Q & A AMA - Carmen Sandiego

[Mikal]

How much contact can VILE members have with family members? What if hypothetically someone had an adoptive brother who was a high ranking member of ACME? What would that situation be like? Asking for a friend...

 

[Carmen]

How much contact can VILE members have with family members? What if hypothetically someone had an adoptive brother who was a high ranking member of ACME? What would that situation be like? Asking for a friend...

I sense this friend of yours is a very intelligent man, Mikal. I suppose he would need to consider the amount of willpower it may take to keep certain things from his high-ranking-ACME-member-adoptive-brother. Wouldn't he?

 

[Invader]

Any favorite folklore on your travels? (kinda a huge old story fan)

 

[Carmen]

Any favorite folklore on your travels? (kinda a huge old story fan)

I loved, and I suppose always will love, "At the Back of the North Wind" by George MacDonald. It's not folklore by many means, but was a preacher's way of retelling a story to help his readers cope with grief and loss. Particularly the loss of a young child.

I read it as a child, and it would occur to me much later that this story was truly meant for adults. It also opened up a topic of emotional stability, and how some of us, as humans, grow into adulthood without truly becoming emotionally mature.

I would be happy to share it, if you haven't yet read.

 

[Emma Bezzle]

What was your favorite heist that you've pulled?

 

[Carmen]

What was your favorite heist that you've pulled?

My favourite, perhaps for the amount of planning it took, was the theft of ACME Tower. It had to happen after ACME had completed their digital archives in full, as well as during a holiday where the tower would be empty.

The plot had three stages, the first was to lure out minor detectives to international locations. The second was to lead the Director himself away from San Francisco (he was Field Director then, not quite Director of Operations). While the third stage required a team that knew how to access ACME's C-5 and remove the building from its foundation.

Everything had to happen simultaneously.

And then, of course, how that entire event set off a chain of other events that still affects us to this day... but that's another story.


(I belive you were there (as Loralye) when the news broke of the tower's disappearance and Chase Devineaux made his press announcement.)

 

[Lucy]

I'm not exactly sure I can ask this since it isn't Canon anymore but I've been wondering for the longest time how come no one gets jet lag.

( yes I know cartoon logic LOL and if this is a stupid question I apologize Morgan)

 

[Carmen]

I'm not exactly sure I can ask this since it isn't Canon anymore but I've been wondering for the longest time how come no one gets jet lag. ( yes I know cartoon logic LOL and if this is a stupid question I apologize Morgan)

This is a good question. Aside from 'Cartoon logic,' as you say, there is a way for frequent travellers such as flight crews or pilots to control jet lag.

The first point is watching what we eat. This isn't always possible, of course, but meal times and nutrition plays a large role. I limit my caffeine intake as well. A pilot friend once told me he would wake up by eating fresh chili peppers in the morning instead of coffee, I've yet to try his advice.

The second is scheduling. I'm strict about when to sleep and when to wake. Getting up at sunrise is useful for staying awake. Knowing that East-West routes are more taxing than West-East also helps. I've been in situations where I must fly from Hanoi to Paris and then back to Japan in the span of a few days, avoiding fatigue requires discipline.

Lastly, and again this isn't always applicable, but try not to take commercial flights. Chartered rides allow better control over scheduling.

 

[Jacqueline Hyde]

No one. And everyone. What are we if we can't trust strangers at our moment of greatest need?

Philosophical queen.

 

[Eugene]

I loved, and I suppose always will love, "At the Back of the North Wind" by George MacDonald. It's not folklore by many means, but was a preacher's way of retelling a story to help his readers cope with grief and loss. Particularly the loss of a young child.

I read it as a child, and it would occur to me much later that this story was truly meant for adults. It also opened up a topic of emotional stability, and how some of us, as humans, grow into adulthood without truly becoming emotionally mature.

I would be happy to share it, if you haven't yet read.

Please.

 

[Jacqueline Hyde]

I loved, and I suppose always will love, "At the Back of the North Wind" by George MacDonald. It's not folklore by many means, but was a preacher's way of retelling a story to help his readers cope with grief and loss. Particularly the loss of a young child.

I read it as a child, and it would occur to me much later that this story was truly meant for adults. It also opened up a topic of emotional stability, and how some of us, as humans, grow into adulthood without truly becoming emotionally mature.

I would be happy to share it, if you haven't yet read.

(I've only ever read one MacDonald story, "The Day Boy and the Night Girl," but I love it. I know he was a favorite of my favorite author, Madeleine L'Engle, and I've always meant to read more of him but never gotten around to it.)

 

[Morgan]

@Invader, @Eugene, @Jacqueline Hyde
The link to "At the Back of the North Wind" by George MacDonald