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| Friday, July 18th, 2008 |
ellefurtle
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7:42p |
How rude! Your result for The Personality Defect Test... Sociopath
You are the Sociopath! As a result of your cold, calculating rationality, your introversion (and ability to keep quiet), your brutality, and your arrogance, you would make a very cunning serial killer. You are confident and capable of social interaction, but you prefer the silence of dead bodies to the loud, twittering nitwits you normally encounter in your daily life. You care very little for the feelings of others, possibly because you are not a very emotional person. You are also very calculating and intelligent, making you a perfect criminal mastermind. Also, you are a very arrogant person, tending to see yourself as better than others, providing you with a strong ability to perceive others as weak little animals, so tiny and small. You take great pleasure in the misery of others, and there is nothing sweeter to you than the sweet glory of using someone else's shattered failure to project yourself to success. Except sugar. That just may be sweeter. In short, your personality defect is the fact that you could easily be a sociopath, because you are calculating, unemotional, brutal, and arrogant. Please don't kill me for writing mean things about you! I have a 101 mile-long knife! Don't make me use it!
To put it less negatively:
1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.
2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted.
3. You are more BRUTAL than gentle.
4. You are more ARROGANT than humble.
Compatibility:
Your exact opposite is the Hippie.
Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Spiteful Loner, the Smartass, and the Capitalist Pig.
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If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits.
The other personality types:
The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.
The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.
The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.
The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.
Be sure to take my Sublime Philosophical Crap Test if you are interested in taking a slightly more intellectual test that has just as many insane ramblings as this one does!
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s0b
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5:10p |
The mighty who?
I went to see the Mighty Boosh DJ last night, supported by Sting's daughter playing an acoustic set.
I have never seen the Mighty Boosh, but then opened with the Stooges so they are OK by me.
I suspect it counts as being out on the lash as I was a little delicate this morning but had a lie in as my first meeting was at 10am in Turnham Green. Turnham Green is a strange little village just west of Hammersmith that appears on the Picadilly Line but, like the old curiosity shop, only occasionally! They played classical music in the station and there was an entire street full of shops that do not appear anywhere else. The meeting was fairly productive and I got a lift back into the office afterwards.
I stayed a brief while and then came away to finish writing this damned requirements document that, at 5.10pm, still isn't finished.
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In slightly better news, I have found a terribly convenient Japanese food shop just at the bottom of Muswell Hill; the staff were all lovely and they sell inari pouches - win |
caddyman
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4:06p |
Boo!
I was going to listen to some music for the last half hour of this afternoon before going home.
Unfortunately there is just enough charge in the battery for it to bl;eep at me and tell me that there's no charge in the battery. I only recharged it at the end of last week and I've hardly used it since. I hope the inside of my rucksack enjoyed the music that must have played into it...
Poo. |
_tonylee_
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4:06p |
Cardiff people... What's the best comic store in Cardiff? ;-) T |
maleghast
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3:19p |
365 Ficlets - #70 ~ "Tacking" The machine-gun rattle of the ratchet on the jib sheet winch snapped me out of my reverie and reminded me that we were tacking. I needed to think about where I was sitting, what I was doing and holding and where I was looking. I had been staring off at the coast,at the waves as they crashed into the end of the headland. Such power and majesty – I see it often and yet it always moves me. Jacques turned to me, cigarette in his mouth as ever, and nodded that all was ok; we had gone about cleanly and now we needed to trim the boat and do our part to help Yves plough the course that would extend our lead. As I settled into my spot I closed my eyes and enjoyed the warm sun on my face and the fresh smell of the sea on the breeze; the feeling of salt on my skin. I have been told by some that it is corny to speak romantically of the sea and my connection to it – we are an island nation, so we are all sailors at heart they have said to me. Still in that moment I knew no greater joy than making way under sail. --- You can see the original post on Ficlets.com by clicking here. --- This Ficlet was inspired by the following image:      Photo by sharkbait (on Flickr) Current Mood:  determinedCurrent Music: KEXP |
pauln
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1:55p |
Drugs cheat stays banned
I see Dwain Chambers has failed in his attempt to overturn the ban on his competing in the Olympics, which was imposed after he was found to have been taking performance-enhancing drugs. Good! I'm definitely with Daley Thompson on this
He's a cheating bastard who shouldn't be allowed to compete. He knew what the rules were. To be prepared to break them and then not be prepared to take the punishment is even more underhand. What he did in the first place was pretty low down. It's cheating. I think that him and all the people involved with him shouldn't be allowed to be in sport. |
hepstar
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11:29a |
Best decision I ever made......
....was to marry my husband.
