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Hey, The Megalomaniac Beats The Larch

Via Ghost of a Flea, some assorted goofy quizzes…

Your result for The Supervillain Archetype Test…

The Megalomaniac

Ambitious, Intelligent, Calculating

The Megalomaniac is the most prestigious of super-villain classes. If anyone is ever going to rule the world, it will probably be you.

Your main goal in life is power and domination, you have the tools to do it, and you know it. Megalomaniacs are intelligent and forceful, and they tend not to let their emotions cloud their judgment. Most of the time. They are usually found, or not found, working at the top of a huge structured organization, though many prefer to work by themselves.

The Megalomaniac has but one flaw, but its an invariably fatal one; arrogance. He knows that he can take over the world, and he isn’t afraid to let you know, often elaborately and in great detail. They often do not foresee the fly in their ointment, because they do not want to admit that such a fly could exist.

Sample Megalomaniacs: Dr. Doom, Lex Luthor, Ras al’Ghul, Kang the Conqueror, Emperor Palpatine, Brain

Take The Supervillain Archetype Test at HelloQuizzy

Your result for The Your Type of Girl Test…

The Girl Next Door

60% Sexy-Cute, 62% Dark-Light, 48% Artsy-Stylish

Cute, neither Dark nor Light, and neither Artsy nor Stylish. This sounds like a blah category, right? Oh, my, no. The Girl Next Door has been the subject of more dirty fantasies than you could possibly count. She’s so sweet, and innocent, and infinitely corruptible. Every morning you glance out your window hoping she’ll have forgotten to draw the blinds. You may feel bad about it, but you know you’ll be doing it again tomorrow.

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Also, make sure to check out my Beautiful Faces Test if you haven’t already.

See All The Categories

Sexy Dark Artsy The Goth Girl
Sexy Dark Not Artsy or Stylish The Brooding Poet
Sexy Dark Stylish The Mistress
Sexy Not Dark or Light Artsy The Hippie Chick
Sexy Not Dark or Light Not Artsy or Stylish The Hot Friend
Sexy Not Dark or Light Stylish The Sorority Girl
Sexy Light Artsy The Actress
Sexy Light Not Artsy or Stylish Your Friend’s Sister
Sexy Light Stylish The Prom Queen
Cute Dark Artsy The Suicide Girl
Cute Dark Not Artsy or Stylish The Bad Girl
Cute Dark Stylish The Bettie Page Girl
Cute Not Dark or Light Artsy The Art Student
Cute Not Dark or Light Not Artsy or Stylish The Girl Next Door
Cute Not Dark or Light Stylish The Debutante
Cute Light Artsy The New Age chick
Cute Light Not Artsy or Stylish The Favorite Friend
Cute Light Stylish The Cheerleader

Take The Your Type of Girl Test at HelloQuizzy

Your result for The Beautiful Faces Test…

Jessica Alba

46% Eyes, 43% Nose, 48% Mouth, 95% SexyCute

You seem to like small features and a sense of cuteness. Jessica Alba is pretty tiny, and so are her features (altho her lips almost count as big). She can be hot, but even in roles like Nancy the Stripper in Sin City, she has an inherent cuteness that can’t be hidden. Not an Alba fan? There are others who fit the bill.

Similar: Alexis Bledel, about a billion Japanese pop stars…

If you liked my test, please remember to give it a decent score, and of course I’m always happy to hear feedback. Thanks!

Also, you could check out my Your Type of Girl Test.

Take The Beautiful Faces Test at HelloQuizzy

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While You Were Sleeping

I’ve spent much of the night not asleep, and ended up perusing some old material here and there. I wondered whether I would get different results on some of the quiz thingies. Here are some of them. In the first case, how the results are presented changed, no more secondary element included.


Your Dominant Thinking Style: Visioning


You are very insightful and tend to make decisions based on your insights.
You focus on how things should be – even if you haven’t worked out the details.

An idealist, thinking of the future helps you guide your path.
You tend to give others long-term direction and momentum.

What’s Your Thinking Style?

Original thinking style post.


You Are a Hunter Soul


You are driven and ambitious – totally self motivated to succeed
Actively working to achieve what you want, you are skillful in many areas.
You are a natural predator with strong instincts … and more than a little demanding.
You are creative, energetic, and an extremely powerful force.

