Great news! I’ve managed to capture another blogger for sikkdays.com! Honestly I didn’t capture him, he offered to help out. Plus, he doesn’t have my address so he won’t be able to bill me for his work.
Anyway, Mr. burdenday was the community manager at the game formerly known as PMOG and now he is a community manager/designer at Rise & Ruin. You can also find him at burdenday.com where he shares his experiences managing online communities. burdenday is just about finished with his English major, so this will be a definite upgrade for those of you that don’t just come here for the pics and videos.
Some of you may be familiar with burdenday, but for those of you that do not know him below are some questions I emailed him along with his answers:
#1) Cake or Pie?
Beefcake! No seriously though, I’ve never been one much for sweets, but I do appreciate some yellow cake when appropriate.
#2) Do you think it is fair to the other colors of the spectrum to pick a favorite?
Look – here in America we’ve had a long standing tradition of choosing a favorite color and alienating the rest of the spectrum with our “favorite color exceptionalism.” I’m here to change that 20th century carryover thinking from the past eight years.
#3) Buddy Holly was obviously a star, but if the plane crash of February 3, 1959 never happened who would have had a bigger career, Ritchie Valens or The Big Bopper?
Kurt Cobain.
#4) Automobile of the future: Electric or Hydrogen powered?
So close your eyes for a moment and begin to imagine pictures of the most horrific accidents in the world’s history. Begin to recall those involving air vehicles… Good! Now I am going to say a word and we’ll do some free association: Hindenburg.
Electric – I’ve been shocked by 120V wires a few times and survived. I am pretty sure I won’t survive a hydrogen engine explosion though.
#6) We are our jobs, what was your first job ever?
My very first job ever was as a receptionist for my aunt’s Law Firm. It is considered “very professional” to have a male receptionist, I was told. I enjoyed it because mostly I surfed the Internet aimlessly and just put people through to voicemail – those were the days!
#7) Theory on why question #5 is missing?
Wow, I didn’t even notice. I’m adding this to the list of possible drug interactions for Vicodin. (I should note that burdenday just had a minor surgery and is not a junkie that I pulled off the street.)
#8) Favorite childhood game? (video, board, handheld, sport-like activity)
I played EverQuest for far, far too many years. If I had to choose a favorite, that would be it. There is nothing quite so satisfying as spending months of your life chopping away at virtual animals and monsters with swords.
#9) If you were stranded on a desert Island, what is the first thing you would build yourself?
A library, so I could begin writing enough books to fill it and then long after my death someone would discover it and they’d all be “classics.” That’s how it works, isn’t it?
Wow, I thought that last question was weak, but that is an excellent answer. All I could think of was building a bowling alley. Hanging out at the beach is great, but if you lived there I have to imagine you’d get bored of it.
Sikkdays.com hasn’t really had any sort of real focus aside from ‘look what I found on the Interwebs’ & my passion for animation. Therefore, I see no need to constrain burdenday to report on a single subject. I am just happy to have his contribution as long as he doesn’t post anything about Kevin Costner.
So my 3 other blog readers, give a big sikkdays’ welcome to burdenday.
