Doing this thing again. But, on Reddit this time, coz it seems to have more traffic. If anybody comes across this post who liked guessing on these before, I encourage you to hop over!

Do scintillas ever measure anything other than evidence?

Okay, usually I try to wait a year before I repeat this meme, but this time it's only a couple weeks- The reason: my company is sending me back to LA for a few days, and this was a fun thing to do whenever I was waiting on the plane in the airport, or waiting for a computer to respond to something at work, or waiting in my hotel room for the next day to arrive, or whatever.

Anyway without further ado, 12 fictional characters (since I happened to think of 12 for some reason) which you folks can guess!

1. Kryten, Red Dwarf, guessed by cmzero
2. Echo, Dollhouse, guessed by sukismeg
3. The Master, Doctor Who, guessed by cmzero
4. Flight of the Conchords, Flight of the Conchords, guessed by imaginari
5. Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan, Farscape, guessed by imaginari
6. The Patrician, Lord Havelock Vetinari, various Discworld novels - Terry Pratchett, guessed by cmzero
7. Ursula, The Little Mermaid, guessed by anneliese.
8. Benjamin Linus, Lost, guessed by anneliese.
9. Wednesday Addams, The Addams Family, guessed by imaginari
10. Gromit, Wallace and Gromit, guessed by sukismeg
11. Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory, guessed by sukismeg
12. The Island, Lost, guessed by anneliese


Hints in advance:
2 are from canons I also had in the previous one.
2 are from the same canon as each other.
2 are kind of weird and counterintuitive (in that I am sort of straining the definition of 'character') but shouldn't be too hard.
(No dick moves on my part like Epic Fail Guy from last time. Everything should I think be doable without using Google, by the people that generally participate in these things on my journal. Probably not everything by the same person, though. You guys are awesome!)

Also if you really like guessing these then imaginari's is still going on, and cmzero has a variant sort-of-twist version that can't terminate, so you can ask as many questions as you want!

Edit: Also anneliese has a new one!

I haven't done this meme in over a year again, which means it's about time I start it up. Again. I am thinking of ten fictional characters, and it's your job to guess who they are. You may ask any question about them you wish, as long as it's not too directly leading. (e.g. "What is 3's name," "What world is everyone from" are kinda bad form. But, "3, 6, and 9 are stranded on a desert island -- what wacky events ensue?" and "Out of all the characters, who would win a pie eating contest?" and "Who would have the lowest Erdos-Bacon number if they were all real?" and the like are great.)

1. Tiffany Aching - Discworld / Tiffany Aching books, Terry Pratchett, guessed by imaginari.
2. Odo, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, guessed by imaginari.
3. Dr. Horrible - Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, guessed by westmarked.
4. Nancy Botwin - Weeds, guessed by anneliese.
5. Amy Pond - Doctor Who, guessed by westmarked.
6. Sterling Archer - Archer, guessed by imaginari.
7. Sam Westing - The Westing Game, guessed by imaginari.
8. Dr. Frank N. Furter - Rocky Horror Picture Show, guessed by imaginari.
9. Epic Fail Guy - 4chan, mostly, guessed by imaginari.
10. Olivia Dunham - Fringe, guessed by westmarked.

I have a new phone! It is a google phone and it is pretty cool.

Anyway more pertinently, I also finally switched to an Austin number -- about time after living here again for over 3 years. So, my old number will soon not reach me. I'm trying to think of anyone who might have had the old number and would need to be updated -- if you are such a person (or if you'd just like to have the new number for some other reason), please let me know.

I want to take some of the new plague and inject it into a Valentine's Day cookie, then give it to some kind of alliance official, thus causing him or her to turn into a Forsaken upon eating it and give valuable alliance tactical information to the Horde.

It will be an affection confection infection defection.

Major pizza chain CEOs:

I realize it's eminently unlikely that any of you are reading this, but on the off chance that you are, check this out:

http://www.wimp.com/pizzabox/

You all need to start doing that ASAP.

Thanks!

When Ironic first came out I thought it was, you know, not terrible, but generally overhyped. This issue was compounded by the fact that, not long after, we were "learning" about irony in English class in high school or something and the point was made that that song doesn't have any irony.

Except, it does. I mean, a good chunk of it is arguable as situational irony at the very least, but the guy on the plane crashing who says "well, isn't that great" is using sarcasm, which is pretty clearly a form of irony no matter which way you slice it.

I think Alanis Morrissette is a genius, for the meta-irony of getting a bunch of English teachers to denounce her comprehension of the notion of irony.

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The above was half-finished and apparently saved as a draft because I wrote part of it like months ago, and maybe the browser crashed before I finished or something. Neat feature.

I am kind of sad tonight. Not like, personally sad, but sort of nothing-is-going-on-and-I-just-watched-a-bunch-of-sad-stuff-on-Youtube.

The final sketch of That Mitchell and Webb Look -- a british comedy variety show

Vienna Teng's Recessional

Sometimes I get dreams that I'm back in high school or even middle school for some reason. Usually this involves not remembering what my schedule is (because, well, I don't, for the most part), and thus stressfully and helplessly wandering the halls after the class-start bell has rung. My dreams tend to involve a lot of vagueness.

What's weirder, though, is when during the course of such a dream, I remember that I'm actually 28. My brain doesn't quite put together that it's a dream, though -- it tries to reconcile. It tries to come up with some reason why an adult would be taking classes in a high school. Maybe I was in some kind of accident and suffered brain damage? Maybe I'm a reporter or something? The explanation never quite works out, though. A brain-damaged adult surely wouldn't attend a regular high school, and I don't look remotely young enough to do the reporter thing. (Plus, if a guy did what Drew Barrymore did in that there movie, it'd be viewed as a lot creepier. Yay society!)

So I'm left, a strange adult in a school without any sort of visitor pass, and the security guards start asking me questions. I think this has happened at least three times, possibly more. It's pretty weird. I think that is around the time I usually wake up.