Target Centermass

Day: April 26, 2005

  • Second Interview – Hammertime

    Hammertime of Team Hammer’s Musings has stepped up to be my second interview subject. The rules are here. I’ll ask him six questions, even though he only has to answer five and can opt not to answer any one of them:

    1. You started your blog with the following:

    By my reckoning, the most important aspect of a succesful blog is not humor, character, comunication, logic, entertainment value, technical issues, or even decency. It is discipline – the discipline to regularly update the blog. We’ll see if we have it…

    Now, as time has passed, do you still feel that way? If not, what then is the most important aspect of a successful blog? For that matter, how would you define a “successful” blog?

    2. You went to USMA. I spent a week there for an academic (e.g. recruiting) workshop before my senior year of high school. One morning I saw a doe outside the dorm window, on a hillside not even thirty feet away. What is a moment from your time there that will always remind you of the natural beauty of the Hudson Highlands?

    3. You’re an athletic, sports-loving video-game nut. What are your favorite sports to play personally, to watch live, to watch on television and to play on a video game? If there are discrepancies between the four, explain briefly why?

    4. Army has a planned home-and-home football schedule with my alma mater Texas A&M in ’06 and ’08. During your time as an officer in the Army, you certainly had some degree of interaction with Aggies. What is your honest impression of them and do you have any interest in attending a game at A&M? If not, why not? If so, has any particular Aggie tradition caught your interest?

    5. Name the top three people that lived during your lifetime that you would consider heroic. What other person living today could make this list and what would that person have to do to bump one of the three?

    6. (Blatantly lifting from my interview by TexasBestGrok) What got you into blogging? If you had to write a mission statement for your blog, what would it be? Do you have any conscious role models for or influences in your blogging?

    I will link link to the answers when posted.

  • First Interview – Eric

    Eric of Eric’s Grumbles Before the Grave has answered the call to be my first interview subject. The rules are here. I’ll ask Eric six questions, even though he only has to answer five so that he can opt not to answer one of them:

    1. You’re a fan of the works of Robert Heinlein and familiar with the concept of T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L. Please explain what the concept means and how you feel it applies to your life.

    2. As a veteran of the active-duty Army, what was your view of the reserve components prior to the ’91 Gulf War? Did you have any interaction with reservists during the Gulf War and, if so, what effect did this have on your view? Has the performance of reservists during the current Afghanistan and Iraq campaigns changed that view any?

    3. Any character from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and the character Lazarus Long are excluded as possible answers from the following: please name a major Heinlein character that you associate with and why that is so.

    4. As a libertarian living in California, can you give me five adjectives to describe the current political climate of your state? Can you give me five different adjectives to decribe how you expect it to be in twenty years?

    5. You have to serve in an American conflict prior to the age of tanks. What conflict, branch and position would you choose and why?

    6. (Blatantly lifting from my interview by TexasBestGrok) What got you into blogging? If you had to write a mission statement for your blog, what would it be? Do you have any conscious role models for or influences in your blogging?

    Thank you in advance for your answers. I’ll provide a link to them when they’re posted.