Current Mood: very fucking happy |
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philoko
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10:56a |
Don't sue me pls, I'm promoting your movie Seen a couple of links to the Watchmen trailer today. Looks like another frame by frame visual interpretation from Zach S. I'm reserving comment for now, trailers can be very misleading, though overall my impression is good. For those of you interested in a shot of the news vendor (plus comic reading kid) check out the production video blog #4. It also shows some of Snyder's storyboard sketches and you can see how closely he's working with the original panels. I've grabbed and manipulated a frame of the video so that you can more clearly see what he's been doing, gogo Photoshop skeelz.  |
caddyman
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11:04a |
Friday Gentles, this morning I am tired. I really wanted to stay in bed until at least ten. Last night’s Leonard Cohen concert at the O2 was excellent – I would review it properly, but I am not familiar enough with his work for meaningful analysis. I attended on an ‘I know what I like’ basis. Suffice it to say that for a man of 73 years, who had intended to be semi retired now (until his long-time and trusted business manager stole his song publishing rights and most of his retirement fund), Cohen can still put on a show. He has assembled a small group of talented musicians – who he is happy to introduce to the audience every second song or so (every time, in fact, one of them does something fancy on their chosen instrument!) and plays a two and a half hour set of some of his most famous songs with wit, humour and humility. I was struck by his resemblance to another Leonard of the same approximate vintage, a resemblance he seems to have grown into with age. The only blight on the evening was the hassle of getting back to Whetstone from Greenwich. The show finished just before 11.30 and crowd control meant that we didn’t get a train until midnight. This brought on the usual London anxiety about getting the last train home, but in the end we were all right on that score. Nonetheless it was 1.00am by the time we got back and after a snack, a cup of tea and a shower, close to 2.30 by the time I got to sleep. Furtle has the day off: I don’t. She has the wise; I have the wherefores… MY consignment of Snus has arrived unexpectedly quickly along with the two books I ordered from Amazon just two days ago. I was not expecting the latter until next week and the former until tomorrow. The books, packed together, have proven more peaceable than their authors would have been in such strict proximity and there is no sign of damage to either. I shall now have to flip a coin to see which I read first. It is fitting that the gods of chance should choose for me, for I should not wish to upset either the Prince or the Duke by consciously choosing the one before the other. Current Mood:  tired |
ellefurtle
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10:59a |
Cor - Leonard Cohen last night was BRILLIANT! I don't think I have ever enjoyed a gig as much. He played all the best tunes and of course Hallelujah was astonishing - brought me to tears! He seemed such a sweet, courteous man, taking his hat off like Paddington whenever there was applause. That voice is still wonderful and sends shivers up and down the old spine. Coo.
We also had wine and snacks beforehand which was rather good. The only downside was the very long shuffle to get to a train afterwards - meaning we didn't get home until 1ish!
But I have the day off - RAR!
Trish - apparently he is playing again in the autumn and tickets have just gone on sale.... |
pauln
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9:42a |
First trailer for Watchmen. The look seems right to me for most of it. I'm not convinced by Silk Spectre, but Doc Manhattan, Rorschach and Comedian are spot on. |
| Thursday, July 17th, 2008 |
maleghast
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11:30p |
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_tonylee_
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10:38p |
Watchmen... Before something kills the link - Go watch the trailer of Watchmen that's going out with Batman: Dark Knight from tomorrow... Make with the clicky thing here...It looks incredibly faithful to the book... 
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sarahx
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10:18p |
It's not quite five things that irrationally irritate me (as ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) burge has been listing most eloquently) but it is one... MIracle Gro Organic plant food. It's 100% chemical free, they say. NO IT'S NOT YOU STUPID BLOODY PEOPLE IT'S 100% CHEMICAL!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr! |
november_girl
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9:08p |
Proper Rock
So the Rock n Blues is cancelled. Again.
But on the bright side, those of us who were going for the music should still be able to see Molly Hatchet and Blackfoot at JBs in Dudley next Tuesday. Woo hoo!
These bands don't come over very often, so it's a rare chance to see them. They're both good southern rock, very much in the same vein as Lynyrd Skynyrd and I would particularly recommend them to those who like a lot of good guitar (without being too self-indulgent). I've never seen Blackfoot before, but I saw Molly Hatchet (a band name not a girl's name, for those not in the know) a couple of years ago and they were excellent.
I am very much looking forward to this. I might even pre-order tickets.
(PS I'm obviously more than happy to meet up with people if anyone else wants to come out for some good ole southern boogie too).
