Don't Be Offended

Here is a link to a blog I regularly read and on which I often comment.

This thread hasn't garnered many responses because it basically speaks for itself.

My comment is the second one.

Personality Results

Advanced Global Personality Test Results Extraversion |||||||||||| 46% Stability |||||||||| 33% Orderliness |||||||||||||||||| 80% Accommodation |||||| 30% Interdependence |||||||||||| 50% Intellectual |||||||||||| 50% Mystical |||||| 23% Artistic |||||||||||||||| 63% Religious |||| 16% Hedonism |||||||||||| 50% Materialism |||||||||||||||||||| 90% Narcissism |||||||||||||||| 70% Adventurousness |||||| 30% Work ethic |||||||||||||||| 63% Self absorbed |||||||||||||||| 70% Conflict seeking |||||| 23% Need to dominate |||||||||||||| 56% Romantic |||||||||||| 50% Avoidant |||||||||||| 50% Anti-authority |||||||||||||||||| 76% Wealth |||| 16% Dependency |||| 16% Change averse |||||||||||||||| 70% Cautiousness |||||||||||||||| 70% Individuality |||||||||||||||| 70% Sexuality |||||||||||||| 56% Peter pan complex |||||| 30% Physical security |||||||||||||||||| 76% Physical Fitness |||||||||||||||||| 77% Histrionic |||||||||||||| 56% Paranoia |||||||||||||||| 70% Vanity |||||| 30% Hypersensitivity |||||||||||||||| 70% Indie |||||||||||| 43%

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Too bad this thing cuts off half the results. I didn't paste everything because it was full of conflicting data.

It shows I am 70% self absorbed but in the summation I left out it called me altruistic. It called me 16% mystical when I said "very inaccurate" to questions such as "Belief in God affects what I do." Wow, 90% materialistic? I guess because I said I didn't think I had enough money. Another contradiction was that it says I am 70% individualistic but told me in the summation that I don't like to stand out. Who analyzes this stuff?

I suppose no one knows how accurate a thing like this can be.

Oddest Title Of The Year Needs No Explanation

I thought my book-loving friends would enjoy this article. Though I want to make the argument that "I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen" is a far more strange title than the winner.

LONDON — Good advice? Maybe. Oddest book title of 2007 — that's official.

"If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs" has won the Diagram Prize for the oddest title of the year, The Bookseller magazine announced Friday.

Big Boom, the apparently pseudonymous author, calls it a "self-help book, written by a man for the benefit of women."

It's a book, he writes, that is "raw, honest and about you," distilling "the sweat off my back, the wrinkles in my forehead from anger and thinking all the time."

The title triumphed in a public vote over runner-up "I Was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen" and the third-place finisher, "Cheese Problems Solved."

Truth About Cats And Dogs

My observation:

If you have a cat: your life revolves around the cat. You have a cat because you want a self-sufficient pet. But you inevitably will spend much time trying to make the cat into a cuddly, snuggly little baby that will want to curl up in your lap, sleep under the covers with you, etc.

If you have a dog: your dog's life revolves around you. He cannot function without your help. You have a dog because you want someone to love you as much as you love him.

Contrary to cats, dogs love you no matter what. They love you as much as you love them at least. You can love a cat all you want but in the end he will only love you enough to get what he wants.

Cat people spend their time trying to turn their kitties into doggies, and dog people spend their time turning their doggies into children.

The Fanged Teeth Weren't Enough Of A Sign

You Could Be a Vampire... If You Had To

Like most people, the thought of being a vampire has crossed your mind. But you're not sure if you'd do it, even if you could. Living forever doesn't sound half bad, if you could live forever with the people you love the most. But do vampires even love? And would the vampire version of you even be you? It's all too much to contemplate. Luckily, the chances of you ever becoming a vampire are astronomically low. What you would like best about being a vampire: Living forever What you would like least about being a vampire: Blood stained teeth

Could You Be a Vampire?

I Couldn't Resist

This is a long video but worth the time. If you don't even know why you are voting for someone, why vote at all? THIS is why no one worthwhile EVER gets elected.

