Dec. 20th, 2005
Nocse Te Ipsum
Dec. 20th, 2005 11:00 am1. Fill out this quiz.
2. If you want, post this on your lj.
3. If/when at least four of your LJ friends have taken the quiz, see here
It asks you to choose which friend gave each answer, so you may wish to not give completely unhelpful answers, though it does mean the quiz does give you a chance.
I apparently know Angel pretty well, Owen and Mair less well, and Fluffle not at all. Which might be right :) I'm somewhat handicapped by Owen and Angel being in the same city, and Flurble and Fluffle being in Australia together, and really not knowing Fluffle at all. I tried the quiz again a couple of times to see, and did worse and worse every time, with the proportions about the same.
2. If you want, post this on your lj.
3. If/when at least four of your LJ friends have taken the quiz, see here
It asks you to choose which friend gave each answer, so you may wish to not give completely unhelpful answers, though it does mean the quiz does give you a chance.
I apparently know Angel pretty well, Owen and Mair less well, and Fluffle not at all. Which might be right :) I'm somewhat handicapped by Owen and Angel being in the same city, and Flurble and Fluffle being in Australia together, and really not knowing Fluffle at all. I tried the quiz again a couple of times to see, and did worse and worse every time, with the proportions about the same.
Poll - Birthday Party
Dec. 20th, 2005 11:34 amI propose to have a birthday party mid-january, probably on the 14th. It cannot reasonably be much later without being in february, but I thought I would check if anyone thought this was an especially stupid time. Real announcements will be in a couple of days, and personal invitations in jan.
Wow, I use the word 'dick' a lot. (here, if you want to see the meme) This surprised me: afaik I don't use the word 'dick' at all.
It's not something I tend to swear with. I generally use something inventive, or 'fuck'.
It's not something I call people -- to me someone being a 'dick' has a subtle distinction from similar insults, suggesting someone who is obnoxious, and not deliberately maelevolent, but specifically accepts their behaviour and makes no effort to change it.
It's not something I call a penis except in occasional jest. I've annoyed or endeared a couple of people by being basically unable to call a penis anything but aspade penis.
And then I remembered - I had a long post about translating spotted dick into spanish. That was probably it.
It reminded me of Gene Wiengarten testing his spam filter. He found several emails about female dogs, gut men porn at monmouth, and the like vanishing, and then when he was thinking the threshold was too high, got a "see a teen girl do it with her horse its[1] free", and commented "They still have some kinks to work out of the system. As it were."
This sort of thing keyword filtering isn't going to catch, and indeed would be quite difficult to filter for even with fairly decent language processing, though normally gives itself away by having html, pictures, non-existant words, links, or 1En copies.
[1] sic.
It's not something I tend to swear with. I generally use something inventive, or 'fuck'.
It's not something I call people -- to me someone being a 'dick' has a subtle distinction from similar insults, suggesting someone who is obnoxious, and not deliberately maelevolent, but specifically accepts their behaviour and makes no effort to change it.
It's not something I call a penis except in occasional jest. I've annoyed or endeared a couple of people by being basically unable to call a penis anything but a
And then I remembered - I had a long post about translating spotted dick into spanish. That was probably it.
It reminded me of Gene Wiengarten testing his spam filter. He found several emails about female dogs, gut men porn at monmouth, and the like vanishing, and then when he was thinking the threshold was too high, got a "see a teen girl do it with her horse its[1] free", and commented "They still have some kinks to work out of the system. As it were."
This sort of thing keyword filtering isn't going to catch, and indeed would be quite difficult to filter for even with fairly decent language processing, though normally gives itself away by having html, pictures, non-existant words, links, or 1En copies.
[1] sic.
Review - King Kong
Dec. 20th, 2005 05:05 pmI don't know about everyone else, but I think I really enjoyed it. I never saw any other version, so I don't know how much of my impressions are due to that, and how much to the remake.
( Some spoilers )
( Some spoilers )