1. What is your name?John Harris, username
Milen.
2. Tell us something about you, your background, and what you've been up to lately?I
write the
@Play column for
GameSetWatch and occasional
Game Design
Essentials articles for Gamasutra, I know rather a lot about roguelike
games, I maintain the blog
Roasted
Peanuts about the comic strip Peanuts, and I'm working on a computer
game called
In
Profundis.
3. How did you discover Everything, and how did you become a noder?That was a while back. I discovered Everything through Slashdot, and became a noder for writing practice.
4. What are your favorite writeups -- both your own and from other noders?My
own, I'm not sure, it's been a long time since I reviewed most of them.
My style in those seems a lot more "out there" than I'd be comfortable
with writing now.
What Would Cthulhu Do? and
Gauntlet are favorites.
Spinach Rule I like, even though it had a negative reputation the last
time I looked at it, just for how weird it is while still hanging
together reasonably well.
Well there is one I remember, and keep
trying to come back to, but I can't find it anymore. It was a hilarious
writeup about brushing away spiders, but given as if it were a
description of a dance with that spider. The fact that I can't find it
now suggests to me that it has been deleted, which would be a great
shame.
It's been too long since I read the site in any way to remember favorites, unfortunately.
5. What are your favorite and least favorite memories from E2's history?I
had a difficult time not taking writeup deletions personally. Favorite
moments included chilling with
Pseudo_Intellectual and
TheBooBooKitty in the chatterbox.
I had a lot of fun once
soft-linking every node with "versus" or "vs" in the title that I could
find to the writeup for "
XTC vs Adam Ant." Yeah, I'm kind of a geek.
6. What keeps you coming back?Mostly
idle curiosity. Sometimes I find good things, but it's very hard to
find those things if they're not actually on the front page when I
visit. A lot of E2's content feels buried to me.
7. What do you hope for E2's future?I hope it survives and prospers. I'd love to write here some more in the future, but I rarely find the time, unfortunately.
8. What does E2 mean to you?It's a fun place to learn new things and, sometimes laugh, and it's still home to some of the cleverest writing on the internet.
9. Who are your favorite noders? Which ones do you miss the most?Pseudo_Intellectual I miss. There are others, but I never really learned many user names.
10. Who would play you in the Everything2 movie?I really have no idea.
11. Please fill in the blank: "E2 is to the Internet as ___ is to the world."I dunno, a good four-year liberal arts college?
12. Any questions that I didn't ask that I should've?Probably, but I'm not sure I'm a good authority to ask concerning what those are.
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