How Could I Resist?

LIHUE, Hawaii - A man hoping to cheer up an ailing relative at Wilcox Memorial Hospital hadn't considered one of the visitation rules: No horses allowed.

The man thought the patient would enjoy seeing his stallion, said Lani Yukimura, a spokeswoman at the hospital. He and the horse entered the hospital earlier this month and rode an elevator up to the third floor, where they were met and stopped by security personnel.

Security managed to get the man and the horse out of the hospital, with "just a few scuff marks," she said.

The hospital has a pet visitation policy, but it's for dogs and cats, not horses.

"On Kauai, we have a very warm inviting atmosphere at Wilcox," Yukimura said. "We just hope people understand this is not a place for a horse."

The man's good intentions were further dashed when his relative was brought out to see the horse.

"That's not my horse," the patient said to hospital staff.

Nifty Recycled Can Jewelry

My sister and I wandered through Saturday Market this morning looking for a gift for someone. Neither of us would have predicted that we would have been so smitten by jewelry made of soda cans.

She bought a bracelet for her friend and I got a pendant (it's about an inch by 3/4 inch and does not have the twisted metal detail). I don't know if these are the actual ones we saw because I couldn't find a website for the business card the guy gave, but these are really similar.

The business card is for Lepre Designs. I highly recommend you to find his booth at Saturday market next time you go down there!

I'd Still Want It Back

After 37 years a Los Angeles man may finally get his stolen Mustang back.

Eugene Brakke was recently told by the San Diego Police Department auto theft unit that his 1965 Mustang was found in their city, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

In 1970 Brakke reported it stolen and filed a report with the Burbank Police Department, the newspaper reported.

Police told the newspaper that a San Diego woman was given the Mustang as a high school graduation gift from her father in 1970. When she recently tried to sell it, she learned it was stolen.

But, according to the woman, it is unclear if Brakke wants the car back, because he told her it is "just not the same," the newspaper reported.

If it were me, I would still want the car back. Clearly the woman in possession doesn't want it anymore because she was trying to sell it. If the original owner doesn't want it, he could take it back and sell it...

This also begs the question---did her father steal the car and give it to her for graduation? You'll notice it said that the car was reported stolen and she received it as a gift in the same year.

Status

For those of you who know, which I'm sure all of you do, I just wanted to say that my dad's surgery went perfectly.

Thanks for listening to me when I was really freaking out about it.

So It Begins

I returned to the doctor yesterday to get confirmation that I am not developing pneumonia. Not that I felt like I did when I had that, but there has been some pain in my lungs along with a difficult cough.

Now I begin the antibiotic sequence. It isn't as bad as it sounds. Mainly, the doctor thinks that the flu virus may have made a nice environment for a bacteria. Who knows. Either way I don't really feel bad at all.

Eraserhead

Quite possibly the worst thing I've ever seen.

Escapades

I met my friend LT for drinks at Brazen Bean last night. We each ordered something delicious to drink and also shared a plate of nachos.

We hadn't made solid plans of what we wanted to do after drinks but it became apparent that the night was not going to end any time soon. We decided on a whim to go see "The Other Boleyn Girl." (Good movie---you end up caring about characters you think you won't.) After another drink, we went back to LT's place to wait until it was time to go to the movie. Unfortunately, we didn't time things well and missed the streetcar. We were only about half way to downtown when the movie was starting but we decided to go for it anyway.

We got our tickets about twelve minutes into the movie. I don't feel like we missed so much as to affect our enjoyment.

After the movie finished, it was about 12:30 am. The streetcar was put away for the night and so began the long walk home. Of course, Portland at night can be full of weirdos. We maintained a brisk pace as we got out of downtown and into the Pearl. That is the last place we expected to see what we saw next.

Minding our own business, we headed down 10th. Out of the blue, we hear a man saying "Sorry girls, sorry," as he was sort of chuckling. Naturally, this drew our attention toward where he was standing, and due to this, we were front row witnesses of his little peep show. He wasn't urinating but his little friend was DEFINITELY out and he was definitely holding it.

