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testing the reinstall
you know… i’d have posted a lot more this last week if the client was able to reach the host.
ah well, I’ll transfer stuff from dj to here eventually.
I’m going to try reinstalling it, per Jen’s suggestion.
straight dope on Yellow-bellies
Where did the expression “yellow-bellied” come from? I’ve heard it used in the expression, “yellow-bellied coward.” I can’t for the life of me think why having a yellow belly would make you a coward.
http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~horan/ced522readings/jung/association/lecture1.htm
sadly, we really couldn’t do the reaction time part, but the rest is interesting, and perhaps, telling.
The Association Method[1]
Carl G. Jung (1910)
(link also now posted at the bottom of the test.)
*missing my sweetheart*
*sigh*
*looks in heart*
Oh! There she is! 🙂
word association test
it looks long, but goes fast.
up and at ’em!
getting up extra early this morning to get a lead on walkies while it’s still cool outside.
If I’m going to walk for an hour in august, I may as well not bake! 🙂
In other news, my LJ client isn’t connecting, so I’m having to type this into notepad and then transfer it to the web client. bah! poop on LJ!
See you when I return.
vertiginous – steganography & color test
vertiginous vur-TIJ-uh-nuhs, adjective:
1. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.
2. Causing or tending to cause dizziness.
3. Turning round; whirling; revolving.
4. Inclined to change quickly or frequently; inconstant.
Vertiginous derives from Latin vertigo, “a turning round, a whirling round; giddiness,” from vertere, “to turn.” Related words include reverse, “to turn back (re-) or around”; subvert, “to undermine” (from sub-, “under” + vertere; at root “to turn from under; to overturn”); and versus, “against” (from versus, “turned towards,” hence “facing, opposed,” from the past participle of vertere).
steganography (ste-GUH-nog-ruh-fee) noun
Secret communication by hiding the existence of message.
A couple of examples of steganography: shrinking the secret text (by repeated use of a photocopy machine) until it’s the size of a dot and then putting it in an unsuspected place, such as on top of a letter i in some innocuous letter. Second, shaving the head of a man, writing the secret message on his pate with unwashable ink, and then letting the hair grow back before dispatching him to the destination. To take an example from modern digital techniques, one could put the text of a message in the blank spaces in an image file.
From Greek stego- (cover) + -graphy (writing).
and results from my color test – from
Blue personality, with a weak secondary of white – If you’re a Blue-White combination, you are comfortable. You express yourself softly and sincerely. People find you determined, yet flexible. You are someone with whom almost anyone can get along.
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not all evil news
It must be the money. People across the U.S. are buying up lottery tickets in an effort to be the big winner of Wednesday night’s Powerball lottery which is now above the $200 million mark. According to an expert on odds and gambling, if you drive 10 miles to buy a ticket, you are 16 times more likely to be killed in a car crash on your way than to win the prize. If you buy 50 tickets a week, you would win the Powerball an average of once every 30,000 years.
The combination of the tax cut and the softening economy will all-but erase the budget surplus. That might be just the right recipe for an all out holy war in D.C this Fall.
According to a recent study, children who are breast fed for more than six months may end up being smarter than their peers unfortunately the researchers don’t indicate when it is too late to try to catch up…
In another piece of breakthrough science, British researchers indicate that kids who physically bully
others are less likely to suffer from nightmares, psychosomatic illnesses, and aches and pains than their victims.
Scientists discover a brainless sea creature that is coated with an all-seeing eye. I think I may have had him for Social Studies in JR High.
New York needed to find a way to get rid of their retired subway cars. Delaware needed to create an artificial coastal reef. Stand clear of the closing doors. I want one!!!
— PUTTING THE REAL IN REALITY TV?
We know that reality television can win viewers as well as celebrities can. But can the participants keep up in the area of public scandal? Survivor’s first winner Richard Hatch is doing his part as he is arrested (again) for assaulting his ex-boyfriend. Maybe we can see him on my fave reality show… COPS!
Following a fight that broke out during her wedding reception, a bride paid a little visit to the mobile home of one of the participants. When the cops arrived, the first thing they saw was that the door had been kicked off its hinges. I’ll let you take it from there…
My comics page
Phantom Blot around the world (for )
English – The (Phantom) Blot
Danish – Sorte Slyngel
German – Das Schwarze Phantom
Spanish (in Spain) -Borrón el Encapuchado / Máscara Negra
Finnish – Mustakaapu
Italian – Macchia Nera
Dutch – De zwarte Schim
Norwegian – Spøkelseskladden
Portuguese – Mancha Negra
Swedish – Spökplumpen
ichnology & supplant (Both in regards to feet)
ichnology (ik-NOL-uh-jee) noun
A branch of paleontology dealing with the study of fossilized footprints, tracks, traces, etc.
[From ichno- (track or footstep) + -logy (study).]
supplant (suh-PLANT), transitive verb:
1. To take the place of (another), especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics; as, a rival supplants another.
2. To take the place of and serve as a substitute for.
Supplant derives from Latin supplantare, “to put one’s foot under another, to throw down a person by tripping up his heels,” from sub-, “under” + plantare, “to stamp the ground with the foot,” from planta, “the sole of the foot.”
Spoon.
spoon (sp n)n.
v. spooned, spoon·ing, spoons
v. intr.
[Middle English, from Old English sp  n, chip of wood.]
spoon  a·ble adj. |
How do you define love?
What do you mean when you say “I love you” ?