(1) Approximately how old are you?
Pushing 60, though retired years ago when my then-flush company bought into the downsizing-outsourcing-management consultant mania of the time and offered ridiculously huge buyouts to aging, expensive employees in anticipation of big cost savings. I and a couple dozen others jumped at the chance, thrived. The company folded a couple of years ago. Ironically, unionized employees bought the company in bankruptcy for a song and are now thriving more than the original company ever did, without expensive "consultants" and pop-babble management theories; just good product and word-of-mouth advertising. Some Hollywood? studio is making a movie about them next year. Watch for it.
(2) Are you a man or woman?
More mouse than either.
(3) What country and region of that country were you born in?
Canada, Vancouver, 8 a.m., 8lbs. 11 oz., straight platinum hair, blue eyes, the platinum darkening to blond then mousey just pre-teen, then inexplicably curling and remaining so even today, though thinner.
(4) Where do you live now--you can be as general as you want.
Who'd want to leave Ecotopia? I just went a bit farther west - Vancouver Island.
(5) Tell us why you picked "DrNo" as a posting name.
In very early pre-registration days I was sitting at my brand-new 2 gigabyte, 14-inch-screen tech wonder trying to come up with a nic for this new site I'd just stumbled upon populated by smart but contentious posters. In those days nicknames could be changed for every post. I wanted a nic immediately identifiable but flexible enough to convey a message in the nic-line alone. One of my kids was watching Bugs Bunny on our state-of-the-art 27-inch cathode ray tube and just at that instant the wasciwy wabbit uttered "eh, what's up, doc?" and DrNo popped into my mind. DrNo could become DrYes, DrMaybe, DrFuckOffIdiot, convey a message without need for additional text, yet be immediately identifiable. Et voila! Moi!
(6) What languages do you speak?
Good English, bad French, a smattering of interior and coastal Injun words and terms, very little of the college Latin which was mostly Greek to me because of chemical influences which made everything seem foreign in that era, especially "The Roman in that doorway". Ask more questions about my bizarre eclectic education in your next round.
(7) What general area of business do you work in?
Housewifery.
(8) What are you good at? What are you bad at?
I'm good at forthrightness, at intensity, at compelling people, face to face, to bend to my logical will. I'm bad at illogical seduction.
(9) What are your hobbies? If money weren't a limiting factor what would they be? If there were no limit what would they be?
Hobbies? What's a hobby? Is that like an avocation? My whole life has been an avocation. I do the same things now I did as a child, only with more money and freedom. Suggest a hobby, given my baring of soul.