Shudder. I don't want to see a display like that ever again.

Little Sparta

A Growing Consensus

I've pasted below an article that is just one of many I have recently seen which take the stance that the entire theory of global warming is wrong. It is the growing consensus. Enjoy.

The founder of the Weather Channel wants to sue Al Gore for fraud, hoping a legal debate will settle the global warming debate once and for all.

John Coleman, who founded the cable network in 1982, suggests suing for fraud proponents of global warming, including Al Gore, and companies that sell carbon credits.

"Is he committing financial fraud? That is the question," Coleman said.

"Since we can't get a debate, I thought perhaps if we had a legal challenge and went into a court of law, where it was our scientists and their scientists, and all the legal proceedings with the discovery and all their documents from both sides and scientific testimony from both sides, we could finally get a good solid debate on the issue," Coleman said. "I'm confident that the advocates of 'no significant effect from carbon dioxide' would win the case."

Coleman says his side of the global warming debate is being buried in mainstream media circles.

"As you look at the atmosphere over the last 25 years, there's been perhaps a degree of warming, perhaps probably a whole lot less than that, and the last year has been so cold that that's been erased," he said.

"I think if we continue the cooling trend a couple of more years, the general public will at last begin to realize that they've been scammed on this global warming thing."

Coleman spoke to FOXNews.com after his appearance last week at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York, where he called global warming a scam and lambasted the cable network he helped create.

"You want to tune to the Weather Channel and have them tell you how to live your life?" Coleman said. "Come on."

He laments the network's decision to focus on traffic and lifestyle reports over the weather.

"It's very clear that they don't realize that weather is the most significant impact in every human being's daily life, and good, solid, up-to-the-minute weather information and meaningful forecasts presented in such a way that people find them understandable and enjoyable can have a significant impact," he said.

"The more you cloud that up with other baloney, the weaker the product," he said.

Coleman has long been a skeptic of global warming, and carbon dioxide is the linchpin to his argument. "Does carbon dioxide cause a warming of the atmosphere? The proponents of global warming pin their whole piece on that," he said.

The compound carbon dioxide makes up only 38 out of every 100,000 particles in the atmosphere, he said.

"That's about twice as what there were in the atmosphere in the time we started burning fossil fuels, so it's gone up but it's still a tiny compound," Coleman said. "So how can that tiny trace compound have such a significant effect on temperature?

"My position is it can't," he continued. "It doesn't, and the whole case for global warming is based on a fallacy."

Blast-Off

Endeavour article.

Doesn't it seem like there have been a lot of shuttle missions lately? I know they are trying to get the space station done and that the fleet is going to be retired soon. That must be why.

Uh-Oh

On a recent trip to the Clinique counter at Nordstrom, I decided to meander through shoes.

It is true.

They are carrying Manolo Blahniks. I don't know how I will ever stay away now.

Of course, as established in earlier musings, I cannot afford even one half of a pair of Manolos.

But a girl can dream.

Kitty Wig

I have several questions about this.

1) why is the cat named "Chicken"?

2) who would put a wig on their cat for no reason?

3) who pays $50 for a wig for their cat!?

Covet

Here is the new mark.

Wishful thinking in that they are more expensive than I can afford.

(They aren't Manolo expensive though, so it might be a case of me just having to watch for them to go on sale.)

Look for these at shoefly.

The Goal

Ok, so I have been sick with the flu (the kind you get flu shots to avoid) since Tuesday. It is actually ruining all my plans for this week.

BUT! My goal is to be well so that by Wednesday everything will be business as usual.

The upside to having influenza is that you aren't allowed to go to work. The downside is that on Friday, I was fairly convinced I wasn't going to live. I admit that is a bit dramatic but, truly, I had to call someone to take me to the doctor because I could barely scrape myself out of bed, let alone drive there myself.

This is why I've been out of touch. Once I'm no longer feverish, I intend to go have several BIG meals. I hope you guys are on board with joining me!