Tablesaw!

Top Five Commands Every IF Game Should Implement (from paulobrian)

• >SING
• >LAUGH
• >TRANSFORM
• >PLÜZNK
• >BLOG

Top Five Non-Canonical Senses (i.e. Not Sight, Taste, etc.) (from bookishfellow)

• Balance
• Wonder
• Direction
• Timing
• Place

The poll is still open, and you should be able to fill it out using an Open ID (like your LiveJournal account).

Language Log has a post about the most commonly used word in the English language:

Not surprisingly, first-person singular (FPS) pronouns are used at very high rates in everyday speech. Across thousands of natural conversations that we have recorded, transcribed, and analyzed, the word "I" is consistently the most frequently used word (averaging 4.73% of all words, compared with 0.56% "me" and 0.69% "my").

—James W. Pennebaker, "What Is 'I' Saying?"

The post starts with a link to an "I-Exam" that tests your knowledge or instinct of when I is used more often (I scored 8/10), and continues with further insight into when and how I is used in speech.

I think it would be of particular interest to the writers I have on my reading list right now.

From dine:

Today, roga / roga posted the following:

"... TV moments I love, where the music playing in the background just becomes kind of wired to my brain, forever inseparable from the particular scene in which it appeared, because together with the image they just create this perfect TV moment, that I respond to even years later on an instinctual level, whenever I hear the music or think about it.

(she then listed her top five) and asked " Similar moments you'd like to share?"

I started doing a top 5, but I noticed that my first three were all from this season. I decided I'd just highlight them, instead of cluttering them up with other, older series.

• Gram Rabbit, "Devil's Playground" (unrelated (bad) video) in Life, "Find Your Happy Place." Life had a lot of great music, and I really need to pilfer the soundtrack to add to my iTunes. This song was showcased so brilliantly that I rewound the episode a few times to watch it over and over. It's a dark, moody song that plays while the detectives discover a set of bodies left by the same killer, and the editing worked perfectly with the rhythm of the song. Unfortunately, although the episode is online, the song as been swapped out for something far inferior. Damn internet licensing issues!
• Garret Dillahunt & Mackenzie Smith, "Donald, Where's Your Trousers?" (audio only, no spoilers) in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I almost put down Shirley Manson's version of "Samson and Delilah" from the opening of season 2, but then I remembered this one. It's hard to describe why it was so memorable if you haven't seen the entire series; It's not so much awesome as it is chilling. If you listen to the clip, you'll hear the light and silly Scottish song about kilt-wearing with the ominous instrumentation. That's kind of the idea.
• Jeffster!, "Mr. Roboto" in Chuck, "Chuck vs. the Ring" (actual clip, contains spoilers). This is just silly, but it's deeply awesome. This is also an end-of-the season clip, and a lot of the "Hell Yeah!" moments rely on backstory, but it's still pretty easy to watch.

The other two top contenders were from anime, FWIW.

Hey, remember that meme? The one everyone did? The that involved shuffling your mp3 files and selecting your favorite lyric from the next twenty-five songs? The one I didn't do because I don't have an collection of mp3 files?

Well, I've decided to do it now, since my CD carrying case is packed with travelin' CDs. These are all CDs I know rather well, so I decided to pick my favorite single line from each. Guess at what song they're from, marvel at their poetry, boggle at their inaptness, I don't care. I just want to be one of the cool kids.

( Cut because the cool kids probably don't care anymore )

SunNYTX: 21.

Yeah, there's that meme going around, zooming to every journal at once.

I don't like it, really.

Part of that's because I do know most of you, or at least your journals. The journals I don't know are ones that I just started reading (so it's my fault, really). I used to read a month's worth of posts every time I added someone, now, not so much. But I still keep adding people. ADDICTION!

I do feel bad, though, because I've been neglecting this journal for some other, more personal writing. And I do like this journal, and the people who read it, and I don't want to ignore it.

So I'll try to say something significant about me here, soon.

Regardless, I hadn't heard anyone rave about Friendster in a while, so I thought it might be time to sign up, especially since I was thinking about using Internet personals anyway. But now I can't log in. Is this just me? I try to log in and it returns me to the log-in page. Yes, I've got cookies turned on. In fact, I can watch my browser get dizzy by selecting "Remember My Password." Then, when the page redirects me to itself, it realizes that it's supposed to automatically log me in, which it does. Then it returns me to itself, where it realizes that it's supposed to automatically log me in, which it does. Then it returns me to itself . . .

Stunning, the networking that can be accomplished.

And now, the finale:

( Without the ostrich )

( because the fresh ones are too sticky )

( Tannhaüser and Faust. )

( An eight foot python named 'Fluffy' )

( Zombie rats )

( Albino squirrels who pose for tourists. )

( Dreaming of big skies and milk gone sour. )

( 3.14169 )

Here's the first round of questions for the Answers Poll

( Politics for 100: TABLESAW'S OPINION OF HOWARD DEAN. )

( Two cheese sandwiches and a marmoset. )

( The masthead for the January 2004 Enigma. )

( 314 )

( Yes. )

Does your life need more questions? Give me more answers!

I'm in a posting slump. Not for lack of things to write about. Just for lack of time and inclination. There've been exciting things, and I still have some questions I need to finish up; I haven't forgotten them. Mostly, I've been doing a lot of reading and watching of brand new TV shows. How slothly decadent of me.

In the meanwhile, I post the results of a purity test which was rather fun. If things keep going like this, though, my Original Content raitng is bound to slip.

The Ultimate LiveJournal Obsession Test
Category	Your Score	Average LJer
Community Attachment	25.81% You've got pals to cheer you up when you're down, but no audience to applaud you... Yet.	26.98%
MemeSheepage	24.56% Only trendy when it's sufficiently entertaining	31.28%
Original Content	62.9% Using LiveJournal to express a few strong opinions	42.1%
Psychodrama Quotient	13.25% Had a comment taken out of context once or twice	17%
Attention Whoring	22.73% You do a little dance whenever someone friends you	22.84%
Your LiveJournal Obsession Number is: 11111 Click it to see other users who had similar scores to yours!
Take The Ultimate LiveJournal Obsession Test and see how you match up!

The server's pretty hard hit, so it takes a while to load. It may be best to try this later. Also, I think that the server issues screwed up the "Obsession Number."

You know, sometimes, I just react. Many responses solicited, but one reader is required to ask something.

[Poll #181120]

( What Country Am I? )

This quiz, in addition to having very funny outcomes, is interestingly coded. The questions one gets vary depending on one's previous answers. Reminds me of Guess the Dictator and/or Television Sit-Com Character.