An outdoors person, you like animals and relate to them better than people.
You tend to have an explosive personality, but also a good sense of humor.
People sometimes see you as arrogant or a know it all.
You tend to be a bit of a loner, though you hate to be alone.

Souls you are most compatible with: Seeker Soul and Peacemaker Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

Original soul post

I am an
Echinacea


What Flower
Are You?

Original flower post

The text of that result:

“You are a health conscious person, both your health and the health of others. You know all about the health benefits and dangers of the world around you.”

Entirely unrelated to quizzes, this post strikes me as a demarcation where things really went to hell with the old client. That month was an insane volume of work – afraid to do the invoice levels – in no small part because one file version in Windows was off, and vendor support was less than stellar. It was the beginning of the “must upgrade for real” sequence, flowing right into a second large month in which a lesser server died and required I move files and shares still living on it. A Pentium 200, that was, in 2006. Having already run up over $18,000 in time for March and April, I was skittish about spending too much time in too short a period to set up the new servers I finally got them to order later that year.

I’d forgotten it was May 2006 when I did my AS/400 magic. I thought that was before the Juris mess. But I digress.

Maybe I’ll get sleepy eventually.

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Politics Quiz or Meme

Late Night Quizzes Saved for Morning


Your Issue Profile: 24% Obama, 76% McCain


When it gets down to it, you tend to best match John McCain.
But he’s not the perfect candidate for you, and you may not be sold on him yet.

Obama shares a good number of your views too, so you might want to give him a second look.
It all comes down to which issues matter to you the most.

Should You Vote for Obama or McCain?
You are a
Social Liberal
(86% permissive)

and an…

Economic Conservative
(83% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Libertarian

Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid
Also : The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

Via Leslie

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blogging Medical Quiz or Meme

Grand Rounds Fourth Anniversary

I did a double-take when I saw Glenn saying that Grand Rounds was celebrating its fifth anniversary, since I remembered them starting after CotC, which would have been five in a few weeks had it not lapsed.

Indeed, their first edition was four years ago, almost a year after CotC started. Still a long time, and it was always an excellent idea for a carnival topic. This will be the start of their fifth year, coming up, not to be confused with fifth anniversary.

Check out the fourth anniversary Grand Rounds, the medical blog carnival.

(I know, this is pedantic. It just strikes me that it’s an important distinction, just as it will be when we celebrate our sixth anniversary January 2nd.)

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Quiz or Meme

Shank Piston Palin

Which I’d thought of it: Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator.

Mine came up as Shank Piston Palin. The kids came up, oldest to youngest, as:
Still Hardrock Palin
Commando Coalfire Palin
Stake Shed Palin

Cute.

Via the other Stake Shed Palin.

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Candidate Matching Quiz

This is one of those cool ones that you setup with what issues matter most to you first, then answer in scales to return percentage match comparisons. It will tell you how you compare with McCain, Nader and Obama, which for me was 72, 39 and 32 percent respectively. Then you can select people who are no longer running from a list, which it seems to fill from most to least matched, and see how they compare if you’d like. My highest was Fred Thompson, at 79%, and lowest was Joe Biden, at 31%.

Take the quiz at Glassbooth.

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Condiments: The Other Food Group


You Are Barbeque Sauce


You are a social person. You enjoy cooking for other people.
You are both skillful and competitive. You enjoy mastering hard tasks.
You appreciate complexity more than simplicity.

Your taste in food tends to lean toward interesting flavors.
You appreciate exotic spice combinations. You tend to like cutting edge, fusion cuisine.
You get along with all personalities from a distance. Except salsa personalities, who always seem to annoy you.

What Condiment Are You?
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People Usually Aren’t Specific…

They just recognize that I am some kind of nut or another.


You Are a Pistachio


You are funky, freaky, and a total character.
You’re very different than anyone you know.
There’s no way you’re changing the way you are…
Which is good, because no one wants you to change.
What Nut Are You?
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Most Bloggers Probably Match Me

Except the some who are outright attention whores, which probably meant they surpassed my traffic and fame years ago…


You Are An Attention Seeker


You’re only human, so you can’t help but want a little attention every now and then.
You love the spotlight, but only when it’s well deserved. You’d hate to be known for the wrong thing.
And you also don’t mind sharing the spotlight. You can easily give someone else credit or a complement.
You know there’s enough attention to go around, and it makes you happy when your friends shine.

You come across as: Friendly and interesting

People may wrongly think you’re: A little more modest than you actually are!

