I think all classicists have seen the movie.  For us, watching it is an internal struggle between pointing out all the things that are absurdly wrong with it and just reveling in the ridiculous campy goodness.  The latter usually wins out.

I can read and write in ancient Greek.  I can also… sort of read some modern Greek, because a lot of words are still spelt the same way, but the pronunciation and syntax are completely different, so I can read it only with difficulty, and speaking it eludes me completely.

I know Dinosaur Comics, and it scares me.  It’s like Ryan North can see into my soul, pull out my most bizarre neuroses and whimsical desires, and twist them into something new and beautiful and terrible all at once.  With a tyrannosaurus.

You should all go and read it.

Heh.  I don’t drink beer – can’t stand the taste – but don’t worry, anonymous grey sphere, I don’t think that’s creepy at all. 🙂

Eh… that sounds like it’d be a lot of effort.  I mean, if I spent a lot of time on forums anyway, that’d be one thing, but if I were doing it purely for the sake of being more involved, it’d be more of a chore than anything else… if you see what I mean? As for any sort of collaborative stuff… well, there are a few people I’d consider doing something with, but for the most part I kinda like being able to work to my own schedule (or lack thereof…) too much.

Gameboy Colour with Pokémon Blue.  I was a hair too young for the original black-and-white Gameboy.

I actually have this really embarrassing historian-crush on Periander, the second tyrant of Corinth, mostly because I don’t think he was nearly as bad as most of the ancient sources say he was, and was actually a legitimately effective ruler who happened to have a lot of anti-aristocratic policies – history is written by the victors, but not if the defeated are the only ones who know how to write (also, the word ‘tyrant’ itself starts to become a strongly negative term in later Greek literature, and remains so to this day – it was probably a fairly neutral world in Periander’s time).

Link to an older question and answer because I am lazy: http://pokemaniacal.tumblr.com/post/69464174209/first-off-thank-you-for-the-amazing-content-ive

I’ve never actually been a big Nintendo person outside of Pokémon (and as for Game Freak, I think they’ve made… like, two non-Pokémon titles, neither of which were released outside of Japan?).  Used to play the original Mario game with a friend on his big clunky boxy Gameboy as a kid.  That was pretty legit.

I’m a postgraduate student in classical studies (i.e. Greek and Roman things), specialising in archaeology – so, basically, the point of that would be to become an archaeologist, ideally with a lecturing position at a university (preferably an English-speaking one).  Jobs like that are in short supply relative to the number of applicants, though.  I might end up as a contract archaeologist, or doing something completely different – a lot of humanities PhDs wind up dying in a gutter because they can’t contemplate the idea of leaving academia, but if you can get over yourself long enough to apply for something else, there are actually a fair few jobs where a degree like that looks pretty impressive – high school teachers get a much higher starting salary if they come to the job with a PhD, for instance (and since I have a science degree as well there are probably several subjects I could teach at a high school level).

Rest because f#$% mornings

Teleport because f#$% walking

Hypnosis because f#$% social interaction

Hyper Beam because f#$% everything