Day 18- Plans/dreams/goals you have

Haven’t got a huge amount here, mostly shorter-term goals ATM:

  1. Find a life partner. Sure, being single has it’s advantages, but I’d much rather be able to share my accomplishments with someone special.
  2. Buy my first house. I’m sick of having to tape ethernet cables along the floor of rentals…
  3. Do research and development into artificial intelligence, it’s been something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, but need more time/money to do so.
  4. Obtain better work/life balance.

Day 17- Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why

I’m not a fan of this question, why would I want to be anyone else? I like being me!

There are certainly people I’d like to meet and hang with for a bit, but that’s different, I always want to retain my individualism.

People I’ve wanted to meet and have:

  • Linus Torvalds
  • Richard Stallman
  • Mark Shuttleworth
  • John “maddog” Hall
  • Andrew “tridge” Tridgell
  • Andrew Tanenbaum
  • Jonathan Corbet

People I’ve yet to meet but want to:

  • Barrack Obama
  • Alexander the Great
  • Leonardo De Vinci
  • Some of my overseas twitter followers.
  • My true wuv?
  • The developer of the Stargate (don’t tell me that Stargates aren’t real!!)

Day 15- Put your iPod on shuffle: First 10 songs that play

This question was clearly devised by someone who failed to realise that there is any music player *other* than the ipod.

For the record, I have never owned a portable Apple device (ipod/iphone/ipad, etc) nor do I intend to – supporting Apple means supporting a company that believes in locking down your freedom in proprietary systems.

I listen to all my music directly off my laptop – either with my Sennheiser HD212pro headphones or via a NAD3021i amp with some JPW speakers.

I set my entire music collection on shuffle, here’s what I got:

  1. Muse – Hysteria
  2. DragonForce – Ultra Beatdown
  3. Disturbed – Pain Redefined
  4. Rush – 2112
  5. Marillion – Bitter Suite
  6. Iron Madien – Run to the hills
  7. Nightwish – Ocean Soul
  8. Genesis – Jesus He Knows Me (live version)
  9. Hawkwind – Do That
  10. Kraftwerk – The Model

As you can see, I have a range of tastes. :-)

Day 13- A letter to someone who has hurt you recently

As you know, I’m a very private, reserved person (ha! yeah right!), however the answer to this question is a little too much to be putting out in public.

I actually tend not to hold a grudge that much – sure, people have annoyed me and caused me pain at times, but I move on, look at the positives and get on with life. Sometimes I’ll even interact with them OK later on, I guess I find it hard to dislike people.

Pretty much the only place I’ve really been hurt is in the romance department, rejection always sucks and never gets any easier.

But that’s part of life I guess – in the last year I’ve gotten a lot more confident and better at reading people and emotions, so life is sort of going better in this area. :-)

Day 12- How you found out about blogging and why you made one

I’ve been building websites since back when I was in primary school playing around with geocities websites (ah, those were the days ;-)

I set up jethrocarr.com back in 2006 which turned into a blog the following year and finally got upgraded in 2010 to WordPress.

No idea where I “found out about blogging” from, I’ve grown up with the internet all my life and having an online presence has always been something that I’ve done.

Day 11- Another picture of you and your friends

I find these hard, I have too many photos of other people without myself in them. However there was a recent one taken at @mojooldbank with a bunch of twitter friends:

@jethrocarr, @sitharus, @xoxbubbles, @smrtgirl at @mojooldbank

So from the back, myself, the horribly cute couple of @sitharus and @xoxbubbles and Wellington’s number one cougar @smrtgirl

This photo is particularly interesting/scary to me, since I realised how much I look like a younger version (and less cool version if you ask @honorarykiwi) of my dad.

Day 10- Songs you listen to when you are Happy, Sad, Bored, Hyped, Mad

I listen to a huge range of music, mostly thanks to a good upbringing and musical education by my dad – since before I could walk, we always had great music on in the background – electronica, rock, techno and all sorts of other categories inbetween.

I’m not sure I can classify what I listen to into these categories, but I’ll try:

Happy

I’m never happy, it’s the human condition. ;-) If, hypothetically, I was happy, I would listen to a range of stuff including Nightwish, Rammstein, Rush, Jean Micheal Jarre, Kraftwork and more.

Lately I’ve been playing American Addio and Four Tet a lot, but that’s pretty much the case with any new artist – I’ll play it non-stop till I’m sick of it ;-)

Sad

Probably my number one for when I’m feeling down is Genesis or Peter Gabriel’s works, love this stuff and it helps me feel better. :-)

Pink Floyd and Nightwish also both work when feeling down as well as a number of classic rock bands.

Bored

I don’t really get bored, I have far too much to do all the time….. I can get tired of things and procrastinate, but I’m always doing *something*.

Hyped

I’d tend to go for fast-paced music such as Muse or some techno (think Rave Mission)

Mad

I’ll dig out the heavy metal stuff when feeling mad – maybe Metallica, Nirvana, or even more commerical stuff – I’ve even been known to listen to Linkin Park on occasion.

I do love Alestorm, which can only be described as insane pirate metal. :-D