HD Interviews are back, baby! Topic

C'mon, who doesn't want to see yours truly interviewed?
7/14/2011 10:18 PM
apparently everyone*






*except you

7/14/2011 11:48 PM
Thanks, weena, for guessing #10 as my incorrect fact.   In actuality, however, #4 false.
7/15/2011 4:25 AM
Well I was twice interviewed by my town newspaper so if you're looking for experience, I'm your man!
7/15/2011 10:30 AM
Me. Because I'm mediorce and can't spell. Plus I would use the interview to blatantly promote every conference I'm in.
7/15/2011 11:05 AM
I was interviewed by jbrewman once for conference interviews.

it was the first and only interview of my life where i wasn't being judged somehow. twas nice.
7/15/2011 12:26 PM

This is another great idea from girt. However, like most of his ideas, it is all talk and no action*. So to prevent yet another contretemps by the grand master I have developed a set of interview questions. I encourage all announced and unnanounced candidates to participate. Please cut, paste, and respond as veraciously or mendaciously as you want. Remember though that the concept here is to let your fellow HDers learn something more about you.

1) Who the heck are you?

2) Why are you still here?

3) What is the best secret that you use to be successful in HD?

4) Who would play you in a movie about your life?

5) What do you do when you are not on WIS? (Keep it clean and don't say work or school)

6) What do you wear on the court when you are coaching? (sweater, suit and tie, latex bib overalls, etc.)

7) You are at a roundtable discussion with 5 people (living or dead, interpreters will be provided) of your choosing. Who are they and what single subject (just 1) are you discussing?

8) optional - What is the most embarrassing thing you ever did or had done to you?

9) optional - You are trapped in the back of a runaway Brinks van heading for a cliff. You have one minute until the crash and all that is available to you is an egg of silly putty, a ball of twine, a dull machete, and a bottle of vinegar. What do you do?

10) optional - Is there anything else that you are dying to tell us about yourself?


* j/k Girt is one of the most proactive users in the history of this site. His diatribes with WIS management are legendary and his suggestions have massively improved this game.  

7/15/2011 1:49 PM
1) Who the heck are you?

Abraham Lincoln's vice president

2) Why are you still here?

As a participant in a little known program to develop an army of electrified soldiers to fight the South, I was unwittingly made immortal in an accident involving an ungrounded wire, a vat of sarsaparilla and Madame Curie.

3) What is the best secret that you use to be successful in HD?

My #1 rule involving HD is do not divulge your secrets.  I can't believe I let that one out of the bag.  I've never told anyone before.

4) Who would play you in a movie about your life?

Otto the Orange

5) What do you do when you are not on WIS? (Keep it clean and don't say work or school)

Sleep.  Just kidding, who can sleep when the games run at 2 AM?!

In all seriousness, I am involved in an outreach program to help the less fortunate in our society.  These individuals have been victimized and traumatized by their experiences and only a few have so far been re-introduced into normal society.  The unspeakable nature of the crimes against them makes therapy nearly impossible, we hope only to provide them some small solace for their remaining days.  If you would like to learn more, or perhaps even contribute, please visit www.formerpatientsofalblack.com.  Any contribution would be welcome.

6) What do you wear on the court when you are coaching? (sweater, suit and tie, latex bib overalls, etc.)

Don Nelson's fish tie, although as a bandana (covers the fins nicely).  I won it from him in a game of Bourre back in '87.  I also sport LaPhonso Ellis's hightop fade (which I just copied, no need for gambling).  Also a neat Hilter 'stache, a la Jordan.  And muttonchops.  Can't forget the muttonchops.

7) You are at a roundtable discussion with 5 people (living or dead, interpreters will be provided) of your choosing. Who are they and what single subject (just 1) are you discussing?

Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Simon Cameron and Edward Bates to discuss who the hell invited Madame Curie to the ******* military experiments?  I still have fins to this very day!

8) optional - What is the most embarrassing thing you ever did or had done to you?

I once showed up for a state dinner without sporting my muttonchops!  Abe never let me hear the end of that one.  And Johnson just wouldn't let it go.  Said the people would never support a baby-faced vice president.  But I digress...

9) optional - You are trapped in the back of a runaway Brinks van heading for a cliff. You have one minute until the crash and all that is available to you is an egg of silly putty, a ball of twine, a dull machete, and a bottle of vinegar. What do you do?

