Unimatrix Two

People being silly

Just in case anyone hasn’t heard, the IQ Challenge meme is apparently a prank, and the numbers are rather meaningless. Some folks would sya that’s true of many IQ tests out there, but I’ll leave that debate to others for now.

I’ve been using something called “AXE Snake Peel” in the shower for a few weeks. Rain bought it for me… it’s mildly abrasive, smells good, and seems to be fine for washing up. Their website, though, asks me to use their product and join the “Order of the Serpentine”. Y’know… I just don’t feel I need to become a member of a “secret” society just to use a bath soap.

As so often happens when I’m composing morning journal entries, there was something else I wanted to say, but I forget. Ah well. Guess that means I have to go to work now.

Guilty Pleasures

I was tagged by twistdfateangel, so here it is. My “tags” aren’t mandatory. Heck, some of the five of you may have done this already and I forgot.

The “Are You Unique?” meme

I’ll try this one out, since it was an interesting mental exercise.

Name a CD you own that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
Matsuri Za: Matsuri Daiko (taiko drumming)
Signed by the artists, who were performing at Epcot while raininva and I were there.

Name a book you own that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
A book on number theory, surrealist art, classical music, computer programming, cellular biology, and more. Not light bedtime reading.

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
“J-Men Forever”
This was a HARD one. Movies are social for me, so nearly every one I have was purchased off a recommendation or was a gift from someone else who already has it. (I assume we’re excluding those films which celebrate the inventiveness humanity brings to the act of reproduction.)

Name a place that you have visited that you think no-one else on your friends list has.
The Ghiradelli Chocolate factory in S.F.
My first choice was the National Geographic Society building in D.C., but it’s just too close by, and I know too many intellectual types who might have swung by there 🙂

Name a piece of technology or any sort of tool you own that you think no-one else on your friends list has.
An Apple Newton MessagePad
This one, OTOH, I feel quite confident about!

Catching up

Operation “Will You Shut Up That Bloody Computer Fan” is a success, thanks to $25 spent at CompUSA. A little bit of the daily tension of my life has leaked away.

Thanks much to rhaps and shrewlet for hosting us this weekend. Turkey Day dinner was tasty and excellent, and my b-day present’s going to get a lot of use! Sorry I was a little foggy and dull by the end of the holiday, but massive doses of antihistamine will do that to you.

vond and kittenchan, thank you so for inviting us to your wedding. It was lovely, and quite entertaining to see so much of SWVA Fandom in suits, ties, and formal dresses! vt_andros even captured Rain and myself in all our finery, so I had proof! The list of folks we got to see again would fill a Friends page, but it was a wonderful reason to do so.

Finally, since I’ve been sitting on it for weeks, here’s my results for rainbowsaber‘s Which TFC Character quiz… cut to be polite

Aaand, I get to be an Archangel.

I succumbed to this meme because I find word origins interesting.

Click the following url and type in your name: http://www.bostonuk.com/names/default.asp

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Michael : “Like the Lord” : Hebrew

Creative, versatile and imaginative you appreciate beauty in all forms. You have great inner strength and courage and have the ability to accept large responsibilities or challenging situations with patience and humility. Others admire these qualities and follow your lead. You are honest, discerning and self-disciplined and need to have a peaceful environment. Putting others before self your talents are used to make life better for everyone.

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“Self-disciplined?” Uh-huh. Sure. I have about as much discipline as a kindergarten class with an absent teacher. Ah, well.

Succumbing to the Shakespeare meme

If you see this on your friends list, add a Shakespeare quote to your own journal.

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”

–From Macbeth (V, v, 19)

My Old Googlism Entry

I did the Google meme back in November 2002. Rather than re-post it, I’ll just drop a link; the phrases it gave me are in italics, my comments in plain text.

Sure, it would probably come out different 2.5 years later – an era in Internet terms – but I’m too tired to re-do it 🙂

The stars are right again

This is my Sci-Fi Horoscope, from a link seen on tzel‘s journal. I’m only posting this because it’s completely accurate:

Kirbii (Oct. 14—Nov. 20)
You will be unable to shake the feeling that society at large would be improved by even more chunky, quasi-cubist levitating machinery of mystic origin, as well as the increased use of triple exclamation points by the general populace.

Whizzo Replicator Distribution

This one’s been on my mind for a few days. I blame the alignment of the planets.

Situation: you have a shiny-new Starfleet food replicator, the kind that takes molecular building blocks from storage and makes any kind of food you want based on patterns you’ve loaded or scanned in.

Poll cut to protect the squeamish

Protected: Differing styles of GMing