| You Were a Crow |
 You guide people from the darkness to the light. |
This one is entirely based on your birthdate. And what’s up with the bad grammar? The only part I can fully believe has to be written by a complete knucklehead.
Found at Blogthings when I did the previous quiz.
| You’ve Changed 60% in 10 Years |
 You’re clothes, job, and friends may have changed some – but it hasn’t changed you. |
They asked if I lived in a different city and if in a different state. But what about the completely different country on a completely different continent?
And what is up with asking the same exact question about music preference twice? All in all, some silly, if not simply stupid, questions. Could have been much better constructed, even for a fluffy internet quiz.
But, yes, my life is vastly different than it was in 1996; moreso than this quiz hints at. Thankfully!
Found at LibraryTavern.
You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.
What is Your World View? (updated) |
Found at Library Tavern.
I really like the last line, emhasis mine. And that "postmodernist?" well, I’d relabel it Ancient Greek (and more) and be happy. I actually have two lines related to "reality outside the rational," from disparate sources—Ani DiFranco and poetry magnets (the Philosophy set)—engraved on my iPod. Once could say the Ani quote is more about experience, but since I’d say that the majority of experience is (or should be) outside of "the rational" I’d also say Ani is spot on.
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Mark – [adjective]: Like in nature to a kangaroo ‘How will you be defined in the dictionary?’ at QuizGalaxy.com |
found at in the hoosegow : "unfortunately apropos"
Life (or these quizzes) truly is a joke sometimes. Sure there’s some truth, ok, maybe even a lot of truth to this, but it does not work out that way. My reaction to this is the same as ranger’s to her horrorscope this morning.
Speaking of the ranger, found at in the hoosegow.
Well, not exactly ‘brand-new,’ although they may as well be. I got my Rollerblades almost 7 years ago now, at the time of my divorce. No shiny new sports car for me.
I strapped them on twice back then I think, for about 5 minutes at a time, and not once since. I also have a book I picked up cheap and read before I even got my skates, In-line skating basics by Cam Millar.
Back in January after E’s Rollerskating Birthday Party, I commented that:
Maybe I’ll go again this spring before I try and learn to inline skate. I had the (probably ridiculous) idea that I should’ve been able to strap on my inline skates this morning and go do a halfway competent job. Of course, the slight hangover, general achiness, 30 degree weather, and goood sense kept me from doing something so completely foolish.
Today it is sunny and almost 80. I had pulled the skate bag out of the closet a few weeks ago when it got nice out, so I strapped them on and "went for it." I would not even begin to label myself as competent, but I was able to skate. My ankles, well, complete lower legs, are not big fans of the reduced stability of in-line vs. regular roller skates, but maybe I can do some exercises to strengthen my ankles, calves, shins, and Achilles tendons. I went around the sidewalk that forms a square around my apartment and the facing ones a couple of times. Then I crossed the street to the cable companies parking lot.
I will strengthen my legs. I will practice. I will learn to skate. I will exercise.
Post title and following lyrics from "Brand New Key" by Melanie.
Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them out you see
I been looking around awhile
You got something for me
Oh! I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
Who knew? Well, OK, somebody maybe.
How I’m a bigger geek than Ranger seems highly questionable though…. Speaking of, found at in the hoosegow.
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You Are 38% Evil |
A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. |
found at The Itinerant Librarian
"Whew," he says wiping his brow. I was worried after seeing what Christina Pikas got that I’d get something I have no idea what it is. Alright, truth be told, I don’t know what the heck algebraic geometry is either. I know what algebra is, and what geometry is, but some nightmare clone? Not so much. Besides, who knew these things could breed?
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If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Joe Harris’s Algebraic Geometry: A First Course. I am intended to introduce students to algebraic geometry; to give them a sense of the basic objects considered, the questions asked about them, and the sort of answers one can expect to obtain. I thus emphasize the classical roots of the subject. For readers interested in simply seeing what the subject is about, I avoid the more technical details better treated with the most recent methods. For readers interested in pursuing the subject further, I will provide a basis for understanding the developments of the last half century, which have put the subject on a radically new footing. Based on lectures given at Brown and Harvard Universities, I retain the informal style of the lectures and stresses examples throughout; the theory is developed as needed. My first part is concerned with introducing basic varieties and constructions; I describe, for example, affine and projective varieties, regular and rational maps, and particular classes of varieties such as determinantal varieties and algebraic groups. My second part discusses attributes of varieties, including dimension, smoothness, tangent spaces and cones, degree, and parameter and moduli spaces. Which Springer GTM would you be? |
Found at Christina’s LIS Rant
It’s true. Really. I do have a distinct dorky side. I even used to subscribe to a journal called Polyhedron.
The sad part is I’m paying good money to store them, along with all that other stuff from TSR (and elsewhere; and no, not WotC) that I probably spent a cool grand on over time. OK, OK, probably way more than a grand.
But hey, it eventually was a way to bound with my kids. How many parents get to say the played Advanced Dungeons & Dragons with their spawn?
Not sure why they don’t include all of the text from the results, but here it is:
No use trying to fight it, you’re an eight-sided die, a d8. A fine example of simple elegance, the d8 is one of the least appreciated types of dice, and is often neglected. You are known to be quiet and shy, outward traits that conceal viscous sarcasm and mean wit. You are very smart, yet wise enough to hide your intelligence the quicker they found out how smart you are, the sooner they’ll put you to work, which is something you can do without. People call you dark and pessimistic, or moody and cynical. You find little point in arguing.
Found at the "Shrewd, petty and evil" one’s blog, in the hoosegow. Hehehe. Wimpy, little d4. But she does have a much cooler D&D-related name. I sure played a lot of rangers in my day.
