Mat Bowles

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On memes and bloody useless software…

There’s nothing wrong witht he code that caused the last post to mess up completely, at least not that I can see. Ah well, deleted the offending meme.

Meh, on the subject, the show-off intellectual in me wants to know, without looking it up, how many people actually know
a) what a meme actually is
and
b) who created the term.

PaulJ and I used to talk about the theory incessently while we lived in Exeter, now everyone’s using the word and I’m curious. Did oyu know the theory before you started using it in LJ, do you know it now, is meme just another cool word you ue without knowledge?

None of this matters, of course, but, y’know…

January 14th, 2005 Posted by MatGB | Uncategorized | 11 comments

Many many memes…

Haven’t done any for ages, and have spent most of the week offline (see “meetings”, below), so decided to click on all the interesting ones on my friends list today and do the lot.

Including the fairy one, before anyone starts…

Bastard LJ won’t let me post the “what age are you” meme, which is a shame, as it tells me I’m 30, not used to teh damn things being accurate…

You scored as Gandalf. You are Gandalf! This wise, old mage is loyal and brave. He is known for his counsel and advice to his friends and allies during tough times.
“All you have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to you.”

Gandalf

81%

Frodo

75%

Samwise

69%

Eowyn

56%

Aragorn

44%

Faramir

38%

Arwen

38%

Gollum

38%

Pippin

31%

Which LOTR character are you?
created with QuizFarm.com


Same as Mike. Meh, I’m an old fart who can’t actually die.

You scored as Loner.

Loner

69%

Geek

56%

Goth

50%

Drama nerd

44%

Punk/Rebel

38%

Ghetto gangsta

25%

Prep/Jock/Cheerleader

13%

Stoner

13%

What’s Your High School Stereotype?
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Pretty accurate actually, unusual for a quizfarm thing.

At your LJ Striptease Audition… by squigglz
Username
Gets stuck in their corset simoncopp
Chickens out and hides in the dressing room deuschristus
Falls off the stage lostinarden
Gets drunk and has to be carried out guido_was_taken
Picks a fight with another dancer petevg
Dances like a marionette on crack seth_ra
Has their clothes stolen iamseph
Stole the aboves clothes ^_^ blacktone
Twists their ankle two_brains
Hated it bimbeeni
Loved it and got the job benjamindodson
Quiz created with MemeGen!


Um, is this supposed to show who’s strip I liked? Dr Ben had better change his gender sometime soon then…

Your Inner Gangsta by crash_and_burn
What is yo name?
Yo gangsta name be Cold Bull Dodga
You ride around in a Neon Pink H2 Hummer
Yo gang Gary Coleman’s Alleycat Thugs
Yo shoes be Chuck Taylors
Yo dubs be dis big, fool 969
How much money you got? $4.69440387246532e+24
How gangsta are you, bitch?: 24%
Quiz created with MemeGen!


Hmmm. I have no idea what they’re talking about. I think that’s a good thing, right?

You scored as Twilight Mistress Fairy. Peering over the balcony ledge of your castle, you stare into the twilight, dreaming of love. Your love will come. Night is coming, and it\’s time to dream.

Twilight Mistress Fairy

56%

Rose Thorn Fairy

48%

Raven Fairy

44%

Ethereal Priestess Fairy

44%

Pixie

42%

Druid Fairy

38%

Autumn Fairy

36%

Snow Fairy

36%

Goddess of the Golden Dawn

21%

Which Firefly-Path Fairy are you?
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She purty, so I care not if it’s accurate…

So, that was an interesting diversion.

In other news, I have an Ottakers. Good thing considering what Waterstones have done for absolutely nothing said on a blog.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1388249,00.html

Hope everyone’s ok out there…

January 14th, 2005 Posted by MatGB | Uncategorized | 5 comments

Meetings…

So… many… meetings…

All day yesterday (2) one today that overran by 4 hours, one last Monday, one previous Friday, 2 more tomorrow (that overlap). Then the writing up of the “action plans” and making sure the right work is done by the right people.

The joys of management. Still yesterday afternoon’s meeting got me out of the office and up to Exeter, but I was so knackered at the end that I forgot to ring people see if they were free :-(
I’m crap. Otoh, ganked from
*****If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, and whom you would not have met without the Internet, post this sentence in your journal.*****

Time to go home; Steve leant me La Femme Nikita series 1 and the original Luc Besson film. Gotta be worth a watch, I’m in the mood for brain dead violence :-D

January 14th, 2005 Posted by MatGB | Uncategorized | 2 comments