Speak Stiltedly and Wear a Yellow Shirt

I’m a Gryffindor!

I don’t remember what that means…

Via Liz:

Which Alan Rickman Character Are You?

Yes, I cheated. I stared out as Snape, but that was just too much of a Being Like Liz thing. I was aiming for Brandon but he turned out not to be an answer.

Meanwhile, back at the blogsticker factory:

I don’t stop by Wil Wheaton’s blog often, but I did tonight. Here’s what that led to:

The road to perl is paved with good intentions.

Well, the perl blog quiz script is done. You can give it
a trial run or
download it for your own use from the
blogquiz page.

Soon there will be an exciting mod quiz, but for the moment, the results
are a bit dull:

You Are Category 2
People of category 2 are…
Take the Which Category are You? Quiz

Lori linked the
Partial
Logic Test. I got all the questions right and wondered why they were
all the same question. I guess it explains a lot about the world that 75-80% of
people can’t follow conditional statements. I shouldn’t be surprised when I say
if P then Q and everyone blows up at me because they think I
said if Q then P.

A quote from the explanation you get after you take the test
(no cheating, please!):

The more I think about this, the more depressing it is. It would make a
good sci-fi story, though - something along the lines of Forever
Peace, except the thing killing intelligent species would be sheer
irrationality, rather than primitive aggression.

I’ve been surfing blog quizzes in search of the perfect script
for Liz’s
evil plan. (That link will expire, but the permalink wasn’t working.) First
I checked all the quizzes in my quiz category;
which led me to The
What Should Your New Year’s Resolution Be? Quiz. If you view the source,
you’ll see it’s based on javascript.

I’d rather Perl, so I continued my quest, taking the occasional quiz along the way:

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You are a very conservative and introverted person. You live in your own world and you’re not very easy to approach. Which Blogging Tool Are You?

That one was javascript. In the following one, the whole page was
generated by a perl script.

take
free enneagram test

I finally found an actual script:
Quizmaster,
which looks like more than I need.

The fanfic list is in a
previous
post.

Which Episode II character are you?

Probably the greatest Jedi Knight of all. Like Obi Wan, you are wise and keep your feet on the ground at all times. You will not be outsmarted by anyone. You are always faithful to your friends. Be careful though, danger lurks around every corner - you could even be betrayed by those closest to you.

Apparently there’s a company out there that does these quiz things now, with some nasty weighting stuff and a full list of results to help you cheat. (The following commercial link has been corrected for spelling and style.)

Which Buffy villain are you? (by calophi)

I think we need a “Which Fandom are You?” quiz, or maybe a “Which Hated and Despised Pairing are You?”

“Are you Dorothy Parker?” a guest at a party inquired.
“Yes, do you mind?”

You are Dorothy Parker
You are cynical, bitter, and bitchy! Too bad you are so preoccupied with love and unhappy with life. It’s okay, your wit has made you very popular. By the way, aren’t all men pigs?

Take the Which Poet are You? Quiz
Brought to you out of boredom and pretention!

Dorothy Parker in a book review:
“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly.
It should be thrown aside with great force.”

Another book review:
“He is beyond question a writer of power; and his power lies in his ability to make sex so thoroughly, graphically and aggressively unattractive that one is fairly shaken to ponder how little one has been missing.”

Quotes and image stolen from: http://users.rcn.com/lyndanyc/dorothy.html.

find your element at mutedfaith.com.

Go figure.