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[Dec. 2nd, 2008|08:24 pm] |
Meme from darkluna:
Put your MP3 player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.
Blue Moon
I know that you have everything you want
At my door the leaves are falling
Little tommy tucker, he sang for his supper
Well, we're living here in Allentown
I never dreamed you'd leave in summer
You and me of the 10,000 wars.
There's a fog upon the lake,
She said.
I love the nightlife
Hey kid, rock and roll, rock on.
The breakfast creek hotel is up for sale.
Hold me close and tell me how you feel.
It's your own worst enemy
Don Giovanni, a cenar teco
La vai o mulatê do bundê
It takes a loved one
The future teaches you to be alone
Te procurei
Hello.
Daddy I don't want your diamond rings.
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[Apr. 28th, 2008|12:31 pm] |
via yami:
The 106 books most frequently marked "unread" at Librarything. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read "for school" and italicize the ones you didn't finish. Star the ones you would recommend to others.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner
Middlesex
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
A Clockwork Orange
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
On the Road
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
* Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
* The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
* American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Quicksilver
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo (well, it was an abridged excerpt. In French, dammit)
Dracula
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
* The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything (never tried reading cover to cover, but read random chapters, e.g. about people I know)
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
* Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
* The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers |
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| Good on french fries? |
[Feb. 23rd, 2008|12:05 am] |
You Are Black Pepper
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You may be considered ordinary by some, but you're far from boring.
You elevate the mood of any discussion, and people miss you when you're not around.
You are secretly very dominant and powerful. Most can only take you in small doses.
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| Is this the same as dawn? |
[Feb. 22nd, 2008|11:22 pm] |
'cause I never see twilight, but I've been watching Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury party every morning for the past week.*
*except for the cloudy ones. |
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| Comment Meme |
[Jan. 22nd, 2008|01:28 pm] |
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From Yami.
Number of comments made per person, in bar graph form:
(sample set=0) |
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[Apr. 23rd, 2007|04:42 pm] |
Note that the measurement is 11 days late, due to the hecticness of becoming a parent.
The methodology is also slightly changed- the ruler is turned so that it can be firmly braced against the jawbone, increasing reproducibility. |
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[Apr. 23rd, 2007|10:30 am] |
Memage from Yami:
1 - Tell you why I friended you.
2 - Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, a sexual position, etc. (Or, not)
3 - Tell you something I like about you.
4 - Tell you a memory I have of you.
5 - Associate you with a character/pairing.
6 - Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7 - Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
8 - In return, you must post this in your LJ.
Tom, I totally owe you a photo, but it has been hectic, and I really need to find a comb first. |
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| Just my luck to get the redshirt |
[Apr. 8th, 2007|05:27 pm] |
Your results:
You are Wash (Ship Pilot)
| Wash (Ship Pilot) |
| 75% |
| Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) |
| 70% |
| Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) |
| 65% |
| Derrial Book (Shepherd) |
| 60% |
| Alliance |
| 55% |
| Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) |
| 45% |
| Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) |
| 45% |
| Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) |
| 40% |
| Inara Serra (Companion) |
| 30% |
| A Reaver (Cannibal) |
| 25% |
| River (Stowaway) |
| 20% |
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You are a pilot with a good
if not silly sense of humor.
You take pride in your collection of toys.
You love your significant other.
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Click here to take the Serenity Personality Quiz
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| I act 32 years old according to Tom |
[Feb. 3rd, 2007|09:16 pm] |
[x] I know how to make a pot of coffee
[x] I can do my own laundry (other people's too)
[x] I can cook for myself (or for many)
[x] I do my chores after being told once (unless I forget, of course)
[] I always do my homework/work
[x] I actually enjoy intellectual conversations (as long as they are actually intellectual, and not poseur crap)
[] I think politics are exciting
[] My parents and grand-parents have better things to say than my peers
total: 5
[x] I show up for school/work every day unless I'm sick
[] I always carry a pen in my pocket/purse (always is a strong word)
[] I've never gotten a ticket (speeding or parking? Or Broadway?)
