Snuffy!

Your Score: Snuffleupagus

You scored 50% Organization, 38% abstract, and 49% extroverted!

This test measured 3 variables.

First, this test measured how organized you are. Some muppets like Cookie Monster make big messes, while others like Bert are quite anal about things being clean.

Second, this test measured if you prefer a concrete or an abstract viewpoint. For the purposes of this test, concrete people are considered to gravitate more to mathematical and logical approaches, whereas abstract people are more the dreamers and artistic type.

Third, this test measured if you are more of an introvert or an extrovert. By definition, an introvert concentrates more on herself and an extrovert focuses more on others. In this test an introvert was somebody that either tends to spend more time alone or thinks more about herself.

You are somewhat organized, both concrete and abstract, and both introverted and extroverted.

I bet you didn't think you were Snuffleupagus. Let's find out why.

You are both somewhat organized. You have a good idea where you put things and you probably keep your place reasonably clean. You aren't totally obsessed with neatness though. Alloyius Snuffleupagus (and all Snuffleupagus') is not sloppy by nature, but he moves so incredibly slowly that it is impossible for him to be totally organized.

You both are about equally concrete and abstract thinkers. You have a good balance in your life. You know when to be logical at times, but you also aren't afraid to explore your dreams and desires... within limits of course. Snuffy generally has very basic interests, but he explores his abstract sensitive side when he plays his snuffleflute.

You both are somewhat introverted. Originally Snuffleupagus was very shy and was only Big Bird's invisible friend. However as he has aged he has started to build new friendships with new characters. Like Snuffy, you probably like to have some time to yourself. However, you do appreciate spending time with your friends, and you aren't scared of social situations.

The other possible characters are
Oscar the Grouch
Big Bird
Cookie Monster
Ernie
Elmo
Kermit the Frog
Grover
The Count
Guy Smiley
Bert

The Your SESAME STREET Persona Test written by greencowsgomoo on OkCupid

Snuffy!

The Meme of Four

A.) Four jobs I have had in my life (other than current job):
Radio DJ, Pizza Place employee, sno-cone trolley driver, telemarketer.

 

B.) Four movies I would watch over and over:
Star Wars, Serenity, Highlander, The Princess Bride

 

C.) Four places I have lived:
Our first apartment, our second apartment, our 3rd apartment, and my parent's house.

 

D.) Four TV shows that I watch:
Stargate Atlantis, Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles, Smallville, Heroes

 

E.) Four places I have been:
A pizza place, an ice cream shop, a barbershop, a hospital

 

F.) Four people who e-mail me (regularly):
uhm... no one really emails me regularly, and I get many emails each day.

 

G.) Four of my favourite foods:
Pizza, Steak, cake, cinnamon rolls

 

H.) Four places I would rather be right now:
At home, at the library, on a date with my wife, in the car

 

I.) Four Things I am looking forward to this year:
Dating my wife, new phone equipment at work, new training opportunities for work, the new Star Wars Clone Wars animated movie coming out on August 15

 

J.) Four favourite authors:
Jack McDevitt, James Rollins, Alex Archer, E.E. Knight

 

 

The Meme of Four

A Plea

Are there no Geek/Parenting/Christian blog/websites out there?

 

I haven't found any.  I found GeekParenting.com today - no indication it's Christian. I found GeekDads at blogs.wired.com - no luck there.  I found Hipster, Please (via GeekDads and thought he sounded interesting) - nope.  In fact he's quite foul-mouthed (and I just skimmed his front page).

 

I want to find a good website/blog that caters to Geeks who are parents who are Christians. I don't want Creation-bashing, I don't want cursing, I don't want links to NSFW items, ....  Something that caters to geek parents who like Science Fiction and Fantasy, books, TV, Movies, games, computers, comic books, cons, etc. 

 

I understand that some aspects of geekdom may have questionable content (see BSG, or, really any TV series) - but don't shove the questionable content at me just because it's titilating! 

 

It doesn't even have to be overtly Christian in content - as long as I know you're coming from a Christian world-view. I don't expect to read a geek blog and be preached at the same time, or have a book review that includes an altar call. 

 

Can anyone point to a website/blog like that?

 

 

A Plea

Are you on the path to the dark side?

My friend has been begging me to make one of these. She loves those quizes where it decides your " destiny. " So, anyways, here we go.

1. You follow the rules and listen to your master.
a. Yes
b. No
c. What master?

2. You like the color red.
a. No, I'm more for purple.
b. Red rules!
c. Nah, yellow's my thing!

3. You're all for action and killing things.
a. Action, yes, killing, only if needed.
b. YES!!!
c. umm.. Can't just go watch TV?

4. You think it's awesome to crash planes using your mind.
a. Oh yeah!
b. Nah, I like using lightning to throw people out windows.
c. THAT'S POSSIBLE??

5. You like long meetings to talk about promoting padawans to Jedi level.
a. Well, sure. Its always good to have a new Jedi around.
b. No, I would rather spy on the people IN the meeting.
c. Well.. I hate work meetings. And what the heck is a padawan?

Mostly a: You are on the path to a jedi master. Someday, you will be as powerful as Yoda.
Mostly b: You're on the path to the dark side, sadly, this cannot be changed.
Mostly c: You are a human. Not a Jedi, Not a sith.
If you had a tie, and b was one of the most you had, you are automattically on the dark side path
If B was not one of them, you are a Human.

Are you on the path to the dark side?

