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Spock 55% Uhura 55% Jean-Luc Picard 55% Data 52% Geordi LaForge 50% Deanna Troi 45% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 40% Chekov 30% Will Riker 30% Worf 30% James T. Kirk (Captain) 25% Mr. Scott 25% Beverly Crusher 25% Mr. Sulu 20% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 10%

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Cleaning out my gmail inbox today, because I finally learned the difference between deleting and archiving, and am now very happy to take advantage of the archive button. So I'm slow.

Anyway, some of you have gotten links via email (very few of you, actually,) and some of you may have seen that I posted one on facebook, since it was kid-related, and most of my child-having friends are one facebook and not necessarily here. One got posted to Twitter, but I don't want to inundate those people kind enough to follow me on twitter with a billionty-leven links. So, here are a fewseveral more that are more generally interesting. I thought I'd share, and not just because it gives me a handy aggregation of the ones I don't feel like putting on my delicious. All are found via makeuseof, encompassing the daily emails from the past few months. The highlights, if you will:

Eurovision Map Mashup because we all know I have an unhealthy obsessions with Eurovision. Which reminds me, you should read this. Why will become immediately obvious.

Stringed Instrument Tuner

And learn how to play, too, because Mr. The Jeef is a scary guitar teacher... ?

For the Morbid at heart. Note: if it's not immediately obvious to you, like it wasn't to me, there's a "change" link up at the top to change the date you've selected. Maybe I'm just oblivious.

For the students among us, and teachers exasperated by them: class tracking. It looks very interesting, but I haven't used it, so other similar apps may be more useful and/or robust

Also: Online flashcards. Again, not sure how useful it truly is,but it looks nifty, right? Also has an iPhone app, meaning you can create online, and study wherever.

Email Signature Cause Awareness I have to admit, I'm not sure how I feel about this. I don't use it yet, because: On the one hand, cause awareness and fun facts! On the other, advertising in my emails -- I need to look through this more and find more about how the advertising works, and how advertisters are chosen. It looks good, but I am skeptical.

Domain Stats Not terribly useful to me, but it has kind of a nifty vaguely steampunk vibe to it, so I couldn't resist adding it

An Online Receipt Organizer Looks like an interesting tool for those who shop online, especially for things that involve, you know, manuals.

Sort of like WebMD for pets

An interesting timer for web browsing Limits your time on a specific website to however long you select. Obviously, you have to go through it to get the benefit, but perhaps a useful item for when it's easy to get lost in a site, or when you're killing time before having to do something clock-specific

Nifty Tool for travelers for those people, like me, who always forget to call and say we got where we were going all in one piece. And for our mothers. Really, it's for our mothers.

1. Mr. The Jeef and I went to a midnight showing of Wolverine, Thursday/Friday night. I am reasonably happy with the movie as an end product, mostly because although Gambit was not entirely satisfactory, I have deluded myself into believing that ( Spoiler Alert!! )Though, I will point out that Angry Black Woman over at Feminist SF has a very good point.

B. This week marks the start of 'summer flex time.' For the first year, I am flexing! Yeah, not nearly so racy and/or hardbody as it sounds. I'm working four 10-hour days, Tuesday through Friday, so I can have Mondays off. I am not convinced there is enough coffee in Ann Arbor for this.

iii. My cousin Katie graduated this past Saturday, from Concordia college. While the commencement speaker was nothing to write home about, the Student response speaker managed to work in the phrase "elephant gestation." Also, mercifully the shortest commencement I've ever attended, at 1.5 hours.

Delta. My semi-sleep deprived state apparently makes my typing skills TOTALLY hit-or-miss. I just mis-typed 'to' as 'wot.' Therefore, I claim zero responsibility for typos. My brain-to-finger interface is, apparently, still asleep. And yes, I do know that, technically, Delta would be third.

V. Thanks to an unnamed benefact...-rix? -ress?, I am at Dreamwidth. I will be haphazardly cross-posting for the time being. It looks a lot like LJ, except my color theme is currently "Tigers" blue and orange. Must muddle through changing that. ETA: Now Black and white. I can live with that.

So, I get this daily tidbits email from makeuseof.com, which is pretty interesting. There's a lot of stuff that I can see would be terribly useful to someone else, some stuff I occasionally pass on to Mr. The Jeef, and some stuff I find useful as well.

