#interviewing experts

[maryrobinette]

Interview with Kip Bradford About HVAC Systems on Mars

To settle on Mars, one of the big needs for effective space colonization will for HVAC. In this episode of interviewing experts, I talk to Kipp Bradford about how to creating and break HVAC on Mars. Over the past decade, Kipp has distinguished himself as a prolific high-tech innovator. With a penchant for creating new products and finding new applications for existing technologies, he holds…

[natdeviantrat]

can i call for a challengers redo

[kassandras-one-braincell]

i am not the academic weapon i used to be. hereby submitting my application to be a lesbian's housewife. i can cook

[arcadiiian]

the vampire armand, ca. 1500, venice

[andtheywerefootballers]

Post-match interview with Kramer:

Interviewer: Musiala and Wirtz seem to be in a symbiosis! Isn't that crazy? They don't even play in the same club

Kramer: Well they're both good players. They find each other good too and don't even necessarily have to search each other, they still end up finding each other either way

What he means: Oh they def fruity

[hyohaehyuk]

Immortal_AMC: Vampires and scary movies go together like blood and.. well, vampires. #InterviewWithTheVampire #FearFest

[mixelation]

there should be a ninjacon panel where 'experts' debate if fictional jutsu could be accomplished in real life or not

[platoapproved]

How do you think Armand genuinely felt about his coven?

GOSH! An interesting question. In the finale he tells Daniel that he had complicated feelings and I don't necessarily think that was a lie...

But especially in terms of the performance, he seems so fucking sick of them.

This is the face of a man who has been trapped in close quarters with the same 12 theatre kids and their bullshit interpersonal drama for centuries, while also working a management position and thus having to mediate all their squabbles, assign tasks, and who knows how many other exhausting things.

I think he allows Louis to kill the coven mostly out of the same passivity that had him going along with the trial - it was already in motion, and some part of his brain had decided it was already inevitable. The one moment he ACTUALLY went against the coven was pulling Louis from the wall - in my opinion because Louis starving made him think too much about how he got wrapped up in the coven in the first place.

I don't think he mourned them even a bit. Because of the nature of his position - installed right away as the coven master in a precarious position of authority over those who might try to take power from him and do violence to him - it was never really community for him. They weren't his friends. There might have been some small similarity to a family (derogatory).

Basically my read is - he was accustomed to them. He didn't respect them, he didn't enjoy them, and he certainly didn't miss them when they were gone.

[sallysbutter]

Jacob Anderson for Men's Health (x)

[maryrobinette]

Interview With Dr. Thomas Wagner About Space, Science, & NASA

Interviewing Experts with NASA Scientist Dr. Thomas Wagner I talked to Dr. Thomas Wagner, who works for NASA, as part of my research for a new science fiction novel set on Mars. The fourth Lady Astronaut novel, The Martian Contingency, takes place on Mars about ten seconds after the end of Fated Sky. Of course something goes wrong, because it’s a novel, and I wanted to know how NASA would handle…

[rendnotmyheart]

Here's the thing about Armand's little speech. "He wants you in pieces for the privilege of putting you back together as he sees fit. It's his drug." 1) Is this the story he has told himself about his past with Daniel? That Daniel was just trying to pick apart Armand to put him back together the way he sees fit? or 2) Is this Armand projecting? or 3) Is this, perhaps, something Armand and Daniel have in common?

[onthenightisland]

i will never ever ever get over armand. he loves with such an intensity. he DEMANDS love in return, he's not shy or coy. he needs a certain amount of love and care and attention to such a degree that he will scratch and claw anything or anyone to get it regardless of casualties or complaints. i strongly believe that in his case his desperation for true companionship has nothing to do with vampiric loneliness or the dark gift, he would have been this way regardless. he is doomed to let love wreck him no matter what, its just his luck he must endure it for eternity.

[dxxtruction]

Not to psychoanalyze (Yes, to do that), but given Armand's history, his only preconception of what love is, is to view it through pure desire. Love - and more broadly accurate, his life purpose for like half a millenia - as only he's ever known it, has only been experienced through transactional wish-fulfillment fantasies, of which he was the one typically sought after to complete such an exchange. And so naturally, in his own seeking, he replicates it. Though to some degree he also replicates the fantastical existence of fictional romances to compensate.

This lack of true experience of love without desire or fantasy, making his always unfilled 'objet petit a' - his object of desire - (a partner he desires a particular love from but does not receive to his fulfillment) - the catalyst for believing there is no other form of love to be had. That he can simply love the person, and be altruistic to their personhood, without them filling a role or desire for him, just would never occur. He's egotistical and overly pragmatic towards others by the fault of formative experiences denying him his own personhood. In being groomed into the object of desire, he no longer sees anyone else but as such. It's equal parts lack of self-awareness, meaning he simply has no way to counter-reflect upon himself the way one should behave, and developed coping mechanism, either consciously or unconsciously, taking on the role of those who inflicted upon him their desires to gain a sense of control over it.

In never escaping this cycle of love as desire, he always denies himself his full person, and simultaneously denies the personhood of others.

[thedickcavettshow]

Bob Dylan discussing Allen Ginsberg and the movie he’s planning on making on The Les Crane Show, 1965

Transcript:

Les: have you ever given any thought to acting? You think you might enjoy acting?

Bob: Well, I’ve been trying to make a movie this summer, which uh, Allen Ginsberg is writing… I’m rewriting.

Les: Allen Ginsberg, the poet?

Bob: Yeah

Les: He was on this program, you know…

Bob: Yeah, yeah

Les: Extolling the virtues of marijuana one night.

Bob: Really?… Allen?

[audience laughs]

Bob: Sounds like a lie to me.

Les: That’s really- you think I’m lying?

Bob: No I didn’t, uh, didn’t mean that…

Les: Allen Ginsberg was sitting in that chair, where Caterina Valente is sitting right now, and he said that he thought that uh, we ought to legalize…. Pot.

Bob: HE said that??

Les: Right on the television!

Bob: Whooooo…

Les: Can you imagine that?

Bob: Yeah… Allen is a little funny sometimes.

[audience laughs, Bob starts laughing with them]

Les: Allen’s funny sometimes, huh? Yes… what kind of- what is this movie going to be about?

Bob: Oh, it’s uh, sort of a horror cowboy movie

[audience laughs]

Bob: Takes place on the New York thruway

Les: A horror cowboy movie that takes place on- I don’t think that’s exactly what Tommy Sands had in mind…

Bob: No, and it, uh, that’s kind of the movie it’s going to be, though, you know

Les: It’s going to be one of those underground pictures

Bob: No, no, it’s going to be all straight, on the up and up…

Les: Yeah? You gonna star in it?

Bob: Yeah. I’m the hero.

Les: You’re the hero?

[audience laughs]

Les: You play the horrible cowboy, is that-

Bob: I play my mother

[audience laughs]

Les: You play your mother…? In the movie?

Bob: In the movie.

[audience laughs]

Bob: You gotta see the movie. [laughs]

Les: He’s quite the put-on artist!

Bob: No…

Les: You’re terrible

Bob: No, I don’t wanna be categorized.

[ashtcnirwin]

wtf is a pookie?

[edwardseymour]

good for her.