Archive for December, 2006

Supervillain Meme

Posted on in Media, Memes.

The Joker

The Clown Prince of Crime. You are a brilliant mastermind but are criminally insane. You love to joke around while accomplishing the task at hand.

The Joker
 
 60%
Mr. Freeze
 
 57%
Dr. Doom
 
 57%
Lex Luthor
 
 53%
Riddler
 
 50%
Venom
 
 49%
Magneto
 
 47%
Dark Phoenix
 
 45%
Poison Ivy
 
 43%
Apocalypse
 
 42%
Juggernaut
 
 41%
Kingpin
 
 35%
Green Goblin
 
 33%
Mystique
 
 33%
Catwoman
 
 32%
Two-Face
 
 21%

Take the Supervillain Personality Quiz

And I’d thought I’d done the Superhero one before but couldn’t find it on the blog, so here we go:

Spider-Man

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

Spider-Man
 
 90%
Hulk
 
 60%
The Flash
 
 60%
Catwoman
 
 55%
Green Lantern
 
 55%
Robin
 
 50%
Iron Man
 
 50%
Superman
 
 25%
Supergirl
 
 25%
Batman
 
 25%
Wonder Woman
 
 20%

Take the “Which Superhero am I?” quiz…

So, all in all, I’m intelligent, witty, responsible, GSOH… but geeky and insane. A typical blogger?

Very True Mood: (cheerful) cheerful

In the Dead of Winter

Posted on in The World.

What an exciting end (?) to an otherwise quiet Deadpool game. Before Christmas [info]gleet was in the lead with Augusto Pinochet (b.1915) and Ivor Cutler (b.1923) and [info]littlebun was just behind with Pinochet and Sir Malcolm Arnold (b.1921). I was languishing at the bottom of the heap with no deaths in 2006 at all.

Then on Boxing Day, Gerald Ford died and I was suddenly catapulted out of the zero-pack and into, um, fourth place.

But, they’ve only gone and hanged Saddam, and guess what? I was the only person to have him on my list (and he would have been disallowed next year under the ‘no one on death row’ rule). And, at 69 years old he was the younger than good old Sir Malcolm by a fair margin and hence I’m in the lead with under 48 hours to go.

Now, if someone would pull the plug on Sharon (also disallowed next year, under the ‘no one on life support’ rule) we’d have some half way respectable scores all round (well apart from Howie aka Giroscope).

Very True Mood: predatory
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Rationing? Not for us, old chap.

Posted on in Memes, My Life, Work.

Yesterday was the office Christmas party. A 1940s themed affair (though Jez and Nick missed by a few decades). I had fun but a sixth sense told me to head home fairly early (was the free booze about to run out?), but other people have tales to tell and hangovers to nurse.

Little did the revellers at The Pigalle Club realise that one of their number was a slumming aristrocrat:

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
The Most Honourable Steve the Deipnosophist of Throcking by Hampton
Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

Yep, I had to look it up as well.

Very True Mood: (tired) tired
Very True Music: Don't Wanna Be The One - Midnight Oil

Carl Sagan

Posted on in Blogs, Books, My Life, Science.

Quick post before I dash off the work Christmas party.

Today there’s a blogathon marking the tenth anniversary of the death of Carl Sagan.

My parents had the large colourful hadcover of Cosmos and it was one of those books that I was always taking off the shelf and reading, understanding more and more of it as I got older. Probably one of the formative influences that led me to read physics at university. Very simply, he was one of the greatest communicators and popularizer of science that there has ever been.

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Rejoice!

Posted on in Memes.

Joy to the world,
The very true thing is come.

Joy To The World
from the Christmas Song Generator.


Posted on in My Life.

Conversations in our kitchen can be a bit odd.

“Weasels on toast.”
“That sounds…”
[interupting] “The weasels like to sleep on the toast, it keeps them warm.”
“But there’s a problem with that. You know what happens if you sleep on toast.”
“Yes, one of the weasels has to stay awake to keep look out.”
“You should blog that.”

The oddest thing is that in this case I’m the first speaker, and Lettice is the second.

Very True Mood: (silly) silly
Very True Music: Gypsy Song - Cerys Matthews

Idiot Bashing

Posted on in Blogs, Spam.

A charming individual, dklover@hotmail.com, has been posting abusive comments (now deleted) on an old post of mine, accusing me of over reacting when I laid into some idiots who decided to use the word gay as an insult.

His/her latest missive is presented below, as he/she didn’t included any punctuation I’ve had to guess where one sentence ends and the next begins.

you must be the biggest loser on earth not one person has wrote to you for a long time so i thought i should say some thing

A few facts first, since your last comment on 23rd November, six people have posted comments here (some multiple times, hi Jack) and a further three people have commented on the LJ mirror of this blog. As I’ve only posted seven posts in that time that’s fair number of commenters for a modest little personal blog like this.

your last comments were quite rude implying that im gay and bigot

They were meant to be rude. You came to my web site and attacked me, you reap what you sow.

However, I did not imply that you were gay – I suggested that you might have fun in a gay bar, something that lots of straight people do all the time. Also, I did not imply that you were a bigot – I stated it clearly.

well thats a big word for a small minded person like your self you are strait up and down stupid and i dont have to go off at the deep end like your self and try and use words hat you dont even understand good one brainiack

Bigot. Five letters, two syllables, easy to pronounce, quite easy to define. That may be a big word to you – judging by your spelling, punctuation and grammar you have problems with the English language. However, as your IP address resolves to the Netherlands you may well not be a native speaker.

ha ha ha your such a fool i await your reply wich im sure will be inthrouling

Did you mean enthralling? I don’t know about that, but I’m sure this post will raise a smile or two somewhere.

Security 1. Usability 0.

Posted on in WWW.

There’s a feedback form on a web site that I have to use quite often. As a security measure it rejects submissions that contain at least some types of HTML markup and JavaScript. However, one of the purposes of the form in question is to submit bug reports for a web application, including error messages. The error messages in this web app often include portions HTML and scripting. Sigh.

As the form is only accessible to signed in, paid up, users of the web app it shouldn’t be a target for random hackers. In most environments it’s possible for a programmer who knows what she’s doing to handle submitted text in such a way that no matter what it contains it will never be a threat. Allowing users to submit bug reports for the application they’ve paid to use should be made as painless as possible – they’ve already been let down once by the original bug, don’t let them down again when they report the bug.

Very True Mood: (pensive) pensive

Dead.

Posted on in Uncategorized.

It’s been a quiet year for the deadpool game, but at last we get the most eagerly anticapted death on anybody’s list – Pinochet is dead. So a point for several people including [info]gleet who maintains his lead.

Very True Mood: (complacent) complacent
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2006 Blog Posts Meme

Posted on in Blogs, Memes, My Life.

Via [info]snapesbabe, take the first line of the first entry of each month and post it.

  • Jan: 365 days ago I made a post about things I was looking forward to in 2005.
  • Feb: I haven’t been posting much recently.
  • Mar: That’s what’s written on the side of the bottles for the water cooler in the office.
  • Apr: Bollocks.
  • May: … because anyone who has ever seen my dress sense would know that fashion blogs aren’t something I read much.
  • Jun: Got a good one today.
  • Jul: So that Genesis Ark, what’s in it?
  • Aug: Just started up Opera and look what popped up.
  • Sep: First wedding anniversary today!
  • Oct: Hmm, there are some PHP warnings on my ‘write post’ page, seems that something is up with the LivePress plugin.
  • Nov: My life has been rated: 15.
  • Dec: This morning I had a conversation with Lettice about the difference between methodological naturalism and philosophical naturalism.
Very True Mood: (chipper) chipper