| LOLhacker? |
[May. 8th, 2008|02:20 pm] |
I know I'm very late to the LOL$thing party, but what the hell:
( Cut for size )
Now, I reckon about half of you will recognise the guy in the pictures, and about half will understand the captions. I'm interested to know how large the intersection is... |
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| Attention, readers! |
[Apr. 25th, 2008|01:58 pm] |
You have lost The Game.
That is all.
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mi_guida: I have won the Pillaging Game. |
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| One for Bronxelf |
[Feb. 7th, 2008|02:32 pm] |
There are a number of well-known systems for classifying people's personalities according to various measures such as introversion-extroversion, and organisations often use these schemes to categorize their staff. Unfortunately, such methods do not capture a number of the most important aspects of an individual within an organisation; any corporate employee knows that whether someone is (for example) extroverted or introverted is much less critical than (say) how important they are. The Lipson-Shiu test attempts to remedy this and other oversights by classifying along four alternative axes:
* Intelligent-Stupid
* Lawful-Chaotic
* Important-Unimportant
* Good-Evil To my total lack of surprise, I am an ICUG (Intelligent, Chaotic, Unimportant, Good):ICUG (Inventor)
The ICUG is given to solitude and shoe staring. He or she loves little puzzles and is often a good source of off-the-wall, innovative ideas. Best left to their own devices with only occasional steering (example: Leonardo da Vinci) My flatmates came out as ICIE (Torturer), ILUE (Gremlin) and ILIG (Archangel). Take the Lipson-Shiu Corporate Type Test here.
[It's remarkably hard to summarise dry humour, isn't it?] |
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| Hmmmm... |
[Jan. 7th, 2008|10:00 pm] |
94% Dennis Kucinich
91% Mike Gravel
81% John Edwards
80% Chris Dodd
78% Joe Biden
75% Barack Obama
73% Hillary Clinton
70% Bill Richardson
28% Rudy Giuliani
24% Ron Paul
19% John McCain
14% Mike Huckabee
14% Tom Tancredo
13% Mitt Romney
5% Fred Thompson
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
There were a couple of tricky ones (what to do about Darfur, how quickly to withdraw from Iraq, corporate regulation - corporations need flexibility to compete and they're too powerful at the moment, these aren't mutually exclusive!). But overall I found it required remarkably little thought - I hope I'm not becoming too hardened in my opinions and losing my ability to think rationally about politics.
I'm not at all surprised to see Kucinich come out on top, nor to see the Democrats generally above the Republicans, but I am surprised to see that it's so clear-cut. Unfortunately, us inhabitants of Airstrip One don't get to vote in the elections that affect us significantly, just these piddly little local things :-(
Edit: here's what I'd do about Darfur, if I were the US President. I'd push diplomatically for an international military peacekeeping force with a UN mandate. The peacekeepers would be provided by NATO, because the UN suck at that kind of thing, and NATO appear to be quite good at it. The US would, of course, contribute troops to it; troops which would be freed up by a complete or partial withdrawal from Iraq. From what I can see, the presence of foreign troops is just making the situation in Iraq worse.
My problem with the Darfur question was that none of the options really fit this answer. BTW, I don't claim to be any kind of authority on Iraq or to know much about military matters: feel free to call me an idiot in the comments. |
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| Book meme |
[Oct. 11th, 2007|12:27 am] |
Taken from michiexile, neoanjou and half_of_monty, and probably others.
These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (whenever someone started this meme). Bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.
( Read more... )
26 completed, 7 given up on, one in progress. There are some excellent books there - I'd strongly recommend almost all of those that I've bolded and not struck out. I'm genuinely surprised that so many people seem to have had such trouble with The Name of the Rose - it's slow going until about 2/3 of the way through, but the final 200 pages or so grab on to you and don't let go. Maybe I found it easier because I'd read enough philosophy to appreciate the joke of them all speaking in a parody of Aristotelian logic?
I try not to re-read books too much: I could very easily slip into re-reading the same few books over and over. And life is short, and unread books are legion. To be honest, I could have underlined nearly everything on the list. |
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| Interests meme |
[Oct. 8th, 2007|09:18 am] |
Meme, as invited by michiexile.
Comment on this post and I will pick seven of your interests. You then explain them in your journal and re-post. ...if you want to, of course. No pressure. And you can ask me about my interests, too.
The seven that Michi picked for me were autechre, b/h=(d+f)/(d+e), grim meathook future, punting, spinnwebe, universal algebra, and category theory.
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1 Yes, I know what "incunabula" means. But that's just it: most people don't (I certainly didn't when I first heard the album), and it's wonderful as a semi-nonsense sound. When you learn what it means, you see what a fantastic name it is for a band's first album :-) |
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| A man, a jar, an oing - GNIONARAJANAMA! |
[Sep. 12th, 2007|11:20 pm] |
Me: What does "intrapleural" mean, anyway?
WP: Well, the pleura are the membranes that hold... basically, it's the poop that holds the tent wher it is. Or rather, the tent that holds the poop wher it is.
I love my girlfriend. She didn't even know about the DFC before she met me :-) |
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[Oct. 6th, 2006|03:54 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | art, memes | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Maths dept | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The jukebox from the QM pool bar | ] |
Meme stolen from azrelle.
The first five people to respond to this post, will get some form of art, by me, about them. I make no guarantees about quality or type, but Iwill assure that I will give it good effort and that the art will be individual to you, so if you get a mixed CD or some sort of painting doodle, yours is the only one like it.
The only catch, of course; as with most memes, if you sign up, you have to put this in your own journal as well. |
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| Metro systems of the world unite! |
[Aug. 13th, 2006|12:35 am] |
Meme nicked from stronae. I may also have used the New York subway, but I was seven when I last went to NY, and I honestly can't remember.
Rehearsals going well thus far, but it's early days. I probably ought to be learning lines or something. |
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| Meme |
[Aug. 2nd, 2006|03:28 pm] |
I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions. No more, no fewer. Ask me anything you want. Then I want you to go to your journal and copy-and-paste this*, allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything. I promise to answer all questions truthfully, unless there is a really good reason why not; in which case, I will say so.**
* Conversation with my flatmate the other day:
FM: [discussion of how to achieve a particular effect in XY-Pic]
Me: Well, it sounds like the kind of thing you do once and then stick in a macro and forget about.
FM: I just copy-and-paste the code each time I need it.
Me: Nononono! Copy-and-paste is EVIL! Every time you copy and paste something, God kills a kitten!
FM: Good!! I hate kittens!!!
Me: Every time you copy and paste something, God kills a tango pianist!
FM (who is a tango pianist): Good! Less competition!
Me: Every time you copy-and-paste something, the chance that you are the tango pianist who is killed increases!
FM: Hmmm, maybe I'd better use macros more.
** I've been reading Lynne Truss' Eats, Shoots and Leaves recently, and thus have re-punctuated this meme. I've no idea why I haven't read the book before: I've been a fan of Truss's since she was the television critic for The Times, which must have been about fifteen years ago. If you can, get hold of Making the Cat Laugh, which is a collection of her Listener columns. |
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