Dead Scotty jokes

I must say, I have felt no small amount of regret since using a variant of a "beaming up" joke to announce the death of James Doohan last week. It was a lamentable lapse of originality, and even though I knew better, I just couldn't resist. I expected better of myself.

At least I tried to keep it somewhat restrained. I didn't use the full on "Beam me up, Scotty," nor some ill-concieved variation on the theme: "Beam me up, God," "Last beam-up," "Beamed up to the big starship in the sky," or, perhaps worst of all, "he couldna give 'er any more" or "his dilithium crystals finally gave out" (and yes, these lines have ALL been used, abundantly).

(Fun fact: did you know that the line "Beam me up, Scotty," is spurious? It was never actually uttered on the show.)

I'm sure that when DeForest Kelly died a few years back, the cries of "He's dead, Jim!" were flying pretty fast and furious. I don't really remember it, but I would be shocked if it weren't so. All this got me to thinking -- how will the eventual deaths of the remaining original cast members be acknowledged? I'm sure we can predict the results right now...

William Shatner is the oldest remaining cast member by four days (March 22, 1931; Leonard Nimoy, March 26), so let's start with him. His death will likely also be accompanied by the frequent refrain, "He's dead, Jim!" Maybe one or two comments like "He's gone to captain that big starship in the sky"...but no, mostly "He's dead, Jims."

Nimoy's a bit tougher. "Lived long and prospered" will probably be the mainstay. None of the Wrath of Khan death stuff will really be useful...needs of the many, have been and always shall be your friend... All in all, Nimoy probably gets the nicest and most respectful death catchphrase. Through pure coincidence, you understand.

News of Nichelle Nichols's passing will be greeted with the words "Hailing frequencies closed." And maybe something contorted about not being able to hail her where she is, hailing Heaven, hailing God, or some such. But they will be very contrived, and most people will stick to "Hailing frequencies closed," the final "sir" optional.

I think coverage of the deaths of Walter Koenig and George Takei will be much more reserved, simply because there aren't any obvious puns to be made. None of the standard things you might say about someone dying have a V sound to turn into a comic Russian W in Koenig's case, and no one can remember anything memorable that Sulu said. Again, a last resort might be something about piloting the big starship in the sky, but since not many people will be making these kinds of jokes, it simply won't be fashionable.

Mark my words. It will happen.

And sorry again for the "beamed up" thing.

Overheard on the train

Youngish female voice: Say it. Sixsixsixsixsix.

Another youngish female voice: But those are the Devil's numbers!

Connections

First, I'd like to welcome all the 2 Blowhards readers who were pointed here by Michael Blowhard's kind recommendation. It's wonderful to see some new faces in here. Thanks for coming by, do have a look around.

I feel very connected right now. Yesterday I took a trip down to New York to meet up with fellow blogger Maktaaq, who was visiting for a few days. I was delighted to discover that she is as charming and engaging in person as she is on her excellent blog. We visited a some cafes, boutiques, and pastry shops near Washington Square, strolled around, and had a very nice time. Afterwards I visited with a friend of mine who lives down in the city and whom I don't get to see nearly often enough.

I made the trip following a long overnight shift at work the previous night. I got home at 7 am, crashed for a couple of hours, then got up and took a train into the city to meet Maktaaq at 6. I ended up taking the last 11:58 pm train home, and on the ride back called work to discover that my shift for the following day was not 12:00 or 12:30 as I had thought, but at the ungodly hour of 7 in the am, a mere five hours in the future. I made it home and into bed around 3:30, only to have to crawl out of bed some two and a half hours later. Feeling terrible and not nearly up to working, I pleaded with my supervisor to be sent home as soon as someone else could come in, which I was two and a half hours later. I staggered gratefully home and collapsed into bed until almost six in the evening. My time sense is now quite thoroughly screwed up from all this, but at least I am well-rested and feel much better. All in all, the trip to New York was certainly worth the kink it's put into my schedule.

So. Onto the day's links.

There have been a lot of interesting articles on Scientology out there lately, with all the publicity about the goings-on of Scientology devotee Tom Cruise and new initiate Katie Holms. Salon is having a "Summer of Scientology" (odd choice of title, really -- it sounds like some kind of festival), a 4-part series of articles examining the pseudo-religion in depth: "Missionary man", about Cruise and his active role in promoting the Church; "Stranger than fiction", a review of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics that started it all; "The press vs. Scientology"; and "Scientology's war on psychiatry". All good, informative, and scary reads.

