{"id":1210,"date":"2005-09-16T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2005-09-22T22:28:03","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T13:28:03","slug":"you-asked-we-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/16\/you-asked-we-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"You asked. We answer."},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised<\/a>, here is the straight dope on dr. Dave, straight from the mouth of his personal assistant’s best friend’s cousin in law.<\/p>\n

Ultrabob<\/a> started things somewhat abruptly with a simple and direct:<\/p>\n

What the fuck?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I see we got the hardball questions out already. No beating around the bush.<\/p>\n

Now this is a tough question, I tend to ask this myself at least once a day, if not more. I asked my cat too, with very little results.
\nEventually, to such a vast and essential question encompassing all of Man’s struggle for understanding, I could only summon my best jesuitic education, and retort by what is, in my own humble opinion, both the real question and<\/em> the answer:<\/p>\n

Why the fuck not?<\/b><\/p>\n

Martine<\/a> then kindly worried about the possible repercussions of this new fad and asked:<\/p>\n

why the sudden urge for transparency?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I could probably spout the usual clich\u00e9s about real personality laying deeper than silly life factoids and the secret Me being safe from cold, information-prying people out to get me… But the truth is I was mildly bored with this blog with no time to offer anything else, and I have already<\/a> posted pictures of me naked. Call that pushing the boundaries. Or stepping down the dangerous path of addiction.<\/p>\n

Seriously though: I am well aware of the bum-biting potential of too much<\/em> transparency, which is why one of the only rule carved in stone for this blog is that my full name is never used. Anybody with some motivation and a bit of skills could dig it (and a lot of people reading this know it anyway), but as you said, I quite like the comfort of knowing that a tentative employer’s or significant other’s Google search for my name doesn’t yield any of my blog entries about that episode with the three czech hookers and the pound of colombian pure (and the monkey). <\/p>\n

For the rest, in the realm of things that have or haven’t been said on this blog, I will actually backtrack and invoke the old clich\u00e9: it’s not the things you show, it’s the things you don’t. Or less cryptically and in the words of an author I like: “I’m not overly worried about showing my ass, so long as I don’t have to show my heart”…<\/p>\n

Moving on, with a series of down-to-earth questions, by our ever down-to-earth j-ster<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to know your underwear size, and your favourite number, and the number of different colours your hair has been.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n