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charlesc has been a member since April 27th, 1999.
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(charlesc - when you see this, please send me the links mentioned they didn't copy/paste.  I'd not only like to add them, but I'm intensely curious)


ask charlesc anything. (6.14.00)


obi-wan on 6.14.00: What is your favorite meal? Like if you were on death row and you were given your last meal what would it be?

Dinner, Death Row style

My favorite meal at most any restaurant is the "Combo" or "Sampler", the dish that has small portions of many of that restaurant's entrees. If no such plate exists, then I'll pick the meal with the unfamiliar name ("excuse me, how do you pronounce this? ....Ok, I'll have that."). The enjoyment lies in discovering what a restaurant has to offer.

Death Row. "What do you want for your last meal?" "Say, what's the most unusual request that anyone ever made? ....I'll have one of those."


Swillpig on 6.14.00: Why are you jumping on this "band waggon"?

Jumping... onto the bandwagon? or into the abyss?

This channel looked interesting, I thought I'd check it out to see where it takes me.

I consider that my "Knowpost experience" began with this question www.knowpost.com which led me to understand the power of this site. I was touched by the words appearing on a screen, written by persons or things unseen. I try going to other sites, but for whatever reason I seem to always end up coming back here.

Something magickal is going here at Knowpost. I don't know what. Maybe I won't find another clue in this channel. Maybe I will.

Afterthought: If I examine more deeply why I am now choosing to post in this channel, then after all the rationalizations and evasions have been stripped away, then simply put, it all comes down to this:
"If jaydogg is drinking from this bowl, then it's good enough for me."


Swords on 6.16.00: Did you know when you jumped on the "Ask me Anything Band Waggon" that Swillpig would ask you, "Why are you jumping on this bandwaggon of "Ask Me Anything"?

Did you expect that when you asked "Did you know when you jumped on the "Ask me Anything Band Wagon" that Swillpig would ask you, "Why are you jumping on this bandwaggon of "Ask Me Anything"? " that you would get more than 3 stars? :)


heyteach on 6.14.00: I notice you've asked quite a few questions: what sort of questions do you ask and what kind of information are you hoping to get from KP?

Ask and ye shall receive...what?

For a while, I was on a quest to discover the heart of that magickal-whatever-it-is that emanating from Knowpost. Sometimes the best way to get perspective on something is by comparing it with something that is sort of like it, but not quite. I would search for sites that seemed to have that Knowposty goodness that I had come to know and love. But to check to see if other members of the Knowpost community were getting the same vibes, a number of compare and contrast questions were formulated. I had expected a lists of similarities followed by lists of differences. taragl came the closest to what I had in mind.

wikis, user re-editable webpages www.knowpost.com

The rest would have some good insights, for which I was grateful.

LambdaMoo, a very mature MUD (meaning "multi-user desmesne" among other things)www.knowpost.com

telezone, a place where people build a virtual city building by building, block by block www.knowpost.com

diarist, a collection of online diaries www.knowpost.com

remarq, a usenet interface www.knowpost.com

slashdot, news/soapboxes for the computer industry www.knowpost.com

amp3, sharing music instead of typed words. www.knowpost.com

For the most part, however, the only person to consistently even answer the questions was savia, and so in her honor I asked this question about a fictional setting created by her favorite author.

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon www.knowpost.com

Interested by the notion that one could actually tailor a question to "catch" a person, this question was also created for savia.

www.knowpost.com

Most recently I asked the poll questions based on Hamlet's soliloquy in Act III, Scene I. In this speech, Hamlet implies that nobody would endure suffering if they didn't dread death, but for the majority of Knowposters polled, this does not appear to be the case.

Maybe Hamlet was projecting his own personal fear of death onto the rest of humanity, or
he didn't really understand why people choose living every day.


brigit on 6.15.00: have you tried to catch the wind? do you know father melancholy? have you bitten at the grave? are you the haunter or the haunted? is there balm in gilead? if i hungered, would you feed me? have you been where i'm hanging? can you see where i'm pinned? how many streams have you crossed? have you seen the colours of your heart?

Yes, but I couldn't spread my arms out wide far enough or lean forward enough or run fast enough or scream loud enough.

Yes - and mother desperation as well.

No, but I led the mourning to touch the dead.

I have walked through dreams and have written my name to be seen in books, and in tree branches. On buses, my voice is nearly heard in faint conversation. I shape thoughts so that they can only take the form of me. I insinuate myself into every other touch and embrace. I make the phone to almost ring. -- and yet, I have also ached for the fire.

I said the words they told me say - still waiting for Word.

I have fed the hungry - but sometimes I've ended up eating their hope.

Near there, perhaps, but not nearly as high nor for very long.

Not clear from this angle, but, through the heart, it seems.

Haven't crossed enough to reach home.

I may once have been able to - but I don't look there any more.


prncss on 6.16.00:
How old are you?
What do you do for a living?
Which is superior, cats or dogs?
What is your favorite fruit?

prncss, it seems I neglected to click the "go" button several days ago. your answers:

I'm a capricorn and a dragon, old enough to remember a time when American $20 dollar bills had small faces and when new $1 dollar coins had the face of Susan B. Anthony.

I offer comfort, instructions, simplifications, and facts over the telephone lines.

Cats. They are not tame, they have only added "living with humans" to their bag of tricks.

The bittersweet grapefruit, peeled and eaten slice by slice.


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