Month: February 2006

This is just too cool for words. I definitely plan to have one of these in my next house… I might even tell my wife about it.

… and I’ll say it again. Lego is GOD

Case in point # 578430750367362698546845986

Lego Pinball

Until further notice, I’ve gone walkabout.

I’ll post again if and when I can.

Okay, I’ve been watching the annoying NBC coverage of the Olympics (annoying because it’s piecemeal coverage at best, especially if no Americans are competing in the said event) and they’ve been repeatedly showing these stupid Lunesta sleep aid commercials and I’m getting rather annoyed with them. I’m sure you’ve seen them, they’re the ones that show the neon green glowing butterfly hovering evilly over some passed out adults. In my mind they give me the opinion that they aren’t a sleep aid, but a hallucinogen. I mean come on, if something makes me see glowing neon green butterflies after I take them, and I continue to see this evil green bug the next day then I think I’ve got bigger problems than sleep deprivation.

Then again what the hell do I know.

So I’m sitting here casually staring at the stats pages that have been generated by my new webhost for the site and pondering their ramifications.

It seems I’m transferring about 1mb a day in bandwidth, the bulk of which is images. This had me worried at first because I was under the misconception that my package provided me with 50mb of transfer a month. Thankfully I was mistaken and it’s in fact GB rather than MB. Talk about me breathing a sigh of relief because at the rate I was going I suspected I was going to have to switch either to a bigger plan or to another host. Thankfully I’m just an idiot who can’t read.

Still though, I’m surprised at the 1mb a day transfer. That seems fairly high in my mind for a site as low impact as mine is but honestly what do I know. This is the first time I’ve had transfer/bandwidth stats available to see what the site is doing. Maybe for what I have 1mb/day IS a good gauge. I guess I’ll just have to watch and see.

Sadly, I forgot to upload my robots.txt file in my root directory when I transferred the site across and ended up with roughly 90% of the hits I received in the first day being bots and spiders crawling all over the site. Now that I’ve got that taken care of though, the hits from them have diminished a fair bit. Hopefully, that’ll stem the tide of the little nosy buggers.

Anyways, the new host seems to be fine for now. I’ll let you know how it goes.

It’s Thursday and therefore I shall waste your time with another stupid quiz that I stumbled across on the net recently.

This time, It’s the “Which Sci-Fi Crew would you most likely fit in with.”

My results, as you can see, are unsurprising.

You scored as Serenity (Firefly). You like to live your own way and don’t enjoy when anyone but a friend tries to tell you should do different. Now if only the Reavers would quit trying to skin you. Serenity (Firefly) 94% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 81% Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 75% Moya (Farscape) 69% FBI’s X-Files Division (The X-Files) 69% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 50% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 50% SG-1 (Stargate) 50% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 50% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 44% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 44% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 31% Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: Which sci-fi crew would you best fit in with?created with QuizFarm.com

Note: For those of you who’re playing along at home and are wondering why this post has today’s date rather than Thursday’s, especially when the post makes reference to it being Thursday, you can blame a wonky Blogger reset of some sort that reverted my blog back to an earlier version prior to this post having been made. So being the kind hearted soul that I am (read: Anal loser who hates it when things don’t go the way he planned) I’ve recreated this wonderful post for you all to play with once more. Enjoy

I stumbled across these interesting little psychological puzzles (for lack of a better word) a few minutes ago and found the concept of self-examination and comparision to my peers intriguing so I figured I’d post them here and see what results my intrepid following (that’s you guys) turn up.

Yoda Greg

Darth Gregory

This is Only a Test.

Had it been anything other than a test it would’ve included an annoying high pitched noise and information about where the hell to go and what to do and with whom to do it.

Thankfully there are no high pitched droning noises here to set your teeth on edge. Instead, all you will find is me making sure the ftp settings for my new host are properly enabled and that I can continue to publish the blog and serve you people up with more doses of my witty banter and effervescent charm.

If you can read this then everything works. If not, then I’m just blathering mindlessly to myself and will never know.

Just wanted to let my loyal 3 and a half readers know that I’m going to be transferring the site to a new web host in the next day or two, so you might experience some difficultly connecting to the site depending on how long it takes the DNS to populate with the new nameservers.

I’ll let you know when things settle down again.

PS – Jon (aka Truth), I emailed you but you never responded back you rat bastard 😛

Bleah. I’m bored. So here’s a series of stupid quizzes that I churned up while dredging through teh intarweb in an effort to alleviate my boredom. (and no Shane, I didn’t get the first one from you so, as the Soup Nazi would say… “NO SOUP FOR YOU!”)

You are a Social Liberal (71% permissive) and an… Economic Liberal (20% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

INFP – the Healer You scored 9% I to E, 10% N to S, 38% F to T, and 63% J to P!

