Omen

2018-10-19T15:25:52Z

There's a meme circulating connecting the course of your life to the movie that was #1 on the day you were born.

Mine? "Old Yeller".

:sigh:

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2011-03-28T23:29:38Z

It's been a while since I've done a meme, but gryphons_lair tagged me, so....

Question Meme Thingee
Meme via gryphons_lair.

The Rules:
1. People who have been tagged must write the answers on their blog and replace any question they dislike with a new, original question.
2. Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you. (Fat chance. I'll play, but I won't spread the infection.)

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1. Make a list of 5 things you can see without getting up.
Many many books.
A gooseneck lamp.
A broken kitchen timer, the wind-up kind.
One of Gracie's legs. (She's under the chair.)
A framed print of Maxfield Parrish's Ecstasy

2. How do you style your hair?
When it's short, in the warm months, I sweep it straight back, no part. In the cold months, I let it have its own way, pretty much. (It's long and unwieldy enough, just now, that I'm really longing for warm weather to return....)

3. What are you wearing now?
Long-sleeved heavy plaid shirt.
Plain dark-tan pants, of some very soft and comfortable material.
Thick wooly tan socks.
The rest is none of your business.

4. What's your occupation?
I'm a professor of mathematics.

5. What do you hear right now?
Sly and the Family Stone's recording of "Family Affair"; not much else audible over that.

6. Who was the last person you hugged?
Probably my sister E., around Christmastime.

7. What are you thinking about right now?
Not much, really. This meme, as much as anything.

8. What did you do today?
Websurfed, went back to bed, got up and had breakfast, refilled the dogs' food and water, websurfed, read the paper and did the sudoku, went to work early to watch a job candidate's research presentation, worked on the prisms paper, gave a lecture on mathematics in the early 18th century, came home, had dinner, websurfed....

9. What song is stuck in your head?
None at the moment. Jimi was singing "Angel" there for a while.

10. If you came across $2,000 (or other currency), would you keep it or turn it in?
I hope I'd turn it in.

11. What was the last thing that you bought?
A bottle of tea from a vending machine.

12. If you could afford to go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Definitely some part of Europe I haven't been to; Spain, most likely, though I'd give some thought to Greece.

13. Where do you see yourself in five minutes?
Heh. Still websurfing.

14. Last book you've read?
The last one I finished was Shaman's Crossing, by Robin Hobb. I'm currently reading a history of the Habsburg Empire by Robert Kann and Jemisin's The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.

15. What was the last movie you saw?
The recent remake of True Grit.

16. If you could have any profession, what would it be?
The one I've got. They pay me to do things I love to do; what's not to like?

17. Favorite food?
Hard to say; they're not linearly ordered. Pad thai, maybe.

18. What is one thing about you most people don't know?
The tip of my left elbow... isn't there; I shattered it and smashed the bursa horsing around in high school

19. What are you looking forward to the most?
Hard to choose between RenoVation, finishing the prisms paper, and teaching a graduate course in topology this summer.

20. Did you replace many questions?
None.

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"I Write Like..."

2010-07-15T20:08:05Z

This is a meme (pronounced "me-me") that's been popping up here and there, supposedly comparing the writing style of a given text to those of thirty or so well-known authors. I fed it three of my recent LJ posts, "Doors", "Green Patches & Danellians", and "The Path to Power".

"Doors", a pair of anecdotes about Buster, me, and doors, wound up as "like J. K. Rowling".

"Green Patches & Danellians", a critical comment on a couple of SF writers, scored as "like Isaac Asimov". (The Good Doctor, of course, was one of the writers I was talking about.)

"The Path to Power", a brief discussion of Robert Caro's biography of LBJ, was... "like H. P. Lovecraft".

Mm-hm. :backs away slowly:

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stoutfellow

Omen

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"I Write Like..."