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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

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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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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

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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…

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

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Valerie On Lap

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Tabletop Boy

Henry was proud of himself for having climbed on the table to play with Sadie’s new dominoes. Scary, huh?

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blogging

Know what I’m wondering today?

Are all the happy people on the internet actually happy, or do they just play happy people on the internet?

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blogging

I love this.

DaGoddess on blogging, journals, and self-censorship.

Of course, we can’t really be honest here or people show up at our door and threaten us, apparently. But I agree with her anyway.

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Birthdays

Happy Birthday

To my nephew James, who is 14 today.

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Birthdays

Elsie Margaret Johnston

My great-grandmother would be 120 today, and thereby probably a media sensation, if she were still around.

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Birthdays

Happy Birthday

To Deb’s brother Michael.

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Birthdays

Happy Birthday

To blogger and my oldest nephew’s wife, Sharon, who is 33 today.

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Birthdays

Happy Birthday

To blogger Sean Hackbarth.

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Birthdays

Happy Birthday

To blogger Elisson, who is 56 today.

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Politics

Election Dementia

There seems to have been a real ramping-up lately of the stupid in these parts. I notice it most in how aggressively people are driving…it’s been bad, even for around here. I see it in the customers at work, too. Tempting to blame it on the economy (or the perception of the economy, anyway), but it feels angrier and more all-encompassing than that. It’s not the kind of angry that makes you stomp out of a room; it’s the kind of angry that makes you stomp out of a room without noticing that the door’s closed until you stomp into it.

I think it’s the election.

And I don’t think it’s *this* election. I think people were even crankier last time, in a we-really-loathe-the-other-guy sort of way. I think it’s elections in general.

I think it’s the reminder that to a degree that grows greater all the time, we allow other people to determine the course of our lives for us. We live in fear of what idiot thing the 51% will do to us next, and it gets under our skin. There is something in the human spirit that recoils from such a conditional brand of freedom, and we hate our fellow men for it, knowing that they can vote away the things we hold dear.

Why the hell this inspires people to ever more fervent campaigning and an ever-increasing idealization of voting, I don’t know. A call to anarchy would be more logical.

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Birthdays

Happy Birthday

To my cousin Wally, who is 41 today.

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Birthdays

Happy Birthday

To blogger RightGirl, who is 32 today. I love the headless puppy.

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Stupidity

It’s a good thing that I don’t have time this morning to write the post I keep thinking about writing.

Because really? I think I might actually do it this time, if I had an hour. But I don’t.

How’s that for elliptical and annoying?

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Birthdays

Happy Birthday

To friend and former colleague Renee LeBlanc.

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Happy Birthday

To former blogger Paul Jané, wherever he may be now.

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blogging Kids

Was Going to Post

Henry says that is not allowed. But then, neither is anything else. Besides holding him so he can fall asleep no put me down no pick me up no put me down hey shiny thing ah relaxing yay let me go play now hey you’re in the kitchen cool…

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blogging Business Geekery Quiz or Meme Totally Random

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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Business Controversies Money News Politics

Bailout Poll

John Hawkins did a flash poll, in which I participated, on the bailout. Interesting results, more skewed than I had expected. The last question, though, looks like people answered based not on where they stood, but what they thought public perception must be.

Related to that, it is heartening to see that Barney Frank’s role in the crisis, and its roots in the Carter administration, ballooning from tinkering in the Clinton administration, close ties to Frank, Kerry, Obama and others, and connection to the likes of 9/11 scoundrel Jamie Gorelick are becoming widely known.