A. I work at my public library as a community technology lady in Central Vermont. I am the Community Manager for the Flickr Foundation. I own the website MetaFilter.com which is not a job.

A. Yep. I'm in a long distance relationship that pleases me quite a bit. We've been together since 2008.

A. No. I thought I would be as interested in going when I lived on the East Coast as I was when I lived on the West Coast, but that is not the case.

A. No, though we have the same name, and I do have a Jessamyn West page about her. I am related to Tom West from Soul of a New Machine and Peter Coyote the actor and Chris Schwarz from Lost Art Press.

A. Yes. I was married from 1994 to 1999. The story of why and how I got married written by my ex used to be online, but now it's only avilable via the Internet Archive. He has since remarried, and I have not.

A. I used to work at MetaFilter (and now oversee it a little bit) and contribute to Wikipedia. You can find me on MLTSHP, Flickr and Mastodon and maybe Bluesky sometimes

A. Generally, I don't do link exchanges. While I'll happily look at your site, I don't reciprocally link.

A. Oh gosh in 2024? No idea.

A. I have an out-of-date colophon here which is badly out of date (and has been since 2004 when I last updated). I use a variety of tools from nano to WordPress.

A. I'd be glad to; please send me your website address. To discourage spammers from scouring email addresses, I do not link email addresses.

A. I troll the web fairly regularly looking for more online material about him, If it isn't linked on my site, it's probably not freely available. If you are writing a paper about one of his stories, I suggest going to your local library and looking through a periodical review database to try to find articles about specific stories he has written.

A. I wrote to his brother Frederick and asked if I could reprint some of them. He gave me the okay. You can find his email address online and write to him yourself.

A. Well, a friend of mine was selling it because he had met and married a Norwegian woman who was now pregnant and wanted to go home to Norway to have her baby. I got a bit of a deal on the house. I also got a loan from my dad, who chipped in about 40% of the purchase price. The rest was money I'd saved including some from my Grandmother intended for just this type of purchase. I started investing the money I made back in 1992 or so, which was a pretty good time to get into the mutual fund market.

A. I used to. Now I live in a slightly larger house in Randolph Vermont.

A. I ran for office in 2012 because someone asked me. I've always been a civics nerd and this seemed to be a way to be involved locally while also not having to do something outside of my comfort zone. I got elected and I've ran and gotten elected every other year since then. I have a Tumblblog that has details about the weddings I've performed and a little bit more about what the position entails. Most of the work of this position is staffing the elections and serving on abatement boards for people's water and tax bills.

A. If I'm here, sure, maybe. Make sure you read the visit page to make sure you know what you're in for.

A. I haven't found that to be the case so far, no. I have invited many strangers to my house and with very few exceptions, have met interesting and engaging people who I am still in touch with.

A. Actually, I don't any more. I moved from Seattle for good in the early aughts. It's wild how different it is now.

A. You may, I lived in Seattle for 12 years. I've worked in several libraries, Speakeasy, the Odd Fellows Hall, Left Bank Books and ran a bar trivia night. I went to Acton-Boxboro high school, Hampshire College and the University of Washington. I've done a lot of speaking at library conferences and similar things. Drop me a line and we can compare notes.

A. I do it less lately mainly because I am tired of associations with people who are really violent or knee-jerk reactionary. I think of myself more as anti-capitalist, though I agree with many of the anarchist tenets. Loosely, I believe people would be better off with less governmental interference, but not in a weird "GO FREE MARKET" way. I'm against hierarchies, and I believe that humans have a responsibility to look after each other and take care of one another so that everyone's strengths and creativity are utilized and maximized. I also think everyone should be actively working towards this, not just paying lip service towards the idea of the good life. To this end, I think we should shop less and create more, complain less and do more, and argue less and talk more. I'm not good with slogans, feel free to drop me an email if you'd like a more in-depth explanation of all this.

A. No. I don't think civic responsibility begins and ends at the ballot box, and I'm okay with being an anarchist who votes. I don't believe that choosing between two big-business candidates will materially change the way the world works but voting against Nazis is an ethical choice. Feeding the hungry will change the way the world works. Teaching people to read will change the way the world works. Agitating for change will change the way the world works. I vote on local issues, I just don't usually vote for representatives. I am also politically active year round, not just at voting times. I discuss issues with people and encourage them to do the same. I work at the polls and help oversee elections.

A. I have no idea. For my personal life, I've started small. I try to tell the truth, to lead an ethical life and live low on the food chain, buying very little and trying to shop responsibly when I have to shop. I try to entertain myself easily, visit as many of my friends as possible, tend to my house and community, and never ever say I'm bored. Talking about politics, particularly interpersonal politics and dynamics is very interesting to me. I think the more we are prepared to explore as well as back up our beliefs, the more we reflect on them and inspect them for flaws.