Whatever

War, death, and chaos is my heritage...

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:40:45 GMT

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthdate (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

September 3

Events
1783 - American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1939 - World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany.
1967 - Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight.

Births
1499 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henri II of France (d. 1566)
1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (d. 1951)

Deaths
1658 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (b. 1599)

TrustFlow results for dansandeman

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:43:57 GMT

Unabashedly stolen from fluffboll.
Lots of people I have never met...

I tried out TrustFlow II for LiveJournal. The following people not on the friends list for dansandeman are close by:

alvekatt, twospotz (0 - 50)
freetha, fyrie, michiexile, davidwithaknife, kyrokitsune, mikkeru, renarden, mrlonghair, peura, supochi (50 - 100)
awahlbom, furrycow, jen_kitty, swandog, rkaj, tarangryph, o_we, katarina_w, foxelifox, sayh, stripecat, kjn, wingedkyro (100 - 150)

chama_fox, jennelie, neofob, autopope, kmelen, zocratez, _graywolf_, johan_g, yesska, jazzes, nordicraven, jimpa, gnapp, thewhitewolf, stormvvolf (150 - 200)
katarina_k, awsweden, wolfhowl_82, nooras_tradgard, silverfoxwolf, wolf666, skrufsan, jonaso, greasefox, thereselarsson (200 - 250)
jophan, jlms, ladyjennelie, missblackjackal, profox, the_jopp, carbonatedink, narossoulfox, xyzzysqrl, fangsie, huskie666 (250 - 300)
vandringar, shazrasha, midnightoak, redbadger, hakar_maloye, darnia, cdybedahl, jwz, silmaril, cerebrate, corruptedjasper, jenn_starlight (300 - 350)
yelth, en_i_see, missysedai, spocha, jsbowden, desdenova, stormfeather, leighdb, kate_nepveu, rimrunner, publius1, ceara, merhawk, turnberryknkn, rumblepurr, tnatj, fwibble, siriaeve, drgabster, erythrina, simonb, ronebofh, pvaneynd, syringavulgaris, reddragdiva, pir, sweh (350 - 400)

Created by ciphergoth; hosted by LShift.

TrustFlow II: Who is closest to your friends list?

Slightly behind...

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:59:18 GMT

Everybody else seem to have gotten their evil credentials weeks ago, but mine didn't show up until today.

How evil are you?

Memenight

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:43:26 GMT

Don't know about this one, but a license to whine can't be all bad...

Your Inner Child Is Sad

You're a very sensitive soul.
You haven't grown that thick skin that most adults have.
Easily hurt, you tend to retreat to your comfort zone.
You don't let many people in - unless you've trusted them for a long time.

How Is Your Inner Child?

This one was probably a bit more on the mark.

Slow and Steady

Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy.

They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder.

It'd really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment.

They expect you to examine everything carefully from every angle and then usually decide against it.

How Do People See You?

Now, this could be interesting...

Who Should Paint You: M.C. Escher

Open and raw, you would let your true self show for your portrait.
And even if your painting turned out a bit dark, it would be honest.

What Artist Should Paint Your Portrait?

You Should Drive a Saturn Sky

You're sleek and smooth, and you need a car to match your hot persona.
Besides, sometimes you want your top up - and sometimes you want it down.

What 2007 Car Should You Drive?

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:59:03 GMT

From fluffboll (and indirectly wolfmoonie):

You Are a Seeker Soul

You are on a quest for knowledge and life challenges.
You love to be curious and ask a ton of questions.
Since you know so much, you make for an interesting conversationalist.
Mentally alert, you can outwit almost anyone (and have fun doing it!).

Very introspective, you can be silently critical of others.
And your quiet nature makes it difficult for people to get to know you.
You see yourself as a philosopher, and you take everything philosophically.
Your main talent is expressing and communicating ideas.

Souls you are most compatible with: Hunter Soul and Visionary Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:21:58 GMT

Stolen from wolfmoonie:

Name a CD you own that you think no-one else on your friendslist does:
This isn't clear cut, as I haven't seen most of my friends' CD collections, but Mark II, Limited Edition by Epsilon Minus might do the trick.

Name a book you own that you think no-one else on your friendslist does:
This one is the easiest. I'm fairly sure that none of my friends have Adultdata - The Handbook of Adult Anthropometric and Strength Measurements, because why on Earth would they? (It's a publication from the British Department of Trade and Industry.)

But the above choice is more of a binder than a book, so my backup is Purely Functional Data Structures. Not the first choice of literature for any of my friends.

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that you think no-one else on your friendslist does:
I don't have more than a couple of DVD boxes, and I'm fairly certain that khrister has them...

Name a place that you have visited that you think no-one else on your friendslist has:
I hope for their own sake that none of them have been in Östmark, because it's one of the more boring places on this planet. (Note how google don't even have a map of the road network up there...) It is, however, a prime resort for mosquitos. (Mmmmm, hydro plants!)

Name a piece of technology or any sort of tool you own that you think no-one else on your friendslist has:
I might go for low-tech here and guess on an old-fashioned persimmon driver. (It's a golf club, from the grand old days when the woods actually were made of wood.)