Take the silly putty and work it in your hands until it is warm and pliable.  Use the vinegar to clean the machete, than cut the twine into a neat cat's cradle.  Tie the rest of the twine to empty bottle.  Stick the other end of the twine into the silly putty and stick it to top of the van.  Use the cat's cradle as a catapult to launch the bottle and wrap it around the nearest tree.  If there is no tree nearby use a bystander.  Once the van goes over the cliff, jump out at the same moment the silly putty is pulled from the top of the van.  Then walk away because I am immortal.

10) optional - Is there anything else that you are dying to tell us about yourself?

As I mentioned above, I am not dying at all.  I did fake my own death on the 4th of July in 1891 because I wanted to be more like Thomas Jefferson and Sam Adams.  I used Andrew Johnson's body!  Ha!  The jokes on him after all isn't it.

7/15/2011 2:44 PM
1) Who the heck are you?
-jetwildcat. duh. Villanova alum, mechanical engineer at a pharmaceutical company in NJ

2) Why are you still here?
-I'm obsessed with sports simulations...and I haven't build a villanova dynasty yet.

3) What is the best secret that you use to be successful in HD?
-my HD_Powersheet that someone else put together. it quickly calculates potential ratings based on text color.

4) Who would play you in a movie about your life?
-kevin dillon. all he would need to do is be a less-dramatic version of drama from entourage.

5) What do you do when you are not on WIS? (Keep it clean and don't say work or school)
-competing somehow...pickup basketball, fantasy sports, getting back into video gaming a bit. i have a long-term girlfriend that i live next to and still get to hang out with my high school friends that stayed relatively local in the year since we graduated college

6) What do you wear on the court when you are coaching? (sweater, suit and tie, latex bib overalls, etc.)
-t-shirt and gym shorts.

7) You are at a roundtable discussion with 5 people (living or dead, interpreters will be provided) of your choosing. Who are they and what single subject (just 1) are you discussing?
-michael eisner, christopher nolan, aaron sorkin, albert einstein and marlon brando. we discuss which of my movie/tv show ideas would work and how to move forward with making them happen.

8) optional - What is the most embarrassing thing you ever did or had done to you?
-to keep it brief...my freshman year in college, my roommates changed the logon sound on my laptop to audio porn sounds with horse sounds dubbed over. they turned the volume up all the way too. the planets aligned in the exact way that i ended up turning my computer on in a 100+ student lecture hall and blasted this 30-second clip across the auditorium.

i dare anyone to beat that. lol

9) optional - You are trapped in the back of a runaway Brinks van heading for a cliff. You have one minute until the crash and all that is available to you is an egg of silly putty, a ball of twine, a dull machete, and a bottle of vinegar. What do you do?
-I get outside the van and immediately survey the potential crash site. when i determine the potentially softest landing site, i push off from the van and aim for that spot with all my materials in hand. i place the silly putty on the vinegar bottle and carve out the message "weena sucks" in the silly putty and pocket the twine. for seconds before landing i toss the machete away so i could grab it later if i survive the fall and am able to move around. i try to tuck and roll upon impact.

10) optional - Is there anything else that you are dying to tell us about yourself?
-j-e-t-s jets jets jets. and if anyone wants to start another online simulation game, i can help as a conceptual consultant, working for free over the computer.
7/15/2011 3:00 PM
1) Who the heck are you?
My name is Ed and I am an alc...sorry wrong meeting. I am married with one son. I am retired from the USAF. I have a MS Ed in Instructional Technology and have worked as a management consultant, corporate trainer, graphics designer, and janitor at a 10-plex movie theater.

2) Why are you still here?
Well to quote a line from Zack Mayo in An Officer and a Gentleman "I got nowhere else to go! I got nowhere else to g... I got nothin' else." Not really though, I love this game in spite of its flaws and glitches. It is better than any other game of its kind on the web and I have looked.

3) What is the best secret that you use to be successful in HD?
I think my success with pulldowns has helped me the most. I have consistently been able to identify players that I can grab early and I have been fortunate to rarely be challanged for them.

4) Who would play you in a movie about your life?
The title would be Where did you get those Cool Socks. It would star Milo Huffnagel as Weena and Boris Zarbilovitch as the CIA handler Chico Vasquez
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5) What do you do when you are not on WIS? (Keep it clean and don't say work or school)
I enjoy watching TV mysteries especially British shows such as Midsomer Murders, Inspector Lewis, and Taggert that I download from Amazon. I also do various craft projects, play games with friends, and play online games. 

