Archive for November, 2008

November 24, 2008

Blog Personality Types

by Josh at 7:34 pm

The site Typealyzer claims to give you the Myers Briggs personality type for your blog.  You give it the URL of your blog and it gives you back the Myers Briggs type.  So, having found the site, I had to try it out on my blog.  It’s important to remember that this test doesn’t attempt [...]

The Great Irony of Skepticism

by Josh at 1:18 pm

Am I the only one who feels like those who are the biggest proponents of skepticism often want you to believe what they say without examination?

November 23, 2008

NaNoWriMo 2008

by Josh at 9:47 pm

I haven’t mentioned it before now, but I have been doing NaNoWriMo again this year.  I enjoyed my experience quite a bit last year and so I was looking forward to cranking out 50,000 words again this year.
Alas, it appears that I won’t make it this year.  I’m at about 26,000 words and there is [...]

November 22, 2008

Buffy vs. MacGyver

by Josh at 1:11 pm

A recent survey that listed MacGyver and Buffy as the top two action heroes ever on tv has prompted a post on Tor.com imagining a cage match between the two.  As a fan of both shows, I found this post irresistable.  My attempt at imagining the match is in the comments.

November 18, 2008

Chili Cookoff

by Josh at 8:25 pm

Sunday was Steinbeck’s Second Annual Chili Cookoff and I was up at 6AM cooking beans and flame roasting peppers to get ready for the competition.  Set up at Steinbeck’s was at 9:30 and, at about 9:00, I started to wonder how I got myself roped into doing things like this all the time.  I was [...]

November 14, 2008

Zombie Banker

by Josh at 3:21 pm

Ok, here it is: my Halloween costume.  I was a zombie Wall Street banker (from 1929.)  Yes, this is the second year in a row that I was a zombie.  Two years ago, I was famous zombie killer Shaun of the Dead.

November 7, 2008

What I’ve been doing with my time..

by Susannah at 12:43 pm

Or at least trying to… Here’s a list of the books on my exam lists just in case anyone is curious about what I’m reading. Or if not, it will at least function as an excuse for any anti-social behavior I may exhibit between now and March. I’ve marked with an asterisk [...]