Personally, I'm really likeing the Heinlein one, from a conceptual viewpoint, but I haven't read nearly as much as I'd need to to do it right. And yeah, smurfs are too simple.
Hrm. What kind of computer? i/o device? storage medium? (yes, I'm a geek.)
Well, let's run with the Heinlein thing (and if it forces you to read a little more Heinlein, no harm done, right?) At one point I'd read almost everything he'd written... not such a big fan anymore, but he is a common reference point for a large portion of the large community.
And heavens knows there are enough characters... I can think of eight or so right off the top of my head that should be included and are distinctive enough. (Friday, Podkayne, VMS, Jubal -- if only because we can leave out Lazarus Long then, the narrator from "Starship Troopers", Andrew/Elizabeth, etc. etc. The guy who sold the moon....) But having reassured myself that it's technically feasiable, we should work on the underlying structure.
Now letmesee... I think we should have a pool of at least twelve different answers. It's completely dull if it's like five or something. If we're just contrasting high versus low values for the various attributes we're charting, four different attributes with give us sixteen different combinations, which seems about right to me. (If rather Myers-Briggs esque.)
I think we should have one dealing with security vs. insecurity. Heinlein characters have pretty different levels of socialization and alienation, and I think folks'll get into that.
There probably should be a thinking/feeling scale. (I wondered for a second if it should be a thinking / fucking one, for Heinlein, but then they were never treated as exclusive...) I'm thinking relative importance people place on emotionally vs. intellectually derived truths.
Hmph. You could practically have one about how much you want to move to the country with half a dozen lovers... but maybe not.
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Re: I should write a quiz
Date: 2002-05-21 02:01 pm (UTC)And yeah, smurfs are too simple.
Hrm. What kind of computer? i/o device? storage medium? (yes, I'm a geek.)
Re: I should write a quiz
Date: 2002-05-21 03:11 pm (UTC)And heavens knows there are enough characters... I can think of eight or so right off the top of my head that should be included and are distinctive enough. (Friday, Podkayne, VMS, Jubal -- if only because we can leave out Lazarus Long then, the narrator from "Starship Troopers", Andrew/Elizabeth, etc. etc. The guy who sold the moon....) But having reassured myself that it's technically feasiable, we should work on the underlying structure.
Now letmesee... I think we should have a pool of at least twelve different answers. It's completely dull if it's like five or something. If we're just contrasting high versus low values for the various attributes we're charting, four different attributes with give us sixteen different combinations, which seems about right to me. (If rather Myers-Briggs esque.)
I think we should have one dealing with security vs. insecurity. Heinlein characters have pretty different levels of socialization and alienation, and I think folks'll get into that.
There probably should be a thinking/feeling scale. (I wondered for a second if it should be a thinking / fucking one, for Heinlein, but then they were never treated as exclusive...) I'm thinking relative importance people place on emotionally vs. intellectually derived truths.
Hmph. You could practically have one about how much you want to move to the country with half a dozen lovers... but maybe not.
Thoughts?
Re: I should write a quiz
Date: 2002-05-21 05:59 pm (UTC)