You are more introverted than extroverted. You are more intuitive than observant, you are more feeling based than thinking based, and you prefer to go with the flow rather than having a plan. Your type can best be summarized by the word “Healer”, which belongs to the larger group of idealists. You have a capacity for caring that is deeper than most. You strive for unity, are fascinated by the battles between good and evil, and can be something of an idealist. Only 1% of the population shares your type. As a romantic partner, you are usually supprtive and nuturing, however, you have a high need for individuality. Harmony is extremely important to you as you are very affected by conflict and tension, which also makes you resist confronting your partner directly about problems. When you get angry, you usually blame yourself, rather than your partner. You can also be stubborn and unyielding when you feel you are being criticized or mistreated. You feel the most appreciated when your partner listens to you carefully. You need to be understood. You need to hear your partner express their feelings, the more often, the better. Your group summary: idealists (NF) Your type summary: INFP

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 9% on I to E You scored higher than 4% on N to S You scored higher than 30% on F to T You scored higher than 69% on J to P

Link: The LONG Scientific Personality Test written by unpretentious2 on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Gust ~ 55% Water ~ 70% Wind ~ 44% Earth ~ 55% Fire ~

I want to live where the sky is big Simple and free… Let?s see… your personality reminds me of the… …cool Sapphire, the non-red corundum, or its little brother, the Blue Topaz. Your colours are azure, indigo, and a bright yellow or gold. Interpretation: Out of the seven chakras, the Throat Chakra, which is associated with the element of wind and represents our desire to learn and communicate, seems to be predominant in you. Though this means you are probably the smartest one among your friends, it may result in feeling stressed or nervous or becoming too much of a perfectionist. You can balance it by wearing a Rose Quartz; its soothing attributes help unwind, enable you to “love thyself”, and accept limitations. A Tarot references concerning your predominant element: If you are a young lass or lad and still unmarried your card is the Page of Swords. Young women, especially married ones, identify with the Queen of Swords, also known as the Queen of Spades. If you are a young, unmarried man, you are the Knight of Swords, and married or ?mature? males are identified with the King of Sword, commonly known as the King of Spades. Ladies and gentlemen, here is your intelligent man you?ve been looking for. These are the results you will get if you score highly on… None of the four elements: Balance Wind: Gust Fire: Blaze Water: River Earth: Valley Wind & Fire: Thunder Wind & Water: Clouds Wind & Earth: Canyon Fire & Earth: Lava Fire & Water: Tornado Water & Earth: Trees Wind, Fire & Earth: Storm Wind, Fire & Water: Stars Wind, Water & Earth: Forest Fire, Water & Earth: Avalanche All four elements: Harmony

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 44% on water You scored higher than 31% on wind You scored higher than 8% on earth You scored higher than 20% on fire

Link: The Elemental Balance Test written by Nitsuki on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Arcane Trickster 40% Combativeness, 60% Sneakiness, 82% Intellect, 47% Spirituality

Brilliant and sneaky: You are an Arcane Trickster! Score! You have a prestige class. A prestige class can only be taken after you’ve fulfilled certain requirements. This may mean that you’re an exceptionally talented person, but it probably doesn’t. Arcane Tricksters combine arcane magic with rogue skills and sensibilities. They use their magic to confuse their opponents or to augment their more mundane, roguish skills. If you thought it was annoying keeping an eye that that rogue, the Arcane Trickster is probably picking your pocket from the other side of the room. Both smart and sneaky, you’re probably the type of person that loves planning practical jokes… either that or knocking over banks.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 20% on Combativeness You scored higher than 86% on Sneakiness You scored higher than 76% on Intellect You scored higher than 51% on Spirituality

Link: The RPG Class Test written by MFlowers on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Thoth Indeed, you are 70% erudite, 62% sensual, 58% martial, and 58% saturnine.

Thoth, the Egyptian God of secret wisdom, intellect, geometry and other forms of higher mathematics, was also the God of books and learning, of writing and numbers. And above all, he was the God of Magic. Indeed, he was the first and greatest of all magicians, said to create miracles from nothing by the mere vibrations of his voice alone. Within his main temple were said to be stored his books of magic which were open for the edification of all, providing those absorbing this magic understood its sacred content. Over the centuries, these books were said to have been carefully translated by various priests of secret orders until finally, the Greeks compiled them as the works of Hermes Trismegistus. One book most everyone is familiar with which is attributed to the mysteries of the God Thoth is the Tarot, considered to be an unbound book of symbols that may be read in an endless variety of sequences imitating the random nature of existence itself. The Fifteen Gods These are the 15 categories of this test. If you score above average in ? ?all or none of the four variables: Dagda. ? Erudite: Thoth. ? Sensual: Frey. ? Martial: Mars. ? Saturnine: Mictlantecuhtli. ? Erudite & Sensual: Amun. ? Erudite & Martial: Odin. ? Erudite & Saturnine: Anubis. ? Sensual & Martial: Zeus. ? Sensual & Saturnine: Cernunnos. ? Martial & Saturnine: Loki. ? Erudite, Sensual & Martial: Lug. ? Erudite, Sensual & Saturnine: Coyote. ? Erudite, Martial & Saturnine: Hades. ? Sensual, Martial & Saturnine: Pan.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 21% on erudite You scored higher than 14% on sensual You scored higher than 54% on martial You scored higher than 46% on saturnine

Link: The Mythological God Test written by Nitsuki on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test