Recently, the world-famous blogger Pharyngula (who is actually Professor P.Z. Myers of UMinn/Morris) noted that the president was running an online survey, so he asked his minions to screw it up by choosing their answers to "go against the result the poll is engineered to generate".  I generally like Pharyngula, although he is sometimes too willing ( Read more... )

I copied this from some other fur's journal, but theirs was friends-only so I won't mention them here =:)

Age?  52.  There are furs active in the fandom who are young enough to be my grandkids!

Myers-Briggs?  ISTJ, the "most abundant" personality type.  Cold-hearted logician.

How long have you had your LJ?  12 years.  I got it because "everyone ( Read more... )

porsupah mentioned this writing-analysis test from IBM's Watson.  I fed it my Mass. trip report '14 and it said:

You are inner-directed ( Read more... )

I'm on the free-public-email list for Humor Labs.  They haven't updated their website recently, but they're still cranking out the daily joke-emails.  Except they're on vacation right now until October 6th so they're re-mailing old lists.  Here is the one from July 10th, 2001:

The Top 5 Least Popular Street Names:⑤ Vicious Circle ( Read more... )

Today, almost at random, I clicked on an old bookmark for "The Hacker Key Guide (version 4)" and discovered that it no longer exists and its website has been resold to someone else.  So I Googled and found The Hacker Key Guide (version 5) from 2011.  It's a nice Geek Code, but one of the design goals for version 5 was that you should be able to use ( Read more... )

So LJ updated its formatting today.  That shouldn't be the end of the world!  How come nobody is posting anything?  Anyway, here are some "smart jokes" from Reddit:

What do you get if you cross a mosquito with a mountain climber?  Nothing. You can't cross a vector with a scalar.

How many Chicago School economists does it take to change a light ( Read more... )

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1. Had sex?  Yes - I have two children!
2. Bought Condoms?  Yes.
3. Gotten somebody Pregnant?  Yes - same girl both times.
4. Failed A Class?  Yes - I got an "incomplete" in Cryptography when I was in grad school, which is what caused me to take that job at Company ℱ.
5. Kissed A Boy?  Yes.
6. Kissed A Girl?  Yes.
7. Used A Little Paper Bag for ( Read more... )

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Ganked from loganberrybunny.

1. Do you sleep with your closet doors open or closed?  My house is 142 years old!  What is this "closet" of which you speak?

 
2. Do you take the shampoos and conditioner bottles from hotel?  No.  I try not to "collect" things, even toiletries.

 
3. Do you sleep with your sheets tucked in or out?  Sometimes ( Read more... )