Cut for those who don't want to know.

( Results for the quiz 'Do you have an inclination for BDSM?' )

Just finished watching the first four Harry Potter movies and taking notes for my sunday school class tomorrow, we'll be looking for examples of the Unitarian Universalist core values in the series. I also made up a Quidditch board game for us to play, it's pretty simple, but Jenn and I playtested it this morning, it's not bad. I've got a little bit of typing and cutting to do before I can go to bed, but other than that I'm all set. I don't think I want to put the work off for quite as long next time, we'll see what happens.

In the mean time, I took a Sorting Hat quiz. I got a 77% match for Ravenclaw, 70% for Hufflepuff, and 56% for both Gryffindor and Slytherin.

I wasn't going to participate in this meme, but I thought the result was amusing.

E : Unbelievably great in bed.
L : Unbelievably great in bed.
L : Unbelievably great in bed.
I : Great in bed.
O : Awesome kisser.
T : You're loyal to those you love.


Key:


A: You like to drink
B : You like people.
C : You are really silly.
D : One in a million.
E : Unbelievably great in bed.
F : You are dead sexy.
G : You never let people tell you what to do.
H : You are Quirky.
I : Great in bed.
J : People Adore you
K : You're wild and crazy.
L : Unbelievably great in bed.
M : Best kisser ever.
N : You like to drink.
O : Awesome kisser.
P : You are popular with all types of people.
Q : You are a hypocrite.
R : Fuckin crazy.
S : Easy to fall in love with
T : You're loyal to those you love.
U : You really like to chill.
V : You are not judgmental.
W : You are very broad minded.
X : You never let people tell you what to do.
Y : Best boy/girl friend any one can ask for.
Z : Always ready.

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favourite Movie:
5. Favourite Song or Album:
6. Favourite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favourite memory of us?
14. What is your favourite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarkey) - what are they :
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favourite subject at school:
22. Describe your accent:
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

The rules are simple. Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation what the word means to you and why, and than pass out letters to those who want to play along.

I was worried I'd need a dictionairy, but here's what I came up with without one.

Queso: as in salsa con. The only edible orange oil product that I love, the only overpriced item in the movie concessions I don't mind shelling out for.

Quixotic: I really don't like it when people get all bent out of shape before they have all the facts, especially when they're protesters.

Quality: I believe it isn't always tied to price, especially when it comes to food and drink. For example, I finally found a chuck roast the other day, and it was very cheap. Using it in a pot roast recipe that called for it though, it turned out better than any other cut has. Have the right ingredients, the right tools, and the results are always excellent.

Quiet: Silence is golden, I never have enough of it. I get bothered by people who assume all silences are akward silences and need to fill them with pointless babbling.

Quench: I love a cold beer on a hot day. Throw in a Hawaiian shirt, a burning grill, and a happy Jenn, and I am in paradise.

Questions: Life is full of mysteries, but I don't think it's profound to dwell on the fact that we don't know things. On the other hand, postulating answers to unsolvable questions is fun. Lots of people say "What is the meaning of life?", but they never ask about the meanings of thought, matter and energy. Personally, I think these things don't have meanings, they just exist. Why they exist, now that's interesting.

Quest: I have a paladin with a built in quest full of plot hooks that I really want to play in a low level D&D game, but few people are willing to tell, especially only every fourth saturday, which is my ideal gaming schedule.

Queer: As in odd, as opposed to homosexual. My interests and omnipresent sense of humour are firmly entrenched in weirdness for weirdness' sake.

Quarry: There are only two sets I need to complete my Star Wars Lego collection up untill 2006, both of which are shop at home exclusives, and I kind of miss being out and about on the hunt for that one set that's on sale. Jenn and I have been stocking up on DVDs though, so I get to do a little with that.

Quintessential: A bucket of quintessential awesomeness, thrown against a wall and then scraped off and placed onto a t-shirt. Best drunken Derekism ever.



Originally, my list included these words, but they're made-up words, so it felt like cheating.

Quarren: The squid-faced guys from Star Wars. Seeing octopus while scuba diving is cool, but I don't want to see squids because I think they're scary.

Qrrbrbirlbel: The name of the town in the Demented Cartoon Movie. Go watch it if you have a spare half hour. (Warning: re-read Queer)

Q: Well, I included a Star Wars reference, and I love Star Trek too. I loved the use of Q to establish Captain Sisko's character in the beginning of Station 9 from Deep Space.

