I have some friends who are of Irish descent, and I come from mostly Scottish roots myself. I seldom pass up a chance to rag on the English for historical misdeeds perpetrated on my Celtic ancestors.
That said, though, I have to call bullshit on all the uproar caused by Ben & Jerry’s naming a flavor “Black & Tan”. They were just copying the name of a drink, ferchristsakes. And don’t give me the “half & half” nonesense. For one thing, it’s a different drink, and more to the point, most people wouldn’t recognize that name as readily as they would “black & tan”.
Yes, the Black & Tans of the 1920’s were right bastards, but you know what? It’s time to let go. Besides, before it was a drink and before it was a nickname for the Royal Irish Constabulary Reserve Force, a “black & tan” was a dog.
Hey Jake, what’d you do this weekend?
I’ll tell you:
- Friday, I called in sane and ended up spending the day moving a sprinkler head and getting my sprinklers fired up. Sadly, I’m already well behind the Joneses as far as the green lawn competition goes.
- In the evening I met up with Holzie and some folks from work for one of his many sendoffs. (He joined the Marines…)
- Saturday, I tried really hard not to die from the allergic attack I suffered after spending so much time in the Spring air Friday.
- Over the course of Saturday and Sunday, I worked on a pair of desks for our office.
- We also found a paint color for our office (so someday soon, we’ll have to remove the desks we just set up in there).
- Did I mention allergies suck? Gotta say the Benadryl Dreams were entertaining, though.
- Caught up on seven or eight TiVo’ed episodes of Veronica Mars. I don’t care if it makes me a girl; I love that show.
- I think I went to Home Depot four times over the course of three days.
Well, well… I guess it’s meme time. (All the cool kids are doing it… Or something.)
Kottke posted a link to the Guardian’s list of 50 (51, actually) best film adaptations of books. Now folks are marking which they have read and/or seen.
I can dig it…
Continue reading ‘The Book/Movie Meme’
So… Remember the Autistic Quotient thingy? Well, that post got a trackback from this post discussing it in comparisson to a couple of similar personality tests called EQ (empathizing quotient) and SQ (systemizing quotient). I took those, and here’s what I got:
Here are your EQ SQ results:
EQ: 33 SQ: 86
The important factor to consider is not your absolute score, but the difference between the two. This indicates whether you have more natural ability as an Empathizer or a Systemizer. If your scores are about the same for your EQ and SQ, then you have well balanced empathizing-systemizing capabilities.
Holy crap, yo! I guess I’m about as lopsided as I thought all along, eh?
Continue reading ‘I’ll Systemize Your Systemization’
What happens in the home game…
We play so rarely these days — the games tend to be more party than cards…
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