Infinite Variety

[rj_anderson]

Dear Stephen Fry:

You are a very funny and talented man, and I am not at all surprised that you are also an enormous geek. I am amazed, however, by the sheer insane length of your first blog post, and the fact that it is all about electronic gadgetry. I don't know why I expected you to still write everything down on parchment with a fountain pen and use only public telephones, but for some reason I did.

Really, the sheer complexity of people never fails to surprise me.

Which has inspired me to create a meme of sorts:

1. Tell me one thing about yourself that you think I might be really surprised to hear, and/or
2. Tell me one thing about myself that really surprised you when you found out.

And now I must go and unravel part of Chapter Four which isn't working, so that I can feel happy about carrying on with Chapter Five.

Comments

[alto2.livejournal.com]

::waves:: Hi, here at random from a certain community post, originally to express my admiration for your Five/expletives icon (and to ask if it's swipeable?), but now also to thank you profusely for pointing me to Stephen Fry's blog. I love that man to bits and really want my very own, and, well, it's not quite the same but a blog is better than nothing! Have you seen Kingdom? I've been catching it here and there and just adore it. I also desperately need a Fry icon, and must get to work concocting one...

/random

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure, why not? As long as you credit me for the icon (and if you want to do it properly, Lance Parkin for the quote from Cold Fusion), swipe away.

And I'm glad to have given you the link to the blog! I have not seen Kingdom, but I've enjoyed some other things Fry has done, including (since I have a two-year-old) his hilarious narration on Pocoyo.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thank you! That icon is just the perfect combination of text, image, and background :) I keep hearing great things about Cold Fusion and will have to get my hands on it some day.

Kingdom is nothing terribly unusual or ground-breaking, but it's sweet and fun and definitely comfort TV. I haven't heard of the narration you mention, but considering narration, I have to say that his Guide was the best part of the Hitchhiker's Guide movie. I need to own a copy of it just for that.