Liam asked:

1. What is your most treasured memory of Yeliz?

I'm not sure I have a 'most', but here's one of the best: we were driving to Pennsic and were planning to stop overnight at my parents' house, about halfway through. We had just passed Albany, and I was getting irritated about the possibility of being late. She asked me about what would happen if we were late, and I said that my parents would either hold dinner for us, or put some aside for us and go ahead. And if we were very late? Well, they would go to sleep -- they know that I know where a key is hidden. Nor would they be upset if we woke them up to let us in.

For the first time in my life, I relaxed about a car trip. There was no time pressure. On all previous journeys, I only had a weekend or someone was expecting me at a certain time at the other end: time was important. And thanks to Eliz, I no longer have to worry about what isn't true.

2. It's 2028. Tell me what your kids are doing?

I have no idea what particular interests they will have, but I suspect that Z will be starting his second or third job in which he explains complex things to other people. He'll be looking around for a special someone. E will be pondering whether he wants to finish a doctorate or live in a commune in Vermont.

3. We are going to a desert island. You get three science fiction books/series. Which ones? Why?

- the Perry Rhodan series, because I've never read them and there are more than two thousand volumes.

- the complete 33 volume Tales of Continuing Time, by Daniel Keys Moran. That means that he gets to finish them all...

- Charlie Stross' Laundry series, which begins with _The Atrocity Archive_ and finishes with one more volume past _Case Nightmare Green_. As counterpoint.


4. Describe your perfect home desktop computer.

It is a one-meter cube, of a black so deep that on a moonless night in the desert it is still clearly the darkest thing around. It will answer any question that falls within its light-cone. Data storage is apparently inexhaustible, and no human can hope to notice whatever reaction time is necessary to perform computations. The cube is just an interface and local peripheral manager for the real computer, which sits folded away in almost-inaccessible dimensions...

(If anyone wants recommendations of currently available systems, made according to their budget, let me know.)

5. Favorite XKCD evah?

It's a tossup between http://www.xkcd.org/162/ and 'sudo make me a sandwich'.

Liam asked:

1. What is your most treasured memory of Yeliz?

I'm not sure I have a 'most', but here's one of the best: we were driving to Pennsic and were planning to stop overnight at my parents' house, about halfway through. We had just passed Albany, and I was getting irritated about the possibility of being late. She asked me about what would happen if we were late, and I said that my parents would either hold dinner for us, or put some aside for us and go ahead. And if we were very late? Well, they would go to sleep -- they know that I know where a key is hidden. Nor would they be upset if we woke them up to let us in.

For the first time in my life, I relaxed about a car trip. There was no time pressure. On all previous journeys, I only had a weekend or someone was expecting me at a certain time at the other end: time was important. And thanks to Eliz, I no longer have to worry about what isn't true.

2. It's 2028. Tell me what your kids are doing?

I have no idea what particular interests they will have, but I suspect that Z will be starting his second or third job in which he explains complex things to other people. He'll be looking around for a special someone. E will be pondering whether he wants to finish a doctorate or live in a commune in Vermont.

3. We are going to a desert island. You get three science fiction books/series. Which ones? Why?

- the Perry Rhodan series, because I've never read them and there are more than two thousand volumes.

- the complete 33 volume Tales of Continuing Time, by Daniel Keys Moran. That means that he gets to finish them all...

- Charlie Stross' Laundry series, which begins with _The Atrocity Archive_ and finishes with one more volume past _Case Nightmare Green_. As counterpoint.


4. Describe your perfect home desktop computer.

It is a one-meter cube, of a black so deep that on a moonless night in the desert it is still clearly the darkest thing around. It will answer any question that falls within its light-cone. Data storage is apparently inexhaustible, and no human can hope to notice whatever reaction time is necessary to perform computations. The cube is just an interface and local peripheral manager for the real computer, which sits folded away in almost-inaccessible dimensions...

(If anyone wants recommendations of currently available systems, made according to their budget, let me know.)

5. Favorite XKCD evah?

It's a tossup between http://www.xkcd.org/162/ and 'sudo make me a sandwich'.