The Diary of A Simple Man

Which would you rather experience: The Lord of the Flies, or 1984?

In other words, chaos, or totalitarianism?

I assume everyone has seen this? It's SFW, but a little loud.

I laughed so hard I cried.

Um, just to set it up, I saw this in response to the following question:

How is babby formed?

how is babby formed?

how girl get pragnant?

The video was originally on SomethingAwful.

It's soooooooooooooooooooo late and my brain is in a weird place.

So what's this "ask me anything" question meme, eh? I'm not a meme person, you know. But what the hell. How does it work? Anyone can ask me anything? Maybe I should restrict it to my flist?

Has anyone done this meme before?

I've been watching YouTube - clips of Death from Hogfather. What a cool voice! I can imitate it pretty well, believe it or not. I think it's affecting my brain, though.

I saw this on goddessgrrrrl's journal, and had to give it a try. But it's long, and it's a meme, so I'm sticking it behind a cut.
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So it goes.

Taken from unquietsoul5, who got it from wolfshaman, who I don't know.

I have to say that once again, this meme doesn't satisfy me. For one thing, there are books on here that are NOT significant - The Sword of Shannara? Please! And I with there was some way to indicate differing levels of "love". In fact, I'm going to use TWO asterisks to indicate my very favorite books on the list.

There are also some books that should be on this list, but aren't. Right now I'm too tired to remember what they are, though. Oh well.

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This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you've read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved.

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien **
2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov **
3. Dune, Frank Herbert *
4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein *
5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
6. Neuromancer, William Gibson
7. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov *
14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
15. Cities in Flight, James Blish **
16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison *
18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester *
20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey *
22. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman *
25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl *
26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
27. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams **
28. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
29. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
30. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
31. Little, Big, John Crowley
32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny **
33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
35. More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
36. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith **
37. On the Beach, Nevil Shute
38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
39. Ringworld, Larry Niven **
40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys **
41. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien *
42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut *
43. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester *
46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein **
47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock **
48. The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
49. Timescape, Gregory Benford
50. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer *

Once again I got sucked into a meme. I must say, this one makes me sound great. I don't recognize myself at all! :D


My Personality

Neuroticism	45
Extraversion	37
Openness To Experience	93
Agreeableness	72
Conscientiousness	62

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This is not a meme.

Correction, maybe this IS a meme that someone already made. But if it is, I haven't run across it.

If I could create some sort of program to do this, I would.

But anyway, I noticed that profiles show how many comments you've made, and how many comments you've received. In my case, I've posted 1,821, and received: 2,204. Thus my rate of return is 1.21, which means that I get six comments back for every five I make - recognizing, of course, that the giving and receiving are almost certainly unrelated.

I should also note that this probably doesn't reflect postings on communities. Likewise, I'm not at all sure how a comment that I do myself would affect the numbers. I checked things out with LJ Comments Stats Wizard tonight, and it says that excluding anonymous and self-comments, my received comment total is 1,490.

Still, this does seem to indicate that I get more out of LJ than I put into it - or close to it.

So I started looking at some of the people on my flist. I'll use no names, but...the results honestly surprised me in many cases. Check out this partial table:

"Balance" means the ratio of comments posted to comments received; a value less than 1 indicates that the person gets fewer comments than they give. Depending on how you look at it, you could say that they're not getting what they deserve from LJ.

The thing is, in most cases what I expected was very different from reality.

Posted	Received	Balance
4764	1606		0.337111671
616	305		0.49512987
2312	1405		0.607698962
1466	1131		0.77148704
13056	11984		0.917892157
3410	3620		1.061583578
28861	32688		1.132601088
1821	2204		1.210323998 (me)
10568	12901		1.220760787
330	425		1.287878788
7182	11169		1.555137845

I'd blather on more about this, but it's late and I'm tired.

Finally, a meme that I don't hate.

From peaseblossom & jeregenest (got it via unquietsoul5):

"Chances are people you don't even know are being introduced to your journal every day, either randomly or through someone else. In addition to recent entries, people can get to know you better by what you posted in the past.

With that in mind, post a link to your entries on this day six months ago, nine months ago, a year ago, and two years ago."

Six months: No entry

Nine months: http://bobquasit.livejournal.com/2005/07/27/
Excerpt:

Fnib norb glup
Advice: I've been going a bit insane with the advice column; it's really kind of addictive (obligatory joke: "Now I know how George W. Bush feels about wine and cocaine". Updated version: "Now I know how George W. Bush feels about wine, cocaine, lying in order to send poor young people off to die in Iraq, and shredding the Bill of Rights"^*).

Anyway, I've answered 44 questions so far.

One year: http://bobquasit.livejournal.com/2005/04/27/
Excerpt:

YOW - Secret [DELETED] stuff!
I'm in a fix. There's some stuff that I HAVE to talk to someone about, but I can't without breaking a confidence of sorts. So I'm compromising by putting it in a friends-only post here. I can trust you all, right? :D

It's about [DELETED], so if you don't care about that sort of thing you may want to skip this post anyway.

Two years: http://bobquasit.livejournal.com/2004/04/27/
Excerpt:

Where I've Been
For the past month something has been hanging over my head that was so terrible, so terrifying, that I couldn't bring myself to write even a single word about it here. I could hardly talk to my friends and family about it, either. It was as if talking about it would make it real.

I don't understand it, but here's my Trustflow.

http://trustflow.lshift.net/?name=bobquasit

I don't know if I'll ever look at any of these journals, but I have to admit that I'm wondering whose Trustflow I might appear on.

I'm feeling a little bewildered this morning.