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I have the Google desktop toolbar on my computer - see, it's right over there
Oh, I forget, you can't see what my laptop screen looks like from there. hmmm.
It looks like this:
The toolbar shows me a number of little bits if information according to my preferences. I have my email headers, news, maps, weather and web clips amongst other things.
Today one of the web clips it brought up for me was based on the Technorati "Meme" tag. A blogger had tagged "Which Heinlein Book Character Should You Have Been" quiz from Quizilla and posted it on her blog So I wander over to the quiz and take it. I think I'm in a bit of a grumpy mood because I got this:
You belong in I Will Fear No Evil. Your body is your prison, and you would trade everything you have, even your sex, for a new lease on life.
Which Heinlein Book Should You Have Been A Character In? brought to you by Quizilla
These quizzes are even less "memes" than the question/answer stuff I post on the Monday Meme thread (there will be a new one tomorrow!). Apparently, anything you can post on a blog, and perhaps convince other people to do, gets to be called a meme. *shrug* These quizzes can be fun and anyone can make one up, they're not so hard - I should know, I've done some for my LiveJournal buddies. (a lot of my LJ is locked 'friends only' so if you tried to look at other posts you'd need an LJ account and to be 'friended,' sorry.)
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The PublishAmerica "debate" may be over. The PA author is saying she won't be around next week and called for a summary of James Macdonald's position. He is succinct.
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I promised to end on a lighter note. If you haven't visited this link via MacAllister's blog yet, you need to go visit it soon. I will reiterate what Mac said - put down your beverage. Our buddy emeraldcite gives it this review:
"...made me laugh so hard I had to walk away from the computer to catch my breath."Don't forget to visit the 'extras' links on the site as well. The title of this post comes from here. Because I come from a long line of Irish Mackerel Snappers, I just can't stop giggling.
Dawno, Octavia Butler, meme, Robert Heinlein, PublishAmerica, PublishAmerica Debate, James D. Macdonald, Fluffy Mackerel Pudding
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5 comments:
So sad about Octavia Butler.
But, The WW cards are hilarious!
It's a meal! It's an obsessive disorder! It's both!
I'm sorry, but what was it you were willing to trade sex for again?
;)
Add Dennis Weaver to recently departed. Sorry to see them go.
d.t., hi! I think this is the first time I've seen you here, thanks for the drop in. The #1 thing I learned? Stay away from "Mexican" food made by "Marcie" :-)
Mark, the quiz said I'd trade "my sex" for a chance to start over. Me, nope - in the timeless words of Oscar Hammerstein "I enjoy being a girl".
Hey, Dawno. :)
Glad you linked to your LJ. I ... um ... Yeah. I friended you. :)
(I guess I'm a closet LJer?)
Jen! cool! a new LJ friend. I really need to try and pop over there more often. I'll friend you back tonite.
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