Category: memes

TrustFlow results for cahwyguy

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I do this meme every 18 months or so. This time, it was snarfed from zarchasmpgmr and talonvaki. If you think there are any of these folks I should read, let me know. If you want to refer them there, feel welcome.


I tried out TrustFlow II for LiveJournal. The following people not on the friends list for cahwyguy are close by:

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(meme) iTunes Meme

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Snarfed from tsgeisel:

iTunes Survey:

How many total songs?
15706 songs, 33.6 days, 45.23GB

Sort by song title – first and last
First: A’ Soalin’ (Live), Peter, Paul & Mary (Peter, Paul & Mary In Concert)
Last: 911 Emergency/I Have So Many Songs, A New Brain (1998 Original Broadway Cast)

Sort by time – shortest and longest
Shortest: Four More Questions – Intro (0:04) Alan Eder: Reggae Passover
Longest: Smiling Phases [Live] (18:44) Blood, Sweat & Tears: Blood, Sweat & Tears [Bonus Tracks]
(I must, however, note the penultimate longest: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (17:00) Iron Butterfly)

Sort by Album – first and last
First: “Abbey Road” – The Beatles
Last: “9 to 5 and Odd Jobs” – Dolly Parton

Sort by Artist – first and last
First: A*Teens, (Lilo and Stitch soundtrack)
Last: 98 Degrees and Steve Wonder (Mulan soundtrack)

Sort by Album Artist – first and last
First: Aalon
Last: The 5th Dimension

Top five played songs (note that I’ve been playing random, so this is the iPod’s choice)
1. When I’m Sixty-Four The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. Idiot Road The Arrogant Worms: Idiot Road
3. Come Together The Beatles: Abbey Road
4. Yer Blues The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album)
5. The Music And The Mirror A Chorus Line (1975 Original Broadway Cast)

Find the following words. How many songs show up?
Sex: 6
Death: 8
Love: 977
You: 1855
Home: 166
Boy: 327
Girl: 413

First five songs that come up on Party Shuffle
1. She Loves To Hear The Music The Boy From Oz (2003 Original Broadway Cast)
2. One of the Boys Woman of the Year (1981 Original Broadway Cast)
3. Gary, Indiana The Music Man (1991 Studio Cast)
4. It Takes A Woman/Put On Your Sunday Clothes Jerry’s Girls (1984 Original Broadway Cast)
5. Morningside Neil Diamond: Hot August Night

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(meme) Because I Must

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Snarfed from talonvaki:

Reply to this entry and I will…

  1. Tell you why I friended you.
  2. Associate you with something – fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.
  3. Tell you something I like about you.
  4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
  5. Ask something I’ve always wanted to know about you.
  6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
  7. In return, you must post this in your LJ.

(P.S.: I’m sort-a disappointed that no one responded to my post asking about podcasts. Hint. Hint.)

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Attack of the Pod People

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Last night, when I was picking my daughter up from religious school, I struck up a conversation with a co-congregant about what I was listening to on my iPod. As I did, I realized that one’s selection of podcasts can tell one a lot about a person. Hence, the following question:

What podcasts do you listen to?

I am subscribed currently to four podcasts:

  • Broadway Bullet. A mix of interviews, theatre news, and in-studio performances. (iTunes)
  • Downstage Center. A production of the American Theatre Wing, Downstage Center features in-depth interviews with actors, directors, and producers. (iTunes)
  • Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. The NPR News Quiz, which is often hilarious. (iTunes)
  • CarTalk. I’ve been listening to Tom and Ray discuss car repair since the mid-1980s, but not regularly. Now I can, and I’m happy. (iTunes)

So what podcasts do you listen to? What would you recommend to me?

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(meme) So How Do I Sound? / Shakespeare

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Because all the cool kids are doing it…

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

Neutral

You’re not Northern, Southern, or Western, you’re just plain -American-. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don’t really have a local identity. You might be from the region in that map, which is defined by this kind of accent, but you could easily not be. Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.

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The above result is quite interesting — I’m a native of Los Angeles: I was born here, grew up here, attended college (UCLA) here, and have lived here ever since college. My mom was from the midwest, though…

William Shakespeare

Once more unto the cahwyguy, dear friends, once more.

Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from?

