kaberett | [3W4DW] 12. What do you consider the five most "telling" interests from the list on your profile? (Reply)

... Why?

(I preface this post by noting that I have spent a good deal of the day in the kind of agony where I VERY GRUMPILY stay horizontal in bed. Hence: grumps.)

$lj::will_not_work_without_steam_radiator -- this one is... something of a tradition among DW devs, expressing a particular type of exasperated fondness (or, you know, just plain exasperation) with the way Brad put together the LJ codebase. And it also neatly encapsulates the way I will say "come on, you little fucker" to tools and to tyre levers, and "come on sweetheart, you can do it, aren't you a darling" to my wheelchair and to my experimental kit. (Yes, please do at this stage imagine me cooing gently to a furnace running at 1350degC in a hydrogen-rich gas mixture, because that is exactly what I am like.)
cavalier cookery -- no, not as in the Roundheads, as in "offhand or unceremonious". Because I cook until done; because I cook with my ears and my nose; because I add some of this and some of that. Because cooking grounds me and makes me whole. Because cooking is part and parcel with the culture I've been very carefully handed.
headology -- lit. "study of heads". Source: Discworld. Burrowing in people's heads - in your own head - in a very practical get-your-hands-dirty sort of a way.
lumps of rock -- I'm a geologist. It's what we do.
stories with dragons in -- fierce or friendly or both. Because I like to be taken out of my head, and to other places, and I like curling up and being told stories. Because the world is stranger and more beautiful than I will ever fully grasp.