Monkey Clubhouse

Where are you? Where am I? Did someone get the plate on that truck?

2009-08-21T16:23:19Z

It seems that some of you have moved to Dreamwidth, which I missed by being largely incommunicado over the past several months. If you have a new feed I should be following (preferably a public feed, since I do most of my reading through Google Reader), tell me here or you can drop me a note on gmail.

TouchyTranny.com

Follow my posts: add touchytranny to your friends list.
If you want me to read your protected LJ posts: add Dan4th [touchytranny.com] to your friends list

*Not that I've been posting to it much. I do plan to remedy this, but no promises. I do miss you folks. An active community makes writing much more rewarding, as it turns out.

Reminder: Now at www.TouchyTranny.com

2008-11-12T21:11:22Z

In case you missed the migration mess back in March, I'm now blogging at TouchyTranny.com. You can follow this feed on LiveJournal at touchytranny, and add my Open ID to your friends-list if you want Dan4th [touchytranny.com].

I've found it nearly impossible to leave comments using OpenID (on friends-locked posts, for example). But I wanted to let you know the option was out there.

Reading Filters

2008-03-19T15:52:05Z

click here to add my OpenID identity to your friends-list. This will be especially helpful if you make a lot of friends-locked posts.

I wonder if this works (I'm typing "<lj user=ext_90356>"): Dan4th [touchytranny.com]

edit: Yup, works awesome!

reminder: Dan4th moved

2008-03-18T14:11:39Z

In case anyone missed it over the weekend, I'm migrating off LiveJournal. You can read my posts on your friends-list by adding touchytranny. I will still be logging in to Livejournal to read your friends-locked posts and comment.

Migration Notice

2008-03-15T20:07:09Z

I'm leaving LiveJournal. No, really this time. I do intend to keep reading my f-list.

Add the following LJ syndicated feed to read the Continuing Adventures of Dan4th:
touchytranny
Atom Feed
Link: http://www.touchytranny.com/

Demographic Curiosity

2008-03-14T18:08:08Z

I feel like I know how my readership skews, but what if I'm wrong? Call this my market research.

View Poll: Demographic curiosity (viewable only to Dan, aggregate data to be displayed later)

CFF#205: Cameras are everywhere

2008-03-14T13:57:53Z

Whoops. Guess I'm ignoring π day.
It would be super awesome if you filled out this poll, too.

View Poll: Content-Free Friday #205: Photography

MBTI is useless for me.

2008-03-13T17:41:40Z

Myers-Briggs works so badly for people with compulsively low self-esteem! I am convinced that I get inconsistent results specifically because I value those things which I perceive to be unlike me.

3/13/08: ENTP
3/12/07: INTP / ENTP
2/27/07: ESFJ
12/5/06: ESXJ
7/23/06: INFP / ESFJ / ISFP

You Are An ENTP

The Visionary

You are charming, outgoing, friendly. You make a good first impression.

You possess good negotiating skills and can convince anyone of anything.

Happy to be the center of attention, you love to tell stories and show off.

You're very clever, but not disciplined enough to do well in structured environments.

In love, you see everything as a grand adventure. You enjoy taking risks for love.

And if things don't work out, you're usually not too much worse for the wear!

You would make a great entrepreneur, marketing executive, or actor.

At work, you need a lot of freedom to pursue your own path and vision.

How you see yourself: Analytical, creative, and peaceful

When other people don't get you, they see you as: Detached, wishy-washy, and superficial

What's Your Personality Type?

this blogthing ganked from comradecharlie

Morning/Evening Routines

2008-03-12T19:37:43Z

[requested by mathnerd] I don't really have routines, but these are fairly representative:

Morning: Hit snooze, hit snooze, hit snooze. Get up. Feed cats. Brush teeth. Decide I can get away without showering or shaving. Forget to brush hair. Dress in one of 5 identical outfits for work. Read free paper on subway. Get to work, make a cup of coffee, and sit down to clear my email. Then I write differenceblog, and start work.

Evening: I get home, turn on the computer, clear my email again, and order takeout online. I space out staring at the computer and/or TV for several hours, then I go to bed, play with kittens for ten minutes, read for ten minutes. Turn out the lights. Stare at ceiling. Get up. Putter on computer a bit more. Go back to bed. Wake up.

