wwcitizen: (For realz?)
I took this picture the other day and thought, "What's on this pea's mind?"   What do you think THIS littlest pea is thinking about?
Try out your best humorous line.  Nothing too risque; this is a public post and kids under 13 might be watching.  :-)

I will post a poll at the end of the week with the top 3 lines, from which I will get the best line to appear in the bubble!
wwcitizen: (TSiTD_Meme)
Though this is not as strong as it USED to be when I lived around Trenton, I suppose I can claim that it's still very similar to Philadelphia. But, depending on how tired or drunk I am, or around which group I've been hanging, I might have a more southern, NY, Boston, or Canadian accent. My sister calls me a linguistic sponge, which kind of sums it up. Have fun if you wanna take this quiz.


What American accent do you have?
Your Result: Philadelphia
 

Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard.

The Midland
 
The South
 
The Inland North
 
The Northeast
 
Boston
 
The West
 
North Central
 
What American accent do you have?
wwcitizen: (Default)
I was able to select the status updates that highlighted elements of 2010 through my eyes and experiences. It's funny to note how many of my posts deal with food, friends, travel, NYC, and NJ. This was fun. Now, I'll delete the app on FB. LOL

wwcitizen: (At Puter)
With thanks to [livejournal.com profile] holy13nation

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this list; bold those books you've read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (actually 3 books) - don't forget The Hobbit (below) (& saw the movies)

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (This is 7 books!!!) (saw the movies)

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (& saw the movie)

6 The Bible (& saw the movie)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (This is 3 books!!!)

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (& saw the movie)

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (& saw the movie)

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (read many, but how's it count as "1"? Odd...)

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (& saw the movie)

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (saw the movie)

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (& saw the movie)

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (& saw the movie)

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (& saw the movies)

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (Also 7 books!) (& saw the movies)

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Already covered in #33?) (& saw the movie)

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (& saw the movie)

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (& saw the movie)

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (& saw the movie)

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (& saw the movie)

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert (& saw the movie)

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (& saw the movie)

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (& saw the movie)

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (& saw the movie)

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (saw the movie)

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (saw the movie)

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (& saw the movie)

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (& saw the movies)

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (& saw the movies)

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (saw the movie)

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazu Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (& saw the movie)

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (& saw the movie & shows)

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - LOVE IT!!

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (saw the movie)

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (wasn't this covered in #14??)

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (& saw the movie)

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (& saw the movie)
wwcitizen: (Maybe I Guess)
[livejournal.com profile] ironranger1 posted results of an analysis of his writing style. I thought this was interesting and fun thing to do, too, but realized that depending on my mood, I might have a different writing style. I poked through my archives to find three distinctly different pieces to analyze. These are the 3 results (all interesting choices because we're all around the same age):

Number 1:
Wallace is interesting on a lot of fronts, but also disturbing in that he committed suicide in 2008. This guy was also steeped in philosophy, taught, and had parents who expected good grammar.


I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!



Number 2:
This guy is a Canadian blogger. Fancy that! That my writing style is similar to that of a blogger... But, again, he's within my age range.


I write like
Cory Doctorow

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!



Number 3:
Albeit only 4 years older than me, of the three authors whose writing mine resembles, his is also partially the most interesting. Interesting, until I realize why the piece of writing I chose resembled Brown's writing style: There were lots of "secrets" in the piece - back during the 30 Secrets meme.


I write like
Dan Brown

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!



I found the last one particularly interesting and Matt even exclaimed, "Dan Brown???!! Get out!" It became clear that certain phrases, words, or amounts of punctuation really dictated which writer was selected for the analysis.
wwcitizen: (AnxiousFace)
About a week ago, [livejournal.com profile] pauliebearsf, [livejournal.com profile] spikejrt, [livejournal.com profile] goreyboy, [livejournal.com profile] erstexman, and [livejournal.com profile] jimwnyc (among others) posted their results of their tarot cards. I don't put any stock in Tarot card, palm reading, tea leaf readings, or Ouji boards, but thought this would be cute. Plus, I like the pretty pictures.



You are The Star


Hope, expectation, Bright promises.


The Star is one of the great cards of faith, dreams realised


The Star is a card that looks to the future. It does not predict any immediate or powerful change, but it does predict hope and healing. This card suggests clarity of vision, spiritual insight. And, most importantly, that unexpected help will be coming, with water to quench your thirst, with a guiding light to the future. They might say you're a dreamer, but you're not the only one.


What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.


wwcitizen: (Gimme a hug)
Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] jccub1 for this one:

wwcitizen: (How About This?)
What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

Neutral. Not Northern, Southern, or Western, just American. Your national American identity is more important to you than your local identity, because you don't really have a local identity to begin with.