6) What do you wear on the court when you are coaching? (sweater, suit and tie, latex bib overalls, etc.)
I am the Beau Brummel of the sticks so I would usually have a pair of mauve and yellow paisley burmuda shorts held up by glitter coated gold suspenders, a lavendar cowboy shirt with horses on the shoulders, and pair of thigh high Wellingtons with multicolored illustrated patterns.

7) You are at a roundtable discussion with 5 people (living or dead, interpreters will be provided) of your choosing. Who are they and what single subject (just 1) are you discussing?
I would have to make several tough choices of who to leave out but I would go with musical genius Frank Zappa, Maid Marion of Sherwood Forrest, Globetrotter Great Marques Haynes, Melvin Purvis of the FBI, and HOF clown Emmett Kelly. We would be discussing the topic:  Does Barney the Purple Dinosaur Demonstrate the Psychosocial Impact of Elective Plastic Surgery.

8) optional - What is the most embarrassing thing you ever did or had done to you?
I vomited on Myra Mischler's back in the 3rd grade and for about a week everyone called me Puke Boy.

9) optional - You are trapped in the back of a runaway Brinks van heading for a cliff. You have one minute until the crash and all that is available to you is an egg of silly putty, a ball of twine, a dull machete, and a bottle of vinegar. What do you do?
I would take a swig of the vinegar for courage, smear the silly putty over my face, wrap the twine around the machete blade and then open the back door and jump out using the twine covered machete as a skateboard..

10) optional - Is there anything else that you are dying to tell us about yourself?
I really did fall through the ice in Iceland.
7/15/2011 3:28 PM
Posted by _hannibal_ on 7/15/2011 2:44:00 PM (view original):
1) Who the heck are you?

Abraham Lincoln's vice president

2) Why are you still here?

As a participant in a little known program to develop an army of electrified soldiers to fight the South, I was unwittingly made immortal in an accident involving an ungrounded wire, a vat of sarsaparilla and Madame Curie.

3) What is the best secret that you use to be successful in HD?

My #1 rule involving HD is do not divulge your secrets.  I can't believe I let that one out of the bag.  I've never told anyone before.

4) Who would play you in a movie about your life?

Otto the Orange

5) What do you do when you are not on WIS? (Keep it clean and don't say work or school)

Sleep.  Just kidding, who can sleep when the games run at 2 AM?!

In all seriousness, I am involved in an outreach program to help the less fortunate in our society.  These individuals have been victimized and traumatized by their experiences and only a few have so far been re-introduced into normal society.  The unspeakable nature of the crimes against them makes therapy nearly impossible, we hope only to provide them some small solace for their remaining days.  If you would like to learn more, or perhaps even contribute, please visit www.formerpatientsofalblack.com.  Any contribution would be welcome.

6) What do you wear on the court when you are coaching? (sweater, suit and tie, latex bib overalls, etc.)

Don Nelson's fish tie, although as a bandana (covers the fins nicely).  I won it from him in a game of Bourre back in '87.  I also sport LaPhonso Ellis's hightop fade (which I just copied, no need for gambling).  Also a neat Hilter 'stache, a la Jordan.  And muttonchops.  Can't forget the muttonchops.

7) You are at a roundtable discussion with 5 people (living or dead, interpreters will be provided) of your choosing. Who are they and what single subject (just 1) are you discussing?

Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Simon Cameron and Edward Bates to discuss who the hell invited Madame Curie to the ******* military experiments?  I still have fins to this very day!

8) optional - What is the most embarrassing thing you ever did or had done to you?

I once showed up for a state dinner without sporting my muttonchops!  Abe never let me hear the end of that one.  And Johnson just wouldn't let it go.  Said the people would never support a baby-faced vice president.  But I digress...

9) optional - You are trapped in the back of a runaway Brinks van heading for a cliff. You have one minute until the crash and all that is available to you is an egg of silly putty, a ball of twine, a dull machete, and a bottle of vinegar. What do you do?

Take the silly putty and work it in your hands until it is warm and pliable.  Use the vinegar to clean the machete, than cut the twine into a neat cat's cradle.  Tie the rest of the twine to empty bottle.  Stick the other end of the twine into the silly putty and stick it to top of the van.  Use the cat's cradle as a catapult to launch the bottle and wrap it around the nearest tree.  If there is no tree nearby use a bystander.  Once the van goes over the cliff, jump out at the same moment the silly putty is pulled from the top of the van.  Then walk away because I am immortal.

10) optional - Is there anything else that you are dying to tell us about yourself?

