where his civilizations, including our own

I do NOT write like Chuck Palahniuk!

I was about to post this on Twitter, but, uh...

Social media has lowered the bar for doing good

This has been going on a lot longer than Twitter and Facebook have existed. Remember when colorbars were sincere and not ironic? Thems were the days. I actually have always felt the same way about awareness ribbons (even though I used to wear one, it was for breast cancer... guess I was a hypocrite!) and bumper stickers and so on. It makes perfect sense that this stuff has migrated to social networking, which for many people is largely about looking good in front of their friends.

I don't think it's as consciously cynical as that makes it sound. I doubt anybody is thinking "Ha ha, by turning my icon green I'll make my political views apparent to my friends, thus earning their approval!" But it can come off that way, and it doesn't surprise me at all that most people stop at the symbolic part and don't do anything concrete.

I wish we had more of the "donate $10 to Haiti with a text" memes and less of the merely symbolic ones, is all I mean by this.

What was the #1 song the day you were born? Google the date and #1 song and then post your #1 song on your LJ - preferably with a Youtube vid if you can find one.

Okay, I was not planning to post this thing, just to check out the song out of curiosity.

Then I found out what the song was. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

The #1 song on August 26, 1982 was:



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Oh, I think this, originated by laurelwood, should be a meme. What would your curriculum in hell look like?

Period 1: HISTORY- Wars Reduced Only To Dates of Battles and Maps of Troop Movements
Period 2: LANGUAGE ARTS- Books the Teacher Doesn't Understand
Period 3: ART- Modern Art Theory and Appreciation
Period 4: P.E.- Every Team Sport Ever Devised
Period 5: SCIENCE- Memorizing Facts about the Periodic Table
Period 6: MATH- Things With No Practical Applications Outside Advanced Physics

I couldn't come up with an actual art activity I would hate to do, but then I thought of all those horrible paintings at SFMOMA and how painful it would be to try to "understand" a series of 26 paintings of a red line (I am not making this up)... so yeah.

Here's the meme where you ask for 5 words (or lexical items) to discuss. I think I might have done this meme with some of the same lexical items before. But this time is new! idlerat gave me:


( Impressionist music, invented languages, Gilbert & Sullivan, Peter Pettigrew, East Bay )

1) Comment to this and I will give you 3 people.

2) Post this meme with your answers.

3) Provide pictures and the names of the 3 people I gave you. (ETA: If I'm not sure about your sexual orientation, I'll probably give you a mix of genders. So, plz specify if you have a preference!)

4) Label which you would marry, which you would shag, and which you would throw off a cliff.

eponis gave me Luna Lovegood, Rachel Maddow, Jonathan Coulton. (Which is an awesome list, I must say. Well played.)


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Fun times. You know the first thing that struck me when I saw this meme was that I should be careful never to ask _hannelore for three people, because I KNOW who she would pick, and it would result in choices I do not think I can make.

This is a weird meme. I'm not sure I even understand it.

Association Meme: Comment to this post and I will give you 3 to 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

Elaborate on them, I'm not sure what that means. Say stuff?

maidenjedi gave me:

( Krycek )

( California )

( Snape )

( fanfiction )

( storytelling )


Well actually that was quite fun! Good meme I say.

Today when I was taking a shower, I realized that the drain had gotten clogged because the water was collecting in the tub. As I was quickly and calmly finishing my shower and wondering if I had any Drano, the clog unstuck itself, which made a quite loud and deep gurgling sound under my feet and scared the crud out of me.

The plumbing in that bathroom has always been questionable... The pipes often make scary rumbling sounds if you don't hold the handle down long enough when you flush, and now the toilet is making kind of leaky noises... not like "constantly running" noises, but kinda dribbling? But wherever it's dribbling to, it's not the floor.

I do not have money to fix the plumbing!

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( latest on the new overlord front )

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Oh come on, a meme? Since my better half tagged me I suppose I have to.

a. People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blog and replace any question that they dislike with a new, original question.
b. Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. If you effing feel like it. Don't tag who tagged you.

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I will tag people, but only do it if you feel like it.

asphodeline
muridae_x
thimble_kiss
atdelphi
kaptainsnot
wootsauce
rexluscus
lilacsigil

So much running around.

I had my annual review at work, which consisted of a self-evaluation that was then compared to my boss's evaluation of me. They were almost the same, because I could easily guess what she would say. She was actually a little nicer than I was. Notably, I communicate "very very well" and am "gentle and diplomatic". Ha. I am always reliable and the best at training new minions. Sometimes I don't notice details and forget things that aren't written down.

I received a small raise. Didn't expect that. Isn't the financial world in ruins?

Icon courtesy of nedroidcomics.


ETA: @current meme: I didn't like The Princess Bride and I don't remember any lines from it.

via woolf

1. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.
2. Go to Google Images and search for that word.
3. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don't tell me the word).
4. Put this in your own journal so that I can do the same.