Take this quiz now - it's easy!
We're going to start with "cot" and "caught." When you say those words do they sound the same or different?





BUT, I noticed yesterday in my voice post that I said something that sounded DISTINCTLY Philadelphia! When I said, "post", it was a long "o", which is very South Jersey or Philadelphia. Thought I was done with that accent. Meh.

Rainbows

May. 19th, 2010 10:35 pm
wwcitizen: (Rainbow Flag)
Ganked from both [livejournal.com profile] mort_83 and [livejournal.com profile] spikejrt. I thought theirs were cool and had to see what my rainbow looked like. Here it is:

Your rainbow is intensely shaded green, violet, and red.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

What is says about you: You are a creative person. You feel strong ties to nature and your mood changes with its cycles. Those around you admire your fresh outlook and vitality. You get bored easily and want friends who will keep up with you.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.
wwcitizen: (At Puter)
I ganked this from a new friend on Facebook and thought it would be fun. Haven't done one of these things in a LONG time. This is a very short list of things, and I added a couple that people might not have done that I have - just because it would be interestING to see who else has done them, too.

The Bucket List. Place an X by all the things you've done and remove the X from the ones you have not, then send it to your friends (including me). If you're on Facebook, you can post this as a note and share it with folks on your friends list. Enjoy!

Things you have done during your lifetime:
(X) Gone on a blind date
(X) Skipped school
( ) Held the hands of someone as they died.
(X) Been to Canada
(X) Been to Mexico
(X) Been to Florida
(X) Been to Hawaii
(X) Been on a plane
( ) Been on a helicopter
(X) Been lost
(X) Gone to Washington, DC
(X) Swam in the ocean
(X) Cried yourself to sleep
(X) Played cops and robbers
(X) Recently colored with crayons
(X) Sang Karaoke
(X) Paid for a meal with coins only
( ) Been to the top of the St. Louis Arch.
( ) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't.
(X) Made prank phone calls.
(X) Been down Bourbon Street in New Orleans
(X) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
(X) Danced in the rain-naked
(X) Written a letter to Santa Claus
(X) Been kissed under a bunch of mistletoe.
(X) Watched the sunrise with someone
(X) Watched the sunset with someone at the beach
(X) Blown bubbles
(X) Gone ice-skating
(X) Gone to the movies
(X) Been deep sea fishing.
(X) Driven across the United States
(X) Been in a hot air balloon
( ) Been sky diving
( ) Gone snowmobiling
(X) Lived in more than one country
(X) Lay down outside at night and admired the stars while listening to the crickets
(X) Seen a falling star and made a wish
( ) Bought a star's name for someone you love
( ) Enjoyed the beauty of Old Faithful Geyser
(X) Seen the Statue of Liberty
( ) Gone to the top of Seattle Space Needle
(X) Been on a cruise
(X) Traveled by train
(X) Traveled by motorcycle
(X) Been horse back riding
(X) Ridden on a San Francisco CABLE CAR
(X) Been to Disneyland OR Disney World
(X) Been in a rain forest
(X) Seen whales in the ocean
( ) Been to Niagara Falls
( ) Ridden on an elephant
(X) Ridden on a camel
(X) Swam with dolphins
( ) Been to the Olympics
( ) Walked on the Great Wall of China
( ) Saw and heard a glacier calf
( ) Been spinnaker flying
(X) Been water-skiing
(X) Been snow-skiing
(X) Been to Westminster Abbey
(X) Been to the Louvre
(X) Swam in the Mediterranean
(X) Been to a Major League Baseball game
(X) Been to a National Football League game
(X) Been to a college Bowl game
(X) Been to an African country
( ) Been to Australia and/or New Zealand
(X) Been to islands in the South Pacific
(X) Been to islands in the Indian Ocean
( ) Ran naked through a public place
(X) Thrown a full beer off a ship to someone on the ground.
(X) Went midnight swimming naked
(X) Been totally embarrassed in public
(X) Been to New York City
( ) Been on horse carriage ride in Central Park
(X) Been scuba-diving or snorkeling
(X) Been to a Broadway show
(X) Been to the opera
(X) Enjoyed an orchestra
(X) Climbed or hiked a mountain
wwcitizen: (BlackBerryFanatic)
Ganked from [livejournal.com profile] erstexman who ganked it from [livejournal.com profile] dewittar and [livejournal.com profile] mort_83 who both ganked from [livejournal.com profile] texwriterbear.