As I mentioned above, I am not dying at all.  I did fake my own death on the 4th of July in 1891 because I wanted to be more like Thomas Jefferson and Sam Adams.  I used Andrew Johnson's body!  Ha!  The jokes on him after all isn't it.

This is pretty damn funny.

Almost funny enough to deserve a real HD interview.
7/15/2011 6:28 PM
1.  Who am I?  Who is any of us, come to that.

2.  Why are you still here?  Still alive last time I chcked. 

3.  What is the best secret you use to be successful in HD??  Define successful. 

4.  Who would play you in a movie about your life?  If I am unavailable for the project, get Arte Johnson or Billy Chrystal. 

5.  What do you do when you are not on WIS?  Volunteer for the Florida Oceanographic Society.  We take groups wading into the Indian River Lagoon with big seine nest to show them the biodiversity of the lagoon.  We are justly proud of the 77% survival rate for participants.

6.  What do you wear on court?  Gym shorts from the University of Ulan Bator; a "Where the Hell is Guam?" tee shirt; and a John Calipari wig.

7.  Round table discussion:  Sun Tzu, Mao, Machiavelli, Bill Gates and Attila the Hun.  Subject: life strategies, fair and foul.

8.  Most embarrasing moment?  It's a monster interagency Big Govt meeting.  The other participant from my agency is droning on and on and on--and on about some obscure point.  People are nodding off.  Next thing I know, everyone is looking at me and grinning.  The host, from CIA, and a good friend, is looking at me with a big grin, and I realize he has just asked me a question.   I ask him to rephrase the question, and his grin widens like a fox in an unguarded henhouse:  How does that pertain to YOUR area?  And the hundred or so participants burst out laughing while the fellow participant from my agency just glares at me.

9.  Runaway Brinks van with only silly putty, twine, vinegar and a dull machete.  Back's obviously locked--it's a Brinks van, right?  Gonna fall nose first into the water.  Make as many lhicknesses as possible with the twine, forming a thick loop.  Attach loop to the back of the van with the putty.  Grab on to the loop, and hope that it holds at impact, and that the impact springs the doors or creates some opening to slip through.  Leave the vinegar, but take the machete, cause you never know when you might need it.

10.  Anything else you are dying to tell us?  Pay your 15 bucks and see the movie.
TL
7/26/2011 3:29 PM
Posted by Weena on 7/15/2011 1:49:00 PM (view original):

This is another great idea from girt. However, like most of his ideas, it is all talk and no action*. So to prevent yet another contretemps by the grand master I have developed a set of interview questions. I encourage all announced and unnanounced candidates to participate. Please cut, paste, and respond as veraciously or mendaciously as you want. Remember though that the concept here is to let your fellow HDers learn something more about you.

1) Who the heck are you?

2) Why are you still here?

3) What is the best secret that you use to be successful in HD?

4) Who would play you in a movie about your life?

5) What do you do when you are not on WIS? (Keep it clean and don't say work or school)

6) What do you wear on the court when you are coaching? (sweater, suit and tie, latex bib overalls, etc.)

7) You are at a roundtable discussion with 5 people (living or dead, interpreters will be provided) of your choosing. Who are they and what single subject (just 1) are you discussing?

8) optional - What is the most embarrassing thing you ever did or had done to you?

9) optional - You are trapped in the back of a runaway Brinks van heading for a cliff. You have one minute until the crash and all that is available to you is an egg of silly putty, a ball of twine, a dull machete, and a bottle of vinegar. What do you do?

10) optional - Is there anything else that you are dying to tell us about yourself?


* j/k Girt is one of the most proactive users in the history of this site. His diatribes with WIS management are legendary and his suggestions have massively improved this game.  

1) I'm the guy who doesn't care who the heck you are.
2) Same reason as everyone else... the slammer doesn't allow me outdoor time.
3) pssh... please, have you SEEN my record??
4) Whoever's the best at hotwiring a forklift in order to move fat people out of their way
5) I can't say work or school... I've never done either of those for a single day in my entire life.
6) My Richard Simmons costume.
7) Jesus, Jerry Seinfeld, Warren Buffet, Julius Caesar, and Ivan the Terrible, discussing moisturizers (Jesus and Julius probably were ashy back in the day)
8) My mom convinced me that there was a big protest against banning abortion, so a went downtown with a sign that said "Baby killers!" and marched around like that before I realized I'd been pranked (true story)
9) That's easy. Simply tie the silly putty to the vinegar, chunk it out the window, and use the dull machete to cut the wires and stop the car.
10) My mom says I'm very good at public speaking.

7/27/2011 4:22 PM
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