Qui-Gon Jinn: My favourite Star Wars character, because he was pragmatic and dynamic, as opposed to restrained in dogma like the rest of the jedi. If his lightsaber is ever produced as a Force FX model, my wallet will be in trouble.

Big politics meme:
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Stephen appears to be some kind of mousy high school girl who's started making out with all the boys to get attention.

S	Sweet
T	Timeless
E	Easy
P	Plain
H	Humorous
E	Easy
N	Neglected

Name / Username:

Name Acronym Generator
From Go-Quiz.com

bumbot is more interesting.

B	Brilliant
U	Unnatural
M	Modern
B	Boisterous
O	Odd
T	Technological

Name / Username:

Name Acronym Generator
From Go-Quiz.com

So I was looking for some wallpapers. I decided to look for Qui-Gon Jinn wallpapers, because Qui-Gon is my favourite Star Wars character, and came across qui-gonline, a site that crawls with a cootie-ridden fangirlyness. It did reveal some interesting stuff about the whole Jedi ghost thing that was supposed to be explained in episode 3. According to the script, all beings join the force when they die, but they can't maintain their own identity. Qui-Gon found a way to do this, but his technique was incomplete, which is why he didn't disappear and can only be heard as a ghost and not seen (go to the faq section of qui-gonline for excerpts). In order to do this you have to be incredibly in tune with the living force (compassion?), as opposed to the unifying force (destiny?), which is why the Sith never figured it out and the Jedi thought it was impossible. Kind of neat, eh?

Also, Master Replicas is putting out a Qui-Gon Jinn lightsaber later this year, but it looks like it won't be the light-up FX type, so my wallet is safe for now.

They also had some interesting links. Two of note:

The Jar Jargonizer: A utility to translate web pages into Jar Jar speak. I suggest you copy and paste this URL: http://www.kavinay.com/noodlings/2006/01/election_2006_harpers_a_trekkie.php

Find your Star Wars Twin: A personality test (reportedly) made by a psychologist, which you may optionally give miscellaneous data to for studies. Click to see my Star Wars Personality.

This made me think of the other Star Wars Character test at Sluis-Van. Just took it again, still Luke Skywalker.

As for the wallpaper, here's one I thought was pretty cool (and well photoshopped too) from theforce.net.

A meme from legacyofty's LJ

1.) Go to http://images.google.com/
2.) Answer the following questions by searching for the answer to each question.
3.) Use the FIRST image Google gives you and paste! (OK, you can cheat and be a little selective to make it more creative/work-safe/educational)
Here are the questions you must answer using the first images Google has given you:
1.) This is what comes up when I type in my name.
2.) This is my favorite animal.
3.) This is what comes up when I type in my mother's name.
4.) This is where I live.
5.) This is where I want to live.
6.) This is my favorite food.
7.) This is my favorite musician.
8.) This is my favorite actor/actress.
9.) This describes how I feel right now (use the word that best expresses your feelings at this very moment).
10.) This is what I want to share with the world

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And now, a rating of my sins:

Greed:	Medium
Gluttony:	Low
Wrath:	Very Low
Sloth:	High
Envy:	Very Low
Lust:	Medium
Pride:	Very Low

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I find it odd that greed is higher than gluttony.

So here's what I've done lately:

Saturday Dec. 3rd, Jenn and I bought a tree, and my dad drove it home for us, and helped me carry it in. Then we bought rum, eggnog and groceries, and set about decorating while playing some christmas cds. The next day we went out to Granville Island in search of tree toppers. There was one, and I don't mean one style, I mean ONE tree topper for sale on the whole island. And it was ugly, in that kitchy style of "this was hand crafted so I'm going to purposefully make it look like it was done by a bored 8th grader who wants to go home, and it's rough and vague appearance will allow snobby artsy types to buy it and think they're better than everyone else because they have hand crafted stuff", which seems to be very popular in some shops. The thing about massed produced items that don't look like junk is they were molded from a hand crafted prototype to begin with. Machines can't make things look better on their own, you still need to get a skilled artist to make it in the first place, so why not make professional looking hand crafted items? Then again, what would snobby artsy types want to buy then? Anyway, after lunch at Memphis Blues we went to the self-proclaimed Christmas Headquarters (or whatever), meaning the Bay downtown. They do have some impressive displays (the purple and black "gothy christmas" is particularly amusing), where we found a nice, medium sized angel for our tree that we could agree on. Then we visited my father-in-law's horse, which took a little longer than I wanted but it was OK (I probably should have gone home and let it be a father-daughter thing, because I had to work the next day). Wednesday I went shopping, and was rather successful, and thursday I did approximately nothing. I worked the weekend, and this morning Jenn and I went out to see the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. All in all, it was good. Good casting, good treatment, good effects. Some highlights for me are:
-the minotaurs. Damned impressive creature effects.
-that bit with the sword on the frozen river. Much like the running down the stairs in Moria in Fellowship of the Rings, it wasn't in the book, but it was a worthy action sequence to throw in.
-Peter is still a paladin, but they played up his flaws a little more than in the book. They actually played up Susan and Lucy's flaws too, I think to show that it wasn't just Edmund who was imperfect. The neat thing about this is that most Paladin types are entirely devoid of personality (no room for character amid all that righteousness?), but that wasn't the case here.
My only real complaint is that there were a couple of places that I felt the sound should have been more overwhelming, echoing and thunderous, as opposed to just slightly louder than normal (the table breaking and one or two of Aslan's roars). Definitely worth the watch, though. (Especially if you can catch the trailer for Lady in the Water as well).

