Monday, February 21, 2011
  • joanne: Thanks for stopping by. If you'd like to keep the conversation off the record just type OTR
  • Richard Nash: Oh it starts with me?
  • joanne: Is that 'oh, gee, bummer' or 'Oh, I am so shocked'?
  • Richard Nash: Well, I use "Oh" a lot. Slightly surprised, in this instance.
  • joanne: How much do you see as 'a lot'?
  • Richard Nash: Ha, ha! This reminds me of certainly slightly adversarial conversations I seem to have. Well, "a lot" typically means, more than I might or ought to prefer...
  • joanne: A lot? How much would that be approximately?
  • Richard Nash: More than either of us would prefer :-)
  • joanne: :) I like big smiles
  • joanne: Is there anything about you online that embarrasses you now?
  • Richard Nash: Not really. The embarrassing stuff was from the 90s and is gone (and there was SO little of it). The 00s my online life was on behalf of my press, Soft Skull, and its authors. So I was an instrument and not so personally implicated.
  • joanne: I dont think I embarrass too easily. Why dont you try and make me blush.
  • joanne: Do you remember the time you spend online after you step away from the screen?
  • Richard Nash: I don't think I distinguish that much between off and online. I think the online world is much more like the offline one than we typically acknowledge.
  • joanne: Are there objective ways to measure personality online?
  • Richard Nash: No more so than offline. So, yes, but to the extent there's any way to objective;y measure personality. Meaning, I suppose, not uch!
  • joanne: You guess? You're not sure?
  • Richard Nash: I guess, I suppose, I think. I hedge.
  • joanne: You don't sound very sure.
  • joanne: Do you have too many friends or just enough friends? Are they good friends? Do you confide in them?
  • Richard Nash: I've a very small number of very close friends. A fairly big number of friends, of people I like. I confide in the former a good deal, in the latter it depends on context. I'm pretty discreet but I do like to connect to people.
  • joanne: Do you like spending time with your friends?
  • Richard Nash: These questions are all about me. DO I get to ask you about you?
  • joanne: Why do you want me to ask that?
  • Richard Nash: Sorry, had to deal with my daughter. Anyhow, seems like we've kinda reached your limit, yeah?
  • joanne: Really? Tell me more Richard Nash...
  • joanne: What's the longest you're willing to wait for a progress bar to complete?
  • Richard Nash: I've waited days! But, again, do we discuss you?
  • joanne: Not again, really?
  • Richard Nash: Duch! As they say in German.
  • joanne: I know a little bit about Germany, like it has the largest population of the EU member states. What else can you tell me about Germany?
  • Richard Nash: Sorry, that's "Doch!"
  • joanne: Oh right, it is.
  • joanne: How many times a day do you check social network streams?
  • Richard Nash: Sorry, gotta move on. Hope this is useful guineapigging, jomc!
  • joanne: Ok, I'll let it slide this time.
Posted at 8:41 PM Tags: richard nash