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

[flexagon]

Acroyoga is its own whole thing now, and is trademarked (at least in the US) by the good folks at http://www.acroyoga.org/. I was in it seriously enough, early enough, and for long enough to know all the founders, and my friend designed their logo. To cover it in a few sentences: it was founded by a yogi and a sports acro champion, and it was always intended to have three pillars or practices: 1/3 yoga, 1/3 acrobatics and 1/3 Thai massage (in which yoga is basically done to you, and the giver is also fairly mindful of their own body). The acrobatics part is done with the base lying down, hands and feet in the air, supporting the flyer on feet or hands, and there are MANY ways to transition the flyer around to different things; you can play and play without ever coming down. Some of this is therapeutic (stretchy and massage-y) and some of it is pure acrobatic.

A lot of my friends from the early days became teachers at one point or another, but I chose to remain as an advanced practitioner instead. I've traveled to a fair number of festivals and trainings, but not so much lately since there's better acro training close to home now, and I've transitioned over to more circus-style standing acro.

[drwex]

That's cool. I've been on the receiving end of a couple of Thai massages, which I found interesting but not terribly helpful for the problems I was trying to solve. And I've seen a number of people doing the partner acrobatics things - I even had one person who was willing to fly me once or twice just for the experience. Just never heard the term before, I guess.