1. What is your name?
Christopher White. I go by Chris, obviously.
2. Tell us something about you, your background, and what you've been up to lately?
Oh, there's not much to tell. I keep a low profile. These days I work in a machine shop and be a husband and write when I have the time and energy. I was born and raised in Southern California, have lived in a few corners of the US, and have made a couple stabs at academia. I'm an uncle. I like to garden.
3. How did you discover Everything, and how did you become a noder?
I don't remember how I discovered E2. I do remember that I had been writing my whole life but had never gathered the nerve to show anyone.
Editors killed probably ten of my first twenty-five writeups. It made me want to do better. What ultimately appealed at the beginning, though, was the voting/experience system. I liked the idea of quantifying writing ability, which now seems a broken impulse.
4. What are your favorite writeups -- both your own and from other noders?
I don't revisit my own stuff very often, but I think doyle's Ebb tide was lovely, as was bewilderbeast's writeup about riding on a train (it may have been a bus, and I forget the title), as is a large portion of junkpile's work.
5. What are your favorite and least favorite memories from E2's history?
I came in at a weird time. E2 "history" doesn't resonate for me so much. The honor roll was a good step, and Community2 was a kind refuge.
I guess my least favorite period would be the long realization after the 2003 outage that a lot of people weren't coming back.
6. What keeps you coming back?
My friends.
7. What do you hope for E2's future?
Ha--not playing that game anymore. Most of the people who had hopes for a great E2 future are gone, predictably (and understandably) enough.
I will say that I would have liked to see a GP toll for catboxing, and a broader (which is to say some) toolset for dealing with abusive users.
8. What does E2 mean to you?
It's a complicated relationship, as tribal ones often are.
9. Who are your favorite noders? Which ones do you miss the most?
I can't name anyone in particular. It wouldn't be fair. What I miss most is the combined energy.
Happily, most of the users I was closest with still show up semi-regularly or are within easy reach otherwise. "Easy" being a relative term, of course.
10. Who would play you in the Everything2 movie?
Morose Rowan Atkinson.
11. Please fill in the blank: "E2 is to the Internet as ___ is to the world."
A band of Kalahari Bushpeople.
12. Any questions that I didn't ask that I should've?
No sir. Thanks for taking the time.
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