| Ah, TVtropes.com... |
[Jul. 31st, 2009|12:51 pm] |
I was reading the tvtropes entries for A Song of Ice and Fire, when I came across this gem:
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| I have questions! |
[Jun. 14th, 2009|04:30 pm] |
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If anyone in the Iowa City area has cell service through AT&T, can you comment on this post or otherwise contact me? I have questions! |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 3rd, 2009|01:06 pm] |
I can't remember the last time I was proud of my state. But today I am.
If you'd like to discuss the opinion at all, let me know; I read it today (it was long).
Edit: I found this picture that I thought was awesome.
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| I can't remember |
[Feb. 8th, 2009|10:54 am] |
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I got new computer speakers, and I know that someone said they were interested in my old set, but I forget who it was... if it's you, let me know! |
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| eBay |
[Nov. 21st, 2008|01:49 pm] |
Here's the rules:
1. Put your iPod on shuffle, or your song list on your computer on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
4. Since some of the songs won't makes sense at all by just putting them as answers, you may add some other words to make it sound like you're actually answering the question.
IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today
WHAT WORD(S) WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
I Hold Your Hand in Mine
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Oceans
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Snails.
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Time Bomb!
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
(I'm a) Masochism Tango
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
She Doesn't Get It
WHAT IS 2+2?
Protect your mind!
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Blah Blah Blah
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Inches and Falling
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Matches
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Under the Gun
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Katamari on the Rock (woot!)
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
One More Minute
WHAT WILL/DID YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Never Say Goodbye (not, in fact, true)
WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Cigarettes Will Kill You (oh my)
WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Nothing Much Happens
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
It's a Maze
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Sugarboy
WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Aren't you the guy (who hit me in the eye)?
HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Animals
WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
50 ways to leave your lover
WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
99 Luftballoons
WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
The Christians and the Pagans
WHO WILL/DID YOU MARRY?
(A) Basket Case (holy crap this is awesome)
WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
(being) True to Form
DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Noah on Speed
IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
The Worst Pies in London
WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Sweeney Todd: His Hands were Quick, His Fingers Strong (oww)
WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
eBay |
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| I believe I am contractually obligated to post this: |
[Nov. 2nd, 2008|08:04 pm] |
Comment and I will...
a) Tell you why I friended you.
b) Associate you with something -- a song, color, photo, etc.
c) Tell you something I like about you.
d) Tell you a memory I have of you.
e) Ask you something I've wanted to know about you.
f) Tell you my favorite userpic from your list.
g) In return, you need to post this on your own Livejournal. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 10th, 2008|09:17 pm] |
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Yay! I'm in the World of Warcraft beta! |
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| Yay Hancher |
[Jul. 4th, 2008|03:14 pm] |
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I love that I can get tickets to Avenue Q, best seats in the house, for 30 bucks. This is, of course, assuming that Hancher is un-flooded and fixed up by February. I'm going opening night, Tuesday, Feb. 24, in the balcony I section. (in case anyone wants to sit with me and ellie) |
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| Ok, I'll bite. |
[Jul. 1st, 2008|08:43 am] |
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Cross out the ones you started but didn't finish
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll and Through The Looking Glass
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (cf. number 33. What?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Again
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Yaaaay books! |
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| Need any law books? |
[May. 29th, 2008|06:47 pm] |
So I'm realizing that I have WAY too much stuff lying around. I'd like to get rid of my law books. It's about 3 years worth of textbooks, including study guides and my notes. All the books are in good condition.
Does anyone need or know anyone who might need these books? I'm looking to get rid of them cheaply. |
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| Moving time! |
[May. 3rd, 2008|01:06 am] |
Hey everyone :)
I'm moving to Coralville in the morning! Call me if you want to help, and you will get pizza :) |
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| AGoT Test! |
[Jan. 31st, 2008|04:35 pm] |
Your Score: Jaime Lannister You scored 270 Adaptability, 280 Humor, 180 Integrity and 250 Activity!
There are no men like me. There is only me.
You are Jaime Lannister.
Also known as The Kingslayer, you are a complex person. You are easily amused and, much like your brother Tyrion, you aren't one to keep your considerable wit to yourself. People tend to think you're arrogant and morally bankrupt, but you do have your own kind of integrity. You are very loyal to those you involve yourself with and you are far more insightful about yourself than people realize. Unfortunately, you are also far more confused about yourself than people realize. You are physically active and you are willing to work extremely hard to overcome obstacles. You are undeniably gutsy, though you can also be cocky and impulsive. You are quick-witted, complicated, and badass.
You are also similar to Tyrion Lannister and Sandor Clegane. Your polar opposite is Catelyn Stark.
