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Not as Nerdy as I thought I was...

  • Dec. 6th, 2009 at 9:24 AM
bald, John Reiher, graves
Took the "How Nerdy are you" test:


I am nerdier than 56% of all people. Are you a nerd? Click here to take the Nerd Test, get nerdy images and jokes, and talk on the nerd forum!


I'm not as nerdy as I thought I was.


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What Badassed Fighter am I?

  • Jul. 26th, 2009 at 10:27 AM
bald, John Reiher, graves


Your result for What badass fighter are you test...

You're BRUCE LEE BAD!!!!!

100% badass!

You're the badest of the bad! in fact there isn't a word to describe how badass you are. You are like water! the ulitimate warrior! You do not hit, it hits all by itself!! You are untouchable in a fight, using raw talent to dispatch any opponent in your path! People will respect and admire you for the rest of your life because of your brutal AWESOMENESS!!


WHAAAAAAAAAAATAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!


Take What badass fighter are you test
at HelloQuizzy



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What kind of Supervillian am I?

  • Jul. 20th, 2009 at 3:14 PM
bald, John Reiher, graves


Your result for The Supervillain Archetype Test...

The Professional

Cool, Levelheaded, Lethal

The Professional is the most dangerous of all villains. You do what you do better than anyone, because, as a Professional, you have standards.


The Professional is like the Crook in that they both desire money. But the Professional wants more than that. The Professional wants job satisfaction. It isn't sadism really, he just wants to be sure that the job is done, and done well. No hard feelings, it's just business. Professionals prefer to work alone, but will work in groups if given incentive.


The greatest weakness of a Professional is risk. A Professional is business-like, but can't resist a challenge. They often use the word "worthy opponent". People like that are easily baited. And if a Professional is eventually cornered (not easy to do), they might lose it.


Sample Professionals: Deathstroke, Bullseye, Revanche


Take The Supervillain Archetype Test
at HelloQuizzy



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My Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level

  • Jul. 7th, 2009 at 12:50 PM
bald, John Reiher, graves
  
johnreiher's Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 8
Average number of words per sentence:15.53
Average number of syllables per word:1.50
Total words in sample:2780
Analyze your journal! Username: <input ... > <input ... >
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern


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Published!

  • Jun. 23rd, 2009 at 4:37 PM
bald, John Reiher, graves
Finally, one of my short flash fictions, Between the Stars, was published on 365 Tomorrows. Here's an excerpt:
Family Faxor Kwer had lived on this comet for five generations. The light of the home star Sol was indistinguishable from the light of the twin stars Alef and Bey, or the nearer star Prox. Their ship dwarfed the small comet, stretching far past it in both directions.

The great night of space wrapped around Morgzha, who took little notice of it. He had been born in it, his body was made from it, and he knew of nothing else. He was the son of the headman of the family and overseer of the mining machines. They mined the needed water and minerals from the comet as well as the even rarer metals. They very much needed metals.


Read more at the 365 Tomorrows web site!


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Dammit Jim, I'm the Doctor

  • Jun. 17th, 2009 at 1:02 PM
bald, John Reiher, graves
This is absolutely hilarious, especially at the very end. So watch the whole thing through.



Besides, you just gotta love it for this frame grab:



Snatched from the Bad Astronomy blog.



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Writer's Block: Space Wars

  • May. 20th, 2009 at 9:55 AM
bald, John Reiher, graves

Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Serenity, Alien, 2001—there is a long list of movies and TV shows that take place in space. Which is your favorite?


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People will think I'm insane for saying this, but first season Lost In Space wasn't a bad show. It was still adult with some humor, and it hadn't been kiddie-fied by the network. It was some serious Sci Fi, and Irwin Allen can rest assured he did some good work. What most people remember are the second and third season which weren't as good, especially third season. Especially the Great Vegetable Rebellion. Especially that.

My second favorite is a classic of Saturday Morning Television: Jonny Quest
Now there was an action adventure show, with mad science and good guy scientists! And it was show where people got killed. It never scarred me, and made me appreciate how dangerous such things could be. It also was a good counterpoint to the cartoon violence in the Bugs Bunny Show. The scariest episode was the Invisible Monster and the coolest, in my opinion, was The Robot Spy. I mean, everyone needs a walking eye!




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I Am Not A Merry Man

  • May. 16th, 2009 at 6:13 PM
bald, John Reiher, graves
I'm not at all sure that this is right...

Your results:
You are Worf

Worf
75%
Geordi LaForge
65%
Mr. Scott
50%
Mr. Sulu
50%
Jean-Luc Picard
50%
Chekov
45%
Deanna Troi
45%
James T. Kirk (Captain)
40%
Uhura
40%
Beverly Crusher
35%
Will Riker
35%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
35%
Spock
32%
Data
24%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)
20%
You are trained in the art of combat
and are usually intimidating.


Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Test



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My RPG Gaming style

  • May. 4th, 2009 at 11:51 AM
bald, John Reiher, graves

You Scored as Storyteller

You're more inclined toward the role playing side of the equation and less interested in numbers or experience points. You're quick to compromise if you can help move the story forward, and get bored when the game slows down for a long planning session. You want to play out a story that moves like it's orchestrated by a skilled novelist or film director.

Storyteller
75%
Butt-Kicker
75%
Specialist
58%
Tactician
58%
Method Actor
50%
Casual Gamer
33%
Power Gamer
33%


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My Cat Wants to Kill Me

  • May. 2nd, 2009 at 7:49 AM
bald, John Reiher, graves
Disclaimer: I don't own a cat, but there are several "semi-ferals" that cross my path in my apartment complex. So I took the test for them.