Current Mood: bouncy |
budgie_uk
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5:56p |
The things you learn... One of the few irritating things about using a browser is that, of course, you want to have as much of the web page on the screen at one time. So if only there was a way of, I don't know, moving the links up to where you have File | Edit | View, etc. ( Turns out that in Firefox... there is. )It may not save much space on the page, but on a laptop, every pixel counts, and I now have more vertical space on my browsing. Nice. |
jayphoenix
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3:37p |
Next OU writing assignement
... I am procrastinating. Rather than kncukling down and starting I am talking about starting :o)
This is my next assignment outline:
Part 1 (75 marks)
Either:
Write a short story of 1500 words that includes some use of time-shift and some dialogue.
Or:
Write a 1500-word chapter of a longer work that includes some use of time-shift and some dialogue. Sketch out the plot of the novel in no more than 50 additional words.
Include in your story or chapter one or more of the following subjects:
honour | shame | passion | abandonment | hair | a knife | music | prison | a market square | a letter | a musical instrument
Part 2 (25 marks)
In about 300 words, describe and give reasons for your choices of:
the narrative point(s) of view
the tense
any particular genre it might be written in
the point at which your story begins
the particular emotion or overall mood you are trying to convey
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I want to write a fairy tale. I prefer fantasy and, so far, haven't been able to write in that genre during this course at all. However I don't think that I can write a story of only 1500 words in the fantasy genre and while I have an idea for a longer story am not sure that I can do it enough justice in 1500 as an excerpt.
The only other idea that I have is 'mundane' - there is no fantasy in it. I am toying with the idea of a man getting out of prison after serving a lifetime inside for murdering a busker when he was young (late teens, early twenties). He will find that the World has changed so much that he doesn't fit in anymore, he can't find any work and the only thing that he is able to do is busk himself - he will end up sitting, playing the guitar, in the same place that he killed the busker all those years ago.
... it isn't fantasy though ;o) |
caddyman
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3:09p |
I haven't had a proper rant for ages!
I can only imagine what it’s like for someone who actually cares, but I for one am fed up with reading about the Anglican Church imploding over the vexed questions of women and/or gay bishops. So far the knotty problem of the first lesbian bishop has yet to be addressed.
It is my understanding, and I am quite willing to ignore corrections or facts to the contrary, that the Anglican Communion is an inclusive communion. Apparently it is, provided you are male and straight. The debate seems to rage whenever a few bishops come together in the same place. Instead of arguing over the best way to bring their message to their flocks1, they are far more concerned with the sexuality and sex of the least necessary tier of the entire church.
As unrepentantly ungodly as I am, I have by tradition and culture, if not by faith, a streak of the puritan in my make up. I try to stand on it to be sure and I think that most of the time I am reasonably successful. Anyway, the point is who actually needs bishops? Apart from kicking up unwarranted fuss in a very un-Anglican manner, or at least a very un-Church of England manner and maybe there’s the problem: the bulk of Anglicans are no longer Church of England, where acceptance is so broad that it can cope with atheist vicars at one end and non-papal catholic priests at the other.
The English are by nature a very unobservant (in religious terms) lot and like their vicars to be seen gently dozing at village cricket matches, officiating over village fetes and getting into muddles with the church roof fund. Pretty much anything, in fact provided the refrain from bothering us with religion outside the formidable trinity of rituals concerning hatchings, matchings and despatchings. Anyone who actually cares about Christianity adopts any one of a number of reformed churches, chapels or Catholicism, depending on their relative preferences for comfort, terror, guilt, singing, beady-eyed fanaticism and/or incense.
In today’s Times there is an interesting article: in 1850, the weekly congregation for the Church of England was about three million. Eighty percent of babies were baptised into the CofE and the entire structure got by with 26 bishops. In 1945, the congregation had fallen to two million, baptisms into the CofE were down to 70% and the number of bishops had risen to Ninety. Sixty-three years further along, the relevant figures are 900,000, 15% and One hundred and fourteen. At this rate, by the end of the 21st century, the Church of England communion will be on first name terms with their own personal bishop.
My taxes are paying for this unrepresentative bunch of out of touch idiots. It galls me that church and state are so intermingled. Disestablish the buggers and let them get on with it.
Think of the money we can save and they will still be there for the odd times when they are actually useful.
1Actually, now I think about it, this is the accidental benefit emerging from the issue: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons are quite pesky enough, without Anglican clergy turning up on the doorstep uninvited with a flask of tea and a slice of Madeira cake, “Let’s talk ‘God’ and will you have a tombola ticket?” |
_tonylee_
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2:55p |
Doctor Horrible - Part 2 If you've been watching it already (and you should be), part two of Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog by Joss Whedon is up at the website. Personally, I'm loving it, and I'm looking forwards to the panel at San Diego. I've been hearing about this for months, and it's great to finally see it. And I'd forgotten just how much I love Neil Patrick Harris. |
jayphoenix
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2:03p |
Venting / ranting about GoDaddy
I just found out that GoDaddy sold my 'ringhype.com' domain to someone else!
