central\">Muppets<\/a>. No matter how much of a tech geek I may be, or how much I may enjoy the latest and greatest CGI special effects extravaganza, every time I watch the behind-the-scenes documentary on either <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00000K3D4\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Labyrinth\">Labyrinth<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00000JPH6\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"The Dark Crystal\">The Dark Crystal<\/a> I&#8217;m spellbound by the magic that these craftsmen can produce. Taking simple (and some not-so-simple) foam rubber puppets and giving them such incredible, believable life creates a spell that no CGI can equal. 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