Memes and Quizzes

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Nov102008

Alphabet Movie Meme

I wasn’t tagged by SamuraiFrog to participate in the Alphabet Movie Meme, but you know me and memes…

Here are the rules:

1. Pick one film to represent each letter of the alphabet.

 

2. The letter “A” and the word “The” do not count as the beginning of a film’s title, unless the film is simply titled A or The, and I don’t know of any films with those titles.

 

3. Return of the Jedi belongs under “R,” not “S” as in Star Wars Episode IV: Return of the Jedi. This rule applies to all films in the original Star Wars trilogy; all that followed start with “S.” Similarly, Raiders of the Lost Ark belongs under “R,” not “I” as in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Conversely, all films in the Lord of the Rings series belong under “L” and all films in the Chronicles of Narnia series belong under “C,” as that’s what those filmmakers called their films from the start. In other words, movies are stuck with the titles their owners gave them at the time of their theatrical release. Use your better judgement to apply the above rule to any series/films not mentioned.

 

4. Films that start with a number are filed under the first letter of their number’s word. 12 Monkeys would be filed under “T.”

 

5. Link back to Blog Cabins in your post so that I can eventually type “alphabet meme” into Google and come up #1, then make a post where I declare that I am the King of Google.

 

[Update: Doh! I forgot to link back to Blog Cabins as requested. If any of my taggees happen to amble by, I hope you’ll see this and modify your posts accordingly… Sorry, BC!]

 

6. If you’re selected, you have to then select 5 more people.

Okay, for the sake of this little exercise I am going to do my best to choose titles you may not expect from me, given my usual obsessions on this blog. Which means, no Star Wars and no Indiana Jones-related titles. I will, in fact, try to avoid the Lucas-Spielberg ouevre. Just for the sake of variety, of course…

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Oct092008

Autumn Meme

When Anne and I left for San Francisco, it was basically still summer around here: temperatures in the mid-80s and jackets gathering dust in the closet. We came home to find the first layer of snow on the mountain peaks and frost on the car windows in the morning. What a difference a week can make.

Since we’re unquestionably into Utah’s all-too-brief fall season (there’s possible valley snow forecasted for this weekend), I thought it might be fun to do the Autumn Meme I saw over at Electronic Cerebrectomy the other night:

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Sep172008

The Smooth One? Okay…

So far, it’s been a crazy-busy week, which always sets me on edge and leaves me worrying that my loyal readers are even now deleting their bookmarks to this woefully un-updated corner of the blogosphere. To try and demonstrate that I’ve not forsaken you all and left this place to gather cobwebs, I offer a silly Internet quiz, courtesy of my friend Puffbird:

Your result for The Social Proficiency Test…

THE SMOOTH ONE

You scored a total of 32 out of 43!

For the most part you blend into social gatherings easily. You are honest and generally polite. Every now and then you let something slip out that should be kept quiet but you tend to know how to recover and get back in the mix. You generally want to know about other people but often times care a little more about whats going on with you.

Take The Social Proficiency Test at HelloQuizzy

With any luck, I’ll be back later with something more substantial…

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Aug232008

Thirty-Eight Number Ones

Ah, Saturday morning. Blessed Saturday morning. You know how I know I’ve been spending too much time at the office lately? Because cutting my lawn — an obligatory chore I usually perform only grudgingly — was actually kind of pleasant this week.

You know what else is kind of pleasant? Making lists and doing memes. Yeah, I know I was bitching yesterday about how I’ve only been able to do memes and photos lately instead of writing real blog entries — whatever those may be — but you know what? I like doing memes, and I’m in a better mood today.

Once again, this is a meme I borrowed from SamuraiFrog, who seems to be finding all the best meme-age lately. In this one, you go to a particular website and enter your birthday to find out what the Number One song was that day, according to Billboard, for every year you’ve been alive. Commentary is apparently not required, but you know me…
One brief proviso: I haven’t paid much attention to popular music in years, not since Cobain and all those other throat-singing, flannel-clad mopes from Seattle turned rock into a dirge and hip-hop claimed ascendency on the pop charts. Which means I don’t recognize many of these titles until we get back quite a few years. Yeah, I know, I’m an old fart. For the record, I’m listening to Janis Joplin as I type this, so take from that what you will.

Anyhow:

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Aug222008

Good to Know

Just in case this situation ever comes up…

How long could you survive in the vacuum of space?
Created by OnePlusYou – Free Dating Sites

Of course, the accompanying text makes it sound like a most unpleasant minute and 41 seconds:

Congrats! You could survive for 1 minute 41 seconds !

 

In the first 30 seconds any fluid on the surface of your body would begin to boil due to lack of ambient pressure, this includes the saliva on your tongue and the moisture in your eyes. Your eardrums would most likely burst due to the pressure in your body trying to equalize with the vacuum outside. Unlike what some science fiction films have suggested, your body would not explode.

 

After the first 15 seconds you would lose consciousness. If you held your breath you could potentially stay alive longer but you risk pulmonary trauma. If you didn’t hold your breath you’d pass out sooner, but your lungs might have a better chance of avoiding permanent damage.

 

The pressure in your veins would rise until your heart no longer had the capacity to pump blood, at which point you’d die.

Hm. Better to just splatter into strawberry jam like the guys in Outland, I think. Messy and deeply traumatizing to my fellow astronauts, but quick…

Thanks to Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer for pointing me to this particular time-waster.

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