Found this one at J-mo…

Which File Extension are You?

But. But. I don’t like Powerpoint! Le sigh…

First Mari (who got it from elsewhere) did it, then Lil’ did it, then Dawn did it… and the first two of them added questions, and I came up with three additional questions myself. Why? Because I’m a big ol’ sucker, that’s why.

Of course, now you have the option of answering it for me, if you so choose:

Would you…

( ) go out with me?
( ) give me your number?
( ) let me kiss you?
( ) have sex with me?
( ) play an SM scene with me? (This is part of the original list, but you don’t have to answer this one since it’s not really applicable…)
( ) watch a movie with me… even a really sappy one?
( ) let me take you out to dinner?
( ) drive me somewhere/anywhere?
( ) take a shower with me?
( ) be my gf/bf?
( ) have a fling with me?
( ) listen to me if I called you, crying, even if you were out with all of your friends?
( ) buy me a drink if I didn’t have money?
( ) take me home for the night?
( ) let me sleep in your bed?
( ) sing car karaoke with me?
( ) sit in the doctors office with me because I didn’t want to go alone?
( ) come and pick me up at 3 am because my car ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere?
( ) cook dinner for me?
( ) brush my hair?
( ) wash my hair?
( ) hold my hand in public?
( ) take a road-trip with me?
( ) rub my feet?
( ) gift me with a kitten?
( ) defend me to someone else you cared for?
( ) re-post this for me to answer your questions?

I’m adding:
( ) eat a meal I prepared?
( ) trust me with the care of your pet(s) and/or kid(s)?
( ) go clothes shopping with me?

Y = Yes.
N = No.
M = Maybe, depends.
O = Of course (apparently!) (Note: I don’t like this answer, so haven’t used it. Either it’s “Already” or it’s “Yes,” so what’s the point of “Of course”?)
* = Already have done.
D = Decline to answer.

Now I have to answer all of theirs… oi vey! Let’s see. Dawn goes first:

(*) go out with me?
(*) give me your number?
(*) let me kiss you?
(*) have sex with me?
(N) play an SM scene with me?
(*) watch a movie with me… even a really sappy one?
(*) let me take you out to dinner?
(N) drive me somewhere/anywhere? (Can’t drive!)
(*) take a shower with me?
(*) be my gf/bf?
(Y) have a fling with me?
(Y) listen to me if I called you, crying, even if you were out with all of your friends?
(Y) buy me a drink if I didn’t have money?
(Y) take me home for the night?
(*) let me sleep in your bed?
(N) sing car karaoke with me?
(Y) sit in the doctors office with me because I didn’t want to go alone?
(N) come and pick me up at 3 am because my car ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere? (Again with the can’t drive thing.)
(M) cook dinner for me? (I’m not much of a cook…)
(*) brush my hair?
(M) wash my hair?
(*) hold my hand in public?
(*) take a road-trip with me?
(Y) rub my feet?
(M) gift me with a kitten?
(*) defend me to someone else you cared for?
(*) re-post this for me to answer your questions? (Heh.)

Now, how about Lil’? (For what it’s worth, I’m working backward chronologically by respondent. So there. Heh.)

(*) go out with me?
(*) give me your number?
(*) let me kiss you?
(*) have sex with me?
(N) play an SM scene with me?
(Y) watch a movie with me… even a really sappy one?
(*) let me take you out to dinner?
(N) drive me somewhere/anywhere? (Only because I can’t.)
(Y) take a shower with me?
(Y) be my gf/bf?
(Y) have a fling with me?
(Y) listen to me if I called you, crying, even if you were out with all of your friends?
(Y) buy me a drink if I didn’t have money?
(Y) take me home for the night?
(Y) let me sleep in your bed?
(N) sing car karaoke with me?
(Y) sit in the doctors office with me because I didn’t want to go alone?
(N) come and pick me up at 3 am because my car ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere? (No can do, sorry.)
(M) cook dinner for me? (Would you eat it? Heh.)
(Y) brush my hair?
(Y) wash my hair?
(*) hold my hand in public?
(*) take a road-trip with me?
(Y) rub my feet?
(M) gift me with a kitten?
(*) defend me to someone else you cared for?
(*) re-post this for me to answer your questions? (Bwahahaha.)

And last but certainly not least, Mari!

