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I just interviewed someone as part of an inquiry I'm conducting. Her parting comments:
"That was much easier than I expected. You...you have an easy way about you. You made it really easy to talk about everything. In fact I think I winded up saying more than I intended to." Thank you ma'am, that's my job.

It's funny but I do. I know some interviewing techniques, but most of what I "do" is not something I think about. People want to talk, and given a forum (like LJ!) they just spout anything. If you don't threaten, don't judge, listen, comment and nod so they know you are understanding, and only follow with how/what/when questions they tend to run on themselves. It takes very little steering in most cases - in my line of work the area they want to talk about is usually the focus of my investigation.

who was he? next, how did you feel at the time? next, how did you feel afterward? were you pleased, frightened, ecstatic, disgusted? what did he say, what words did you speak, that's what i want to know, now, tell me, now, now, all of it, now, tell me, yes!

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It's not just me. I was thinking of putting a tabletop classic pac-man game in place of a dining room table, because I'm a boy, and I bopped onto ebay to see if my pinball machine showed up. A bit of simple net research later and I realized that my love for the XENON pinball machine was hardly unique - in fact it is a source of many net sites, including information about the woman who put together the sexy voices for the thing! I was wrong - I thought the cross-the-playfield tube was the unique aspect of the game, in fact most people credit that alluring voice as the first use of such a synthesizer in a video game.

I just downloaded a video on the making of the sounds by Suzanna Ciani. It's SPOOKY hearing her voice and seeing her compose the thing. The video is a serious old-school synth hard-on for you synthy types. I don't know what language it is in, but you can skip around to just watch the parts where sounds are played with on ancient equipment. She totally works like a phone-sex operator.
http://www.sevwave.com/early_ciani/ciani_xenon2.html

No, this is not helping get my paper done. But I now own a video on the making of the sex-sounds for the 1980 pinball machine that sits in my living room. I feel like I should offer up a site on my pinball machine - I love reading about it on-line, and could offer pics to others through the web. It's a strange sort of urge to share that joy.