Dispatches from Blogblivion

A Quiz Or Four

First three via Sharon.

This hardly seems right, though there have been times people might have so voted…

You Would Be Voted Most Outspoken

In school, you were often the first person to raise your hand in class.
You always had something to say, and you weren’t afraid to say it.
You were well known for being politically active and controversial.
And while people may not have agreed with you all the time, they appreciated you speaking your mind.

What Superlative Are You?

This seems like a reasonable description, though it’s funny I’ve always been lousy at chess…

You Are Chess

You are brilliant and shrewd. You can often predict what people will do in the future.
You thrive in complex situations. You deal with contradictions well.
You can have many streams of though going on at your mind at once. You keep track of things well.
You are very patient. You have lots of endurance, even when your energy dwindles

What Board Game Are You?

I couldn’t get this to change, even with alternate answers…

Your Thinking is Abstract and Random

You are flexible, adaptable, and creative.
There’s many ways that you can learn – and you’re up for any of them.

You relate well to other people, and you do well working in groups.
You can help people communicate together and work with each other’s strengths.

You don’t work well with people who are competitive or adversarial.
You prefer to work toward a common goal… not toward conflicting goals.

What Kind of Thinker Are You?

This seems appropriate…

You Are a Banana

You are mellow, easy going, and a total softie on the inside.
People find it really easy to get along with you. You suit most tastes.

And while you’re very sweet, you’re not boring or ordinary.
You have an attraction to the exotic, and you could show up anywhere… doing almost anything!

You are spirited, energetic, and a total kick to be around.
You’re also quite funny. Your sense of humor is on the goofy side, and it fits you well.

What Type of Fruit Are You?

Art Kids

Sadie Art: Bunny People

This was done in crayon, in a light color, but I resisted the urge to enhance or darken it. It’s one of her typical family of five drawings, but with bunny ears. This predates the miniature ink drawings I posted recently by a fair amount, while still being relatively recent. Instead of retouching, I include here a closer in image of the parental bunnies to make the best part of the picture easier to see.

Pictures

Hair

Post author By jaysolo
Post date December 2, 2008
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Quiz or Meme

Nope, Never Enough

All via Leslie

You are a Knife

You are precise, determined, and detail oriented.
You mean what you say, and you say what you mean.

You enjoy taking risks and living on the edge.
You are a controversial person. You opinions tend to be divisive.

What Utensil Are You?

You Are a Reluctant Shopper

You really don’t enjoy shopping. For you, it’s just another chore.
You approach shopping systematically. You research what you’re going to buy and come prepared with a list.

Of all the types, you are the most likely to not buy things you don’t need.
You try to de-emphasize stuff in your life. You find shopping and buying things to be a rather empty experience.

What Kind of Shopper Are You?

There Are 0 Gaps in Your Knowledge

Where you have gaps in your knowledge:

No Gaps!

Where you don’t have gaps in your knowledge:

Philosophy
Religion
Economics
Literature
History
Science
Art

Do You Have Gaps in Your Knowledge?

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Whitebeard

Birthdays

Happy Birthday

To blogger Peter Caputa, who is now with HubSpot.

Birthdays

Wendy

Post author By jaysolo
Post date November 28, 2008
1 Comment on Wendy

My cousin Wendy would have been 42 today, more than a lifetime later from her perspective.

We considered the same name for Valerie. Did you know the origin of the name Wendy is in Peter Pan? It didn’t exist before the author coined it, then became popular.

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Blueberry

Art Kids

Sadie Art: Trick or Treat

Post author By jaysolo
Post date November 27, 2008
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Birthdays

Happy Birthday

To blogger Billy Beck, who is 52 today. His domain seems to be down at the moment, most likely an ill-timed, uncaught expiration.

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Happy Birthday

To Cheryl Watts.

Art Kids

Sadie Art

I’ve been meaning to scan and post some of Sadie’s drawings. Her current favorite is to use pen in a tiny notepad she carries around. I bet she’ll see pens and tiny notepads in her stocking, if not other art supplies among her gifts. Depends how strapped Santa feels, and that’s looking more so than ought have been the case.

Anyway, more to follow (and maybe a couple more recent kid pics off the camera in the past day), but this is one that particularly charmed me and made me go on the mission to scan selected notebook art. This is us: right to left me, Deb, Sadie, Valerie and Henry. It’s usually us. Which is why it’s cool that there’s one in which the 5th person is a neighbor holding a bowl of candy, while I am with the three kids at her door, taking them trick-or-treating. They are obsessed with trick-or-treat now. Not sure if that’s why Val is currently favoring the color orange where possible.

Anyway, here it is, actually larger than the original, and clickable for a bigger version.

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Happy Birthday

To my grandniece Katherine, who is 9 today.

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Happy Birthday

To blogger Charles Hill, who is doubly-nickled today.

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Happy Birthday

To my oldest niece, Amanda, who is 34 today.

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Happy Birthday

To Cathi Possick.

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Yesterday I missed the birthday of blogger Livey, who has a private blog now so it wouldn’t have merited a link anyway.

Today would have been the birthday of my great-aunt, my father’s aunt, Elsie, who’d be north of 100 if she were still around, rather than merely being 90-something as she achieved in the end.

Today my uncle Billy, my mother’s brother, would have been 77. He drowned while lobstering in 1975, along with his brother, who Henry sometimes particularly resembles.

The old computer my life is on, including the birthdays in convenient form, is having issues I am not sure whether are hardware or software. It’s becoming increasingly hard to check e-mail across every account at once and to look up the day’s birthdays as a result. I may have to pre-post a bunch of them as I have it running, as it is right now in safe mode to see if it stays going or still shuts down spontaneously. The behavior is classic hardware failure, but acts like a software problem.

Hands hurt to type from the job, so that’s about it for now.

Well, that and I need to figure out supper and try to feed everyone early and reset the twerps to a better bedtime.

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