OK, I caved in and did that "I Write Like..." thingie. First, I fed it my Doctor Zaius and the Cybermonkies story (which, yeah, needs a Part II still.) And this is what it said.


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So, yesterday was fascinoma's birthday. Happy birthday! I hope you thoroughly enjoyed yourself ( Read more... )

Yeah, I did a meme.

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or ( Read more... )

(as witnessed in tomscud's LJ.)

1. Grab the nearest book.

2. Open the book to page 123.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.

5. Don't you dare dig for that cool or intellectual book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

6. Tag ( Read more... )

This is a meme borrowed from kittyangelchan. Quizzes like this are always hard for me, so I'm not going to bully any of you into participating, but feel free to do so, if desired.

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Here's a silly little meme that muffyjo found. I figured I'd post my results because I've been so non-participatory lately.( If I Ruled The Land... )

Here are the answers for the rest of the Improbable Phrases meme from a few days ago, plus some discussion.

1. subjunctive instant replay, crab canon, strange loops
   (Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter. Guessed by doctroid)
   I figured this one would be easy for anyone who's read it, because of "strange loops". But damn, had to ( Read more... )

Wow, this meme was interesting because it alerted me to something I didn't know about: the SIPs function on Amazon.

Pick ten of your favorite books, look them up on Amazon.com, and find the list of Statistically Improbable Phrases for those novels. Pick a few SIPs from each book, list them here, and then have people guess what books they are. ( ( Read more... )

Someone's come up with a new way to make LiveJournal even more self-absorbed than usual. From the website: "LJ Popularity uses Google's PageRank algorithm to compute a completely scientific and objective number that determines how cool a person you are."

Behold!

urbeatle's LiveJournal popularity rating is 3.56/10.
urbeatle is more popular than 95.7% of all ( Read more... )