Old memes revived

[gemfyre]

I kinda liked this one.

Pick an interest from my interests list that you know nothing about or don't know what it is - and ask me about it!!!

Feel free to post it in your journal. ;)

*awaits interrogation*

Comments

[aequanoctis.livejournal.com]

mmmh who is dean koontz? He's got a funky name!!

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

He's a very funky writer! I've read all his books except for his latest which hasn't been released in Australia yet.

He usually gets lumped with the thrillers alongside Stephen King but his stuff is really varied, but yeah, they do all have edge-of-your-seat moments and weird stuff happening.

Admittedly most of his books are pretty formulaic but that's great because you don't have to think much while you read them. The good guys always win, they're usually warm and fuzzy in the end. I just like 'em. And his more recent stuff is way better than his really early stuff.

[imaginor.livejournal.com]

What's the dark crystal?

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

!!!!!!!!!
You don't know of the Dark Crystal??

The Dark Crystal is a brilliant movie released in 1982 and featuring Jim Henson creations.

Read about it here.

Now, go watch it! :)

[abasca.livejournal.com]

You like "Jars of Clay"?! You rock!!! =^_^=

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Yep.
I'm not Christian - I don't ascribe to any religion, but I do believe in a God and that Jesus was an awesome man. I just really like JoC lyrics and music and stuff.

My b/f is Christian (you'd never guess) and he introduced me to them.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Worlds Apart is my fave song by them.

[sternenglanz.livejournal.com]

I'm sure this is obvious, but what's "10 things"? And is Crowded House part of Aussie rock?

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

10 Things is the movie 10 Things I Hate About You, LJ won't let interests be more than so many words long.

It's a cult hit among my group of friends. There was a time when we'd watch it every week or so.

Yeah Crowdies are Aussie!! Or at least we accept them as being so. :)

[sternenglanz.livejournal.com]

I <3 Crowded House!

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

So many... ok, tell me about epidemiology and ethology.

And I'm interested in what "meterology" and "microbiolgy" are. (I copy pasted them...)

And what do you mean by taxonomy?

so there you go... not one but five!

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Yay!! Something to do.

Epidemiology - the study of diseases and how they spread pretty much.
Ethology - the study of animal behaviour.
Meterology - the study of weather patterns.
Microbiology - the study of microscopic organisms (viruses, bacteria, unicellular eukaryotes etc.) - now you want to know what a eukaryote is don't you?
Taxonomy - this one tends to have various specific meanings. For me it's pretty much classifying organisms. Instead of being with bears the koala belongs with marsupials. The giant and red pandas may be more closely related to racoons than bears but more research needs to be carried out. There's all these schools of thought about how organisms should be classified and it just ties my head in knots.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Actually, I know what meteorology and microbiology are, I was just subtly pointing out they're misspelled on your list. ;)

Taxonomy does mean what I thought it did... in my degree it's all about Bloom's Taxonomy (http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html is a good overview)

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Doh.

*fixes*

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

teehee...

The tragic thing is that there were others with the same misspellings.

btw, when you say ryan got through, do you mean all the way through, or just the secondary auditions? I vowed I wasn't gonna watch idol 2, but now i'm gonna have to...

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

It seems he's gotten to the stage where he goes before the 3 judges. Then there's like 4 rooms of contestants and one or two rooms get eliminated.

He'll probably be on TV.