Are You An Attention Whore?

Via Leslie

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Swimming is Good


You Are Swimming


You are an interesting set of contradictions.
You are peaceful yet competitive. Graceful yet strong.
You exist in your own private universe.
What Olympic Sport Are You?

Via Leslie

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Food & Cooking Humor Quiz or Meme

No Wonder Deb Usually Likes Me…


You Are Oregano


You have are charming, funny, witty, and smart.
You love to party – and people love to party with you.
You are always friendly and warm. You are able to help people get along.
What Spice Are You?
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Life Gives Us Deadlines

This is an updated and abbreviated version of a post I have been meaning to write and have a couple times had partially written for weeks, and relates to mentions here (linked by Sarah in this awesome post), and over here, and perhaps elsewhere, like this, and on Twitter.

As you may know, we’ve been financially challenged. Things have become almost but not quite stable on the way to the end of the tunnel. We’re not in immediate danger of eviction for being behind on rent. We can eat. The phone and internet – vital to modern life and in our case making a chunk of money and seeking more – are being kept on. The kids have health coverage and Henry will get his one year checkup and shots – albeit not until almost 13 months old due to doctor vacation scheduling – and that’ll set us on the road to getting an even better handle on the allergy/sensitivity problems, which may also become less critical as he ages. It’s actually been I have no idea what I was about to type a little while ago when I stopped in mid-sentence. I think I was going to say it’s been good I’ve been so available, and that will make working from home a Good Thing, except I must be able to work for that to work which is a matter of some juggling and changes. But I digress.

Have to stop and try to remember where I was going with this in the broader sense. I load my thoughts in my head and risk losing them if they don’t spew right out the keyboard.

Um…

There’s been one big deadline coming at us. The gas & electric can’t be turned off if you have a baby under a year and financial hardship. Henry turns 1 on the 20th. We’ve accumulated most of a year’s worth of balance. In fact, it’s apparently a couple months more than I thought, and the peak bills in the winter weren’t much more than the bills have been this summer. Odd.

We assumed, not unreasonably, that I would get enough work before now to straighten that out and take us the rest of the way out of the basics. As it is, we should be able to cover the current utilities in the future, so it’s mainly about the arrears.

The bottom line is we have to pay at least $1425 by August 22nd to keep the gas and electricity on, and then the other half will be in six installments.

That means needing to come up with about $1000 above what we can otherwise manage.

I have an offer of $150 toward the second installment from a local charitable agency, but not the first, as they have to know the power will stay on and it won’t be wasted dropping in the bucket. That would effectively give me until sometime in October to have gotten the prospective job, or other work sufficient to keep it all rolling.

Someone finally expressed interest in buying the xtremeware.com domain I’ve had for sale for several months, so I thought that might do it, but I haven’t heard back. I just replied a third time, from a different address, making a time-sensitive offer to sell it at the lowest price I can reasonably accept. I’ll probably list it again in a formal service to expedite the possibility and give others a chance if the warm prospect bails. That would help some, if it could happen soon enough. We’re looking at what else we can sell in the next week, focusing heavily on my comic book collection from years past.

For the most part, family isn’t a viable source of help, so I won’t go asking them unless it comes down to, say, the last $100 or so between us and darkness.

At any rate, whatever we could say about how we got here, miscalculating and all that, it’s not as important as moving forward. The consequences, if we can’t keep the utilities on, will be the same as eviction. There are contingency plans for Deb and the kids to stay with a friend of hers. I have no such plans, beyond being acutely aware I still own a tent. That just sets up a much harder scenario to escape, makes it hard to make the money we now make online, makes it hard to get work, makes it hard to take care of the kids, makes it hard to keep Henry’s sensitivities watched and controlled.

I haven’t been eager to say anything by way of asking for donations, as we already got helped once beyond all conceivable generosity. We wouldn’t be so stable now, otherwise. I’m itching to get on the other side of the PayPal button and be able to do the same for others. Surely that’ll come, but isn’t here yet.

This was why I planned to do a fundraising edition of CotC, since that was a different audience and reason – appreciation of the carnival in the past or expression of a desire to have it happen in the future – it didn’t feel inappropriate. My spare time for that never became copious, even though the fundraising aspect made it paying work of sorts. Again, not to reflect on where and why but to resolve and proceed.

So. Anything I receive in PayPal (button at top of right sidebar) will go to the gas and electric arrears until that is paid up or something else is a more immediate threat. I’ll add to this if I see later I forgot something, or will post status updates as appropriate.