Slate also has an interesting article about Hubbard himself.

There's a deep chasm between the erudite, noble Hubbard of Scientology myth and the true identity of the church's wacky founder. To those not in his thrall, Hubbard might be better described as a pulp science-fiction writer who combined delusions of grandeur with a cynical hucksterism. Yet he turned an oddball theory about human consciousness—which originally appeared in a 25-cent sci-fi magazine—into a far-reaching and powerful multimillion-dollar empire.

Read the rest here.

The New York Times has an article about the laser-tattooed fruit that will soon be hitting shelves.


"When a Man Dies in a Sex Act with a Horse -- What's a Reporter to Do?" An article at Editor & Publisher talks about how some stories are just tough to cover tastefully.

An Ananova Quirkies news item tells the story of a family of Australian farmers who declared their land an independent country.

A thread at a WetCanvas! forum shows what happens When Graphic Artists Get Bored.

Moodgrapher is a nifty site with its fingers on the world's pulse, charting its collective mood as expressed by the shifting emotions of livejournal users. Their recent analysis of the effects of the London bombings is striking.


reading: Diana Darling, The Painted Alphabet; John Gardner, In the Suicide Mountains; Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
saw: Fight Club; Firefly; Beverly Hills Cop
playing: Seiklus, a fabulous game from innovative designer clysm -- more on this later

music: my "cool music" mix, curr. Moby, "Another Woman"
beverage: Twinings Prince of Wales tea

More moon links

Here are a bunch of stragglers that I discovered after my initial Moon Day post. This was the kind of thing I was looking for before but couldn't find! Enjoy.

Panoramas.dk (which is a pretty amazing site, btw) has 360˚ QTVR panoramas of the Apollo 11, 12, and 17 missions to the moon, with sound clips and everything. Very neat!

Nova Online has more QTVR Apollo panoramas, along with still images.


Virtual Reality Moon Phase Pictures will show you an updated picture of the current phase of the moon, and you can also select any date and time from 1800-2199 to see how the moon looked or will look then. Nice toy.


The Full Moon Atlas is a nicely detailed interactive map of the moon. Smooth interface with lots of features and information.


I came across a couple of non-moon space links that I thought were worth sharing, too. An Atlas of the Universe is a great set of maps, each on a larger scale than the last, showing the universe from the solar system up through the solar neighborhood, the Milky Way, the local group, and all the way to the visible universe. (The image below is of the Virgo Supercluster.)


Finally, here is an intriguing scale map of the solar system, with one pixel for every 1000 km. Fortunately there are direct links to each of the planets, because except for the sun and Pluto at either ends, it's essentially impossible to locate anything else in the middle of all that nothing. It's a nice way of putting things in perspective.

For many more fascinating space links -- and the source of many of the ones posted here -- visit grow-a-brain's Space Archives.

Moon Day

Today is Moon Day, the 36th anniversary of the July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing.

To commemorate the day, Google has adapted its Google Maps system to create Google Moon, a map of the moon's surface using NASA imagery, with the sites of the Apollo landings marked out. Pretty limited, but cute. Now when do we get a full map of the moon to play with? And all the planets? C'mon, Google Solar System...

You can read about Moon mythology or the colonization of the Moon at Wikipedia. Or you can read about the Moon and missions to the Moon at Uncyclopedia. You can also read about the Moon at h2g2.

If Google Moon has only whetted your appetite for lunar exploration, try Moon Base, a 3d chat environment where you can bounce around the moon, ride moon buggies, and, if you like, exchange chatter with other bouncing astronauts.


Boing Boing shares ideas for Moon Day celebrations, most of which involve Tang.

The moon, by the bye, will be almost but not quite full tonight...the full moon is tomorrow. Ah, well. Go out and look at it tonight, anyway. Happy Moon Day.

Beamed up

James Doohan died today at 85.

Do not attempt to adjust your monitor.

We control the horizontal and the vertical.

No, your eyes aren't deceiving you. I've lightened up the background by one shade. You could say that things are looking brighter around here. Or I guess you could say that they're just grayer.

Speaking of gray, if you want to know how this blog looks to the colorblind, you should play around with the Colorblind Web Page Filter, which is quite a nifty toy.