[] I watch talk shows and point out the incredibility of it all
[x] I know what incredibility means without looking it up
[x] I drink black coffee
total: 3
[x] I know how to run the dish washer
[x] I can count in more than one language
[] When I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
[x] I mow the lawn (or, I did when it rained 15 months ago...)
[x] I wash the car (took it through a car wash last year before water restrictions...)
[x] I can make adults laugh, without being stupid
[x] I remember to water my plants (most of them have died anyway)
[] I study when I have to
[x] I pay attention at school/work
[] I remember to feed my pets.
[] I'm generally organized
[x] I know the meaning of capital punishment
total: 8
[x] I can spell experience without looking it up
[x] I clean up my own messes (except for my desk, that is)
[x] The first thing I do when I wake up is get coffee
[x] I can go to the store without getting anything I don't need
[x] I understand jokes the first time they are said
[x] I listen to my elders
[x] I understand the fact that the world always screws someone over
[x] I can type fast, because I type every day (if you stretch the meaning of every...)
total: 8
[] My choice in clothing is acceptable in an office or something like that (Is a trailer something like an office? A lab? An outcrop?)
[x] I can watch politics and laugh
[] I have realized that the weather forecast changes every hour (Australian forcasts are generally updated every 3-6 hours)
[x] I can look at someone hot and not think of sex
[] I have realized that no one will take you seriously unless you are over the age of 25 and have a job
[x] I can read a book and actually finish it
[x] People have said that I act older than I am (not since I was a teenager, though)
[x] I can be sent on an errand and not get side tracked
total: 5
Note that the maximum age of anyone in the world is thus 42. Meaningful. But kinda young. Here, I'll create some more to get us up to a decent age:
[] I think I've seen every meme the internet has to offer.
[X] I've had an argument with a lover about money.
[X] I have eaten food in a style from at least five continents.
[] Rolling down a hill causes more pain than pleasure.
[] There is no magic in the world.
[] Young people today don't appreciate the important things in life.
[] I have won a burping contest.
[] Armadillos roam freely in my pancreas.
[] Life's a piece of shit, when you look at it.
[X] Life's a laugh, and death's a joke, it's true.
[] My religious is not the only right one.
[?] I once shot a man, just to watch him die. (Tom!!! how many times to I have to tell you that we don't talk about this outside of Jersey)
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| more memage |
[Jan. 10th, 2007|07:52 am] |
Evidently, I'm a soulless, penny-pinching love machine...
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| Memage |
[Nov. 18th, 2006|07:42 pm] |
Memed from Mrtomsmith:
p.s. I have NO idea how it picked this one...
You are The Lovers
Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse.
The Lovers represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made.
Originally, this card was called just LOVE. And that's actually more apt than "Lovers." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that the you have or will come across a person, career, challenge or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out. |
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| Memeage |
[Aug. 19th, 2006|07:37 pm] |
A) FOUR JOBS I'VE HAD:
-Hydrologist
-Seismologist
-Geochemist
-Lab technician
B) FOUR MOVIES I COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER:
-The Bad Sleep Well
-Raiders of the Lost Ark
-Amelie
-Metropolis
C) FOUR PLACES I'VE LIVED:
-Australia
-California
-Bavaria
-Virginia
D) FOUR TV SHOWS I LOVE:
-The Sopranos
-Life on Earth
-Yes Minister
-Firefly
E) FOUR PLACES I'VE BEEN ON VACATION:
-Stonehenge
-Manaus
-The Drakensberg
-The New Jersey Turnpike
F) FOUR WEBSITES I VISIT DAILY:
-gmail.com
-sciencedirect.com
-mail.yahoo.com
-lablemminglounge.blogspot.com
G) FOUR FAVORITE FOODS:
-chocolate chip cookies
-laksa
-camembert
-carrots
H) FOUR PLACES I'D RATHER BE:
-The Wild West ('midst the sagebrush, and the cactus...)
-On Time
-The Pleasure Dome
-Fishing |
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| Out and about |
[Jul. 30th, 2006|09:47 pm] |
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During the long Canadian summer days, Lemmus labyrinthi var. subrostrani is busy fossicking on the internet in order to prepare for the cold dark winter. Searching for lounge, lab, and/or lemming is the most reliable way to find such a creature at this time. |
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