I'm not asking for a ridiculously compressed evaluation of your day, nor am I demanding the artificial spread of such an alleged test. Good memes spread all by themselves, without chain-letter-like contrived artifice.
There's a bit going around, "You haven't lived until ____." I've seen it re-done to a rather improved version, "You thought you'd seen everything until _____."
But why stop there? Let's turn it all the way around and truly monkeywrench the thing:
You haven't died until...
I WILL BE COMPLETELY DISHONEST FOR 48 HOURS IN REPLIES TO RESPONSES TO THIS POST... You can ask one question. Any questions, no matter how crazy, sinister, or wrong it is. I WILL answer no matter what, you have my FULL dishonesty, and I WON'T DARE you to put this in your journal and see what questions you get...
Around the net there's been the ongoing joke or debate about the competition of pirates and ninjas. A few years ago some folks promoted September 19th as International Talk Like A Pirate Day. One might naturally expect there would be an International Talk Like A Ninja Day. Well, there is. But as ninja (or ninjas) are about stealth, they don't draw attention to this day. Or rather, these days.
Which days are these? All of them. The ninja just blend in and talk like everybody else. They might even talk like pirates on the 19th of September if that's what's needed to remain undetected in plain sight.
If you see me at Anthrocon...
DO consult your physician. I am not there.
DON'T adjust your medication yourself. You are already hallucinating.
Those two links I posted yesterday? They do not go to Rick Astley videos. In fact, they do not go to videos at all.
It seemed many, many folks were doing the Rickroll crap, so I decided to admit to it and then not do it.
With the excess of the Rickroll that happened across the net yesterday, I can only hope that it now finally seen for the lameness that it has always been. The most amusing thing even referring to it was Wil Wheaton's comment that he hoped something would "...storm the Internets like Mahir Rickrolling a LOLCat."
...the day that the trash and the recycling is picked up!
Between Jay's illness, my illness, and a big gap since the last recycling pickup, things were piling up. Today's pick-up will nicely reset things.
Ask me (up to) six questions, each on a different subject. No matter how polite, reserved, or mundane, I will answer all with fictions. Your identity will be known only to me as I will not reveal who asked what, only what was asked.
[Poll #697219]
If you care to, post this in your journal and see if anyone bothers asking you anything.
Should you choose to leave your name or such:
1. I won't respond with something random about you. Heck, I might not even know you.
2. I won't tell you what song or movie reminds me of you, because chances are there are no songs or movies that really do that.
3. I won't pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in, as that would probably disgust both of us, besides making a big mess neither of us would really want to have to clean up.
4. I might say something that only makes sense to you and me, but I won't make any guarantees about that. I find I often cause bewilderment without really trying and doing so on purpose would merely add to the confusion.
5. I won't mention my first or clearest memory of you as it might not exist (see #1) or maybe I've just plain forgotten. It happens.
6. I won't tell you what animal you remind me of, because there might not be one. And those for which there are animals that remind me of them, already know what they are anyway.
7. I won't ask you something that I've always wondered about you. Chances are I've already asked you, or know better than to ask, and I'm not going to make something up just for this.
8. As I am doing this, you are under no obligation whatsoever to post this on your journal. Isn't that refreshing?
According to this story some folks want to get others to run programs to repeatedly re-load various Republican web sites in hopes of chewing up bandwidth and making the sites useless for their intended purpose.
It strikes me that the best response to this may be, as soon as it is detected, to load up the page(s) with pay-by-view advertising (if there still is any) and turn the folks trying to bring things down into a revenue source. It might not be much, but the "I was raising money for the Republicans?! Arrrrghhh!!" reaction would be worth far more than the money.
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