I’m feeling relatively incoherent this morning, but I also want to write. In an attempt to not actually sabotage myself (or bore you) I’m going to share some of the items that caught my attention as I was reading my morning round up of blogs and news this morning.
It’s FAIL blog — and (like the venerable Cake Wrecks) speaks for itself.
I had a choice of three, the other two were 060 General organizations & museum science and 013 [Unassigned]. I chose:
441 French writing systems & phonology
Lisa McS = 2991339 = 299+133+9 = 441
Class:
400 Language
Contains:
Linguistics and language books.
What it says about you:
You value communication, even with people who are different from you. You like trying new things don’t mind being exposed to unfamiliar territory. You get bored with routines that never change.
Unassigned (as it turns out) also describes me pretty well:
Class:
000 Computer Science, Information & General Works
Contains:
Encyclopedias, magazines, journals and books with quotations.
What it says about you:
You are very informative and up to date. You’re working on living in the here and now, not the past. You go through a lot of changes. When you make a decision you can be very sure of yourself, maybe even stubborn, but your friends appreciate your honesty and resolve.
The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing yourself from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of overlap and difference can be built up.
Which words do you associate with me? http://kevan.org/johari?name=Lisa+Mc+Sherry
I’m interested for a variety of reasons — and you know I can take criticism. I promise I’ll share the results (presuming more than five people reply 🙂 otherwise it isn’t terribly valid.)
I find this video and accompanying story scary, and very sad. The writing is WS, the video is very disturbing and therefore not absolutely WS.
The power of the mob is well known, to see it in action is shocking. I wonder if I would have the courage to be so calm and take the video footage? Would you? Think about it.
ysabetwordsmith posted (from another LJ) the “10 commandments of Coyote” and I found them amusing. They inspired me to do the following:
1. I am the Divine; by whatever name you shall call Me, I AM
2. Worship Me, not My image.
3. My name — any one of them — is Sacred; to speak it is to invoke Me.
4. Keep the holy days in ways that are pleasing to Me.
5. Honor those who raised you.
6. Take not the life of a sentient being.
7. Engage only in consensual adult sexual pleasures.
8. Take not another’s earnings.
9. Do not lie.
10. Eschew envy.
This article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/business/31view.html?_r=2&em&oref=slogin&oref=slogin does a very good job of breaking down the presidential candidates economic policies.
But this post (http://yaforobama.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2246335%3ABlogPost%3A8502) from Scott Westerfield walks the reader through the economic history of Republicans and Democrats.
Its hard to imagine the difference being this easily seen, but it is.
I know at least some of you are near-daily readers, and I apologize for the recent theme changes. Its just that I like to change themes seasonally. This time I ran into a hassle with the chosen theme (the autumn leaves against a blue sky) was missing a line of code or somesuch that I needed to run a specific script. It’s been a-heck-annoying.
So now you know. This theme will (as you may have guessed) stay up through early November.
This is the best answer for the average person? Sure, your credit rating might be hurt, but you’ll save $1000s and get treated like a rich person by politicians.
Why do I think this? Today’s thought-provoking blog post at wisebread, which relates to an article by Peter Schiff at the San Diego Union-Tribune saying just that.
“Nobody likes foreclosure, least of all politicians. The new law clearly indicates that the government will make major efforts to reduce foreclosures through “term extensions, rate reductions and principal write-downs” of the troubled mortgages that it buys from the private sector. In other words, your new landlord will bend over backward to keep you in your home. The legislation telegraphs this by including a provision that extends until 2013 the exclusion of loan reductions from taxable income. “
Thank you thank you thank you somehedgehog for creating this bit of loveliness:
http://somehedgehog.livejournal.com/245807.html
(and thank you ysabetwordsmith for finding it)
Worksafe, but your monitor might suffer from laughspray.