Saturday, April 23, 2005
About Me
Your Linguistic Profile: |
50% General American English |
35% Dixie |
10% Yankee |
5% Upper Midwestern |
0% Midwestern |
You May Be a Bit Obsessive Compulsive ... |
 Meticulous and detailed oriented, you have some irrational obsessions. Maybe it's your super neat closet or washing your hands a gazillion times. You probably know it's weird, but you just can't stop thinking about it. In fact, the more you think about your quirks, the more you have to do them. |
A bit? I sort my skittles by color before eating them. However I don't automatically rearrange store shelves without even knowing it like some people. :)
You Are 55% Normal (Somewhat Normal) |
 While some of your behavior is quite normal... Other things you do are downright strange You've got a little of your freak going on But you mostly keep your weirdness to yourself |
Your Brain is 6.67% Female, 93.33% Male |
You've got the brain of a manly man Feelings, schmeelings... tears aren't for you. You could break both legs and not get misty eyed. A great problem solver, nothing ever phases you. |
Which question did THEY screw up?
Your Inner European is French! |
 Smart and sophisticated. You have the best of everything - at least, *you* think so. |
Me sophisticated? *snort*
You Are 29 Years Old |
29 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax. |
Your Dominant Intelligence is Logical-Mathematical Intelligence |
 You are great at finding patterns and relationships between things. Always curious about how things work, you love to set up experiments. You need for the world to make sense - and are good at making sense of it. You have a head for numbers and math ... and you can solve almost any logic puzzle. You would make a great scientist, engineer, computer programmer, researcher, accountant, or mathematician. |
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
The Pope Died
Unless you're one of those Siberian reindeer herding people, you probably know this already. I'm sure at this point even they have heard a rumor or two. He was given much credit for bringing the wall down. So was Regan when he died. I'm sure there's a few left to give credit to when they die, like Gorby. The most interesting statistic I saw was the fact he had been seen by more people in person than anyone else in the world. I thought Michael Jackson held that distinction, especially after the performance in front of half the population of India that time.
He was against removing Terri's feeding tube and even made some statement about it back in 2003 saying how wrong this was and risking her soul to eternal damnation by doing so. I didn't see him being carted to a hospital and being kept artificially alive, they let him expire in his apartment. His statement seemed to be directed at food and water saying it was natural to provide that, even artificially. What about an artificial respirator? Air is about as natural as food and water being supplied artificially, and someone on a respirator can have a better chance of coming around than what Terri did. I would appreciate it if the next Pope could let us know what medical equipment is okay to artificially sustain life, and what isn't so we know what we can get rid of.
I do think he was a good Pope, though he definitely kept faithful to the Old Catholic demands of no divorce, no birth control, and no pre-marital sex. Have you ever been to a Catholic wedding? Calling one long is an example of a British understatement in Webster’s. They don’t want pre-marital sex because they don’t want birth control, and since the gestation period of a human female is shorter than a Catholic wedding, they would have to stop the ceremony for the delivery of the baby, which just wouldn’t be acceptable. They don’t allow divorces because that would be unacceptable to all of the people who took time out of their lives to sit through a Catholic wedding. Of course with an appropriate donation you are allowed to buy an annulment and save your eternal soul.
I checked back a few hundred years on previous Popes and they all seemed to end their tenure by dying. I’m suspicious. Now it seems they are allowed to quit, but the thing is they’ve taken a vow of poverty, so they’re essentially broke. They would also be tossed out of their Pope apartment of course, so where does that leave them? Probably with a tin cup and on the streets of Italy. Of course that would be bad for appearances and I don’t think allowed so they, well, die. Odd, never seem to go senile or otherwise incapacitated, they all quietly die. I’m suspicious. What is really interesting is the one previous to this, John Paul number one. There’s a rumor that his first order of business was to allow women to be ordained. After more than twelve centuries they still haven’t been able to squash that rumor about Pope Joan. One month and he quietly died. They couldn’t even get straight who found the corpse or what he was reading. I’m thinking the Cardinal in the Sistine Chapel with the fluffy white pillow.
He was against removing Terri's feeding tube and even made some statement about it back in 2003 saying how wrong this was and risking her soul to eternal damnation by doing so. I didn't see him being carted to a hospital and being kept artificially alive, they let him expire in his apartment. His statement seemed to be directed at food and water saying it was natural to provide that, even artificially. What about an artificial respirator? Air is about as natural as food and water being supplied artificially, and someone on a respirator can have a better chance of coming around than what Terri did. I would appreciate it if the next Pope could let us know what medical equipment is okay to artificially sustain life, and what isn't so we know what we can get rid of.
I do think he was a good Pope, though he definitely kept faithful to the Old Catholic demands of no divorce, no birth control, and no pre-marital sex. Have you ever been to a Catholic wedding? Calling one long is an example of a British understatement in Webster’s. They don’t want pre-marital sex because they don’t want birth control, and since the gestation period of a human female is shorter than a Catholic wedding, they would have to stop the ceremony for the delivery of the baby, which just wouldn’t be acceptable. They don’t allow divorces because that would be unacceptable to all of the people who took time out of their lives to sit through a Catholic wedding. Of course with an appropriate donation you are allowed to buy an annulment and save your eternal soul.
I checked back a few hundred years on previous Popes and they all seemed to end their tenure by dying. I’m suspicious. Now it seems they are allowed to quit, but the thing is they’ve taken a vow of poverty, so they’re essentially broke. They would also be tossed out of their Pope apartment of course, so where does that leave them? Probably with a tin cup and on the streets of Italy. Of course that would be bad for appearances and I don’t think allowed so they, well, die. Odd, never seem to go senile or otherwise incapacitated, they all quietly die. I’m suspicious. What is really interesting is the one previous to this, John Paul number one. There’s a rumor that his first order of business was to allow women to be ordained. After more than twelve centuries they still haven’t been able to squash that rumor about Pope Joan. One month and he quietly died. They couldn’t even get straight who found the corpse or what he was reading. I’m thinking the Cardinal in the Sistine Chapel with the fluffy white pillow.