Two Book Reviews

I've posted both of these reviews at my new Book Review Blog.
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The Double Eagle by James Twining is an adventure novel in the ilk of Dan Brown, but without the religious malarky.

The FBI is investigating the theft of amazingly expensive rare coins from Fort Knox and suspect art thief Tom Kirk. They send in Jennifer Browne, an FBI agent that's been buried in Atlanta because of an incident in her past. She comes to need Kirk's assistance in solving the crime.


This is a good globe trotting action/adventure story with some nice twists and interesting character interaction.

It takes us awhile to learn what Jennifer did in her past that the FBI didn't like. We get Tom's history from two different angles. Characters mentioned briefly at one point early on pop up again later to move the story along and change the dynamics of the story.

I've got the second Tom Kirk novel, The Black Sun, up next on my TBR pile!



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Deeper, by Jeff Long, is a sequel to Descent that came out a few years ago. I enjoyed Descent, though it was dark, morbid, and creepifying. Deeper is too. And gory (I don't recall if Descent was gory).

Deeper takes places 10 years after Descent. The huge expanse of the underworld discovered in Descent is being colonized and exploited in Deeper. But the Subterrain still has an unwelcome effect on most people that spend any time at all below: it can change you physically in the form of physical mutations or just plain drive you crazy.

The residents of the underworld, the Hadals, were thought eradicated in Descent. Some have survived and have kidnapped groups of children from across America on Halloween.

The novel follows two stories: one mother's quest to form an army and recover her beloved daugher, and the only survivor from the first book is searching for the "king" of the underworld, what she thinks is the true Satan.

In between those two main stories, the book also gives us glimpes at a brewing Surface war with China, and conversations between that leader of the underworld and one of his captives. Those conversations hint that this king really is the devil that has lived thousands of years and tinkered with our world from his hiding spot in the bowels of the earth.

As I mentioned, this is a dark book. And gloomy. I'm not sure what the point of the story is. We start out in one place, and apart from the war with China, pretty much end up at just about the same place with no real resolution to anything. It's a quest story where nothing happens besides people dying and going crazy. There's no happy ending here. Although... now that I think about, the main character - Ali from the first book - wants to know what the symbols in the caves mean, and she gets to a point at the end where she can finally spend time figuring them out.

If you like horror/suspense/adventure novels. You might like Deeper, but it's a little too dark for me.

Two Book Reviews

Free is good!

I wish I had an eBook reader.

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I like free stuff. I'm not crazy about reading full-length books on my PC screen though. I've two CD-ROMs full of digital versions of older Baen (I think) books that came packaged with Hard-back novels. Actually, I think one of the CDs has Trek eBooks on it, maybe New Frontier stuff.

But I'd love to have a "real" ebook reader, or even a PDA capable of dispaying ebooks.

Why should you read ebooks? Here's an article with 30 reasons!

And here's a free ebook based on the TV-show Firefly. This one is technically fanfic, since the option to publish it was never picked up.

Free is good!

Me Too!

Two names you go by:
1. Lizzy
2. Elizabeth

Two things you are wearing right now:
1. pants
2. shirt

Two of your favorite things to do:
1. INTERNET!!
2. COMPUTER!!!

Two things you want very badly at the moment:
1. VMK to open
2. VMK to open

Two favorite pets you have had/have:
1. Mo
2. Tribble ( I was actually a baby when these two had to leave )

Two things you did last night:
1. Slept
2. Ah..

Two things you ate today:
1. Frosted Flakes
2. Does milk count?

Two people you last talked to:
1. Mom
2. Alexander

Things you're doing tomorrow:
1. Church
2. chillaxin

Longest trips taken in the last five years
1. Florida
2. Florida

Two favorite holidays:
1. Christmas
2. Thanksgiving

Two favorite beverages:
1. Hawaiin punch
2. Sprite

Me Too!

Two Things

Pretty sure I've done this one before - but here we go!

 

Two names you go by:
1.  Kev
2.  Daddy

 

Two things you are wearing right now:
1.  shirt
2.  wedding ring

 

Two of your favorite things to do:
1.  nap
2.  read

 

Two things you want very badly at the moment:
1.   to win the lottery
2.   to remember to buy a lottery ticket

 

Two favorite pets you have had/have:
1.  Mozart
2.  Tribble

 

Two things you did last night:
1.  worked
2.  slept

 

Two things you ate today:
1.  Mickey D's
2.  Steak & Potato chips from the vending machine

 

Two people you last talked to:
1.  Mom
2.  Some guy that called work.

 

Things you're doing tomorrow:
1.  spending the morning alone with Rubi
2.  working

 

Longest trips taken: in the last five years
1.  Florida
2.  Florida

 

Two favorite holidays:
1.  Christmas
2.  Pay Day

 

Two favorite beverages:
1.  Diet RC
2.  Water

 

 

Two Things

Caffeine

I'm sitting here at work, feeling kinda drowsy and thinking "I should go get a Mt. Dew from the soda machine".

 

But wait!  I have a Snickers Charged (Limited Edition) I bought at Wally-World last night!

It's a Snickers Bar with Caffeine, Taurine and B-Vitamins. 

 

mmmm...caffeine good!

 

So here's the review: looks like a Snickers bar.  Tastes basically like a Snickers bar, but it has an "energy drink" flavor undertone (the taurine?) and aftertaste. 

Not bad. 

 

No noticeable energy enhancement yet (at least, none that can't be attributed to getting up and walking to get the candy bar, then walking to the water fountain to rinse down the aftertaste).

 

 

Caffeine

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