Is your cat plotting to kill you?


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Sam Rockwell's Moon

  • Apr. 11th, 2009 at 9:52 PM
bald, John Reiher, graves


Astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his intelligent computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of Helium 3, a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.


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How to Succeed in Evil, the Audio Novel

  • Apr. 10th, 2009 at 9:52 PM
bald, John Reiher, graves
 I've been following the podcasts of a gripping story, the story of Edwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant, and his travails with idiot villains and their schemes. How they ignore how to be efficiently evil and turn their schemes towards making lots of money.

The series is called How to Succeed in Evil, by Patrick McLean. Not only did he write the story, he does all the voices from the stoic Edwin Windsor, to the insane Doctor Loeb, to the gun crazy, hard drinking, hard playing, midget lawyer Topper. 

Paralleling this story is the story of Excelsior, this world's version of Superman, the man of steel, the man with deep emotional problems.

And the power to crack the Earth in half. 

It's up to chapter 18 now, and it's worth listening to from the very beginning. I highly recommend this series if you're a fan of superhero fiction.


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Writer's Block: Guarding the Terrorists

  • Apr. 5th, 2009 at 10:07 AM
bald, John Reiher, graves

If you were ordered to become a prison guard for alleged terrorists and live at Guantanamo, what would you find most difficult about your job?

Sponsored by "Inside Guantanamo" on National Geographic Channel. Premieres Tomorrow at 9P et/pt.


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At the time when this was possible, i.e. when I was still in the armed forces, I hate to say I'd be sorely tempted to mistreat the prisoners. That would be the hardest part of the job.

Having said that, in the intervening 25 years I've grown up and matured and these days I'd find it hard to take the job at all. I've opposed everything that happened to Iraq from the start, nothing would convince me to be a guard at Gitmo...


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bald, John Reiher, graves
A meme from [info]mechanteanemone, where you indicate which USA State and Canadian Province you've been to.

Read more... )


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What Science Fiction Writer Am I?

  • Mar. 18th, 2009 at 12:48 PM
bald, John Reiher, graves
I am:
Hal Clement (Harry C. Stubbs)
A quiet and underrated master of "hard science" fiction who, among other things, foresaw integrated circuits back in the 1940s.


Which science fiction writer are you?



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Jay Ward's The Watchmoose... err, Watchmen

  • Mar. 11th, 2009 at 12:04 PM
bald, John Reiher, graves
Absolutely hilarious! Found this in Deviant Art.

Watchmen

I just love the juxtaposition of the characters.


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Pocket Stops: Wayang Kulit

  • Mar. 10th, 2009 at 6:29 PM
bald, John Reiher, graves
For those of you who don't know this, I do work on the side for Tri Tac Games as a designer, writer and playtester. One of the things I love doing are these short stories involving the game Fringeworthy. So enjoy this little story about a pair of interdimensional scouts and their adventures:
 
Wayang Kulit

By John Reiher

Ted Granger puffed away as he peddled his bike in the early morning sun. Attached to the bike was a trailer loaded with trade goods. Next to him was Lorenzo Di Stefano peddling his own trailer. They both rather that they could have used their vehicle, but the local Javanese king, Sunan Patah, had banned all privately owned motor vehicles from the land. If a person wanted to get around, you rode a bicycle, an ox cart, or you walked. So there they were, cycling down the market streets of Surakarta, looking for an empty stall to set up and trade their goods from.

 

Read more of Ted and Lorenzo's Adventure... )

 



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Hulu.com, an evil plot to rot your mind

  • Feb. 6th, 2009 at 10:22 PM
bald, John Reiher, graves



A great commercial for an interesting service. I wonder how many people believe that Alec Baldwin is a brain sucking alien after watching it?


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Houston, we have a problem...

  • Feb. 5th, 2009 at 11:34 AM
bald, John Reiher, graves
From the blog of [info]tebe_interesno, comes this picture of alternate history:

Yes we do...

A word of warning, his blog is mostly in Russian, but check out his artwork... it is very odd.


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Another Bloody Meme

  • Jan. 24th, 2009 at 7:55 AM
bald, John Reiher, graves
(from [info]ffutures and others)

Empire Magazine has revealed its list of the 50 Greatest TV Shows ever.

1. Bold the shows you watch/used to watch.
2. Italicize the shows you've seen at least one episode of.
3. Underline the shows you own [at least one season] on DVD and/or VHS.
4. Post your answers.

50. Quantum Leap
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
46. Sex & The City
45. Farscape
44. Cracker
43. Star Trek
42. Only Fools and Horses
41. Band of Brothers
40. Life on Mars
39. Monty Python
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted
35. Alias
34. Frasier
33. CSI Las Vegas
32. Babylon 5
31. Deadwood
30. Dexter
29. ER
28. Fawlty Towers
27. Six Feet Under
26. Red Dwarf
25. Futurama
24. Twin Peaks
23. The Office
22. The Shield
21. Angel
20. Blackadder
19. Scrubs
18. Arrested Development
17. South park
16. Dr Who
15. Heroes
14. Firefly
13.Battlestar Galactica
12. Family Guy
11. Seinfeld
10. Spaced
09. The X-Files
08. The Wire
07. Friends
06. 24
05. Lost
04. The West Wing
03. The Sopranos
02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
01. The Simpsons


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