The Five Love Languages
My primary love languages are probably
Quality Time and Words of Affirmation.

Complete set of results
Quality Time: 8Words of Affirmation: 8Physical Touch: 7Acts of Service: 4Receiving Gifts: 3

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and (last but not least but has never friended me back, dammit)
waziaralmout

I <3 you guys. Thank you so much. You made my night/week/month, and scared my cats - always a bonus.

Wikku:

Look up a word on Wiktionary that has info about word frequency from Project Gutenberg. The number next to your word is its frequency rank in the English language; the words to either side are the three words above and below your word on the frequency list. Without punctuating or rearranging, space these words into poetry. This is your ( Read more... )

I got out of the shower to find a bouquet of red roses and a heart-shaped box of chocolate truffles on my dresser. I love you, Chad! Happy Valentine's Day!

So it was Wednesday, Sept. 27, and I was running through my e-mail one more time before turning off my computer and heading for the high plains, where I planned to eat hearty beef products and increase my knowledge of the playful eared grebe. I got this note from reader Carol Brock ( Read more... )

First off, I have assumed for at least 30 years that the government has been engaged in illegal wiretaps. I assume that the government reads any e-mail it wants to. I assume that the government breaks into people's homes and goes through their underwear drawers. It's the government; that's what governments do. I mean of course it's a scandal yadda ( Read more... )

Some ignorant people have decided that "Xmas" is part of the "war on Christmas," which is an ill-defined but fiercely held belief that secular cultural forces have combined to make Christmas less meaningful. One proof of that is the phrase "happy holidays" -- and if you'd told me a decade ago that I'd live in a world where "happy holidays" would ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. It is comfortably free of the strident religious and/or militaristic overtones that give the other holidays their soft emanations of uneasiness ( Read more... )

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who as you'll recall reached stardom by pretending to kill, maim, slaughter, decapitate, disembowel and otherwise eliminate various humans whom he deemed (for plot purposes) to be undeserving of continued life, last week signed a bill placing restrictions on the sale of "overly violent" video games.

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It is my understanding that good managers often seek to discover who was responsible for what. (The function of bureaucracy is to disguise the origin and nature of a mistake, so CYA procedures are always fully in place.) You'd think that if the mistake at hand involved many dead bodies, it might be necessary to discover who was to blame ( Read more... )