Monthly Archives: August 2007

Another goth test. You don’t say.

Posted on 2007.08.09

Via Marcia Barrett Nice:

Your Score: Siouxsie Sioux!

Our test has determined that you possess
28% Hellbentness, 11% Sanguinity, and 51% Creeps!
Well done!

Siouxsie

You are Siouxsie Sioux, lead singer of Siouxsie and the Banshees!

Siouxsie and the Banshees were a British gothic rock band that encompassed the punk and new wave genres. She and the Banshees were not directly involved in the early goth scene as such, but had a massive influence on it in terms of both music and image. Siouxsie Sioux courted much controversy in the band’s early days with her dress, often wearing ‘bondage’ clothes and fetish wear. Their music had been called “gothic” as far back as 1979, and their music formed the template for a lot of female-fronted goth bands in much the same way that Siouxsie’s sense of style provided a fashion plate for many female goths. Between the two bands, Siouxsie & the Banshees and Bauhaus pretty much rocked early gothic style into being.

Link: The what Proto-Goth Icon are you? Test written by anastasia_x on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Peachy keen!

Also, I scored higher than 99% of my peers on everything, apparently.

California is looking better all the time.

Posted on 2007.08.09

This seems like it will be the funnest event ever, if you are me, which you aren’t, so you’d probably hate it.

Forbidden Zone + Creature Feature = want

Combining one of my favorite movies, Forbidden Zone, with one of my favorite bands, Creature Feature? Who is the insane genius that came up with this plan? I want to simultaneously shake his hand for being so cool, and punch him in the gut for doing it somewhere so far away.

This is your face. This is your face on radiation.

Posted on 2007.08.08

Pizza face I think this is hilarious, but mostly because of the photographic evidence.

David Hahn*, the teenager who stole smoke detectors to build a nuclear reactor in his backyard for a Boy Scout merit badge, is all grown up and at it again. Apparently he has even less concern for the safety of his neighbors (last time he created a superfund site) because this time he didn’t even bother going to the illusionary safety of a backyard shed- he was doing it right in his apartment complex.

You’d think the fact that he appears to be suffering from radiation poisoning would have prompted him to at least try and steal a lead vest or something.

Or maybe he just suffers from horrendous acne. Doubt it.

Well, at least we have the fact that he’s probably sterilized himself, and has likely significantly shortened his own lifespan by all this as consolation. It’d be a shame if he wasn’t eligible for a Darwin Award!

What bothers me most is that I can’t decided whether to consider him an insane genius or a crazy idiot. He’s obviously smart enough to do… stuff… with radioactive materials, but clearly not smart enough to do so inconspicuously or safely.

Via BoingBoing.


* Ironic that he shares the same name as a boss I used to have. People who dealt with me during that time period can empathise, I am sure.

Haircut++

Posted on 2007.08.07

I got my hairs cut today, for the second time in as many days.

Sneer

It’s all straggly on account of the wind and humidity, but excuse that for the moment. No goop, and all.

I like it much more at this length. It doesn’t curl nearly so much, and once I gel it down it will be even more agreeable, methinks. And I no longer feel I look like a retarded puppy, which is also a plus.

See, less scowl!

Apparently, my phone mirrors images when the camera is facing inward. Interesting!

Haircut

Posted on 2007.08.06

I got my hairs cut today.

I wanted an a-line, but don’t think I really got it:

Sneer

The hair-cutting person said I can go back and she’ll cut it shorter, if I so choose.

I think I’ll see what it looks like with goop in it, but I’ll probably take her up on that offer. It doesn’t slant nearly dramatically enough, me thinks, and as is, it looks somewhat like puppy ears from the front.

I feel validated.

Posted on 2007.08.01

I just read a shocking revelation over at YesButNoButYes: a study found that Smart teens don’t have sex. Later, some other studies confirmed and expanded on this. Here‘s a very interesting analysis of the whole thing.

So apparently, there is a correlation between IQ and lack of sex. I know, that’s the stereotype, right? But it’s more interesting than that- this trend persists into adulthood and apparently we geniuses also have less sex after marriage; so it doesn’t seem to be for lack of opportunity so much as lack of interest. I can certainly vouch for that.

Maybe others see it the same way I do- there are much more interesting ways to spend ones limited free time. Also, biology is gross, slimy, and sometimes stinky. And the possibility of accidentally reproducing is completely and utterly terrifying.