Speaking of how this blog looks, Isomerica should really get it together and load my images, already. Sheesh. Anybody else experiencing loading problems with this page? I do hope I'm not abusing my bandwidth.

On second thought, maybe we don't control the horizontal and the vertical after all.

Notable photos

Visionobscured.com is the online portfolio of photographer Wes Hardison, who does breathtaking landscapes, figures, portraits, and pictures of ancient sites in a section called "Time Obscured".




The Living Canvas is performance art (when you see the live show) and photography (when you view the stills on the site) in which patterns and images are projected onto the nude bodies of performers. The effect is more impressive than it sounds. There are two exhibits online, Light and Shadow, which features posed nudes, and Body as Canvas, which features the light projections.




Stu Jenks's Fezziwig Photography is a series of stunning photos, sorted into Hoops and Circles, Sacred Spaces, the Human Circle, and Diptychs and Triptychs. Celebrating the spiritual and the sacred, his desert and forest landscapes try to capture spiralling energy in photographic form. It's hard to describe, but it's a wonderful effect.




Vintage is a Flickr photoset featuring hundreds of vintage art photos from 1870-1970. The size of the collection is staggering, and the old photographs are surprisingly moving.




Another nice Flickr photoset is sparkler fun, a series of pictures drawn in the air with sparklers. Some are quite impressive.




Ashes and snow is a great collection of images by photographer Gregory Colbert, who does stunning black and white photographs featuring interactions between human models and animals. People swim with whales, read to elephants, climb with cheetas, and meditate with antelope in these evocative images.




Nightphotographer.com is the unusual night photography of Larrie Thompson, who uses light and color in a unique way to produce these striking images of natural and urban landscapes.




I was going to do photoblogs in this entry, but I have so many links here, I think I'll save it for next time.

Six cool Samorost-style games

I feel bad.

A visitor came here today after a Google search for "samorost style games" turned up a link to my post "Nine great room-escapers", in which I mentioned that the next installment would be Samorost-style games. Alas, I have been putting that post off for a rainy day and never completed it, and my hopeful visitor left in what was surely deep disappointment.

I shall rectify the situation immediately. (You see the good that Site Meter is working already? Righting wrongs, correcting injustices...)

SO.

The essential characteristic of these games is a single, large screen for each stage through which the small main character moves. The character does not act directly, but rather, you as the player must click on various objects and locations on the board in order to make them do something, and somehow clear a path for your character to progress to the next screen.

The original, of course, the pioneer that initiated and set the standard for the genre, is the fantastic Samorost by Amanita Design, which set my heart a-flutter from the moment I saw it. In my opinion, everyone with a computer should play this game at some point in their lives, the sooner the better. Gorgeous backdrops, charming animations, whimsical characters, and smart, jazzy music make this game a real treat.
Should you need it, there is a walkthrough in a thread at the 4Games forum.




Samorost inspired a number of imitators, notably the two-game series that includes Sangar Sabriina and its sequel, Sabrina in North Pole. While not as graphically or technically accomplished as Samorost, these short games are quite cute and fun to play.
There are hints for Sangar Sabriina at The Geek Forums, and a walkthrough for Sabrina in North Pole at the Nordinho forums.





Rivalling the beauty of Samorost is the lush world of Shift, in which you play a small blue fairy-like creature and must manipulate various mushrooms, flowers, bugs, and leaves to travel around your miniature realm. The atmosphere formed by the detailed artwork and the gentle music is dreamy and magical.
There are some hints to be found in the Nordinho forums.




Cavedude's Adventure is a rough, playful take-off on the Samarost style. Short and simple with clip-art graphics, but with its own charm.
There is a walkthrough at The Geek Forums.




Kao Fu-Sen is a lovely, surreal little gem of a game in which you play a young girl who must go off in search of her own head, which has detached and floated away like a balloon. You must guide the creepy-cute headless child through strange landscapes and cityscapes to recover it. My only regret with this game is that it is so short.
You can get hints in the comments on the game at lazylaces.




Those are all the Samorost-style games I've discovered out there so far. The Amanita Design page also promises a sequel to Samorost in the works, for which I am all a-quiver, as you can imagine. I hope this list may prove useful to future seekers (sorry, guy who came today)!

Tune in next time for: horror games.

Now I'm spying on you.