Get your own quotes:


How appropos…

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(meme) A Couples Meme

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[Snarfed from theferrett, who snarfed it from docbrite… just the thing for a windy Monday morning when I’m waiting to head out for a doctor’s appt., and the news isn’t giving me the information I need (fire boundaries). This is a couples meme, so if you’re single, make something up :-)]

  1. Who eats more? Probably gf_guruilla, but I get more true junk food, being able to eat gluten.
  2. Who said “I love you” first? I don’t remember. It was just sort of mutual.
  3. Who is the morning person? Me, definately. I’ll wake up, without an alarm clock, at 5:30a. 6:00a is sleeping in. Given her druthers, gf_guruilla will sleep till 11am.
  4. Who sings better? I guess I do, as gf_guruilla admittedly sings in the key of “off”.
  5. Who’s older? gf_guruilla, by 2 years.
  6. Who’s smarter? In what? She’s smarter in some things, I’m smarter in others. We complement each other that way.
  7. Whose temper is worse? Hers. I rarely get angry and let my temper out.
  8. Who does the laundry? Mostly me. I collect, sort, and run in through the machine. About 70% of the time, I sort and fold as well.
  9. Who does the dishes? Me, again. I don’t mind it.
  10. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed (from the point of view of sitting on the bed)? gf_guruilla. I’m left handed, and prefer the left side.
  11. Whose feet are bigger? I think we’re both about the same size.
  12. Whose hair is longer? Hers, but barely. We both keep it short.
  13. Who’s better with the computer? Me.
  14. Do you have pets? No.
  15. Who pays the bills? Me. I’m the Quicken-maven.
  16. Who cooks dinner? About 70% gf_guruilla, 30% me. Cooks night out is one night a week.
  17. Who drives when you are together? Depends where. She normally drives short trips; I’ll do vacation. Of course, now that I have the Matrix, I’d rather drive.
  18. Who pays when you go out to dinner? Here I’m not thinking monitarily, as all money is from the same pot. I’ll usually let her whip out the credit card, as I hate figuring the tips.
  19. Who’s the most stubborn? gf_guruilla. But she’ll say it is me.
  20. Who is the first one to admit when they’re wrong? Me, but that’s only because she’s usually right.
  21. Whose family do you see more? I was going to say hers, but my uncle is giving my daughter guitar lessons, so we see him most frequently. After that, it is her sister and her folks.
  22. Who named your pet? That’s a personal question :-). Seriously, we have no pets.
  23. Who kissed who first? Don’t remember. Neither of us are that into kissing.
  24. Who asked who out? Probably me, but again it just sort of happened.
  25. Who stole question 25? No idea. How about the question, “Who is better in an emergency?”. That would be gf_guruilla, who keeps her head and knows just what to do.
  26. Who’s more sensitive? Me. I get misty eyed at many things.
  27. Who’s taller? Me, by about 2″
  28. Who has more friends? Her. I don’t have many close friends (although I’ve made many here on LJ)
  29. Who has more siblings? Her: three sisters, one brother. I had one half-brother, but he died when I was 10. I acquired three siblings as an adult when my dad remarried, but I’m only close to mommyathome and don’t know the other two that well.
  30. Who wears the pants in the relationship? Well, seeing as I wear pants exclusively, and she tends to wear dresses, the answer is clear. If you mean in the other sense, it’s about equal.
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Ye Old Music Meme

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Back in 2004, I snarfed the following meme from patgund. Now I has iPod, and I can do it for real:

  1. Open up the music player on your computer (if you have one — the music player, I mean. Clearly you have a computer, because otherwise you couldn’t read this).
  2. Set it to play your entire music collection.
  3. Hit the “shuffle” command.
  4. Tell us the title of the next ten songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That’s right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. It’s time for total musical honesty. You can put the list in the comment thread, or write it up in your blog or Journal and then post a link in the comments.

So, here goes:

  1. Something So Right (Paul Simon: Negotiations And Love Songs 1971-1986)
  2. When I Dream (Roger Whittaker: Changes)
  3. Courtin’ In The Kitchen (The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem: Hearty And Hellish)
  4. Rocky Racoon (The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album))
  5. Top Cat (Hoyt Curtain, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera: Toon Tunes: Funny Bone Favorites)
  6. She Is Still A Mystery (The Lovin’ Spoonful: The Best…)
  7. Lead-In And Song: We Got Annie (Charles Strouse & Martin Charnin: Annie (1977 Original Broadway Cast))
  8. Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise) (Lea Michele & Girls: Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast))
  9. There is a City (Osnat Paz: Jerusalem of Gold/Hava Nagilah: Songs of the Six Day War)
  10. The Wells Fargo Wagon (Erich Kunzel: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra: The Music Man (1991 Studio Cast))
  11. On The Rim Of The World (Malvina Reynolds: Ear To The Ground: Topical Songs 1960-1978)

Yup, quite a mix. I should point out, for honesty sake, that there is one Carpenters album and one Barry Manilow album in the overall mix, but with almost 16,000 songs, the kitchen sink is in there as well.

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