(Y) go out with me?
(*) give me your number?
(*) let me kiss you?
(*) have sex with me?
(N) play an SM scene with me?
(Y) watch a movie with me… even a really sappy one?
(*) let me take you out to dinner?
(N) drive me somewhere/anywhere? (No drivey.)
(Y) take a shower with me?
(Y) be my gf/bf?
(*) have a fling with me?
(Y) listen to me if I called you, crying, even if you were out with all of your friends?
(Y) buy me a drink if I didn’t have money?
(Y) take me home for the night?
(Y) let me sleep in your bed?
(N) sing car karaoke with me?
(Y) sit in the doctors office with me because I didn’t want to go alone?
(N) come and pick me up at 3 am because my car ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere? (Ix-nay on the ive-dray.)
(M) cook dinner for me?
(Y) brush my hair?
(M) wash my hair?
(Y) hold my hand in public?
(Y) take a road-trip with me?
(Y) rub my feet?
(Y) gift me with a kitten?
(*) defend me to someone else you cared for?
(*) re-post this for me to answer your questions? (Whee!)

Whew! (Okay, so there’s not much variation there. What can I say?)

The soundtrack of my life, fifteen tracks in all? Okay… in no particular order (chronological or otherwise):

1) “Bungalow Bill,” The Beatles – One of my earliest memories is of watching the little Apple Records logo spin ‘round and ‘round on the turntable while some part of The White Album played. And this is the song I remember listening to while watching.

2) “I Can’t Dance,” Genesis – This covers all of the times I’ve ever tried to. No, really, it’s not a pretty sight.

3) “Radio Silence,” Thomas Dolby – A fun music bed for my time spent in the radio biz. (Note: This was originally marked as Roger Waters’ “Radio Waves” but I realized I had two songs on the list sung by him, so I changed to what is, technically, a more enjoyable song.)

4) “Spinning My Wheels,” Dada – The title gives you a pretty good idea of what this song’s about, really. One of Dada’s most poignant tunes. “I’d love to be happy / I forget how that feels / driving towards somewhere / instead of spinning my wheels”

5) “I’m Dying,” Vast – This sort of covers my (early) history of being vaguely-Christian and of my past episodes of suicidal depression, all in one song… for the purposes of this soundtrack, anyway.

6) “Dare to be Stupid,” Weird Al Yankovic – This doesn’t really require explanation, does it? (Possible alternate: “It’s All About The Pentiums.”)

7) “Nausicaa Requiem,” Joe Hisaishi – I figure this sums up my love affair with anime, especially with Miyazaki films, since it was an HBO airing of the bastardized dub called ‘Warriors of the Wind’ that truly hooked me.

8) “The End Of The World,” Pet Shop Boys – “It’s just a boy / or a girl / it’s not the end / of the world.” The breakup song I listened to almost constantly after my first girlfriend dumped me, and it’s just as effective now as it was then. (Le sigh.)

9) “Dreaming,” BT – I’ve spent what is probably an inordinate percentage of my waking life in a daydream world of my own making. This is sort of the “upside” version of that…

10) “Toy Matinee,” Toy Matinee – …and this is sort of the downside version, especially now that my ability to dream is fading. “Play with the toys in my mind, gone away / a cry for how tragic, the toy matinee…”

11) “The More We Live — Let Go,” Yes – I am, at heart, an optimist. This piece is a powerful source of mental imagery for me.

12) “New Dress,” Depeche Mode – This one’s among my favorite expressions of cynicism with how the masses can be so easily distracted from real-world problems by the folly of celebrity. (Note: I originally wrote “Blue Dress” here. I meant this one. Damn ‘cheMode for having two songs with almost the same title. Argh.)

13) “Kiss That Frog,” Peter Gabriel – Because nobody writes dorky innuendo quite like Peter. (What, you think I was going to leave sex out of this? My life isn’t rated PG, ya know…)

14) “Rewrite,” Asian Kung-fu Generation – If I could kick ass, this would be the song I’d kick ass to. Sadly I cannot, outside of the first-person-shooter gaming arena that is. This one gets extra points for being from one of the best anime series I’ve ever seen, ‘Fullmetal Alchemist.’

15) “Comfortably Numb,” Pink Floyd – Not for the reason you might think. Actually, I spent a couple of years of early mornings singing this while waiting for my manager to arrive and let me in to the Burgerville that was my first place of employment. Now that I think on it, I sang any number of songs from that album while standing in the cold and dark. Hmm. The point is, I only sing alone. It’s for the best, really.

Bonus track) “Moonshadow,” Cat Stevens – The last time I sang in public, I was at a church camp somewhere in the Puget Sound region, and I wasn’t yet a teenager. This is the song I sang. I’ll never live down the shame…

If you must blame somebody for this entry, blame the roomie…

(Edited to add: I just realized that almost nobody who reads this will have heard most of these songs. I’ll make an offer, then. If you really want one, I can make a CD made of this selection, minus the bonus track. We’ll negotiate the Principle of Equivalent Trade via email, okay?)

Since Lil’ did it, and I was upset enough at the misspelling of my namesake, I figured I might as well do it too. So, here’s my response to the “100 Science Fiction Books You Just Have to Read.”

