This week just gets longer and longer. What do you all want to talk about? How about:
- Crystal Head Vodka, as explained by Dan Aykroyd. Doc sent this to me this morning. Dan is really excited about vodka! Also ectoplasm, the Smithsonian, and Newfoundland. If I had a bottle of that vodka, I would keep it on a bookcase in my foyer.
- Take a quiz to find out how Progressive you are. I scored 75/400, while smirking at their leading, poorly phrased questions. They consider me EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE (yes, really emboldened and all caps). I like to imagine that their script sends a warning back to HQ every time someone scores that low.
- From the ridiculous to the even more ridiculous, a new trend in lipstick: two tone. I’m not sure what to think about this. On one hand, I like it much more than dark outline, light inside look that just won’t die. On the other, how would you maintain it? I don’t know a woman alive who doesn’t rub her lips together, at least a little. I trained myself never to lick my lips if I could help it, but I don’t know if I could stop rubbing.
- Let’s all go hang out with Lady Glutter!
- Marcie makes me giddy:
They are suppose to be language neutral (or something like that) but they seem to me to be more communication negative.
From our discussion earlier in the week of syllabaries and kinograms.
- Shoot, buddy. Via Ace of Spades HQ, have some Geek Porn: 24 256GB Samsung MLC SSD’s in a RAID. It is, to use some of the new-fangled slang, filthy fucking fast.
- How to play #followfriday on Twitter.
- Earlier in the week, Christopher had a few days off, so I left him with a shopping list one day. Among other things, I listed “bacon” and then “bacon for experiments,” and then “VODKA.” I came home and he said, “I went to the store and got all your bacon and vodka. What experiments?” So the Bacon Bloody Mary Reward is on its way, Philosaur.
- Apollo, your haiku should be forthcoming as well.
What else is going on?
[...] the obnoxious How Progressive Are You quiz from a couple weeks ago? Found one equally obnoxious (and possibly offensive!) from the other side: The People’s Cube [...]
I couldn’t even finish that test. You all have much more fortitude than I do. None of those questions were designed by anything other than a biased asshole. I think it’s practically impossible to take any sort of reasonable answer away from a test like that, where the questions need to be essay answers instead of a rating bar. How can you be labeled as anything without going into why you think the way you do?
Also, bacon and vodka = two things I’m not very fond of. Good luck with that. Lol.
(I wonder, would the vegetarian equivalent be something like beans and vodka?)
Clearly the vegetarian equivalent would involve turkey bacon. That’s not meat, right?
Also, the two tone lipstick is interesting (for runway, its a bit much for everyday, unless you’re super-trendy-alternative-something), but I think you’re right about the impossibility to maintain. Unless they make lipstick sealant. Which they apparently do. Go figure. =P
Hold it now. Based on this, admittedly small, sampling. That makes me the moderate. WTF? In other news, actual moderates cringe.
No idea!
I tried to take the progressiveness test, and it hung up on question 6. Their politics may be progressive, but their web programming sure ain’t.
I’m eager to see the results of the bacon bloody mary! I would if you would use Crystal Head vodka in the Bacon Bloody Mary. :)
I’m going to get started. I’ve never actually had a Bloody Mary I enjoyed, so I don’t know how it will turn out. Are you going to need a reaction shot?
Also, I will have to see about the Crystal Skull vodka. Christopher gets awfully uptight about brand names. And honestly, I didn’t even look to see what he put in the freezer (or how much of it is left, at this point). Were I to bet, I’d say it was Smirnoff Blue.
A reaction shot would be great! We could all suffer/enjoy vicariously through you.
Even better would be a series showing the cooking of the bacon, infusing of the vodka, etc, culminating in the reaction shot. It could be a blog entry, if you’re hard up for material.
I already planned on doing an entry showing all the steps. Maybe a series of entries, and then an aggregation of them all. I’m trying to work up to showing my face more on the web. This gives me a push.
321/400 which makes me extremely progressive
While the CAP does produce some good research, this test is a poor metric for anything, and a complete and utter waste of time.
It did let me kill 2 minutes of an annoying conference call, though…
That’s good! I’m happy to see you out and about online today. :D
In other news: Radiohead tells Miley Cyrus to grow up and stop feeling her sense of entitlement. Link!
There is not enough Get Over Yourself in the known universe to offset Thom Yorke.
Going off topic, check out this Kindle mod.
No desire to Kindle whatsoever. UNTIL THAT RIGHT THERE.
Also, it is FfAF, yo. There is no off topic. And also you know that, the rest of the days of the week, you have Doc privilege around here.
In that case… I hope you’ll enjoy this picture of my new mouse! :D
I won’t take that quiz because I don’t think it’ll let me score ELEVENTY BILLION. As always, your usage of ‘filthy fucking’ as a modifier is simultaneously beautiful and profound. I can’t play #followfriday while I’m at work because NASA isn’t a fan of letting me follow people. Maybe they’re teaching me leadership?
And now I want bacon again. WHY DO YOU ALWAYS DO THIS TO ME?
Hoorah for haikus!
I think I always do this to you because I’m awesome. And also because I am relevant to your interests.
And thanks. I thought I might embarrass you having appropriated filthy fucking, but I’m getting the hang of it.
As for eleventy billion, yeah, once you score 400 they put you in your own little glass tomb like Lenin!
Just found this. So, at the risk of something bad for 3-pete commenting and competing fandoms: Alpha geek Joss or Wil?
vote here http://www.paulandstorm.com/archives/geek-madness-final-battle-whedon-vs-wheaton/
Oh, see, this just makes me angry. This may require a whole second free for all friday, with fisticuffs.
Can’t we all just agree to start over? Clearly something went wrong in the process.
SECONDED!
Also, I’m going to need to see back in their brackets. Who beat Duke?!
Ha! Who beat Duke? :D
RE:two-toned lipstick – The more subtle example pic looks OK. But wow would it be hard to maintain.
Don’t forget tomorrow is Pi Day!
Also, does anyone really need directions to make green beer? (http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Green-Beer)
Nope. Unless they’re bringing up kids entirely on hexidecimal charts instead of tempera paints, these days. “Mom! I need the beer to be #009900!”
I scored 246/400, which makes me progressive.
From what I’ve heard, a bottle of Crystal Skull goes for around $50, which sounds like a lot for vodka, to me. But I suppose it’s reasonable when you consider that you get the swell bottle to display on your mantle.
All that progression took your caps AND your bold. I’m so sorry.
I would have totally bought the Crystal Skull vodka by now if it came with kisses from Dan Aykroyd or if it played the Indiana Jones theme when you opened it.
I scored a 135 on the test (Very Conservative). The test was pretty irritating, though. I mean, the composite “See how other groups score” was silly. First off, there were a number of religion questions, but then the groups listed only show the two loudest Christian groups in the nation. What about Hindus, Muslims, anything else than a Christian? And what is the actual, measurable difference between a “Progressive”, “Democrat”, and “2008 Obama Voter”? Those are meaningless appellations.
Oh, and definitely go see what’s going on with Ladyglutter. She’s hot.
They’re progressive. It’s incomprehensible someone could think differently, and WRONGLY, unless their minds were all muddle with that Jesus bullshit. :D