GIP + meme (see also: tag about lj posting)

[johnnypurple]

Got kinda rained on twice in as many bike rides today. Indecisive rain. Pfft.

Name meme yoinked from chocolatepeach.

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[captlebubbles]

Awesome (my hippie name would be Bacon Pine... that can't be right.)

And NASCAR is the National Association of Stock Car Racing, started during prohibition in America by people racing the cars they used to smuggle alcoholic beverages in (in the south, specifically, and specifically moonshine.) The most famous of these founders is Junior Johnson, if that tells you anything about the names.

(incidentally, it is boring, and the only reason I know anything at all about it is because my dad and I like watching documetaries about the history of moonshine/anything alcoholic/prohibition/anything that may tickle or very odd sense of humour.)

[johnnypurple]

Ah-ha! You are full of useful information. Well, information, at least. ;-)

Bacon Pine - a very hippy name! LOL. So do you like bacon then? I hadn't noticed! ;D Have you seen the xkcd comic about bacon and health?

[captlebubbles]

Since graduating I have not once used anything that they made me learn at school. I have, however, used much of the vast store of useless information gleaned from documentaries, old reference books, na dof course 'The Straight Dope', which is *the* book of seemingly useless information.

And no, I've never heard of it.

*now wishes she hadn't deleted her bacon icon and resolves to get it back*

[johnnypurple]

aha, i found it eventually: http://www.xkcd.com/418/

i hadn't done maths in year and then in this job, i have to do maths. well, adding mostly, the occasional subtraction, very occasional multiplication. i had to make that part of my brain work again. but now i am super-quick. at adding. it's a skill! ;-)

in my final year of school, i did a project on whores in renaissance Florence. i always knew that information would be vital for the rest of my life.

[captlebubbles]

Ahahe, that sounds about right!

I'm rubbish with maths, I'm a very left-brained person. (I'm just right-brained enough to prefer dogs)

Now that is useful information, that. (bytheway, have you done my new poll yet?)

[johnnypurple]

I think there's a connection between being good at maths and being good at music. At school, I was good at both. Until year 12 (final year) when I had a shitty maths teacher and my maths went to shit. I haven't played any music in ages. But I want to. Maybe today!

No, have not done your poll yet. I don't feel I know you well enough to know who I'd ship you with. Is there anyone you'd particularly like to be shipped with?

[captlebubbles]

Actually it's been proven that there's a connection, because of the way that music is counted in rhythms and teh connections between notes and blah blah blah (I was in school band from when I was 1o to when I graduated, and I'm still no good with numbers.)

It's just a fun little thing I wanted to do; no prior knowledge necessary. But people keep shipping me with the Stig, which makes me incredibly happy, and all you really need to know about me is that I have a short attention span, a tendancy to get completely random and insane ideas that make me go 'What the heck, Brain?' and that I prefer dogs to just about every animal in the world but penguins.

(And that I have an unnatural fondness for bacon, but you already know that.)