As a follow-up to Desert Island Discs, the team at work have been doing our top ten films, and this week was my turn. The only condition was that one of the ten had to be set in London. Once again, I’ll be buggered if I’m writing all this lot up and not turning it into a blog post.
( My Top Ten Films... )
Archive for the ‘Memes’ Category
“Steampunk” Meme
Posted on in Memes.Via ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
lonemagpie
Your result for The Steampunk Style Test…
The Citizen
25% Elegant, 17% Technological, 67% Historical, 56% Adventurous and 29% Playful!
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Try our other Steampunk test here.
My Decade Meme
Posted on in Blogs, Memes, My Life, The World, WWW, Work.2000
At the start of the year I was working Wicked Web in Clerkenwell, living in West Norwood and had been going out with pink_weasel for six months. We went on holiday to Boston and Tennessee. WW moved office to Old Street in the spring. I went to Las Vegas for Andy’s stag weekend.
2001
I took Lettice to Budapest for her birthday. WW started laying staff off towards the end of the year.
2002
WW went into liquidation and hence I was made redundant. I became self-employed and started freelancing for many ex-WW clients. Went to the south of France with Lettice’s family – first time I’d ever seen the Mediterranean.
2003
I spent the first part of the year working on a site for the BBC. Towards the end of the year I started doing contract work via an agency which meant that I got a large refund from the tax man, eventually. I went on a falconry day and flew a Harris Hawk. I asked Lettice to marry me.
2004
I started this blog and spent several months working for the Home Office.
2005
I gave up freelancing and started work at Visit London. I started cross posting this blog to LiveJournal and joined LibraryThing and Last.FM. I moved house to larger flat, ten minutes down the road from the old one, and Lettice moved in. We got married and went on honeymoon in Canada. 
2006
I learnt XSLT. 
Lettice also started to work at VL. I joined Flickr
2007
Relaunched visitlondon.com with a new CMS, clocking up a stupid number of days off in lieu in the process. I did jury duty. I joined Facebook. We went to Dublin and Amsterdam.
2008
We went to Venice. I learnt JSP and jQuery. I joined Twitter
2009
We went to Barcelona and tried to buy a house. I grew a moustache for charity.
NaBloPoMo FAIL
Posted on in Blogs, Memes, My Life.
The sidebar says that there are 25 posts in November. But 5 of those are the automated weekly posts of Twitter updates. And 2, including this one, were actually written a week into December and backdated.
Not good. Worse than last year in fact. I fail at blogging.
MPs Meme
Posted on in Memes, My Life.Via Miss SB comes the Can you list all your MPs? meme.
- 1973 – 1974 Geoffrey Howe (Con) Reigate
- 1974 – 1976 George Gardiner (Con) Reigate
- 1976 – 1979: Sir George Evelyn Sinclair (Con) Dorking
- 1979 – 1983: Keith Wickenden (Con) Dorking
- 1983 – 1992: Kenneth Baker (Con) Mole Valley
- 1992 – 1997: John Patten (Con) Oxford West and Abingdon
- 1997 – 1998: Paul Beresford (Con) Mole Valley
- 1998 – present: Tessa Jowell (Lab) Dulwich and West Norwood
Baker, Patten and Jowell are the ones I was aware of, which was depressing enough…
Fantasy Author Meme
Posted on in Books, Memes.Via lonemagpie…
Your result for Which fantasy writer are you?…
Ursula K Le Guin
3 High-Brow, -7 Violent, -3 Experimental and 3 Cynical!
Congratulations! You are High-Brow, Peaceful, Traditional and Cynical! These concepts are defined below.
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Very True Mood: 
grumpy
grumpyVery True Music: Brother Typewriter - Very True Things
Personality Type Meme
Posted on in Memes, My Life, Work.Via linniekin
You Are An ISTJ
The Duty FulfillerYou are responsible, reliable, and hardworking – you get the job done.You prefer productive hobbies, like woodworking or knitting. Quiet and serious, you are well prepared for whatever life hands you. You are conservative and down-to-earth. You hardly ever do anything crazy.
In love, you are loyal and honest. If you commit yourself to someone, then you’re fully committed. For you, love is something that happens naturally. And you don’t need romantic gestures to feel loved.
At work, you remember details well and are happy to take on any responsibility. You would make a great business executive, accountant, or lawyer.
How you see yourself: Decisive, stable, and dependable
When other people don’t get you, they see you as: Boring, conservative, and egotistical
Last time I did a Myers-Briggs based personality test I came out as ISTP, so this is the same in 3 out of 4 aspects.
Interestingly I recently took part in a team building day at work based on yet another variation on Jung’s archetypes. Based on the slightly more in depth analysis (compared to an Internet meme) I came out as something that would be E*T* on the M-B system. So the only thing that everyone agrees on is that I’m Thinking rather than Feeling. Which ain’t that much of a surprise
Very True Mood: 
mellow
mellowVery True Music: Last.FM Boffin set on
Sauropod Stack
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Memes, Miniatures, Work.
Hey kids, the latest craze is to stack your (toy) animals. Well it keeps us off the streets…
Very True Mood: 
silly
sillyThings I’ve done meme
Posted on in Memes, My Life.A badly formatted draft of this got posted to the Live Journal mirror by accident, so here’s the full thing, only a few week’s after everyone else did it.
Page 56 Meme
Posted on in Books, Memes.Via sharikkamur
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST
The usurer studied Miguel.
Well, that was short. It’s from The Coffee Trader by David Liss.
Very True Mood: chipper
chipper