(edit: see comments for a discussion of my appalling diet)

Breakfast today!

2008-03-12T17:48:43Z

[requested by contrary_wise]: You know, I almost never have breakfast. I have a cup of coffee (or two) when I get to work, and then I'll eat a yogurt or something around noon, and then dinner after work. I eat big brunches on the weekends, but on weekdays, I don't eat much until dinner. Too much candy, sadly. The department maintains a big bowl of candy that I pass dozens of times a day. Far too often, I won't even notice that I hit it.

However, today I had oatmeal with dried cranberries, because my stomach was upset from pills when I got in this morning. It was yummy.

Games!

2008-03-12T17:26:38Z

[requested by kdsorceress]: I like games. I play a lot of games. I don't, however, own a lot of games. Almost all of the 100+ games in the Unnamed Condo were purchased by dabunny -- even the ones that belong to me.

It takes several plays for me to like a game, usually. I prefer games that last under half an hour, and I have a weakness for Push-Your-Luck mechanics. A lot of the games I like are "party games", but there are very few games I just won't play.

My BoardGameGeek top ten is probably a little out of date, but here it is:

#1: Alhambra
#2: Lost Cities
#3: Ra
#4: Ca$h 'n Gun$
#5: Crokinole
#6: Carcassonne
#7: Iron Dragon
#8: Poison
#9: Dungeon
#10: Seafarers of Catan, The

oh, that's totally out of date. It doesn't include my top-rated game: Loopin' Louie

Outside my Comfort Zone [meme]

2008-03-12T16:09:54Z

"Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, favorite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc."

ganked from go_team_venture. I agree with his policy of not forcing people to post this themselves if they have a topic in mind. Especially since I don't think many of you will be able to come up with a topic I don't post about. Ha! I double-dog-dare you.

Transamerican Love Story

2008-03-12T03:48:27Z

I blame mycrust. I suppose I owe him a cookie, due to my challenge last year for anyone to give me trans news I hadn't already spotted in my Google Alerts, but there had been 3.5 episodes of the LOGO network's transsexual-themed dating show when I heard about it. Transamerican Love Story, a reality dating show starring Calpernia Addams. I say 3.5, because episode four was in progress when I heard about it. I was terrified that it would be another version of There's Something About Miriam, but I was pleased to be wrong. After watching episode one on the LOGO website, I was embarrassingly hooked.

Things I love about it: the show (so far) appears to be completely open and honest with both the contestants and the star. If there's a "twist", I will be extremely disappointed. Disappointed to the point of disgust. I was afraid that honesty would deprive the show of the schadenfreude that makes reality programming bearable. I had nothing to be afraid of.

Cuteness and cringing abound. mycrust, you may feel free to continue to be appalled at my taste. My only real issue with the show is that it is OMGWTFBBQ-so-heterosexual!! And of course it is: it's about a woman looking for the perfect man. *sigh* But the fact that queerness isn't completely invisible makes it a lot more palatable than a typical dating show. Considering that my only other exposure to LOGO was Rick and Steve (which I didn't relate to at all and kind of detested), this was a welcome indulgence of brain candy.

edit: Oh my god, Shawn's blog.

News: Eliot Spitzer

2008-03-11T19:21:35Z

My coworkers were just chattering about this one, and I suspect that I saw people talking about it last week: New York politicians and newspapers are calling for the resignation of Democratic Governor Eliot Spitzer due to his admission of patronizing prostitutes.

As far as I can tell, his mistake was thinking that more expensive necessarily meant more private. The investigation seems to have been initiated because the wire transfers were so big the IRS thought he was hiding bribes. In all seriousness, I'm baffled that people care. I'm not surprised by the news coverage: there's 24 hours in day, and too many news channels. They have to fill it with something. I'm surprised by the fact that my coworkers are talking about it. I'm very turned off by the phrase "involved in a prostitution ring" in many of the stories. It implies that he was profiting from it, not paying for it.

So, I ask you, my seriously-biased sample: what did Governor Spitzer "do wrong", and do you think he should have to resign over it?

Herpes poll

2008-03-10T14:49:24Z

You know, most hits for my Google Alert on "herpes" turn up gossip blogs picking on celebrities rumored to have herpes. That's really not that great for my self-esteem. I wonder how I could adjust the search to only turn up studies on prevention and treatment, which is what I'm actually looking for.

