Someone (probably one of the many loutish, blasphemous souls) at reddit.com came up with this awesome random thingy: you get a random wikipedia page, and the title is your band name. (squee!) Then you get a random quotation page, and the last few words on the page form the album title. Finally, the image is randomly chosen through Flickr. Results = cool, no?

All the credits and props:

Random article. Random quote page. Photo ganked from florisla‘s flickr stream (please forgive me; I will certainly make no money off this, so I think it’s OK). Photoshopping (GIMPing, actually) done by me. Minimal. Florisla’s photo was listed as CC license (I modified the reddit parameters a bit and did a random search for “interesting” with CC attribution+share-alike license, instead of a pure random thing, which kept giving me copyrighted photos), and I think I’ve treated it well. It’s completely awesome, and I’ve attributed it to him.

Behold... My Future
		I will marry The Log Lady.
		After a wild honeymoon, We will settle down in The Dark Side in our fabulous Apartment.
		We will have 42 kid(s) together.
		Our family will zoom around in a Psychedelic Pastel kidwagon.
		I will spend my days as a female undawears model tan line inspector, and live happily ever after.

Notes:

1. Yes, the Dark Side business makes perfect sense while being married to the Log Lady.
2. My job inspecting undawears models’ tan lines would be pretty uninspiring, after that wild honeymoon (and naturally all the wild nights thereafter) with the Log Lady.
3. Nobody at this website knew to put an apostrophe in “what’s”?

I took a quiz on surviving raptor attacks, and here are my results:

On an unrelated (I sincerely hope) note, I will get the kitty back today, to begin his stay with me while he heals. Sigh. Kittens.

I completely got sucked in to this. And loved it :)

(hint: MUPPETS! ANIMAL!)

I did that 12 days of Christmas thing, and mine were really dumb. But I also did my New Year’s Resolutions, and they’re AWESOME. Observe.

Go to the lds every month.
Go biking three times a week.
Backup my folk regularly.
Start a mexico fund.
Keep my mission clean.
Give up reading.

So… I’m going to reduce my church attendance by 75% and my biking by about 25%, prepare for an assault on our Southern neighbors, reconsider that black-ops idea I’ve been mulling over, and save tons of time by not reading anymore!

The only confusing thing is how I should “backup my folk.” Does this mean I need to support my family? Make copies of them? Or is it referring to the folk music I am wont to dabble in… Am I supposed to become my own backup band? Well, I already am, thank you. After all, nobody else was really jumping forward to volunteer…

BTW, I’m watching one of the worst movies ever made. It’s a hoot! It’s really a lot like The Core, except probably not quite as bad.

some crabs just don’t make it…

So, I was reading this excellent installment of the awesome Cat and Girl comic, and I thought I’d follow her rules and post my names.

Witness Protection Program Name: Darrin Pictureframe

Punk Rock Name: Darrin Timewaster

Prime Minister of India Name: Darrin Gandhi

Singer Songwriter Name: Shadrach Newhaven

Science Fiction Name: Arrow Merona

Trust Fund Name: Elizabeth Lake-Deseret I

For extra credit, I followed the traditional format of [physical or metaphysical attribute]+[geographical location or first name]+[presidential last name] to generate my Blues Name:

Fidgety B.C. Johnson

I challenge… nay, Dare; nay, DEFY you all to do the same. Unless you’re chicken.

bok bok!

#1: Best… Star Wars… Theme… EVAR. There’s an accordion and they’re from Ontario. Click the mp3 link on the site. You will not be disappointed.

#2: This should have been obvious, so why didn’t I think of it?

#3: Funny note from Fake Steve Jobs, about Microsoft’s recent strategy of paying “journalist” bloggers to plug their products:

…I’m proud to say that here at Apple we don’t pay off bloggers and hacks; we go to the trouble of hypnotizing them. It’s a lot more work, but we think it’s worth it.

Heh.

#4: From PhD Comics. It’s totally the honest truth. I live the life.

PhD Comic... doublespeak.

From Sam Vega’s Vox Blog:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t dig for your favourite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

The chisel punched through the aluminum cover and I could see he was pounding the chisel right into the engine head. On the next blow he missed the chisel completely and struck the head with the hammer, breaking off a portion of two of the cooling fins.

“Just stop,” I said politely, feeling this was a bad dream.

–Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

….and now I have read three entire sentences from that book :)