Oh, and even though I won't paste the symbol itself (the color scheme doesn't sit well with me), I am a D-list blogger (or is it a D-minus ?)

"With 0 links in the last 180 days, Technorati places http://themissingy.livejournal.com/ in the low authority group.

That makes you a D-List Blogger!"

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Today I unsubscribed from AlterNet's RSS feed. Even though some of the articles were good, the overall tone was lefter than left, and I don't believe in taking any viewpoint to the extreme.
Worse yet, the consistently anti-semitic tone of the commenters gave me a "yikes, are those people serious?" reaction pretty much every time I looked at an ( Read more... )

That's about right. I am a democrat not because democrats are so great (the values are about right, but the execution really sucks) but because republicans are... well, how do I put it nicely... the worse of two evils. Okay, so there is no way to put it nicely.

I would probably describe myself as a libertarian socialist but that combo is probably ( Read more... )

Eating healthy for any prolonged period of time leads to junkfood cravings.

Damn.

A combination of moderately heavy Russian accent, speech problems and linguistics classes gives you... A Midland accent!

Of course, telling the difference between two sounds is one thing. Pronouncing the darn vowels is quite another.
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying ( Read more... )

http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2006/11/opting-outs-shitty-option.html

"The second story is smaller, but bigger. In my Spanish class, there was an older woman who was returning to school. Over the course of the semester, we found things out about her: her ( Read more... )

It seems that I will always have to apologetically explain why it is that I am mainly a PHP developer (BECAUSE large percentage of open source web-based software is written in PHP rather than in Java because Java is not yet open, and I do a lot of my work around existing F/OSS software ( Read more... )

Nothing beats a cup of real hot chocolate. Well, maybe a cup of real hot chocolate, a plush throw and a fireplace.
Unfortunately, those other things are not possible for me at the moment, as I have homework to do.

Yes, I am in the "I'm a responsible adult, dammit, and I *still* have to do homework?!" stage of self-pitying.

Kip Hawley is an idiot.

Mom passed her road test! On the first try!

Whee!

(I did it on the second one, so there -- older generation can beat the yellow-beaked youngsters when they feel like it)