What I really want is the referral tracker from TrueFresco, but they're not accepting new members, and no sign of when they might be in the future. So I got myself a Site Meter instead, which seems pretty neat so far (and they actually do track referrals, which I didn't know). Now the only thing I need is some traffic to track.

There's little news to report in my life: my attempts to find a new or supplemental job have so far been unsuccessful. I continue to toil away behind a register. It's damn hot, and I wish this apartment had an air conditioner. And I'm tired of spotting cockroaches. I'm told by the exterminator that the giant ones we've been getting aren't the kind that infest, they probably just got in somehow from outside. I am still not pleased to discover them on my kitchen counter. (It's only three total so far -- one a couple months ago, and then two in the last three days. That had better be all.)

So instead of regaling you with tales of my exciting life -- that road trip used up my excitement allotment for a while -- I'll post assorted links, instead.

A recent Onion article: Bush Regales Dinner Guests with Impromptu Oratory on Virgil's Minor Works. It is to weep. Incidentally, I think this sort of fantasy is one of the reasons that The West Wing is such an appealing show.

And another: "Midwest" Discovered Between East and West Coasts. Cute. I, a recent traveler from these fabled lands, can vouch for their existence. They're stunning -- everyone should make the trek to see these wild regions for themselves someday.

The latest issue of Bookslut features a comic-book version of Neil Gaiman's speech at the 2005 Nebula Awards, which is quite cool.

Here are some amazing pictures of mammatus cloud formations in Nebraska.
Link via Boing Boing.




A Florida artist sculpts amazing pure chocolate roses. One of these sinful treats will cost you a couple hundred dollars. But who could eat one?
Link also via Boing Boing.




Chinadaily has an article about a Chinese man who has written a love story using only punctuation marks. He is now offering a reward in the hopes of finding someone who can understand it.
Link via Bookslut.

The New Yorker has an interesting article about Roald Dahl, The Candy Man.
Link via Bookslut.

According to a BBC News article, an American study has led to the startling conclusion that prayers don't save sick people.
Link via orangeguru.

That's all. Kinda boring post for today. Come back later.


reading: Ben Bradlee, A Good Life (finally finished Fast Food Nation)
saw: Supersize Me; Fahrenheit 911; Fahrenhype 911; Metropolis; The Rock; Firefly
playing: nothing really...
game of the day: One Time Never

music: a fairly eclectic mix I made today with the stunning title of "cool music"; curr. Sting, "Desert Rose"
beverage: Twinings Irish Breakfast tea

More abandoned places

My browsing lately has turned up a number of interesting sites dedicated to lost, forgotten, deterioriating, and abandoned places that are well worth exploring.

Ohio Trespassers is one of the coolest sites. A couple of intrepid explorers have made it their mission to trespass onto all the unusual and out-of-the-way sites they can find, and collect photo evidence. Abandoned factories, graveyards, barns, castles, hospitals, tunnels, and insane asylums all yield up their secrets.





Immortelle.net offers histories and visual tours -- including virtual 360 panoramic views -- of New Orleans' fascinating cemeteries, which resemble the French-style cities of the dead.




Forgotten NY is an enormous site exploring hundreds of forgotten nooks and crannies of New York City in words and pictures. Not just abandoned and old places, but also unusual ones. Categories include old signs and advertisements, subways and trains, cemeteries, cobblestones, street scenes, trolleys, and more. This site is just massive.




All of this reminded me of Ghost Town, that story of the woman Elena who documented her trip through the desolate lands of the Chernobyl area. It turns out that her story is exaggerated if not entirely fabricated -- apparently she did not daringly forge into forbidden territory alone on a motorcycle as she claims, but went on a guided excursion in a car with her husband -- but however true the frame narrative, the pictures themselves are still (mostly) real (a few of them might be staged), and very evocative. (More info: this thread explains why it's not true. Here is the website for the private tour she went on.)




My earlier post, "Abandoned places," can be found here.

Varia

I've just finally caught up on the archives of my latest obsession, 8-bit Theater, a sprite webcomic based on Final Fantasy I. Tonight I finally made it through all 574 back episodes. Enough nostalgia was also stirred in me to prompt me to download a rom of the original NES game, which I started playing tonight. I've had vague urges to play it again for some time. I do still have the game and my Nintendo system somewhere, sealed up in a box in the back of a storage unit where I can't get it, but I don't know why it never occurred to me to download the rom before.

