Here’s another Facebook meme, modified slightly for a bloggy format…
May262009
Memes and Quizzes
May262009
Facebook Movie Meme: 122 Out of 239 Films
Here’s a meme-type thing about movies that I picked up over on Facebook. It was pretty obviously assembled by someone younger than me, since most of the titles on the list came out just in the past ten years or so, and the handful of older ones date only as far back as the ’70s and ’80s. Another clue is that most of the comedies on this list come from what I think of as the “asinine” school of comedy, the lamentable modern-day idiom that seems predicated on the idea that nothing’s funnier than people uttering non-sequiturs and behaving as if they haven’t got a brain in their heads. (See Dynamite, Napoleon. Or better yet, don’t bother.) But I’m sure I’m just coming across as yet another grumpy old bastard yelling at The Damn Kids to get off my lawn. Such is life.
In any event, here’s the meme. I’ve made a few modifications (correcting film titles that I knew were incomplete or inaccurate, etc.), and added some comments in square brackets ([]).
May262009
Meme of Eights
Hi, everyone, and welcome back to the grind. Hope you all enjoyed your holiday weekend. My own was somewhat… tumultuous, and far less recreational than I was hoping for when last we met. It’s a long story I don’t feel up to relating right now; I’ll just say that it involved medical stuff, and assure my three loyal readers that everything is fine now.
Perhaps there’s some lingering fallout from that story I don’t want to tell, or maybe it’s just because I’ve been off work for three days, but I’m having a very hard time getting my mental clutch to engage. Which means the ambitious blog entry I originally had in mind for today isn’t going to happen (nor is much of anything else, I suspect). Instead, I think I’m going to stay in the shallow end of the brain pool and play with some memes. Here’s one I picked up from Jaquandor:
Apr162009
Alphabet of Obscure Science Fiction Classics Meme
I am working on something a bit more substantive, but for now I couldn’t resist grabbing the “Alphabet of Obscure Science Fiction Classics” Meme from SF Signal. Here are the rules:
“You know the drill. Copy the list and make titles for movies you’ve seen appear in bold.”
And now for the list, with my boldings and a few comments:
Apr022009
My So-Called High School Life Meme
Being as I am a hopeless nostalgic — not to mention the incredibly odd mutant who actually, for the most part, liked high school — I couldn’t resist the latest meme from Jaquandor, which he titled “My So-Called High School Life.” I am retaining that title, despite its derivation from a TV show I never watched, for lack of any more clever ideas.
Mar242009
Geek Life Meme
Yesterday over on Facebook, I was tagged by Kelly — better known in these parts as Jaquandor — to do a meme about my life as a geek. I of course complied immediately, because, well, it’s a meme. I’m reposting the results here, with some tweaks to the formatting and a few comments that I’ve reconsidered:
Feb162009
Facebook Meme: 25 Random Things
I kinda hate to admit this, but a while back I finally bowed to the inevitable and allowed myself to assimilated into the Facebook collective — feel free to look me up over there if you’re into that scene.
If you’ve never played there, Facebook has its own version of the memes that drift around the blogosphere, and over the past few weeks I’ve been tagged approximately 432,000 times for one called “25 Random Things About Me.” I’m cross-posting the list I came up with here, for anyone who may be interested. (Long-time readers may already know some of this stuff; it’s not easy to come up with entirely original material all the time…)
Anyhow, meme-age below the fold:
Jan282009
End of the Year Meme
It’s kind of a silly thing to be thinking about now that we’re nearly a full month into 2009, but with the untimely passing of Shadow, the Bennion Family Border Collie, as well as various other distractions during my holiday break, I never got around to doing my customary year-end wrap-up entries. I really dislike loose ends, so if you’ll bear with me for being so horribly untimely, I’d like to do some catch-up work now.
First up is a meme I first did back in December of 2007. Brian and Ilya are treating this like an annual tradition, so I guess I will now as well.
The instructions on this one are simple: repost the first sentence of the first blog entry in each of the previous year’s 12 months. I guess the idea is to try and see if there’s any kind of pattern or recurring obsessions or something. So, without further ado:
Dec102008
Bond, James Bond
I can’t say I’m unhappy with the results of this “Which Action Hero Would You Be?” quiz:
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Suave, sophisticated… yeah, I like the sound of that. And I do look good in a tux, on the very, very rare occasion I’m called upon to wear one. I find it kind of weird, however, that I scored equally on Bond and Batman. What do these characters have in common, aside from access to high-tech gadgets and seemingly unlimited financial resources? Hm. Well, maybe I just answered my own question.
As for the equivalency of Indy and Zorro, well, I suppose they both use a whip, even if Zorro is better known for his swordplay. But wait, none of the questions asked about whips. And since when is The Terminator a hero? Strange…
Via Jim by way of Konstantin.
Nov192008
More Trivia About Moi
Another meme courtesy of Jaquandor. I’m such a sucker for these things…
Anyhow, this meme apparently started its life as one of those “getting to know your friends” e-mail quizzes but has now morphed into something more bloggy. It comes in two parts, a “things you’ve done” list followed by some questions.