Had the Chicken pox: Nope
Ever gotten a scar: Yes
Had a broken nose: Nope
Had your tonsils removed?: Nope
Had ice cream in the morning: Nope
Had to give the heimlich: Nope
Dated outside your race?: Maybe... defines "race"
Given ...a hickey?: Yes
Dated your good friend/best friend?: Wanted to, but no
Sung in the shower?: Forcibly, yes... to try it out or make someone laugh.
Spit in someone's drink?: Huh-uh!! No matter how much someone pissed me off.
Dumped someone?: Yes
Opened your Christmas presents early?: Maybe one or two, but not big ones.
Peed outside?: Of course! I'm a guy!
Seen "The Goonies" more than 10 times?: Nope
Had more than five REAL bf/gf?: Um, what's a "real" bf/gf? I've had gfs that almost became fiances and have had bfs that almost became full LTRs. At least 5 of each...
Played a computer game for more than 5 hours?: Hell yes!
Ran through the sprinklers naked?: As a kid maybe...
Ate food that fell on the floor?: Yes
Went outside naked?: Yes!!
Made out with your best friends bf/gf?: Actually, I have.
Mooned somebody?: All the time!
Been on stage?: Yes
Made someone cry?: Yes
Been in a parade?: Yes
Been in a school play?: Yep - a few
Drank beer?: Does a cat like milk?
Gotten detention?: Yes
Been on a plane?: Yes
Been on a cruise?: Yep
Broken into a house?: Yes - my own or a friend's when they asked me to.
Gotten a tattoo?: Nope
Gotten piercings?: Nope
Cried so hard you threw up?: Nope
Gotten into a shouting match?: Yes
Been skinny dipping?: Yes! Finally!!
Spun yourself in circles to get dizzy on purpose?: Yes - just the other day, in fact.
Laughed so hard it hurt?: Yes - often
Tripped on your own feet?: Yes
Cried yourself to sleep?: Yes
Cried in public?: Yes
Thrown up in public?: Unfortunately, yes.
Lied to your parents?: Yes
Skipped class?: Yes
Slept in class?: Yes
wwcitizen: (At Puter)
Ganked from [livejournal.com profile] erstexman (who got it from [livejournal.com profile] bullchef). I like this assessment; when I first got into it, I assumed (for some unknown reason) right off that my color would be purple. Interesting how this turned out!

What color is your soul painted?

Purple

Your soul is painted the color purple, which embodies the characteristics of sensuality, spirituality, creativity, wealth, royalty, nobility, mystery, enlightenment, arrogance, gaudiness, mourning, confusion, pride, delicacy, power, meditation, religion, and ambition. Purple falls under the element of Earth, and was once a European symbol of royalty; today it symbolizes the divine.

Personality Test Results

Click Here to Take This Quiz

wwcitizen: (OMG-HUH?)
WHAT? I'm a FISH?? Interesting observations, though.

Your Animal is the Salmon
You are both clever and wise. You are a keen observer, and you tend to notice everything.
You have amazing reasoning skills, and you grasp difficult concepts. You are an abstract thinker.

You seek wisdom in its many forms. You are interested in art, literature, history, philosophy, and science.
You are driven to make your own mark on the world. You put your creativity and brilliance to work.


(Ganked from [livejournal.com profile] cuboz via [livejournal.com profile] erstexman.)
wwcitizen: (Goofy Steve Head)
Here's a list of things that people accomplished 40 years ago.

John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.

Joan Ganz Cooney founded Children's Television Workshop and became the mastermind behind "Sesame Street."

Charles Thurber patented a typewriter.

Chemist Franz Karl Achard developed a process for extracting sugar from beets.

Physicist William Sturgeon created the first electromagnet.

Jean Eugene Atget, now considered one of the greatest photographers, took up photography.

Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, a mother of six who occasionally wrote for magazines, published Uncle Tom's Cabin, an antislavery novel of such force that it is generally recognized as one of the causes of the Civil War.

Earl Vickers unveiled his audio effects plug-in SFX Machine at the 1997 NAMM convention.

Nerd Test

Feb. 4th, 2009 08:44 pm
wwcitizen: (Default)
Stolen / linked to from [livejournal.com profile] mort_83. This was a funny test.


NerdTests.com says I'm a Kinda Dorky Nerd King.  Click here to take the Nerd Test, get nerdy images and jokes, and write on the nerd forum!
wwcitizen: (BlackBerryFanatic)
Here are the rules - post this list on your profile (in Notes) replacing my answers with yours. This was easier than 25 random things... Tag 25 people to do the same thing (If you're on LJ, you don't have to do this, unless you find it cathartic or interesting). If I tagged YOU (which I won't do in LJ), it's because I want to know more about YOU!

1. Were you named after anyone?
My youngest sister.

2. When was the last time you cried?
This morning I briefly choked up watching a moving piece on the LOGO cable channel on TV.