Now, admittedly, the domain had lapsed so it wasn't mine at the time but I have just gone back through ALL my AOL emails - and spoken to AOL themselves - and despite GoDaddy telling me that they send numerous emails before, during and after renwel is due I never received a single one of them ... I didn't get a hard-copy letter from Nominet either (which I regularly get for all the other domains). I simply lost track of when the renewel was due and became reliant/complacent on being informed about it as I am for all the other domains.
So my lovely RingHype domain is now being used for someone in India to sell engagment rings! :o(
ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH! |
sarahx
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1:38p |
There is something more than a little depressing about doing exactly the same work you've already done once this week, and thought you'd finished. It's even worse when you have to re-do the page containing the obituary of the very lovely 47 year old lecturer who was killed in a car accident in April. It was difficult enough the first time. |
jayphoenix
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12:19p |
Battle of the Bone Premiere of Battle of the Bone tonight - I am SO looking forward to it! http://www.battleofthebone.com/Battle Of The Bone is the epic tale of how one country's national day of trouble became known, as it's day of peace... When two opposing sides face-off in one of Belfast's worst ever riots, fate casts a nasty spell as an army of drug crazed zombies descend on the capital forcing the enemies to join as one, and stop this new threat from taking over the city. Caught in the middle, are three friends trying to escape to the East, only to find themselves surrounded by bigoted thugs, burning bridges, and high testosterone! Using hard-hitting martial arts, and constantly on the run, the three young heroes soon find out that the fight-loving thugs are only the least of their worries! A first for Northern Ireland, Ireland and the UK, Battle Of The Bone is one of a kind, blending Hong Kong styled martial arts action, with fast-paced zombie action, and local banter, topped-off with a bevy of fresh talent from the hottest Independent film-makers in the North, Yellow Fever Productions! This year, the 12th of July is going to be very, very, messy indeed ... |
s0b
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10:50a |
The Great Library of Alexandria "Someday this weekend's gonna end. They weren't looking for anything more than a way home. Trouble is, I've been back there, and I knew that it just didn't exist anymore. t wasn't just flood water and mud. There was enough of that to go around for everyone." JULIET "Your report specifies gothic-punk, post-industrial, and counter-culture leanings" SEXBAT "I'm not presently disposed to discuss these operations." JULIET "Did you not follow X-Mal Deutschland and later Rosetta Stone? Write and Publish Take a Bite and Aircrash Monthly, Play music all over the world and fight in the punk wars?" SEXBAT "I am unaware of any such activity or operation - nor would I be disposed to discuss such an operation if it did in fact exist." I'm guessing that only a small number of people reading this really remember the days when "the internet" meant usenet rather than the world wide web. IRC was the new IM; when you wanted someone to explain the basics of HTML you'd drop an e-mail to llemay, and we all knew that the A in AOL did not stand for America. We had gophers, and most of us new how to use telnet, ftp, archie; rather than updating your facebook status we'd hack our .finger file so it would display a big ASCII finger. I remember flaming someone into the middle of next week for warlording my sig file even though it was 80 x 4 because it had an ASCII graphic of a bat in it. I remember Kibo. I rmgrouped alt.fan.sexbat ... So this morning I have done a little bit of archeology, I've meandered through the dusty basement of dejanews (now google) and played with the web archive in Alexandria; petabytes of old web pages, including a few of my own early pieces of HTML and PERL; the binaries no longer work, and my glorious "Sexbat World Enterprises" logo that was produced using 3d Studio never made it across to North Africa; but the sum of all human knowledge is there, in the basement of the Library, below sea level - and somehow that makes me happy. |
caddyman
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10:45a |
A night out
Today is going to be a long day.
After work, which quite frankly, is tedious at the moment, we are off to the O2 (the erstwhile Millennium Dome for them as hadn’t cottoned on) to see Leonard Cohen; it’s probably the last chance we will have, given his age (that seems rather more morbid than I meant it).
I get to leave work about 4.30, which is always an excellent prospect; District Line to Westminster and then Jubilee Line to the O2. We shall have something to eat, go to the concert (do men in their 70s do gigs?) and then trail all the way back to Whetstone. I anticipate getting home sometime around midnight, just in time for a shower and then collapse straight into bed. Furtle has wisely booked tomorrow as a day’s leave, but I don’t have that option as I have got roped into attending a meeting tomorrow morning to present my much rewritten paper.
Onwards. |
_tonylee_
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10:40a |
BUPA
So, being self employed, I'm considering some health insurance. And as such, I'm looking at BUPA. But although I've spoken to nice BUPA people, I want some opinions of them that aren't 'sales biased'.
Any BUPAites out there who can talk to me about this? leave their opinions, etc? |
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