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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
10:24 pm	Am I goung to explode? I am going to my sister's for lunch tomorrow which should be fun (she is a trained caterer - with immagination!). And then, as I will probably only want a snack before bed, I have a crab and prawn roulade for supper. For Chrismas I have smoked salmon and avocado for breakfast, and for the rest of the day I have aromatic duck and a selection of din sum and other tid bits (e.g. Thai fish cakes). The only problem is that the bag of king prawns will not fit (with every thing else) into the rather small freezer compartment of my fridge. I suppose I will just have to eat them... 'Unfortunately' the fresh mackrel needs eating first. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 5th, 2007
11:01 am	Don't mix your Vampires... I have been re-reading Carpe Jugulum but the other day I felt like somthing a little different. I therefore read 'Blood and Whiskey' a side story from the wonderful Preacher series featuring Cassidy the vampire. I thought that the difference in style (satire versus blood-and-guts) would stop the story lines from clashing. Unfortunately my dreams did not agree and I awoke the next morning with a disturbing and confused memory of a 'conversation' (more like a no-holds-barred verbal fencing match) between Cassidy, the arrogant, self-serving, hundred year old adolescent vampire, and Granny Weatherwax, the very powerful, very Moral witch who, rather than putting the fear of god into people, puts the fear of Granny Weatherwax into people, including the gods themselves. Current Mood: pensive Current Music: They're Comming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha! (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 18th, 2007
10:52 pm	Thought for the day... After discussing "sling and arrows" with a nice young lady today she gave me this quote from her mother, which I think is apposite: Keep your friends many but only trust few and always paddle your own canoe. And always remember that just because you are paranoid does not mean to say that 'they' are not out to get you. Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: Us & Them - Floyd (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
10:13 am	Child of the Sixties? Your Score: Hippie You are 42% Rational, 57% Extroverted, 42% Brutal, and 14% Arrogant. You are the Hippie! Characterized by a strong sense of extroversion, irrationality, gentleness, humility, and a faint scent of marijuana, you no doubt frolic through fields preaching peace and free love! Immediately following that, you then frolic to the hospital with herpes! You are probably either very spiritual or needlessly paranoid about "the man", like most hippies, as a result of your focus on intuition and feelings over cold, brutal logic. You probably enjoy poetry, especially beatnik ultra-liberal crap about how horrible fascism is, even though your suburbanized, sheltered idea of "fascism" is having to pay two dollars per gallon at the gas pump. You are also very, very social. And like any hippie who would have no qualms about hitchiking across the country just to meet some interesting people, you also love to interact with others, even complete strangers. Though I highly doubt they love to interact with you! Because we know most any hippie is peace-loving and humble, it stands to reason that you, as well, are terribly gentle and humble, almost to the point of revulsion. Your carefree attitude of peace and harmony is probably very, very sickening to realists or cynics or anyone who isn't a hippie, to tell the truth. In short, your personality is defective because you are overly emotional, extroverted, gentle, and humble--thus making you an annoying hippie. Now go do your drugs and have sex with filthy bearded men in tye dye shirts. To put it less negatively: 1. You are more INTUITIVE than rational. 2. You are more EXTROVERTED than introverted. 3. You are more GENTLE than brutal. 4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant. Compatibility: Your exact opposite is the Sociopath. Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hand-Raiser, the Televangelist, and the Robot. * * If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits. The other personality types: The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble. The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble. The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble. The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble. The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble. The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble. The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble. The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble. The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant. Be sure to take my Sublime Philosophical Crap Test if you are interested in taking a slightly more intellectual test that has just as many insane ramblings as this one does! About Saint_Gasoline I am a self-proclaimed pseudo-intellectual who loves dashes. I enjoy science, philosophy, and fart jokes and water balloons, not necessarily in that order. I spend 95% of my time online, and the other 5% of my time in the bathroom, longing to get back on the computer. If, God forbid, you somehow find me amusing instead of crass and annoying, be sure to check out my blog and my webcomic at SaintGasoline.com. Link: The Personality Defect Test written by saint_gasoline on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test Current Mood: mellow (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
