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.

Comments

[tshuma]

I feel like anything I could answer questions about, you'd probably already know someone who knows it in more depth. But here are a handful of topics I feel competent to either answer questions about or point you to someone else who probably knows if I don't:

- baking, some general cooking
- music theory
- basic Spanish "how do you say?", etc., grammar, spelling and pronunciation
- grammar, spelling, and vocabulary in English
- Irish tunes, English folktunes, etc.
- knitting, crochet, weaving, spinning, some other random textiles

There is undoubtedly more than I can think of off the top of my head, but that's a start.