That Art Meme

October 30, 2008 at 8:58 am · Filed under Memes

Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test…

Balanced, Secure, and Realistic.

17 Impressionist, 6 Islamic, 8 Ukiyo-e, -27 Cubist, -21 Abstract and 7 Renaissance!

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Book Meme

June 28, 2008 at 4:57 pm · Filed under Books, For Adults, For Children, Language, Memes, Reading

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own blog.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (I have read most of the first, and I will get through the rest one day!)
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (Loved this:-) The whole series:-) )
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (Enjoyed this far more than The Mayor of Casterbridge—but that wouldn’t be at all hard!)
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (I’ve read an awful lot of them, but I know there are more I need to get to. Some I love, others I like, and others didn’t really appeal to me.)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (I chose it for bookclub, and I still haven’t finished it yet:-( )
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot (I was given this for Christmas years ago, and I haven’t gotten to it yet.)
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (I can’t actually remember any details, but I do know I read it.)
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (I keep coming across references to this, so it’s getting to the time I’ll get around to it.)
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (Bookclub)
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (Bookclub)
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 (I’m a big Anne fan:-) )
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (I had already read it, and then we read it for Bookclub.)
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Read it in about year 10 and hated it with a passion.)
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel (We got it for Christmas a couple of years ago, but we’ve lent it to my father-in-law.)
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
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 (Bookclub. I hated it. The following year I taught a year 11 english class, and someone else had already set the booklist so I had to teach it. By the time I finished doing so, I was far more appreciative!)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (Hmm… I’m pretty sure I have, although, once again, I can’t recall any details.)
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
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
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Really enjoyed most of them.)
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (Haven’t read them in years, but I do have very fond memories.)
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (In French and English.)
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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That ‘Unique’ Meme

June 28, 2008 at 1:52 am · Filed under Memes

I’ve seen this a few places, and have finally come up with three things:-)
Post 3 things you’ve done in your lifetime that you don’t think anybody else on your friends list has done:

1. Built and driven a solar car from Darwin to Adelaide for the 2001 World Solar Challenge (a couple on my friends list also built it and were on the trip, but I was one of a limited number of drivers:-) )

2. Taught woodwork/metalwork/tech drawing/photography/jewellery… (and a few other bits as well… but I think there are people on my flist who teach/taught all of those.)

3. Directed a Gang Show 5 times (actually, all the Gang Show stuff… participated for 20 years, stage managed 7 times… Sadly it seems to have disappeared in the last couple of years.)

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Shakespeare Meme

March 14, 2008 at 1:50 pm · Filed under Drama, Memes

Swiped from angriest (I’m not as much of a theatre geek as he is, but I don’t think I did too badly:-) )

Bold the ones you’ve seen stage productions of, italicize the ones you’ve seen movies of, underline the ones you’ve read or listened to, and add a star to any you’ve performed in, done readings of or otherwise theatrically participated.
All’s Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
*Hamlet
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
*Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Love’s Labour’s Lost
*Macbeth
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
*A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
Othello
*Pericles, Prince of Tyre
(*)Richard II (I think I was a lighting assistant on this, and helped rig it, it was a long time ago!)
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
*The Tempest
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
*Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter’s Tale

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That Career Meme

September 14, 2007 at 6:32 pm · Filed under For the Future, Memes

Found via BabyElvis‘ post.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised… it probably explains why I never felt I was a particularly good teacher!

Some of these certainly could be fun—I’d never considered plumbing! I suspect my lack of non-technical drawing skills could hamper my options though!