Today, however, was an instance of WTF-ery. There's a link and blurb to a site/service called "Social Status Generator" which the email describes thusly:

With the advent of different kinds of social networks, a simple thing such as a status message has gained its own importance. Let's admit it - we love impressing our social network friends with cool and catchy status messages, don't we? Social Status Generator is a cool website which helps you do just that.

It helps you generate nice status messages immediately using various keywords from the tag cloud it provides. Just click the tag you love and get the corresponding status message which you can use in your facebook, myspace or twitter profile.

In essence, "Use This Service To Make Yourself Look Far Wittier and Interesting Than You Actually Are."

Umm.... What? It has always been my policy that if I can't find something suitably interesting, entertaining, snarky, or socially-terroristic (my word! I made it!) to say, that I JUST DON'T UPDATE. Do people really feel the need to push themselves constantly into the spotlight, in order to somehow validate themselves as worthy of being 'followed'?

Actually, that's a stupid question. Of course there are. Forgive me for asking.

On the other hand, I'm bookmarking the Universal Packing List Generator, because this is pretty much what I've been looking for my whole life. Says the person who once forgot to take a bathing suit on a SCUBA DIVING TRIP.

This is a good demonstration of how I feel today.



No reason why, just do.

Wow. Just... Wow.

You can see more pictures here

In parting, my favorite:

So very, very awesome. Via John Hodgman on Twitter.

Whimper. The level of covet involved here is roughly astronomical.

Fortunately (?), I don't have enough counter space. Yet.

So, many of you are familiar with the irony it is that I - someone with neither taste nor direction in music - am married to a musician with reasonably discriminating (listening) tastes.

Also, I just got an iPod Touch. [Aside: this was in lieu of buying a netbook style laptop, and is mostly so I can do email, play games, and have easy access to useful info like shopping lists.] I am very much liking it, and Mr. The Jeef, being the wonderful husband that he often is, immediately installed iTunes on his laptop, and began loading music. At which point, this conversation repeated itself in various slightly different, but remarkably similar iterations:

Mr. The Jeef: Would you like some (insert probably famous artist here)?

Me: Sure!

MTJ: What would you like?

Me: ... ?

MTJ: ::sigh:: Why don't I just give you a random sampling?

Me: Okay! Oh, and give me that song!

MTJ: Why? Do you know it?

Me: No, but the title is really cool!

MTJ: ::Despair!::

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Me, to co-worker: I think I'm listening to a love song to a blow-up doll.

Co-worker: ... !

Me: Cool!

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In news that is not really other, but still different, the Apple Genius playlist utility? Still no more comprehensible to me than Pandora, but equally useful. Except that it's wierdness is restricted to stuff you already have, so there's less "WTF? Cold Play? Why? Die you miserable bastard!"

Oh, and cariad? "The Weeping Song" by Nick Cave is my new favorite song of ever.

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 16 random things, facts, habits or goals about you. At the end, choose 16 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you.

Okay, so I'm not a tagging type person. So, if you've been feeling as if you should blog more often but are stuck for things to say, consider yourself tagged. Otherwise, feel free to be an otherwise silent voyeur on my eccentricities. I'll be crossposting this on Facebook, LJ, and my new account at InsaneJournal, thygatromedea.insanejournal.com which is for when LJ goes all pear shaped. I may even try to back up some of my more memorable entries there, if I can be bothered to figure it out.

I doubt that all 16 of these will come as any kind of surprise to anyone who knows me in the meatworld, but my guess is that at least one of them will. Unless you're my husband, in which case I have ( no secrets, no shame, and very few surprises )

My friend Kim sent me a link to this webcomic -- proving that fluffy can sometimes be funny, too

I completely forgot to mention that for our big Anniversary/Christmas Gift, mom gave us tickets to see "Wicked" on Sunday, December 21, at the Detroit Opera House. I liked the book, though Maguire's subsequent efforts were a great improvement (Wicked was his first book.) The musical was good. The production was fantastic -- the scenery and costuming were visually inventive and colorful and all around great. The performers were solid, well voiced, and blended well into the roles. The music itself... Was good. I know there are a lot of people who are fans of it, but it was a little overly pop influenced for me to be super enthusiastic over it. All in all though, it was wonderful, and a wonderful gift.