5:01 pm	I'm a Runester! Your Score: Older Futhark You scored Language of the Norse, Older Futhark! Twenty four symbols, all told. And no hardier, more warrior-like tongue has ever graced the longships of the Viki or left the Celts and Saxons in such quivering fear. There's only one drawback, that being you died 800 years ago. Link: The Which Ancient Language Are You Test written by imipak on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test Current Mood: chipper Current Music: Babayaga (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, December 4th, 2006
1:31 am	The World at my Fingertips... ... at last. I have, at last, got home internet access again! While I do have access at work I don't have much time during the day and by the end of it I just want to go home, so I do little more than check my emails. Besides, there is a manager who has a habit of peering over one's shoulder, even when he know you are there out of hours working on something personal. Grrr... Mind you, not everything is quite perfect (is it ever). The ISP are still doing commissioning tests which means that every so often the link goes away. Only a few more days of that to go though (we've been told). Current Mood: Mellowish Current Music: Confortably Numb (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
2:21 pm	Gender Quiz I just took this gender quiz... You scored as Male. Being mostly male, within your structures of thinking simply means that your reasoning powers are (the way they are perceived in Western Culture`) higher than the one of the opposite sex. Psychoanalsis claims this to come at the price of creative expression - a rational thinker can not think out of the box, it is claimed. Yet this 'discovery' contradicts the fact that many great minds that created something out of the ordinary were men. </td> Male 61% Female 61% Either 54% Neither 39% Should you be MALE or FEMALE?* created with QuizFarm.com Now what does it say about a person when they are considered to be more that 50% male and more than 50% female. Apart from "Odd" that is! Current Mood: Bemused (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, July 14th, 2006
10:22 pm	Thought of the Day... There is no such this as 'bad weather' only the wrong clothes. [Billy Connolly] Current Mood: sleepy (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
9:44 pm	What is beer? Sugar from barley The flowers of hemps cousin And a little mould. Current Mood: thirsty (Comment on this)
9:34 pm	If you don't ask you don't get... Well... There I was in Cash Converters ("we'll give you cash for anything we reckon we can sell" type pawnbrokers) buying of all things a VCR. Well it had Freeview (terrestrial digital TV & radio) and was about the same price as a set-top-box. As it turns out Film Four are moving to Freeview in a couple of weeks – Tasty!! Now, being a cheeky sod, I have a tendency, as I usually pay cash, to say “any discount for cash” (or words to that effect). Well knock me down with a wet bar towel… the chap said “I’ll see what I can do”. And lo and behold, a few button presses later, he gave me a fiver off! Now this is not a market stall, it’s part of a big chain, but it would appear that there is more truth than I thought in the saying “If you don’t ask, you don’t get” Current Mood: mellow Current Music: ... of the Spheres (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 11th, 2006
1:04 pm	Whose Quote... For those you you who wondered like me... "Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods," From Horatius by Thomas Babbington Macaulay Current Mood: chipper (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
9:39 pm	Funny Slip I was watching daytime telly (oh the joys of shiftwork!) when they were discussing the superstitions surrounding the date ie 6/6/06. The 'expert' mentioned that a number of Christians believe that 'deserving people' would be transported bodily to heaven. "So, we are going to see the sudden disappearence of large numbers of Evangelists then?" said the presenter. "We can but hope!" replied the expert immediately, before looking slightly sheepish at being so blunt. I had me whooping with laughter. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Jack in the Green (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 4th, 2006
4:34 pm	I need a holiday... I had hoped to take a couple of days off from work but just because a bunch over rated, over paid pseudo ballet dancers playing a glorified version of 'Piggy-in-the-Middle' at various locations in Germany in the next few weeks it's all hands to the pump. To insult to injury the 'Cup' they are playing for looks less like a 'Cup' and more like a sex aid for a rhinoceros. And to think that I use to think that Cricket was boring (well, I still do, actually) :-p Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: They're comming to take me away (I wish!) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, June 2nd, 2006
