The Which Punctuation Mark Are You Test - [via lonemagpie]

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You scored 61% Sociability and 58% Sophistication!

Yes, you are fine around others. Fine. But you wish you could have just a *little* more alone time. Okay, well, a lot more alone time. In fact, you’d be happier if you didn’t have to go out nearly as much. You get along very well with the period, who tries mightily to take up as much of the load as he can. But fools will not listen. You want to scream, "Cut it out, for the love of Safire!"

But, all of that notwithstanding, you do your duty. And, if sometimes you feel like a Chicago street hooker, you also remember that you really do have an important role to play. Your soul remains pure. Hold your head high!

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

	You scored higher than 77% on Sociability
	You scored higher than 42% on Sophistication

Link: The Which Punctuation Mark Are You Test written by Gazda on Ok Cupid

The REAL Myers-Briggs Personality Types Made Relevant [Via Sharikkamur]

ISTP: The Psycho Vigilante

ISTPs are quiet, unassuming people, who tend to be mechanically gifted but withdrawn and reserved. ISTPs often need a great deal of personal space and “alone time,” which may give others the impression that they are aloof; in reality, this time is necessary to hide their secret identities.

The typical ISTP leads a dual life; his outward reserve and quiet masks an inward seething rage at the injustice of life–often, the death of a loved one at the hands of a criminal. In this secret life, the ISTP uses his mechanical gifts to create a terrifying arsenal of bizarre weapons with which to strike fear into the heart of evil. Sometimes, ISTPs may become evil themselves, either slowly over a long period of time or in response to a perceived rejection from the very people they are trying to save.

RECREATION: ISTPs are happiest when they are building and constructing - either new weapons to smite their enemies, or new plots to destroy those who oppose them. They have a very industrial sense of aesthetics, and can spend hours absorbed in the appreciation of works of art such as a 1969 Hemi Cuda retrofitted with missile launchers and ejection seats.

COMPATIBILITY: ISTPs don’t often get along well with their extroverted cousins, Evil Overlords and Mad Scientists. Instead, they prefer the company of INTPs, or perhaps their pets. Romantic relationships with ISTPs tend to be drawn-out, tragic affairs, filled with bitterness, longing, and teenage angst. The sex is usually pretty good, however.

Famous ISTPs include Spider-Man, Q, and Magneto.

Time Magazine has published its list of the 100 best English language novels since 1923. I’m sure that someone has already started a how many have you read, so I’ll get my confession in early - Seven.

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I like this - Behe Disproves Irreducible Complexity (found via The Panda’s Thumb). Lovely self-demolition by one of the leading lights of Intelligent Design.

So, I’ve seen the ones in bold. Some notable gaps. Original list taken from John Scalzi’s The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!
Akira
Alien
Aliens
Alphaville
Back to the Future
Blade Runner
Brazil
Bride of Frankenstein
Brother From Another Planet
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Contact
The Damned
Destination Moon
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Delicatessen
Escape From New York
ET: The Extraterrestrial
Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers serial
The Fly 1985 version
Forbidden Planet
Ghost in the Shell
Gojira/Godzilla
The Incredibles
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Jurassic Park
Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior
The Matrix
Metropolis
On the Beach
Planet of the Apes (1968 version)
Robocop
Sleeper
Solaris (1972 version)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The Stepford Wives - 1975 version
Superman
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Thing From Another World
Things To Come
Tron
12 Monkeys
28 Days Later
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
2001: A Space Odyssey
La Voyage Dans la Lune
War of the Worlds (1953 version)

As tagged by Littlebun here are ten things that make me happy.

1. Lettice
2. Being right about stuff
3. Wales winning the Six Nations
4. Learning new stuff
5. Miniatures, especially dinosaurs and spaceships
6. The Dalek Song
7. Cats
8. Drinking beer and talking rubbish with my friends
9. Good books
10. The sort of television that makes me jump and down with joy because it’s so funny and exciting and clever - for example Doctor Who, Firefly, Farscape

Via Sharikkamur

You fit in with:
Atheism

Your ideals mostly resemble those of an Atheist. You have very little faith and you are very focused on intellectual endeavors. You value objective proof over intuition or subjective thoughts. You enjoy talking about ideas and tend to have a lot of in depth conversations with people.

80% scientific.
80% reason-oriented.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

No surprises here.

Do you want to know why my new Gmail account is steve.grumpy@gmail.com? Could it be

1. That’s an accurate description of me at the best of times
2. I’m a bit late in getting a Gmail account and all the sensible names have gone
3. The people downstairs really do have terrible taste in music
4. Our boiler is on the blink so we have no central heating and no hot water
5. The scruffy little old man who came to look at the boiler was useless
6. No one at the letting agents will take my calls
7. All of the above

So today was SELWG, the start of the new year so far as this experiment goes.

Bit of a final splurge on eBay - some out of print role playing game books, some Star Wars minis and some old Ral Partha dinosaurs - and some miniatures from Discount Hobby, all of which adds up to £74.6.

Grand total for the first year is £738.43

So, how about year two?

Including a bus ticket and entrance fee I spent £87.68 today. There wasn’t any impulse buying which was a good thing, instead I bought stuff that I’d had my eye on for some time (plus two Star Wars Universe boosters, sigh). Namely, The Starmada X Brigade rulebook; two DZ Miniatures Mammoths and two Wooly Rhinos (now available in resin from Stratagem, also available: three cave bears and a Glyptodon - very similar to, but a bit larger than, the Steve Barber version); a bunch of starships from GZG, including a Glowbug class free trader; and some of those little ‘gemstone’ markers that CCG players use and which I need for Chez Goth games with Lettice. The only thing I was after but didn’t get was the Serenity RPG book.

Just seen Serenity and it totally rocks. Proper review tomorrow (unless I bauy so many new toys at SELWG that I get distracted) but now I must cook dinner for my beloved and then go to a housewarming in Brixton Clapham, really honest, by one street.