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| One test to rule them all... |
[Mar. 5th, 2007|01:05 pm] |
The Everything Test There are many different types of tests on the internet today. Personality tests, purity tests, stereotype tests, political tests. But now, there is one test to rule them all. Traditionally, online tests would ask certain questions about your musical tastes or clothing for a stereotype, your experiences for a purity test, or deep questions for a personality test.We're turning that upside down - all the questions affect all the results, and we've got some innovative results too! Enjoy :-) | Personality | You are more logical than emotional, more concerned about self than concerned about others, more religious than atheist, more loner than dependent, more lazy than workaholic, more traditional than rebel, more engineering mind than artistic mind, more cynical than idealist, more leader than follower, and more extroverted than introverted.
As for specific personality traits, you are intellectual (87%), religious (80%), romantic (71%), horny (61%). | | | Stereotypes | | Punk Rock | 73% | | Geek | 70% | | Young Professional | 65% | | | | Life Experience | | Sex | 29% | | Substances | 16% | | Travel | 35% | | Politics
Your political views would best be described as Libertarian, whom you agree with around 68% of the time. | | Socioeconomic
Your attitude toward life best associates you with Middle Class. You make more than 0% of those who have taken this test, and 58% less than the U.S. average.
| If your life was a movie, it would be rated PG-13.
By the way, your hottness rank is 67%, hotter than 92% of other test takers. | TAKE THE TEST brought to you by thatsurveysite |
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| Merry Christmas! |
[Dec. 24th, 2006|10:54 pm] |
Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope it's as great as you all deserve. :)
I suppose if I'm updating, I should probably talk a bit about what's going on in my life. First - I graduated! I have to take a week-long class in January, and I won't get my diploma till May, but I graduated! You may call me esquire if you wish :) My future plans are still undefined (perhaps getting my masters in the fall, or perhaps not), which brings me to my next update-worthy point:
I have a job. It's nothing glamorous, but it's steady for the time being, and it's pretty enjoyable. I work for 2nd Story Software, doing tech support for their tax software. I answer phones and emails and such, telling people that they shouldn't have waited until now to file their 2005 tax returns. :) It's not too bad.
I guess the next thing is that my brother is getting married in a month. Leslie's maid of honor hosted a shower for them, and then had a party the following day to get rid of all the leftover food :) I wasn't even sure I was going to go at first, but I'm really glad I did. I saw a whole bunch of people from high school who I hadn't seen in a long time. I remembered how much I liked hanging out with all of them. Yeah, people have changed, but in nearly all cases, it was for the better. So yeah. :) Thanks everyone who was there.
Lastly, I'm looking for some quasi-medical input. I have this weird problem. If you don't want to hear about weird ailments, read no further. My issue is basically that it hurts when I sweat. Like really hurts. So, whenever I get embarrassed, or take a hot shower, or drink anything hot, it feels like spikes are poking out of my back and chest and sometimes my legs. It's really weird, and I don't know what to do about it. Has anyone else has this problem or even heard of it? I thought it was really weird.
Anyway, everyone should have a merry Christmas with their loved ones and/or families, and I hope it is awesome for everyone. I love you all. |
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| GRR! |
[Oct. 11th, 2006|06:10 pm] |
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I'm getting sick, I think. Stupid roommates. grrrrrrrrrrr |
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[Sep. 2nd, 2006|12:09 am] |
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Ow. I don't know why my back hurts right now. The next person to give me a backrub will be my hero forever. That is all. |
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| Update time! |
[Aug. 31st, 2006|08:37 pm] |
So.. it's been a while since my last update. Oops. :) I have so much to say sometimes, and then I forget it all if I don't write it down right away. Anyway - a few tidbits.
1. Mr. Colton's funeral was really nice. There were over 1,000 people there, and he had an honor band made up of local professionals and band directors. They were phenomenal. Rev. Chapman gave a really excellent eulogy, and it was really a great tribute. Apparently they're building a new music facility at the high school, and they're going to name it after him.
2. Most of you know this already, but I should mention that Ellie and I broke up about 3 weeks ago. It was my idea. It was really hard. That's all I'm going to say here, but feel free to ask me about it if you want.
3. Class has started, and I think it's going to be ok. We'll see. I'm still working part time, and I'm taking a heavy load, so it'll be a busy semester, but if I can just buckle down and get the work done that I need to, I should be all set to graduate in December. After THAT, who knows? I need to take the bar, and I need to get hired somewhere. I have a bunch of interviews coming up in a couple of weeks, so we'll see how that goes.
Umm.. I think there's more, but I can't think of what to write. What do you all want to know?
Oh! Also, they are making a movie version of Sweeney Todd. It's being directed by Tim Burton, so I dunno about this. Also, Sweeney is played by Johnny Depp. To quote someone else I know, "Doesn't Tim Burton know any other people?" I mean, I like Johnny Depp a lot. I just don't think he's right for Sweeney. Oh well. |
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