3. Do you like your handwriting?
Sometimes; people say it's artistic and shows depth of character.

4. What is your favorite lunch meat?
Ham

5. Do you have kids?
Not that I know of; my dad swears I have a kid - he's met my high school girlfriend's daughter and supposedly the little girl looks exactly like me as a child... I'll never know.

6. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
Totally.

7. Do you use sarcasm?
All the time.

8. Do you still have your tonsils?
Yep!

9. Would you bungee jump?
Yes, I would!! I plan to either skydive or bungee jump when I get down to my college weight (210 lbs).

10. What is your favorite cereal?
Grape Nuts or Muesli

11. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
Not always; I also wear loafers often.

12. What is your favorite ice cream?
Mango sorbet. Oh wait, ice cream: butter pecan

13. What is the first thing you notice about people?
Their eyes.

14. Red or pink?
Yes

15. What is your least favorite thing about yourself?
My arms - I'm working on more visible biceps.

16. Who do you miss the most?
Nobody, actually.

17. Do you want everyone to complete this list
Their choice.

18. What color pants & shoes are you wearing?
Lounge pants with polka-dots and blue Birkenstock clogs.

19. What are you listening to right now?
Stephen Colbert in the other room and my husband typing on his computer.

20. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
Sepia, Mulberry, or Flesh

21. Favorite smells?
Pumpkin or drying leaves in the fall, peppermint in the winter, hyacinths in the spring, and roses in the summer

22. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
My dad. Oh wait, no, my best friend, Joey.

23. Do you like the person who sent you this?
Yes; she was the very first person I met at my last high school.

24. Favorite sports to watch?
World's Strongest Man Competition and the Ultimate Fighter

25. Hair color?
Light brown

26. Eye Color?
Hazel / gray / green / blue - depends on what I'm wearing

27. Do you wear contacts?
Only when I go out

28. Favorite food?
Fried chicken

29. How many places have you lived in your life?
Wow. Um... at least 15 towns (25+ places) - 4 countries

30. What color shirt are you wearing?
steel blue

31. Last movie you watched?
The Last Templar (LAME!!)

32. Summer or Winter
Yes

33. Hugs or kisses?
Yes

<34/35 were deleted from my list, but they were probably irrelevant>

36. What book are you reading now?
Personal Publicity Planner

37. What is on your mouse pad?
The VW logo

38. Favorite Sound(s)?
distant trains, country church bells (real ones!), my sisters playing the piano

39. Rolling Stones or Beatles?
Rolling Stones

40. Warner Brothers or Disney?
Disney
wwcitizen: (Default)
This is interesting - not always are these on the money, but I like seeing the results from someone else's perspective(s) how much of one thing I am. This is about how much life I have lived. Interesting results (and thanks go to [livejournal.com profile] bulldogcubnj for passing this along).

The Life Experience Test

Overall, you have partaken in 134 out of 169 possible life experiences.
Your average life experience score is therefore 79%.


The average score is 52%, making your experiences more than 99% of the people who have taken this test.
The average for your age group (36-55) is 56%.

Broken down by category:
Art: 10/17 (59%)

Career & Work: 10/13 (77%)

Civics & Technology: 5/7 (71%)

Crime & Disarray: 9/11 (82%)

Education: 16/18 (89%)

Fashion: 8/10 (80%)

Fitness, Health and Sports: 3/7 (43%)

Life in General: 10/14 (71%)

Relationships: 12/14 (86%)

Religion & Politics: 4/4 (100%)

Social: 20/22 (91%)

Travel: 16/20 (80%)

Vices: 11/12 (92%)

 
Take the test and see how YOU compare
wwcitizen: (Demonned Face)
Apparently, I am most like:
You are Apocalypse
Apocalypse
84%
Dr. Doom
74%
Catwoman
72%
Poison Ivy
72%
Juggernaut
72%
Magneto
69%
Kingpin
65%
Mystique
64%
Green Goblin
64%
The Joker
63%
Riddler
60%
Lex Luthor
59%
Mr. Freeze
57%
Dark Phoenix
53%
Venom
51%
Two-Face
28%
You believe in survival of the fittest and you believe that you are the fittest.


Click here to take the Supervillain Personality Quiz

wwcitizen: (How About This?)

Your result for The Perception Personality Image Test...

HFPS - The Humanitarian

Humanity, Foreground, Big Picture, and Shape

You perceive the world with particular attention to humanity. You focus on what's in front of you (the foreground) and how that fits into the larger picture. You are also particularly drawn towards the shapes around you. Because of the value you place on humanity, you tend to seek out other people and get energized by being around others. You like to deal directly with whatever comes your way without dealing with speculating possibilities or outcomes you can't control. You are in tune with all that is around you and understand your life as part of a larger whole. You prefer a structured environment within which to live and you like things to be predictable.



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