1 Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke (I have a soft spot for Clarke’s work. Not all of it, mind you.)
2 Foundation by Isaac Asimov (Tedious, ever so tedious.)
3 Dune by Frank Herbert (And the increasingly larger follow-ups, all the way through the massive, absurd Chapterhouse.)
4 The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
5 Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
6 Valis by Philip K. Dick
7 Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
8 Gateway by Frederik Pohl (It was a long time ago; I remember it poorly.)
9 Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl
10 Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
11 Cuckoo’s Egg by C.J. Cherryh
12 Star Surgeon by James White
13 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
14 Radix by A. A. Attanasio
15 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (In addition: 2010 and 2061, the former being far superior to the latter.)
16 Ringworld by Larry Niven
17 A Case of Conscience by James Blish
18 Last and First Man by Olaf Stapledon
19 The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
20 Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
21 More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
22 Gray Lensman by E.E. “Doc” Smith
23 The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
24 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (I own a copy of Lathe of Heaven… somewhere. The Earthsea books left me cold, though. Maybe I’ll get around to this one some day.)
25 Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
26 Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
27 The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (Good old fashioned moralistic Sci-Fi, baby.)
28 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
29 Heritage of Hastur by Marion Zimmer Bradley
30 The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
31 The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
32 Slan by A. E. Van Vogt
33 Neuromancer by William Gibson (I’ve got this one on my “to read” shelf. Eventually…)
34 Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (I haven’t read any of the follow-ups, though, because I really think the single tome is quite succinct and effective.)
35 In Conquest Born by C. S. Friedman
36 Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
37 Eon by Greg Bear
38 Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey (If they were smart they’d have marked this as “The Dragonriders of Pern”, since you can’t read ‘flight without also reading ‘quest and The White Dragon and… and… okay, I’m a big McCaffrey fan.)
39 Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
40 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
41 Cosm by Gregory Benford
42 The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. Van Vogt
43 Blood Music by Greg Bear
44 Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
45 Omnivore by Piers Anthony
46 I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (I read Robots of Dawn first, oddly enough.)
47 Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement
48 To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer
49 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
50 The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
51 1984 by George Orwell (I prefer Animal Farm. *shrug*)
52 The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyl And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
53 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
54 Flesh by Philip Jose Farmer
55 Cities in Flight by James Blish
56 Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
57 Startide Rising by David Brin
58 Triton by Samuel R. Delany
59 Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
60 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
61 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Short and effective. Who knows, maybe it will make a fine movie.)
62 A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
63 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
64 No Blade of Grass by John Christopher
65 The Postman by David Brin (Who knows, maybe it will make a fine movie… *smirk*)
66 Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
67 Berserker by Fred Saberhagen (I went through a phase where I read every single piece of Berserker material I could find. Saberhagen’s far from a genius, but he can tell a fairly good story from time to time.)
68 Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott
69 Planiverse by A. K. Dewdney
70 Dragon’s Egg by Robert L. Forward
71 Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
72 Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
73 The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein
74 The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
75 Forever War by Joe Haldeman
76 Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison
77 Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky
78 The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
79 The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (Weird, weird stuff.)
80 Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
81 Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
82 Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
83 Upanishads by Various
84 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (And this is SciFi how, exactly?)
85 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Brilliant. Absurd. Essential. As are its follow-ups.)
86 The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin (I should really find this and re-read it. I think this book helped me refine my vision of the universe inside my head that I keep trying to write about.)
87 The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
88 Mutant by Henry Kuttner
89 Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
90 Ralph 124C41+ by Hugo Gernsback
91 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
92 Timescape by Gregory Benford
93 The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
94 War with the Newts by Karel Capek (Not entirely unlike his play R.U.R. in theme, this is the best-known novel by my namesake. Note: I corrected his name from the original list. Those morons.)
95 Mars by Ben Bova
96 Brain Wave by Poul Anderson
97 Hyperion by Dan Simmons
98 The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton (The only Crichton I’ve read is Sphere. Thanks, but no thanks.)
99 Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
100 A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

So I’m less than thorough on my “required SF reading.” I’m more of a Fantasy sort of guy, anyway… bring on that next Raymond E. Feist novel!

Via The People’s Republic of Seabrook, this cute bit of fluff:

My life is rated PG-13.
What is your life rated?

You are a Samurai.
You have trained the majority of your life. You are
honerable, you follow your word. You spare no
one once in combat, but that is expected, for
your oponent would do the same to you. You use
a two-handed katana.

What type of Swordsman are you?
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I dare you to get something other than Samurai. So far, everyone I’ve heard of who’s taken it has ended up with this result. Not that this isn’t a cool thing, mind you…