View Poll: Cold sores

Introvert overexposed

2008-03-10T03:15:45Z

Dan4th to Dabunny: Would you be interested in going to a hockey game with the people from the boston_bruins community -- wait, you know what? Fuck that, I hate people.

Dabunny to Dan4th [chuckling]: Right now, I think the answer to all the questions is "Fuck that, I hate people."

Meh. I hate when he's right. A couple quiet evenings will probably solve everything.

Oh, so that's what that noise was:

2008-03-08T19:37:30Z

Peanuts, peanuts everywhere. dabunny and I talked about it, and we are turning the linen closet into the Kittens Room. We're not using it, and they like it a lot.

Kittens 1
Humans 0

Hm, I suspect people who clicked the link will be disappointed if there are no pictures of kittens...

I know a thing about bad calls:

2008-03-08T04:26:25Z

Some metadata is bad, and now Urban Dictionary knows it. But in the grand scheme of things, Scheissentagzunfixen isn't the worse crime in the world. After all, you could always quote your friends on the internet:

chrestomathy2: You know when you're eating frosting out of the tub with a spoon...
csniezek: You use a spoon?
dan4th: Do you know where my fingers have been?
csniezek: I wasn't going to use your fingers!

Geek Sexy contest - SORRY, PLEASE VOTE AGAIN

2008-03-07T18:54:02Z

Shit! I forgot one of the entrants! If you already voted, please vote again. My apologies.

Geeks are sexy in Analogies
- Culture Geek (Christmas): Sex is like Christmas day: the build up is exciting, then it's all over before you know it.
- Culture Geek (movies): Sex is like seeing a movie. Sometimes, you just want to spend time with a particular person, and they're psyched to see a movie, so you go see a movie with them... and even if the movie isn't so great, you still have a good time. Sometimes there's a bunch of people hanging out and they decide to go see a movie, and that can be fun too. Sometimes there's a movie you really want to see, and it doesn't much matter who you see it with. Sometimes you just stay home and rent videos.
- Gaming Geek: Sex is like playing D&D with somebody else's weighted dice: Critical hit! Critical hit! Critical hit!
- Math Geek (complex numbers): Sex is like complex numbers: some parts are real and some parts are imaginary
- Math Geek (logs): Anonymous sex is like taking a big dump: it feels great, but it leaves you feeling empty inside (geeky because you use logs to multiply).
- Science Geek: Sex is like O₂: too much and you get too high, not enough and you're gonna die. (note, the entrant specified that this was a ripoff of ELO lyrics)

Geeks are sexy in Photographs

Condom:

Labcoat:

Lambda:

Lasers:

View Poll: Voting Round - take two (sorry, sorry, sorry!)

Geek/Sexy take 1 (not deleted cause there are comments)

2008-03-07T17:20:05Z

I am dumb.This one doesn't count. Please vote here instead

View Poll: Geek/Sexy voting:

CFF#204: ElJayDee

2008-03-07T14:01:19Z

This post was written in advance. Corrections, if needed, will be made when I return

View Poll: Content-Free Friday #204: LJ-drama

via catamorphism: Stuff White People Like

2008-03-06T04:16:10Z

Someone has been following me, and being a lot more funny than I am about it: Stuff White People Like.

This hits really, really close to home. Ouch.

neoLJisms

2008-03-06T00:02:34Z

Dear LiveJournal:

flocked 1.v.: congregated or traveled in a flock or crowd.
flocking 1. n.: a type of texture applied to a surface.
flist not a flocking word

Sincerely,
Dan4th

Department of Amusing Headlines:

2008-03-05T18:28:38Z

Especially pointed at astrogeek01 (an astrophysicist, and the #1 commenter on DifferenceBlog):

"Mars and Venus are surprisingly similar".

There's a bit in the article about the night-side tails of the planet that is begging to be a dirty geek joke, too.

[Department of Rumour-Mongering] Gygax dead?

2008-03-04T18:29:55Z

kobold heard a rumor that Gary Gygax passed away, and it was confirmed by comment citing industry-insider email lists. A user identified as Neil Christiansen on BoardGameGeek says he can confirm this as a family friend. Gygax's Wikipedia page has already been updated.

I am still skeptical. EDIT: Okay, AP I'll believe.

Either way, anyone wanna come over for pizza and Dungeon! tonight?