For years I loved Final Fantasy, without even knowing it was part of a series. When I saw ads for FF7, I was blown away. And also a little confused. How had my beloved childhood swords-and-sorcery epic turned into a futuristic techno-world? Time passes, I guess.




And now a series of links with no thematic relevance...

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about the latest trends in controversial young adult literature. There's Rainbow Party, the book about a teen oral-sex party that's sparked plenty of debate, but that's just the beginning.




Deadprogrammer's Cafe tells the story of How the Starbucks Siren Became Less Naughty.




I've just discovered an entertaining and informative blog called Fascinating History, which is quickly becoming one of my favorites. A recent entry discusses Elizabethan Food.

A columnist at the Globe and Mail vents his frustration with the relentless verbing of nouns.

Google just released Google Earth, the amazing satellite-imagery software that used to be Keyhole. Unlike the subscription-only Keyhole, Google Earth is all free. You can spend hours just exploring the planet in high-resolution photographs (not everywhere, of course...but just give it a couple years and it'll be really amazing). Some places, like the Grand Canyon, also have 3-D elevation. There's a lot you can do with this thing.




What is EPIC? A video from the Museum of Media History in the year 2014 presents a sobering and thought-provoking future history of the media. See where we're headed.


reading: haven't finished anything yet, still plodding along on Fast Food Nation
saw: Three Kings; 30 Days; Donnie Darko; Matrix: Revolutions; The Office (American); Undeclared
playing: Final Fantasy I

music: the Shade: Wrath of Angels soundtrack, very nice music to a game I've never heard of but found free to download the other day
beverage: Twinings Prince of Wales tea

Bard in Fog

Archive photos -- 2002

Some more of my old digital photos today, this time a couple shots I took of Bard campus one thick, foggy morning in my freshman year. Not many people were about, and I wanted to capture the empty, desolate feel of the place. As I often do, I deliberately avoided snapping anything that could tie the image to a time or a place...I can't stand a stray person, sign, or power line intruding into my ethereal vistas.


The campus center field


The Chapel of the Holy Innocents

Soon Bard will be nothing to me but a foggy memory.

Firefoxed

I finally installed Firefox this week.

Since it came out, I heard nothing but rants and raves about how great it was, how exciting, how wonderful. I held off installing it in the belief that I was about to reformat my computer any day now, and there was no point installing new software only to have to reinstall it a few days later. After a couple of months, I have all but given up on the possibility of ever reformatting my poor, twisted computer (installing XP on top of Windows ME gave it a few identity crises I'd like to correct as far as profiles go), and I at last gave in and got myself Firefox.

I've been less than delighted with it so far. In fact, I'm uninstalling it today and going back to good old Mozilla 1.6, which I fortunately left intact in case Firefox didn't work out. Which it didn't.

There are a few things about Firefox that are quite nice. I like the more streamlined status bar, the folders sidebar in bookmark manager, the Google search in the location bar (though I never use the location bar, but I would like the feature if I did). I like typing ctrl-L instead of ctrl-shift-L to enter a location. Actually, I think that about does it for things I like.

I don't like the loss of the tabs 1.6 had to hide and show the location bar. I keep it hidden away for browsing, but I like to show it with one click in order to copy a url. In Firefox, you can only toggle it on and off, and to show it I have to go to View -> Toolbars -> Navigation Toolbar.

I don't like the cookies management. You can tell it to either reject or accept all cookies, and you can type in the urls of all exceptions. 1.6 has a feature where it will ask you every time it encounters a new site whether to accept or reject that site's cookies. You can also click a menu option to "accept cookies from this site" or "reject cookies from this site," but no such option exists in Firefox, where you have to manually type it in.

There are some random quirks that annoy me, things 1.6 seemed to do more smoothly. When I click "back," the current page vanishes and then reappears for an instant before changing to the previous page. Every single time I think for that instant that the operation has failed, and there are a couple of times where I click "back" again to compensate.

Every new window I open, though supposedly maximized, is pulled a little ways in on the right side, so that I have to un- and re-maximize to get it fill the screen.