10:05 am	Eletronic Agoraphobia There are times when I find that the internet gives me a kind of intellectual agoraphobia. While listening to the World Service I heard that they have numerous podcasts available. So I was having a rummage around their website to see what was available and discovered another site which is a open access archive put together by the BBC, Channel 4, The Open University and several others. The mind boggles! If this stuff in available then what else? I have only recently been trying (not very successfully) to get my head around the number of E-Books out there [I recently had to back up my small library and it took up not a CD but a whole DVD - and even then it did not quite fit!]. I have passed many happy hours 'playing' with putting odd words like "feral" into the Google picture search, but Ye Gods!! this is taking things to a whole new level. It makes the Elephant's Child even more hungry and it difficult enough to feed as it is. Just to scratch the surface not only am I going to have to get a very substantial lottery win, but I am also going to have to work out how to live for several (if not many) hundreds of years. I just hope it will still be here when I come back in the next life....... Current Mood: bewilderd Current Music: Also sagt Zarathustra (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
12:21 am	Moral Thought of the Day... Sex is never wrong/immoral if you both (all) enjoy it. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 27th, 2006
9:30 pm	Thought of the day A man who cannot change his mind is in danger of losing it altogether. Current Mood: sleepy (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
6:07 pm	Naughty me... I have just signed up to spend the princely sum of £10 per month for the privilege of playing on the internet down the pub... well a lot of pubs - and coffee shops - and stations - in fact pretty much anywhere there is a WiFi hot spot. Ok, so it is only a little four hours a month but the excess is only 10p a minute, and most of what I want to do can be done offline and uploaded once I log in. It might mean that I post here more often... you never know! Current Mood: optimistic Current Music: Rockin' all over the World (Comment on this)
Monday, May 8th, 2006
12:39 am	Hapless Hoodies... Why are hoodies so scary? Homo Spapiens [what does 'sapiens' mean again?] is a primate and as such needs to live in groups. More than that: each individual needs to know their place in the group. When the group get to big this primordial, hard-wired need cannot be satisfied so the need for ingrouping has to be satisfied in other ways. Hoodies are a tool for in-grouping. It is a very effective tool: those wearing hoodies are only known to members of their own group, and to out-groupers they appear a cohesive ‘gang’ of ‘outsiders’ – and xenophobia is the deepest of all primate phobias. [Perhaps Jonathan Swift would suggest that no children should be allowed to be raised in any conurbation bigger than a large village.] The problem is exacerbated by the fact that this method is used by those who feel ‘outcast’. They react to this by very strong, almost ritual, in-grouping which in turn ‘out-groups’ all others: and when a bunch of surly teenagers want to fend off others – it is felt. Curiously these self exiled have not lost their humanity. My sister is frequently helped to get the baby-buggy off the bus, for example, by youths who, in other circumstances, she would feel intimidated by. I personally would, I think be more intimidated by a train-spotter, or someone who can quote virtually every line of Star Trek Classic (let alone knowing the full cast list for each episode!). Perhaps Jonathan Swift would suggest that no children should be allowed to be raised in any conurbation bigger than a large village. Current Mood: cynical Current Music: I'm going Slightly Mad - Queen (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
12:32 am	Red Shirts... I know that "Red Shirt" is a pretty universal term, and that is very often possible to recognise them the first time they open their mouthes, but are there different types of Red Shirt? This was brought to my attention while watching a rather good B-movie [often better than a mediocre 'A-movie'] and one of the characters denied the existence of any 'evil spirit' [classic!!] but the character himself was decidedly nasty. My reaction was "Evil Red Shirt" - and as it turned out I was right :-p Now what about other categories of Red Shirt? How about a benign red shirt - Obi-Wan Kenobi? Or non-human Red Shirt - Hal in "2001 - Space Odyssey"? Well, it was just a thought - and one I may well comment on later... Current Mood: thoughtful Current Music: Dance Macabre (Comment on this)
Friday, July 22nd, 2005
11:40 pm	Thought about lies... Now the old Adversary, somtimes known as Shaitan or whatever, is supposed to be the father of lies. What if this is a mistranslation and he/she/it is actually the father/mother/source of deception? It makes more sense to me that deception is something to be reviled thater than mere fibs. Current Mood: thoughtful (Comment on this)