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she’s got *me* reading dooce.com now
So turns out this www.dooce.com lady has some pretty funny stuff to say. Not all of it terribly clean or wholesome, but it’ll still get a chuckle out of me on occasion.
Today, I was reading a few back issues of her daily blog, and noted with interest how a blog entry that was rather long and rambled at great length her consternation with the Mormon church and Latter-Day-Saints religion, and how her ads by google on the same page didn’t hold the same opinion.
So I double-click on Elizabeth’s screen name on my gaim window, and start typing:
(16:49:55) ian: i find it especially hilarious that on a blog entry where she rags on the mormons and their church and their beliefs and how screwed up in the head she thinks they are, that the “ads by goooooogle” have the following ads:
“meet mormon singles – join for free, 1000′s of pictures & videos of Beautiful momron singls”
“Found of Mormon Church – Met tens of thousands of LDS/Mormon Singles for Love”
“LDS Singles Community – Mingle with 1000′s of LDS singles everday. Photos, Chat, and more”
“Book of Mormon Land Tours – Visit proposed Book of Mormon lands. Compare prices. Expert LDS guides” …
(16:50:22) ian: i mean, i know from experience that you can’t really control what google gives you, but it adds an interesting twist on things
(16:51:55) elizabeth: im sure she appreciates the humor
(16:52:43) elizabeth: HAAAAAAA
(16:52:49) elizabeth: “Date Sexy LDS singles in your city”
(16:53:06) elizabeth: if i was on a lab computer i would so click on that ad!
Now, I know we’ve been married nearly a whole month, but should I worry that my wife wants to check out sexy LDS singles in our city?
(editor’s note: Elizabeth and I don’t hold the same personal opinions about LDS’ers and Mormons that Heather from dooce.com does. I especially enjoy hearing other faith viewpoints and backgrounds and cultural things, although I remain very steadfast in my own beliefs and opinions on God and Christianity)
geek rank
Okay, so I felt the urge to tease my buddy George about his “date a geek, part 2″ article from his site and how his URL no longer shows up on the first page at google: in fact, searching for date a geek at google didn’t show his url after 20 pages of searching. My article, which was a total rip-off of his original post with barely a mention of George, was raised from #10 on the 1st page to #9 on 1st page.
Putting quotes around the phrase found him on page 16 though, and bumped me up to #8 on page 1. Maybe it had something to do with posting the URL on slashdot a little while back…
So, in search of some way to guage my geekiness, I actually found a link while searching for “date a geek” (with quotes) to a “polygeek test” which you can view here. My results: I’m only 50% geek:
You are 50% geek
You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.
Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend.
You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You’ll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines!
Geek [to You]: I’m givin’ her all she’s got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals!
You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.
no hablo
Okay, so after a handful of great audiobooks by Robert Ludlum, Terry Prachett, and Michael Chriton, I figured I’d try some audio books to learn Spanish and French. “Mais monsieur, j’ai pense que vous avez su deja le francais?” Well, yes, I already speak some French, thank you, but I figured that “le francais” and “l’espanol” were similar enough that learning both together would be fun.
Well, yesterday on the way to work I got through three 30+ minute lessons in Spanish and learned how to say things like “I only understand a little bit of Spanish” and “I’m from Chicago.” On the way home I got through two French lessons, which I breezed through.
On the way to work today I listened to lesson 3 of the Spanish lessons again to remind myself that I’m from Chicago, and lesson 4 was slightly more complex (I learned I’m really from Philadelphia), and for some reason my download of chapter 5 either got corrupted or went missing, ’cause it jumped straight into lesson 6, where I figured out that these “learn Spanish” lessons are geared towards tourists: thanks to chapter 6, I now know how to ask directions to my hotel or restaurant (but not how to interpret the directions given), and say “I have a lot of dollars and pesos” … something which I’m sure will come in handy should I ever have the desire to get myself mugged or opportunity to pay a ransom for a kidnapping while visiting south of the border.
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