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Top 10 Tweets: “Crap Superpowers” Meme

June 9, 2009 | Permalink

No, these Twitter meme lists aren’t going to become the only blog entries I write. Unless they’re wildly popular, in which case I’ll become unwilling to write enough of them. So, for now…

  1. Blood sugar ESP (invisibl3Freddy)
  2. The ability to see other people’s Facebook profiles without being their friend (rhyseOneil)
  3. The ability to teleport your left hand to Exeter (bridgetjonesUK)
  4. Ice cream headache ray (peterhaglich) 
  5. Wielding the Lasso of Half-Truth (elissaryan)
  6. Retractable cup holders in your forearms (people next to you at the movies always hog them) (cheekandbluster)
  7. Power to turn pickles back into cucumbers (spiffingjewelry)
  8. Super-contempt (devilgotmywoman)
  9. Captain Compassion (CharlotteinPa)
  10. Power to turn lights on or off with handclaps — for REAL! (cheekandbluster)

Top 10 Tweets in the “3 Words After Sex” Meme

May 26, 2009 | 1 comment

Yep, count on me to keep it highbrow. #3wordsaftersex appears to be the meme du jour over at Twitter, so here are my top ten (of the amount I was willing to read through) with the tweeter’s names in parentheses.

  1. “This never happened.” (SuperSocialite)
  2. “Please stop crying?” (dannibby)
  3. “Must tweet this…” (steno)

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List-mus Test: How Well-Read are You?

February 27, 2009 | 5 comments

Here’s what happened: the seemingly endless succession of Facebook memes had produced one intended to measure how well-read you are in terms of a list of 100 classic works. It read:

The BBC believes most people will have read, on average, only 6 of the 100 books listed here. How do your reading habits stack up? Look at the list and put an ‘x’ or a ‘*’, or otherwise highlight the ones you have read. Tag some people.

Geek that I am, I dutifully went down the list and checked off the 25 of them that I had read, and posted it in a Facebook note with the added comment

This list is a bit Brit-centric. Not that it ignores American classics or anything, but I count no fewer than four Jane Austen books on here and six by Dickens, whereas I see but two Steinbecks, one Fitzgerald, and zero Hemingway. Plus, as Hemingway would point out, only chicks read Jane Austen. ;-) … On the one hand, I’ve read just 1/4 of these classics, which seems kind of pathetic for someone who claims to be educated. With that in mind, I’m still four times more well-read than the BBC gives me credit for being – so suck on that, crumpet monkeys!

That’s where the controversy began. And it didn’t even have to do with my comment about Jane Austen, nor my calling the major press outlet of the land of my forefathers “crumpet monkeys.” Read the rest of this entry »


Facebook Meme: 25 Things About Me

January 28, 2009 | 11 comments

This little Facebook meme has found its way to me. OK, what am I supposed to do?

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

I’ll do it, and I’ll send it to the friends who tagged me in theirs, but no way am I going to require 25 of my Facebook friends to write lists too. My friends have more important things to do… well, most of them, anyway.

25 Random Things About Me

  1. I am a compulsive copy editor and a remorseless grammar nazi (in case you hadn’t noticed).
  2. I am geeky enough to use HTML markup when posting things on community web sites. In case you still hadn’t noticed.
  3. I’m seriously considering getting a bicycle to use for getting around town, in order to both save money on gas and get more exercise. The only drawback I foresee is the increased chance of severe injury due to LA’s shortage of bike lanes and surplus of reckless drivers.

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Why So Silent?

August 14, 2008 | 2 comments

It has come to pass that my friend Todd, he of my blogroll, has seen fit to mock me in the comments section of my last post for my lack of new content. He is lucky enough (or unlucky enough, depending on one’s personal taste) to have caught me in a particularly sarcastic mood. I might even call it a particularly snark-castic mood, but that would just be too fucking precious. Anyway, the following is very likely going to sound much more surly than usual for me; rest assured that I mean it to be tongue-in-cheek. I’m feeling a little Denis Learyish.

That’s correct, Todd, I haven’t posted in awhile — and my, aren’t you a keen observer of detail. Wanna know why? Read the rest of this entry »


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