The grammar mangler strikes again

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:18:49 GMT

My English seems to have held up decently over the years.

English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 100% Expert!

You did so extremely well, even I
can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon
intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You
have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly!
Way to go!

Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!

For the complete Answer Key, visit my blog: http://shortredhead78.blogspot.com/.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 66% on Beginner
You scored higher than 46% on Intermediate
You scored higher than 76% on Advanced
You scored higher than 95% on Expert

Link: The Commonly Confused Words Test written by shortredhead78 on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Another meme

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:21:32 GMT

Late as usual...

You scored as Death. You are death! Reaper of souls! Riding your horse, Binky, with a scythe at hand. Always working, always busy! You sometimes try to socialize with the living, and ALWAYS SPEAK IN CAPITAL LETTERS.

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Death

75%

The Librarian

50%

Commander Samuel Vimes

44%

Rincewind

44%

Lord Havelock Vetinari

44%

Greebo

38%

Cohen The Barbarian

31%

Carrot Ironfounderson

25%

Gytha (Nanny) Ogg

25%

Esmerelda (Granny) Weatherwax

13%

Which Discworld Character are you like (with pics)
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The end of an era

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 03:38:05 GMT

In a few short hours a major era in my life will come to an end. Finally, after more than seven years of filling up my basement storeroom, the ugly sofa left by the previous tenant will no longer remain in the building. (Okay, I admit I snuck it into an unused storeroom a month or so ago, but I didn't feel at ease with leaving it there - after all, it had been visible in my storeroom for all other tenants to see for all this time. But now it will go!)

Die, sofa! Die!

Frequent updates...

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:07:25 GMT

...drives visitors to your blog. Or so they say.

When I think about it, blogging is so not me - and that's not only due to poor typing speed (for a nerd). Mostly, it's because whenever I sit down to write stuff it always ends up with a blank screen. Last year, I thought about putting up a self hosted blog on my web page, but that still hasn't been even remotely close to happening. Web pages tend to be the same thing - I might put them up at gunpoint, but that's pushing it.

The other marvelous revelation of the day is that all hardware suck, without exception. The latest champion of this humongous domain of utter suckiness is my ADSL modem. Currently it locks up about once a day, requiring a reboot. And, of course, the poor thing has been crippled by the ISP, so I can't even connect to it and force a reset. No siree, only the big power button in the sky is good enough for this critter.

As if that wasn't fun enough, I still have to battle the wlan setup. Fortunately, I have had some progress in the last few days, so my linux box can now authenticate clients (doesn't everybody run EAP-TLS at home? weird...) Unfortunately, it won't do anything else except that. But I already have grand plans on how to extend the wifi network to the lawn on the back of the house (surprisingly quiet spot for being next to a big road). Did I mention the thick concrete walls that make weaker cell phones cry?

Hmm, why do I write this in English, anyway? I don't have any non-Swedes reading this - at least not that I know of? (And how can the livejournal spelling system not know the word "blog"? Mindboggling.)

Test - even worse personality

Fri, 09 Jul 2004 03:10:33 GMT

(Stolen from krfsm (or gruesome, as the spellcheck suggests))

I'm not sure if this test is supposed to freak me out, but check this out:

Wackiness: 38/100
Rationality: 76/100
Constructiveness: 66/100
Leadership: 26/100

You are an SRCF--Sober Rational Constructive Follower. This makes you a White House staffer. You are a tremendous asset to any employer, cool under pressure, productive, and a great communicator. You feel the need to right wrongs, take up slack, mediate disputes and keep the peace. This comes from a secret fear that business can't go on without you--or worse, that it can.

If you have a weakness, it is your inability to say "no." While your peers respect you, they find it difficult to resist taking advantage of your positive attitude and eagerness to take on work. You depend on a good manager to keep you from sinking under the weight and burning out.

Many things I can stand, but "White House staffer" is a tough one to digest... (Although perhaps it's not so far-fetched as I would like it to be.)

Thunderstorms...

Fri, 09 Jul 2004 03:00:29 GMT

Weird shit. It's five am, and there seems to be thunder rolling in. Got to love the weather in this town... Not that I mind much, as long as the power grid stays up. (I have a UPS, but I can't have it connected right now. *grr*)

Test - Harry Potter is your shrink

Fri, 09 Jul 2004 02:55:18 GMT

Via krfsm:

Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.

The usual trouble...

Fri, 09 Jul 2004 02:32:51 GMT

I ended up dwelling far too long on the same problem as with all other community registrations - finding a decent name. That's what you get for using short and simple nicks! Bah!

Perhaps I should have spent some more time selecting a theme for the journal, but I plan to use this account mainly for commenting friends journals, so there won't be much to read anyway. (Ok, there will be some pointless tests and shit every now and then, too.)

Edit: Man, this theme really is Ugly with a capital U. I really should find another one. There has to be some way to browse available themes without having to restyle the journal to see the effects - or there is a reason behind all those ugly journal pages out there...

Edit II: Swapped to the default theme. Blazingly ugly too, but in a different way. I get flashbacks from the IDC script days. Yuck!