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Compromising Search Terms

Today I came across this interesting article (via Michael), and it made me wonder what sorts of things the CIA would uncover if it ever got its hands on my Google search records. With this in mind, I went to Google and scrolled through my search cache. Below are ten of the more interesting searches I have conducted:

• "can remain conscious for fifteen to twenty seconds after being decapitated"
• dead dog rescucitate
• Donald Duck's middle name
• electric berimbau
• giant popsicle
• hallucinogenic
• "Itty Bitty Shitty Committee"
• "pooping croutons"
• strider monkey honeypots
• watermelon soda rancher

Snowball's Meme

Snowball is participating in an interesting meme, so I thought I'd take part. Here we go:

Four jobs you've had in your life:

• Paperboy
• English Teacher
• Home Healthcare Provider
• Promotions Assistant

Four movies you could watch over and over:

• Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
• The Truth about Cats and Dogs
• House
• Akira Kurosawa's Dreams

Four places you've lived:

• Cameroon
• Denmark
• Brazil
• Alabama

Four TV shows you love to watch:

• Scientific American Frontiers
• BookTV (on C-SPAN 2)
• Battlestar Galactica
• Smallville

Four places you've been on vacation:

• Alaska
• Latin America
• Southern Africa
• Muncie, Indiana

Four websites you visit daily:

• The Adventures of a Snowball in Hell
• PodcastPickle.com
• Oddpost
• Protopage

Four of your favorite foods:

• Fresh Mozzarella (made from buffalo milk)
• Sour Cherry Balls
• Pizza Alfredo (from the recipe in the Horn of the Moon Cookbook)
• Pistachio Marzipan

Four places you'd rather be:

• On a ship traveling the galaxy
• In Bakerina's kitchen
• With sorority girls
• Nirvana

Four albums you can't live without:
I can live without any albums.

Four to pass this meme along to:

• George W. Bush
• Hulk
• Hello Kitty
• God

One of the Better Memes

I found this interesting little meme here. The rules are simple and are as follows.

- Bold those you have read.
- Italicize those you started, but didn't finish.
- Add three books after the last one.

I think it's great that the book list is compiled by participants. Unfortunately, it's a bit suspect. The link to the source blog is dead, and I haven't been able to google a single entry in any other blog that contains this list. (With that many entries, one would expect it to be all over the blogosphere.) What I did find was this, so apparently the first 200 results were taken from the BBC's Big Read contest.

Click on the link below to see the list and also to find out what I've read:

I did this already!

I did this last week, but Snowball says I have to do it again:

• If I could be a scientist, I would study the skeletal anatomy of Hello Kitty.
• If I could be a farmer, I'd work on one of those mushroom farms located in the shadows of the floating cities of Ringworld.
• If I could be a musician, I would reformulate Western music in such a way that the octave would be composed of ten (rather than eight) basic notes. Instead of sharps and flats, there would be intermediary notes called "shats".
• If I could be a doctor, I'd find a way to synthesize human pheromones and use them to great personal advantage.
• If I could be a painter, I would paint a gigantic Hello Kitty on the face of the moon that could be seen from earth and would light up during an eclipse.

Instead of tagging three people for this meme, I'll just tag Snowball three times.

More Meme Fun

Alicia tagged me with this particular meme (which I first saw at Bill's). I'm supposed to choose five of the hypothetical futures listed below and apply them to me.

If I could be a scientist...
If I could be a farmer...
If I could be a musician...
If I could be a doctor...
If I could be a painter...
If I could be a gardener...
If I could be a missionary...
If I could be a chef...
If I could be an architect...
If I could be a linguist...
If I could be a psychologist...
If I could be a librarian...
If I could be a lawyer...
If I could be an inn-keeper...
If I could be an athlete...
If I could be a professor...
If I could be a writer...
If I could be a llama rider...
If I could be a bonnie pirate...
If I could be an astronaut...
If I could be a world famous blogger...
If I could be a justice on any one court in the world...
If I could be married to any current famous political figure...
If I could be a dog trainer...

If I could be a librarian, I'd work at the Library of Congress, which, to me, is one of the great wonders of the modern world. I'd work in the section devoted to digitizing nearly all of the printed material still in existence and eventually making it all available online to anyone who wished to consult it. On my vacations I'd travel the globe in search of obscure ancient printed matter to be brought back, catalogued, and digitized for posterity.

If I could be an astronaut, I'd sign up to take part in the first colony on the moon or mars or whatever happens to be available. Even with the risks, I wouldn't hesitate. Unlike joining the military, taking part in and promoting an endeavor to finally get humanity into space is worth the risk of losing a few human lives in the process, even if one of them happens to be mine.

If I could be married to any current famous political figure, I suppose I'd go for the Bush twins. Of course, I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with the in-law situation. Maybe I'd be better off with Chelsea.

If I could be a world famous blogger, you can bet I'd put a bit more thought into my entries. Having a significant audience, I'd probably be much more political, so I could influence the world for the better and perhaps even get ZDTV back on the air with all of the original presenters, including Kate Botello.

If I could be a llama rider, that still doesn't mean I'd do it. All it would accomplish is to create a world full of broken-backed llamas. (I've really got to lose some weight.)

Tvindy Blogrollers

I thought it would be interesting to scrutinize the blogiverse to see how many blogrolls I'm on that are not blogrolled by me. To figure this out, I referred to Technorati, Blogshares and Google. Only seven were found. I've divided them into two categories:

Blogs I've Seen Before

• eclecticism
• Spanglemonkey
• Mike
• A Peck of Gold

Blogs That are New to Me

• Read My Lips - the blog
• My nus
• Beyond the Black Hole

More Meming Laziness

You are "Uncle Black"

Which Mark Ryden Painting Are You?
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State Quiz

Time for a quiz! (from Snowball)

You're North Dakota!
You are rather remote, and even inaccessible to the average person. While many would thus describe you as stuck-up, to you it seems more like you're just stuck. When no one is looking, you yearn to engage in 19th-century European political subterfuge. When looking for peace, head for the garden. But please, be extremely careful around wood-chippers.
Take the State Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

Ten things I've done. . .

. . . that you probably haven't.

I got this meme from Kimberly. Here are my ten original things:

1. I've been in a barroom brawl (as an observer).
2. I peed in Nelson Mandela's toilet.
3. I missed meeting Lula by less than five minutes (nine years before he became President).
4. I came within three feet of a grizzly in the wild.
5. I passed out while skydiving.
6. I've been bitten by marmosets, ducks, a horse, and a tuiuiu.
7. I've seen "Ghost" more than 20 times.
8. I traversed the Darién Gap. In the rainy season!
9. I ran a marathon.
10. I've jumped repeatedly upon a golden trampoline.

Bakerina's Music Meme 2

Remember Bakerina's Music Meme? Well, she's got a new one. (Technically it came from someone else, but no matter.) Just as I participated in the last one, I'll give this one a go:

What is the total amount of music files on your computer?

Looking at the properties for my my My Music folder, I see that I have 1118 files. Not all of them are music, but most are.

The CD you bought last?

That would be Thimble Corner.

What is the song you last listened to before reading this message?

Hmmm. . . Well, I can't remember. Usually I try to avoid music.

Write down 5 songs you often listen to or that mean a lot to you.

• Twenty Fingers, "No Short Dick Man"
• South Park, "The Circle of Poo"
• Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant"
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Walk through the Fire"
• Raffi, "Baby Baluga"

Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?

I suppose I'm passing it to the first three people who read this and decide to take part.

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