As usual, GrrlScientist made me do it. I agree with her in that the questions are a little too simplistic. You Are 16% Capitalist, 84% Socialist You see a lot of injustice in the world, and you’d like to see it fixed. As far as you’re concerned, all the wrong people have the power. You’re…

Pure Nerd73 % Nerd, 26% Geek, 30% Dork For The Record: A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.You scored better than half in Nerd,…

Following a tagging from Janet: Five random quotes from here that “you think reflect who you are or what you believe.” As Janet did, I just picked the first five that seemed to work … no point in searching the whole database. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. – Benjamin…

Busy week here. Teaching starts next week, so this is full of organizational meetings, retreats, syllabus writing, xeroxing, etc. And to top it all, I’m currently laid out with lower back pain. Argh! Blogging will thus be sporadic for a while, and in lieu of anything significant to say … You are Hulk: you are…

Here we go again: Italy :: Honk :: Shades :: Tool :: Modern :: Tension :: Conservative :: Weight :: Insurance :: Political :: Thoughts below the fold.

Grrlscientist asked. I answer: I too had taken this before. I seem to remember having got a slightly lower score. Must be the extra memory in my new laptop

A few months ago I passed eighth grade math. Now I’ve gone and passed eight grade science. I feel so accomplished You Passed 8th Grade Science Congratulations, you got 8/8 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Science? Oh, and question 6 shoud read neutron not neuron.

This week’s words are: Requirements :: Pizza :: Dating :: Issue :: Sharp :: Distinguish :: Remote :: Felony :: Exercise :: Choose :: (source) See below the cut for my replies.