Which _____ are you?

Most of the online "Which [thing] are you?" quizzes seem to miss the mark. Sometimes I think it is due to the quiz maker's getting things outright wrong and the result can be insulting. Maybe that's what they desire. Well, no point in feeding trolls, then. Other times it's that the questions lack truly applicable answer options and instead of a best-fit answer, one is stuck with a least-worst choice. These are a couple reasons I tend not to post results of such quizzes here.

A few recent ones, however, are interesting. The 'Which cartoon dog are you?' told me, on the first pass and despite non-ideal answer options, that the answer was 'Mr. Peabody'. Okkay, not bad. I can deal with that. I half expected it get things insulting wrong and indicate Scrappy-Doo, given how accurate such tend to be. I don't feel any great need to have the sign in my lj - chances are you've seen it already anyway.

The 'Personality Disorder Test' was also interesting. However, I'm not about to post the results here. That probably says a thing or two right there. I'm not sure I wanted to know what it said myself, right or wrong.

And swiped from kinkyturtle is perhaps the best one yet: ( fur. )

I see another screwup in the making, too. In the lunchroom here, there is the standard assortment of vending machines. There is also a table with candy & chips for sale, set up by the "Rec. Club" and payment is on the honor system (or at least is from 7 AM to 4 PM now... they wound up locking stuff up the rest of the time a couple weeks ago). Today there is a new addition. A nice red cardboard store display for the Nestle products, proudly proclaiming Summer Fun and 99 cents for any three items. Not bad, but the standard charge, according the sign taped to the wall over the table, is 50 cents per item. Well, the display does say '99 cents for any three SRP'. Suggested Retail Price. Even if you don't think much of hypnosis, it's pretty obvious that some folks are gonna be very suggestible now.

ADDENDUM: Had a quick chat with the person locking things up at 4:00PM. It seems they actually thought it out and got a deal on the Nestle stuff. It really is 3 for $0.99.

Sudden changes, sudden guests.

Well, maybe not all that sudden. But I just found out.

Just got off the phone with my mother. It seems a friend of the family, a friend who flies a powered parachute is going to a gathering of fliers of such things. This gathering will take place Nov. 8-10 in St. George, UT which is about a hundred miles northeast of Los Vegas. He was going to have a friend of his drive his van, towing the flying machine (chute packed, of course) out west while he flew commercially. Well, something came up and the friend is no longer available to do the driving.

So a few calls, some pondering, and a few more calls, and now my folks will be spending a couple weeks driving out west and back for this, picking the parachute flier up at the Los Vegas airport. It sounds like a welcome change of routine for them, too. And this Saturday night they'll be staying overnight in Fairmont. So now Jay & I have some slight plans for the weekend. We still won't really be going anywhere, just putting up my folks for a night. There is one place we will be going, but that's in town. It seems the Mexican restaurant we took them to on their last visit made an impression, so they want to go there again. Fine by us. There is a reason we took them there.