1. Set Designer
2. Costume Designer
3. Makeup Artist
4. Special Effects Technician
5. Industrial Designer
6. Desktop Publisher
7. Plumber
8. Fashion Designer
9. Sign Maker
10. Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator
11. Interior Designer
12. Cabinetmaker
13. Animator
14. Electronics Assembler
15. Dental Lab Tech
16. Home Inspector
17. Gunsmith
18. Curator
19. Director of Photography
20. Director
21. Printing Press Operator
22. Machinist
23. Tool and Die Maker
24. Recording Engineer
25. Magician
26. Film and TV Crew
27. Optical / Ophthalmic Lab Technician
28. Anthropologist
29. Graphic Designer
30. Artist
31. Critic
32. Writer
33. Comedian
34. Political Aide
35. Casting Director
36. Activist
37. Upholsterer
38. Musical Instrument Builder and Repairer
39. Bicycle Mechanic
40. Tilesetter

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The Nerd Test

September 6, 2007 at 7:05 pm · Filed under Memes

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That Language Meme

July 23, 2007 at 10:04 pm · Filed under Memes

Your Score: Older Futhark

You scored

Language of the Norse, Older Futhark! Thirty symbols, all told. And no hardier, more warrior-like tongue has ever graced the longships of the Viki or left the Celts and Saxons in such quivering fear. There’s only one drawback, that being you died 800 years ago.

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My Love Language

June 26, 2007 at 1:30 am · Filed under Memes

My turn.

The Five Love Languages

My primary love language is probably
Physical Touch
with a secondary love language being
Acts of Service.

Complete set of results

Information

Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don’t understand our partner’s requirements, or even our own. We all have a “love tank” that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

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In Preparation for Saturday

March 14, 2007 at 11:57 pm · Filed under Memes, Season

This is an interesting result!

Your Irish Name Is…

Fiona Kirwan

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Everybody needs a Hiro

February 22, 2007 at 11:28 pm · Filed under Memes

Hiro Nakamura You scored 66 Idealism, 58 Nonconformity, 45 Nerdiness

YATTA! Congratulations, you’re Hiro Nakamura! You’re a high-minded idealist, a huge nerd, and you enjoy being a unique and special person. Your combination of positive personality traits makes you impossibly lovable, and your energy and enthusiasm are absolutely infectious. Your dedication to any mission you take on, in addition to your cheerful sense of humor, are qualities anyone should be proud to have. Your best quality: Spunk Your worst quality: You are too cute. Some people may not be able to handle it.

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‘West Wing’ Meme

February 6, 2007 at 3:16 pm · Filed under Memes

You scored as Toby. What an extraodinary mind! You tested as Toby. The West Wing would fall in a heap without him, and the President would never sound as good.. Toby 65% Jeb (President) 60% Donna 55% CJ 45% Charlie 40% Josh 35% Leo 35% Will 35% Abby 20% Which ‘West Wing’ Character are You? created with QuizFarm.com

Not what I would have guessed at all!

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That Personality Meme

September 21, 2006 at 2:19 am · Filed under Memes

My Personality

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What Doctor Who character are You?

May 26, 2006 at 12:36 am · Filed under Memes

You scored as 2nd doctor. Small, scared, clown. Three words that sum you up. Recorder music is brilliant. 2nd doctor 67% 9th Doctor 58% 1st Doctor 58% 4th Doctor 50% 8th Doctor 50% 10th Doctor 42% 5th Doctor 42% 3rd doctor 42% a Dalek 33% 7th Doctor 25% 6th doctor 25% Davros 17% What Doctor Who character are You? created with QuizFarm.com

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What Kind of Cookie Are You?

April 27, 2006 at 2:02 am · Filed under Memes

You Are a Chocolate Chip Cookie

Traditional and conservative, most people find you comforting. You’re friendly and easy to get to know. This makes you very popular - without even trying!

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Calvin or Hobbes?

April 20, 2006 at 3:37 pm · Filed under Memes

Mostly Hobbes You are 30% Calvin and 70% Hobbes

You’ve got elements of both Calvin and Hobbes, but over all, your sensible side wins out over your wild streak, and you tend toward the tiger. As the picture below indicates, the head is the first place that people usually turn to the darkside (i.e. Calvin): symptoms include irresponsible behavior and crazy ideas. You’re liable to both. But beneath that you have a heart, a sensitive side, and this more often than not carries the day.

Hat tip: Mungo and KathyJo.

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