I almost forgot one of the worst things, the one that decided me. Pop-ups. I have had zero problems with 1.6's pop up blockers. I'm never bothered by a single ad, and I only very rarely have to tell it to allow some pop-up that I want. Firefox lets so many ads get through. I find it hard to believe that its blocker could be less effective than its supposedly less advanced predecessor, but it is. It also has a much more clumsy way of alerting you to a block -- 1.6 puts a nice little icon in the status bar, where Firefox puts a big blue band right across the top of the page, cutting the screen down. Infuriating!

Begone, Firefox. Come back when you're better.

Toys

Today we have a selection of links to interesting toys...various flash and java thingies that you can manipulate with your mouse.

I've seen this linked at a couple of sites now. It's hypnotic, and a bit disturbing. Neverending Fall is a flash animation of a woman freefalling through a field of randomly generated spheres. You can click on her to move her if she gets stuck, or if you just want to fling her around. A part of me is convinced that Hell is real, and this woman is there, now, and every time someone loads this program the horror begins anew. But it's so fascinating...I can vouch from personal experience that it can provide literally hours of entertainment. Showing it to K may have been a mistake.

A far less unsettling, and somewhat less engaging, flash person you can play with is the Liquid Man, who floats rather more peacefully around your screen.

Crazyimages.com is a nifty site with lots of java tricks and animations, some of which are you can play with, and some that are just cool to look at.

I may have posted this some time ago, but it fits this category so here it is again: an interactive Mona Lisa with a range of facial expressions, presented by the Cité des Sciences.

Finally, there is the stylish Fat Dollmaker, a plus-sized paper doll which could be a fun and positive role model for kids, if not for all the risqué clothing options. So it's a fun and positive role model for not-kids.

Enjoy.

The latest

You may have noticed new sections in my ever-growing sidebar: the blog categories have been expanded, and I have three all-new sections, Forums, News, and Resources.

These links are probably more for me than for anyone else, though if someone happens along and is enticed by the SurLaLune message board, then all the better. I figure if I have links to BBC News on my sidebar, as I'm scrolling down clicking my links I'm more likely to actually look at the news and learn something about what's going on in the world. And then find an interesting article and link to it in a post. Good for everyone, eh?

Speaking of links, here are some links.

It's been around, but I've been planning to post my own link to it eventually. A panel of conservatives dreamed up a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. I suggest that you run home and read them all immediately.

Yankee Pot Roast has an amusing list of Dead Ends from Rejected "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" Books. Man, I used to love those books.

In an article in the Times Online, a journaliast tries a week on the Jesus Diet.

Dontclick.it is an experiment in a new form of web browsing that eschews the mouseclick, navigating solely by movement and gesture. Interesting concept and implementation. The content is mostly for show, but there are a couple interesting games and tricks. Some self-control is required -- the website flat-out challenges you to resist the click!

Guess-the-Google is a fun game developed using Google's image search feature. View a montage of images and guess the Google search term that fetched them all.




The Face of Tomorrow is an intriguing project that digitally combines the faces of people living in cities around the world to predict how future generations might look. I'm a sucker for this stuff.




B3ta presents The Phallic Logo Awards.





reading: nothing new yet
saw: Rocky IV
game of the day: Acaro

music: a mix, curr. Porno for Pyros, "Pets"
beverage: Twinings English Breakfast tea

One Man's Quizzes

Today I choose to post a selection of results to a bunch of quizzes all created by one person. Each is a little less good than the last, but the final one was curious enough for me to keep them all.



Roman Capitals- You have a proud and noble bearing,
and are of ancient pedigree, but you tend to be
very rigid and set in your ways.


What Calligraphy Hand Are You?
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You are a post-Easter candy grab: Christ
died on the cross for the sole purpose that you
could deface the half-price effigies of small,
harmless, woodland creatures.


What Post-Holiday Consequence Are You?
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You are a spelunker. You are
practical, but seek adventure and have a desire
to see things first. You do tend to lack
imagination, though.


What Seeker of the Unknown Are You?
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You are Jessica. You are hot, single, easy,
opinionated, intelligent, and loyal.


What Type of Quiz Taker Are You?
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Well, okay. Obviously a quiz created for one person, who is not me. But it almost seemed like it for a while.


Oh, and some other things:



Which Extremity of the World Are You?
From the towering colossi at Rum and Monkey.


And finally:

WEBLOG wannabe 2005 weblog award awarded to Blue Tea in the category of "Least Updated Webcam"

Well, that does seem pretty accurate.