The other part of the plan, besides maybe mentioning this in a less frantic way, was a post soliciting micro-work of the sort I can actually do while taking care of the kids and having to fit it into minute or few bursts or sleepy midnight interludes. Ironically, planning that, composing it and so forth didn’t lend themselves to my time and circumstances. While that might not raise what a full-fledged getababysitternow job would, it would have helped. I still plan something along those lines, which was not going to be a mere post, but also a mass e-mail to contacts, some of whom might not even realize I am looking. Even some people I expected were aware things were grim had no idea, so on the periphery, who knows.

Oddly, everyone has left me alone long enough to ramble at length. This is as much as I wrote over the course of a couple weeks in an unfinished post on the topic that reached the point where I wasn’t sure what I’d said and needed almost a rewrite of an edit. However, it’s time to make supper before the kids mutiny.

Update:
We’re down to about $650 $600 $200 needed to make the deadline. Not there yet, but it’s progress. Almost there! Thank you all so much for your links, donations and purchases.

Update on August 19. 2008:

I’ve removed the sticky status from this post and am updating this one accordingly. While things won’t exactly be rosy and we still could use assistance if anyone feels generous (this big push was for half the arrears; it’ll be hard to pay both the installments on the other half and the current bills, if nothing else), with some juggling and astonishing generosity from several people, we’ve reached the immediate goal. Thanks!!

If you do still want to help out, the PayPal button on the top right remains. Deb’s shop still has a few physical items, though it is going largely virtual. We still have books for sale, and may add more along the line. Some have had to be removed after Henry damaged them, which is helpful.

You’re welcome to use the info in the sidebar where it says “Light the power!” to go directly to the gas & electric on our behalf. That’s going to be over $200 a month to catch up, after all, on to of an average of probably $300 a month over the year, with the big ones coming all too soon. That’s anonymous, unless you tell us you’ve done it. We’ll just see that part of the bill has already been paid.

I didn’t end up selling off some of my comics for this emergency, but I’m not attached to most of them, and will probably put many of them up for sale. Possibly right on one of the blogs, or possibly other places. Stay tuned.

I still am trying to sell xtremeware.com, though perhaps I should use that as the domain for selling comics. It has a higher Page Rank now than we do here. Anyway, the auction expires tomorrow, but until then I will accept a bargain reserve price ($500) for the thing. That’s somewhere between 1/2 and 1/20 of what it should bring. I’ll probably put it on longer term offer at a higher price, whether I also sell stuff on it or not. I also have xtremecomp.com potentially available, but haven’t really thought about price.

At any rate, thanks to everyone who donated, linked, and made a point of buying stuff. It was a big help.

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Always Been Too Gullible


You Sometimes Know When Someone’s Lying


You can spot a liar if the liar slips up, but you’re not always aware of other people’s dishonesty.
Eventually a liar will reveal himself, and you usually will figure out if you’ve been lied to.
However, someone could be duping you without you knowing it. So watch out for the telltale signs of lying!
Can You Spot a Liar?

Via Tammi

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Grant Me Some Serenity

Your results:
You are Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)

























Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)
90%
Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)
85%
Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic)
85%
Wash (Ship Pilot)
65%
Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)
60%
River (Stowaway)
60%
Jayne Cobb (Mercenary)
35%
Derrial Book (Shepherd)
35%
Inara Serra (Companion)
20%
Alliance
20%
A Reaver (Cannibal)
15%
Honest and a defender of the innocent.
You sometimes make mistakes in judgment
but you are generally good and
would protect your crew from harm.


Click here to take the “Which Serenity character are you?” quiz…

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We Hardly Knew Me

Your results:
You are An Expendable Character (Redshirt)

































An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
85%
Geordi LaForge
70%
Worf
65%
Uhura
55%
Deanna Troi
55%
Mr. Scott
50%
Jean-Luc Picard
50%
Chekov
45%
Beverly Crusher
45%
Data
38%
Spock
37%
James T. Kirk (Captain)
25%
Mr. Sulu
25%
Will Riker
25%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)
15%
Since your accomplishments are seldom noticed,
and you are rarely thought of, you are expendable.
That doesn’t mean your job isn’t important but if you
were in Star Trek you would be killed off in the first
episode you appeared in.


Click here to take the “Which Star Trek character am I?” quiz…