Can I ask you a question? (meme-ish)

[drwex]

At my work conference this past week the conversation turned to getting information about... well, everything. I reeled off some of the list of things I know I can ask my friends about - cooking and enterprise software and cosmology and game design and gardening and preservation and economic theory and lots more I'm forgetting off the top of my head. My coworkers were suitably impressed but I don't consider myself to have all that diverse of a social circle.

For myself, I'm always pleased to (and spend time on Quora to) answer questions about intellectual property as well as design and user experience. I do UX for a living, and have for many years; I also used to blog on IP (mostly copyright) and consider myself a knowledgeable amateur. But I bet there's a lot you folk know that I don't know about.

So, dear readers, what are you happy to answer questions about?

Feel free to leave a comment here, or post an entry in your own journal talking about what you like to discuss and how you came to have this knowledge. I am ever curious.

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Hmmm

[redbird]

Various bits of geography/directions, which people on the street always seem to ask me, including in cities I don't know (like directing a stranger to Boylston Street years ago, on one of my first visits here).

In person, spelling questions. I had a boss, ages ago, who would call my extension and, when I answered, just say a random word, meaning "Vicki, how do you spell $word?" and I would tell him. Some grammar and editorial questions.

Basic Dreamwidth support/how-to questions. I did a lot of LJ support for a while (back around 2005), and while the answers here are often different, I still have the habit, and will poke through the FAQ so other people don't have to.

Probably seventeen other categories I'm not thinking of, because it just comes up in conversation, and cattitude will ask me something, or I'll ask him or adrian_turtle.