Now I'm off to buy groceries and cook up a storm, and tomorrow I should swim and assemble Lego. We'll see what happens.

Actual update to follow in the next couple days, I hope:



What does your handwriting say about YOU?

The results of your analysis say:

You plan ahead, and are interested in beauty, design, outward appearance, and symmetry.
You are a person who thinks before acting, intelligent and thorough.
You are diplomatic, objective, and live in the present.
You are a talkative person, maybe even a busybody!
You are self-confident and like to bring attention to yourself.

Yeah, real talkative. Just ask my co-workers.

Hobbit


To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?
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Makes sense to me. Every time I watch those movies, Hobbiton always strikes me as the most beautiful of all the settings by far. Last night Jenn and I watched the featurette about how Hobbiton was built, and I thought that it would have been awesome if they'd actually made all the buildings real and turned it into a hotel after. I don't have any inclination to travel really, but I would be ecstatic to stay in Hobbiton for a week.

Apparently I have missed another fun party because it was scheduled for a weekend I work again. Almost makes me wonder what good my three-extra-days-off-in-a-two-week-period are if things keep happening when I'm at work (unless they're things I'm not interested in), when a randomly set event should have a 50% chance of me being able to go. Gr. In all fairness, only Jenn knows what my schedule is, so I shall endeavour to post my weekends off for the next two months at the beginning of each month, starting now.

August:
12-14
26-28

September:
9-11
23-25

And here's a meme which I found to have an acceptable result:

The Simple Geek You answered 70% of the questions as a geek truly would.

You don't seem to sway in either direction, however you still seem to have some latent geek attributes within you. Maybe you're interested in computers but not a gamer? Maybe you've got geek hobbies but none of the awkward social tendencies. You may be slightly geekier than you thought and in denial! The simple geek usually has various quirks that friends may make fun of, but in general can be considered a fairly normal person. Your geek attributes make you less likely to conform to society. The popular kids don't hate you but the geeks don't either, so it's a respectable demographic. In a nutshell, you answered enough questions with geek tendencies and enough questions without geek tendencies that it's difficult to pinpoint your exact alignment.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 35% on geekness

Link: The True Geek Test written by ambientred on Ok Cupid

Well, it's better than hurting myself again. Apparently I'd make a timid and nerdy wizard. Or maybe I just answered the questions like a timid nerd.

10", Oak, Dragon You scored 57 wisdom, 16 bravery, 10 emotional, and 27 martyrdom!

Oak signifies wisdom, endurance, protection, and authority. Your dragon's heartstring core makes your wand very effective in hexes.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 95% on wisdom You scored higher than 0% on bravery You scored higher than 6% on emotional You scored higher than 86% on martyrdom

Link: The Harry Potter Wand Test written by sputnik845 on Ok Cupid

You Are The Wayfarer Guide
"I'll show you the way."
Your deep insight and quick wisdom never ceases to amaze those around you. You are the guiding light for many of those you know and are not afraid to help anyone else who asks. Not very many acknowledge your tremendous help and effort, but you do not mind that so much. You've seen what is in store for them, and will be there should they need your help. You enjoy people in general, but are very selective of who you let see the real you. Others see you as an enigma of sorts, a mystery that is seemingly ever changing.

Which Classic Story Role Do You Play?
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For those of you who don't read subject lines, I didn't invent this:

I want anyone and EVERYONE who reads this to post in here something they would like to do with me someday.

Then post this in your journal to find out what people want to do with you.