Roger_Ramjet | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 12:16 am  The issue of the challenge...I have some thoughts I'd like to share with people...somethings to consider if you are willing to. |
Xenia | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 12:20 am  I admire A. Adams for his skill and the way in which he is so precise. But I don't like subject matter. Generally speaking, nature photography bores me. I am sad to say I don't carry my camera wherever I go. I don't know why I don't. I've been thinking about the last couple of days. on Saturday i went out in the early morning to get some food and as I was crossing the street, there was this long line-up of school buses as far back as I could see. They had stopped for the red light. I wish I could have captured that. The buses were carrying, I found out later, many women from all over the city who were taking part in this huge march starting from the park across the street from my apartment. I would have also liked to go out and take photos of that. But I am such a chicken shit. I think I'm most afraid that people are going to start screaming at me and grab my camera and stomp on it because I'm taking candid shots. When you're doing action shots you don't have a lot of time to ask for permission. If I had to chose, I'd write. It's proven to be the talent and skill I am most comfortable with. Man, you must have so many people where you work who are dependent on you. If you work such long hours you must be indispensible. Do you have any hobbies outside of work? Any passions? |
Moondance | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 12:21 am  please go ahead Roger Rabbit |
Xenia | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 12:24 am  Ok...go ahead but I know what you are going to say.. Then I'm gonna split... |
Xenia | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 12:31 am  TICK TOCK, ROGER!!!! |
Roger_Ramjet | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 12:33 am  Xenia--I hope you ca start carying your camera more often---there may be a metaphore there for you about life---something about opportunities existing--some only for a brief moment, and being ready for them if you wish to take them on. Just a thought though. I hope they are not dependent upon me--that would be very bad. I try to help out where I can. One of the things the long hours help with is teaching--or talking about the fine points of the regulations. By doing ceratin work that doesn't require anyone else, I never have to turn someone away when they have a question (as I told Luke last night, I get paid for answering questions--and it is a big aprt of my job--to just answer questiosn). I can walk them through it, ask them questions so they find the answer instead of me telling them. I can explain how we get from one pont in the regs to another point--or how they realte to each other (or in many cases where they don't--and why!!) I can discuss a single point of a regulation with someone for an hour or two when they need to address a tough question with someone (I know a number of types of regaultions pretty well I have a number of hobbies I've done in the past, and consider myself inactive at the time. Most everything I do is a passion---I have a ton of passion inside me--remember my epitaph in my application??? Host provided the apps of the 10 that made it in after we got here) You seem to be interested in people---I bet that your photography is an extension of that---am I correct???? Besides writing and photography, do you have other passions?? |
Roger_Ramjet | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 12:35 am  I can wait till tomorrow--or post it tonight for you guys to pick at tomorrow. |
Roger_Ramjet | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 12:36 am  sorry for taking long time--I don't type, so I'm slower than most! |
Moondance | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 12:36 am  Okay... I have to be up in 4 hours sorry... good to talk to you two! Sweet Dreams! |
Xenia | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 12:40 am  I'm gonna split too... Roger: To answer your question about hobbies, I'd say these days my love of technology is my biggst hobby. But let's leave it there and picked up some other time. It's been really cool to get a chance to talk to you Roger. Have a good night guys. |
Roger_Ramjet | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 12:44 am  Moon--good-night!!! You too Xenia!!! I'd like to thank you both for the late night talk....Xenia, it was great talking to you, and hope you want to do it again. For anyone else checking in, I'll be around for awhile--I have some posts to make! Tally Ho |
Luke | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 01:10 am  Hey Roger... still up? It's me, Luke... |
Roger_Ramjet | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 01:18 am  Right here--I was posting in another area. |
Luke | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 01:19 am  Well, I actually ended up crashing early tonite, but for some reason, I woke up... so I thought I'd check in here before trying to get back to sleep... Looks like not much has been happening--I'm gonna work on my redroom visit for a while... (Did everyone crash early tonite?) |
Luke | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 01:20 am  guess it's just you and me again up this late, huh.... so what did you think about this evening? did you enjoy the chat? Any feelings on being the obvious choice of the rest of us to go out into the outside world for 10 minutes? |
Roger_Ramjet | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 01:21 am  Most booked early. Xenia and I had a long discussion. Did you want to talk after RR, or are you going to bag it?? I'm here. |
Luke | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 01:23 am  Hehehe... I can "multitask!" (Doing my RR visit while chatting with you)... yeah--discussion about the challenge i assume...? how do you feel about it? |
Roger_Ramjet | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 01:25 am  It was ok--evryone did great about just watching. That was pretty cool to have that many people there, and no one jumping in. It went so fast--asked a few questions, we answered, make banaishment announcemnets, and over! I made a post about some thoughts on that (challenge area)--you can read and come back or I can rehash and you can comment--you going ot look would be faster! |
Roger_Ramjet | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 01:29 am  Xenia--wanna come back out with Luke and me? |
Luke | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 01:29 am  Aha! I see you are posting in more than one section at the same time as well! I guess that a lot of us see you as the "Cassandra" of the group--Not that there's any resemblance physically... hehehe... but that you posess that same type of wisdom and impartiality. Like in BB, even though a lot of people wanted to talk with Brittany, they all agreed (almost immediately) that it should be Cassandra who was allowed back in the house because she would do the best job of providing outside information to the group... I'm pretty confident that you'd do that well... |
Luke | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 01:31 am  I read your post in the challenge area... and even though you ask questions about what you would read (Do we want to know what the think about the game? about us in general?? about our RRs? about when we nominate?? etc), you'd still probably make the best decisions under pressure of 10 minutes than any of us would.... |
Roger_Ramjet | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 01:34 am  Wow, I hope I'm not completely like Cass! I saw her as holding back a lot--keeping a lot in, not letting anyone get too close--or too much mud in her hair. I have very little hair! Also, I hope I prtety much lert it all hang out, to use a phrase from my younger years. I don't know that this task will take wisdom..I thin it will take someone goung out and sticking to a game plan (whatever we decide that is) and reporting back. A robot maybe?? lol Am I way of base here?? |
Luke | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 01:37 am  Well, maybe wisdom wasn't the best choice of words then--- perhaps prudence... You're probably the most level-headed person in here, and would probably make the most prudent decisions as to which information to read and bring back to us. I think Xenia was probably right too in that you'd also be impartial in the information that you decide to read and bring back... Is there any specific reason why you may not want to go? (Not suggesting that there is... just wondering really...) |
Roger_Ramjet | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 01:37 am  Wow< I'd want to go in with a plan or a list of priorities to look for. No way of knowing how it's set up--I hope Host would let us know that so we could get 10 minutes of reading in--hey maby the person who goes should be the fastest reader--or have the fastest printer!!! |
Luke | Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 01:39 am  But I see a lot of qualities that you share in common with cassandra... (IMO) Hehehe, no, not the hair thing... yeah, i thought she was kinda overly-concerned with that too... but at least as far as the level-headedness.... and also as being a source of stability within the house... (she acted as a stabilizing force with conflicts with mega early on in the game)... |