Afterwards, being impatient at standing in a herd of people, we broke off and went looking for food. Being that the opera house had just let out and there was a football game going on, the only places open that didn't require reservations were either overly pricy, or had sticky floors. So we tramped across the Liberty Park/Woodward circle in the evil, biting wind, and had a truly classy dinner of... Subway. Which was pretty good actually.

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This past weekend was ( busy-ish )

Also, mom found peppermint flavored peeps stars. Warrning: do not actually eat these things straight out of the package. They taste like little fluffy pillows of toothpaste. As in Tom's-of-Maine-super-minty. HOWEVER. Further research has shown that it is a fantastic idea to put one in your hot chocolate.

I am here. More or less. Also, caught up on the past 10+ days of entries, more or less. I admit, I skimmed in some places.

I suppose it's more than a little strange that I almost never go online at home. Only at work. So I've not read any of my usual things since, oh, December 19th-ish. Which is how long I've been away from work. I took our anniversary off, as well as the 23rd and 24th, because I could. Together with the usual UM Christmas to New Year's shut down, it all makes for a pretty decent vacation.

Not that I did anything, really. I vegged. A lot. I worked out, some, and played a lot of Wii, and watched entirely too may shows with the letters C, I, and S in the title. Oh, and a fair bit of HGTV. But mostly, I did a lot of nothing useful, and slept.

Christmas was nice affair at mom's, complete with German pancakes, Christmas dinner, and unexpected stockings. The intervening days were, as mentioned, quiet and lazy. New Year's was nice, if not terribly special -- we (Matthew, Jeff, Dad, and I) had dinner at California Pizza Kitchen, and watched Jeff play Twilight Princess, though Dad went to bed for this. We switched over to network TV just before midnight to watch the ball drop, wonder at Dick Clark's aging enthusiasm and Carson Daly's complete lack thereof, and toast the new year with a bottle of our Wedding Mead.

Dew Year's Day we went to The Gloff Holiday Party, which is my favorite place to be on New Year's Day. Though the fact that for the first night of the year I had pretty wretched insomnia is probably a bad omen. Ah well.

I actually made real resolutions this year, too! I knew you'd be thrilled.

1. To be more pro-active in my job/career
2. To be more interested in my own life.
3. To be more communicative with my friends and family.

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Just for Kristy: about the stupid shoe song.

Obscure African tribes, or sub-tribes really, make my working life difficult.

Thanksgiving was nice, Black Friday was nice, though my quest not to buy anything was foiled by my Coca-Cola requirement.

Saturday, taldarhan , talyxsmom , galduric  and I all drove out to Chicago.  That is, Matthew drove, and the rest of us took advantage of the direction and velocity of the moving vehicle to get where we needed to go.  In related news, Mr. The Jeef can spend approximately 8+ hours in the car with his in laws with no damage to speak of.  My uncle's step-son is interesting, but his wife and step-daughter I could skip.  The christening was...  a christening.  On the bright side, the church did not, at any time, burst into flame due to my evil dirty pagan presence.

Work is generally miasmic, and just in case we thought I could stop whingeing about medical things, I have an lymph node being ultrasound-ed on the 11th, and the doctor ordered a re-titration of my CPAP.  On the up side, she also gave me Cytomel (a T3 supplement, which she gave me instead of changing me over to Armour Thyroid like I asked.)  On the down side, it only comes in brand name, and my insurance doesn't like it, so this first scrip was $24, and the next one will be $28 and change (the actual cost,) since in January my co-pays go up to $30 for non-preferred brand.

I think the motto for this entire year will end up being "I can't brain today, I have the dumb."

"In its way, fair use is the 'Robin Hood provision' of copyright. Within limits, it permits the artist--not infrequently envisioned anyway as a sort of rogue--to poach on the content-rich so long as excessive harm isn't done and so long as something with a value beyond that of the original is thereby made available to everybody else. Even now, as the lush and enchanted forest of cyberspace springs up all about us, room--some place for play, some proper clearing in the woods--still needs to be left for Robin Hood." (Weil Making Museums Matter p251)

Sent to me from Ms. Kim.

Dear self,

When you are sleep deprived, you get whimpery. 

Also, the grocery fairy has never yet visited your abode.

Sensibly yours,

me.

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Dear Audience,

Am alive.  Am reasonably well.  May report more interesting things in future.  Perhaps include pronouns, articles!

Yours in Hermitudinousness,

me.