We have the technology. We can rebuild him.

[davywavy]

There's a meme doing the rounds at the moment. It goes something like this:
In the future, scientists will be able to resurrect human beings - but not using DNA. Instead, they will rebuild you from the collective memories of people who know you.

So: Please post a comment describing one thing you know about me. Preferably something interesting, but factual. One day internet archaeologists will use this information to bring me back to life, so make sure what you say is accurate!

That's all very well, assuming that scientists will be able to rebuild us from the memories of others. But if that's the case, why are we worrying about accuracy? Or, more to the point, who gives a monkey's chuff about accuracy when you can pretend to have much better memories of people and so have new, improved versions of them built?
Surely, if the scientists of the future are going to be reading LJ for information about people in order to resurrect them, we should be giving them a view of humanity - and specifically ourselves - which is to our advantage.

With this in mind; instead of asking you to reply here with an accurate memory of me, I'm instead asking you to reply with a memory of me that you'd rather like to have. A memory which, if scientists act upon it when they reconstitute me, will result in a better David that the one you've got. What memory of me would you like to have?
In return, I shall reply to you with a memory of you that I'd like to have which will improve the resurrected you immeasurably.

^{And if you think I'm turning IP logging off after asking a question like that, you really have got another think coming.}

Comments

now let me see...

[emlett.livejournal.com]

i remember that time you managed to contact alien life and bring about a new era of peace on earth as well as solving the problem of environmental pollution whilst simultaneously engineering a craft to slingshot around the sun thus replicating and providing credence to an important event in sc-fi history and proving the theory of time travel.

Re: now let me see...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Really? I could have sworn that was you....

Re: now let me see...

[emlett.livejournal.com]

well perhaps i had a small hand in it, but i do recall that you were the man with the plan(s)and the talent to bring it all off!

Re: now let me see...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

But without the invention of the 'Red Hot Chick' space-drive - powered solely by yourself - none of this would ever have been possible.

Re: now let me see...

[emlett.livejournal.com]

LOL!
but of course the research was funded by the millions that you won from the las vegas casinos with the 100% successful system that you invented. the kiddies at the orphanage (not to mention the numerous other worthy causes you donated to)were glad you had a few grand to spare, especially after cleaning up the organised crime syndicates and channelling their energies into worthwhile environmental projects

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I remember when you foiled that massive jewel hiest by showing a display of karate than won you international fame and fortune as a multi million dollar movie star, not to mention the huge reward they paid you as well. Now it's nothing but jacuzzis, interviews, parties and private jets around the world...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

And I distinctly remember you founded the First Church of David, complete with marble fane. You even procured me concubines by the dozen. That was a particularly good afternoon.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Ah the David groupies, the endless David groupies... I'll never know how you coped with them all.

The Church T-Shirt business was particularly lucrative...

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I reckon I can play this meme to my advantage.

I remember when davywavy looked just like Johnny Depp, sang just like Philip Quast, was as rich as Bill Gates, voted Liberal and was going out with me.

Nothing personal, you understand.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I was cheating on you with a youthful Diana Rigg, so everyone was happy.

[suave-steve.livejournal.com]

I recall quite clearly how you were in fact living on a rundown council estate in Sunderland, spoke with a thick regional accent, had father 7 children by the age of 19 and were a workshy benefit scrouger who only wore shell suits.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

And now we need someone with artistic talent to put this wonderful mental image to paper/pixels.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Son!

[suave-steve.livejournal.com]

Dad!

[the-epicurean.livejournal.com]

He was Terry Thomas' idol. every thing davywavy did, Terry would copy! The one thing he couldn't match was his charm with the ladies, although Thomas would pick up his cast asides!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

And everything I knew, I learned at your School for Scoundrels.

[the-epicurean.livejournal.com]

Well I must say, I was rather good! Whatto!

[ketchgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm amazed no-one has so far mentioned your extensive harem or the wildly decadent and extravagent parties that you hosted, that were always described as "the event of the week/month/year/decade/millenium"

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

But it was my co-host - "The Messalina of Richmond College" who made it all possible. I don't think she should be forgotten :)

[ketchgirl.livejournal.com]

I neglected to mention you superb memory :)
(Although I'm hoping to leave soon *bounce*)

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

I still remember that time you lept through a window to rescue me from masked bandits, with that bull whip in hand.

I still have the whip as a souvenir.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Ah, but it was you who held up the stone block as it fell from the ceiling, thus saving both us and the idol of the golden monkey-god which resulted in you becoming Warrior-Goddess of the Untashimbi tribe, remember?

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Ah! Happy days...*looks nostalgic*

Of course, it was a shame it all went wrong and we had to end up fleeing for our lives in that canoe down the Watoobi river. Did wonders for my sun tan, mind!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Well, after every women in the tribe had a white child the CSA were after me. And in the Untashimbi tribe, the CSA use spears.

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

I remember that time you ran for Prime Minister, got it, and then promptly renounced neo-conservatism, ushering in an age of socialism, redistribution of wealth and concern for the environment worldwide!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Yes, you kept saying that even after they'd kept you in the rubber room and fed you yummy mashed banana for years.

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

I remember the time you came up to Manchester, took me out for fab food and drinks and then did your Barney the Dinosaur impression :)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You must have mistaken somebody else for me...

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure it was you

though now I think about it the guy with the 13 inch knob who insisted on putting it on the table was probably someone else

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Yes, the poor under-endowed fellow.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

I remember the day you successfully staged a coup of the British government and implemented a socially liberal/fiscally conservative policy. That is, excess fat from government agencies was trimmed but you let the gays get married.

Hoorah!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You do have memeories which are remarkably specific as to the details, don't you?

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, should I include the scandal with the cocaine laced soap?

[kikayume.livejournal.com]

I remember when you built a perpetual motion machine, which you then used to thwart numerous evil villains.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

But, alas, I never managed to thwart you nor your android army.

[kikayume.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair, you didn't know I was a villain since i was masquerading as Minister of Defense at the time.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I know, but fortunately you had drunk a milkshake which contained my nanobot listening devices, so you couldn't maintain the charade for that long.

[kikayume.livejournal.com]

And quite the stomach ache I had afterwards! I said, "That young scamp Davy, no doubt about it!" and then we had a round down at the pub.

You're making this up!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I don't remember you going to the pub!

Re: You're making this up!

[kikayume.livejournal.com]

You were quite gone by then, to be fair.

[mooncadet.livejournal.com]

i remember a time long ago when we went on holiday to Trinidad, went sailing in the harbour and caught a shark! we were declared national heroes and i believe our portraits are still hanging in the TRinidad National Gallery. the commemorative coins with your head on one side and mine on the other are still in circulation, as well as the white rum named after you and the spiced rum named after me. boy that was a wild weekend....

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

And then you danced the night away wearing only a few strategically positioned peices of fruit...

Oh, hang on, I'm not making this up, and I?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

How could I forget? And you looked so dashing in your Russian officers uniform - and the way you killed and repleced Tsar Nicholas II...genius...

[souldier-blue.livejournal.com]

I remember having high tea at the Ritz one leisurely Sunday afternoon, which we were comped for as you were good friends with the maitre'd

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

What a day that was! And then you picked three winners in a row and had put your rollover jackpot on them as an accumilator bet. Yep, the cocktails flowed that night...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I remember kicking you in the bollocks outside a pub in Wentworth.