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snapesbabe
What Kind Of Whovian Are You?
Your Result: Good natured jumper wearer
When two fans get chatting in the line for autographs at a convention, you’re the one that flinches when the other swears. You own a cat called Sutekh.
Hard Living Demon Fan Laddyfan Classic series n00b Frothing fanboy New series n00b
Just so long as the jumper in question isn’t covered by bloody question marks, okay?
confusedThe 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%
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%
So, all in all, I’m intelligent, witty, responsible, GSOH… but geeky and insane. A typical blogger?
cheerfulYesterday 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.
tiredJoy to the world,
The very true thing is come.Joy To The World
from the Christmas Song Generator.
Via snapesbabe, take the first line of the first entry of each month and post it.
chipperThe 50 most significant SF/F novels from 1953-2002 according to the Science Fiction Book Club.
( random edits )
Bold the ones you’ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved.
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien [1]
The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
Dune, Frank Herbert *
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin *
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
Cities in Flight, James Blish
The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett *
Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
Gateway, Frederik Pohl
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J.K. Rowling
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams *
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
Little, Big, John Crowley
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny [2]
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
On the Beach, Nevil Shute
Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
Ringworld, Larry Niven
Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson * [3]
Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
Timescape, Gregory Benford
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer
[1] The first two parts of the trilogy were published in ‘51 and ‘52 so including this in the specified time period is a bit of a cheat.
[2] I think I’ve read this but I’m not sure. I’ve, many, many years ago, read something with what seems to be the same plot but it didn’t seem in any way special enough to warrant the reputation this book has.
[3] Except for the Harry Potter, is this the most recent book on the list? That makes the last decade and a half rather under represented.
Via Jack comes a meme with a point. From The Stacks Winter Reading Challenge. Reduce the pile of books sitting beside the bed. Pick five books that you’ve bought but haven’t read yet, and read them, between now and January 30th. Simple.
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N…Nitrogen
You scored 28 Mass, 47 Electronegativity, 37 Metal, and 0 Radioactivity!
Sweet! You’re quirky and non-confrontational… but you are also highly dynamic in relationships. You’re kinda that “anything to anyone” type, but you don’t demand that people love you for it. You very much do you own thing… and probably by extention you’re the only one who can do the things you do. You’re rarely found alone, but you’d get along great with other people like yourself. You’re probably the only element that should try to find a mate who is just like you. Oh, and too much of you in a high-pressure situation can make other people act drunk… or die.
The Which Chemical Element Am I Test written by effataigus
Does anyone remember when I used to do proper posts? No, me neither.
thoughtfulMy life has been rated:
Films in this category can be about anything, say ‘fuck’ a lot, probably get to see all sorts of guns and shooting, but no open heart surgery with a knife.
See what your rating is!
Created by Bart King
Say Fuck a lot? Yep. See all sorts of guns and shooting? Despite living in South London, not so much. No open heart surgery with a knife? Thank fuck for that. 
Via snapesbabe.
As we’re all blogging for history, here’s a bit about my day.
Spent most of the day working on a project for our kids’ site (www.kidslovelondon.com). Nothing terribly exciting - a bit of CSS, bit of XSLT, bit of JavaScript (enforcing my own recently written coding standards to avoid document.write and use appendChild() etc.). Minor panic regarding the half term edition of the kids’ newsletter but it got sent out on time and everyone seems very happy with the new style.
Went to lunch with Lettice - she’s working at VL for a few weeks. And after that it was time for today’s round of meetings about the redesign project. Time and money versus ambition. Same as every project I’ve ever worked on. We actually have a very good team (and soon to be a much bigger team, an ad will be appear in this week’s New Media Age for six positions within the web team at VL) and doing most of the work in house will cut down on some of the headaches.
Ended up working until 18:30 which makes up for the late start, though a fair chunk of the last hour was spent playing Bang! Howdy (www.banghowdy.com) whilst waiting for other people to go through the designs of the Christmas pages with me. We need to have some pages up very soon in order to cover the switching on of the Christmas Lights.
London Bridge was busy and I just missed the 18:39. I bought this week’s New Scientist (suckered in by the ‘what would happen to Earth if humans vanished cover story) and this month’s .net (a couple of articles that I can quote mine for a brainstorm in one of Friday’s endless meetings). Ran into Séverine and we caught the 18:51 to Tulse Hill and then walked up to West Norwood together.
Home, sausages for dinner, then watched CSI: Miami with Lettice before sitting down to write this.
thoughtful
