Meme Time: 50 Random Questions About Me.

Via ***Dave:

1. What time did you get up this morning? 6:00 a.m. That’s standard for the Monday through Friday grind until August 17th when I’ll be switching to afternoon shift. Then it’s a crap shoot.

2. How do you like your steak? I’m sure I’m going to appall a lot of people with . . . → Read More: Meme Time: 50 Random Questions About Me.

Meme Time: Are you a hardcore atheist?

You’ve seen this sort of meme before. A list of things/items/places that you’ve done/own/visited where you boldface the ones you’ve done/owned/been to see how cool/nerdy/hardcore you are. This one is on atheism from the Friendly Atheist. I’ve added my notes where I thought they’d be insightful.

Participated in the Blasphemy Challenge. – I haven’t done . . . → Read More: Meme Time: Are you a hardcore atheist?

Let’s do a meme: Your “other” names.

Saw this on ***Dave’s blog and though it looked like fun:

1. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names): Jay Bell

2. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother’s dad, father’s dad): Clement… uh… it just occurred to me that I don’t know the names of either my paternal grandfather (he’s been dead for . . . → Read More: Let’s do a meme: Your “other” names.

A quick photo meme.

Take a picture o’ yourself right now. Don’t change yer clothes, don’t fix yer hair … Just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editin’. Post these instructions with yer picture.

Click to embiggen!

Though I must confess that I did a minor edit to reduce the size of the big version down to . . . → Read More: A quick photo meme.

Pretentious List Time: 18 Things A Grown Man Should Never Have

I am a bit of a non-conformist by nature so articles like this one from Men’s Health that attempt to speak with authority on what some class of people—in this case Grown Men—should or shouldn’t have used to get my hackles up. I say “used to” because I’m finding that as I get older and . . . → Read More: Pretentious List Time: 18 Things A Grown Man Should Never Have

KPG says: “We are freaks.” And I concur.

There’s a very good entry over at SEB regular KPatrickGlover’s blog titled We Are Freaks. It’s about how those of us who spend way more time than we probably should on the Internet have all these inside jokes and memes we’ve been exposed to that the vast majority of people in the world haven’t:

Try . . . → Read More: KPG says: “We are freaks.” And I concur.

Time for a Meme: I am still a kid.

Elfninosmom over at Adventures In Frickintardistan tagged me with the following meme:

List 5 things you still do, that you did when you were a baby/little kid.

Hmmm. That’s a tough one in part because I don’t remember a whole lot of my days as a baby or little kid. You’d probably be better off . . . → Read More: Time for a Meme: I am still a kid.

Meme Time: Which ancient language are you?

I have no real idea what, if anything, this says about me, but what the hell…

   

Your Score: Linear B

   

You scored

   

   

    You are Linear B. Even those who can follow you think you’re all . . . → Read More: Meme Time: Which ancient language are you?

Meme Time: Which science fiction writer you are.

Answering the questions as honestly as I could I ended up getting…

I am: Frank Herbert

His style is often stilted, but he created what some consider the greatest SF novel of all time.

Which science fiction writer are you?

… whom at first thought I didn’t think I’d ever heard of before. Then . . . → Read More: Meme Time: Which science fiction writer you are.

Time for a Meme. Let’s do one about Yuletide.

This one has been bouncing around on various sites so I figured I’d do it:

Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? I loves me some egg nog, though I will settle for hot chocolate if there’s no nog to be found. I’m not picky about the type of egg nog either as I’ll drink the derivatives . . . → Read More: Time for a Meme. Let’s do one about Yuletide.