Over a Candle

This quiz was pretty interesting (even if the results weren’t terribly surprising).

My Political Views
I am a left social libertarian
Left: 5.43, Libertarian: 6.01

Political Spectrum Quiz

Those were my overall results. They also gave a couple of further breakdowns.

Here’s the foreign policy breakdown:

My Foreign Policy Views
Score: -7.28

Political Spectrum Quiz

I suspect that I’m not further to the left on this graph because of a couple of questions that were inexact. (I do think we can intervene when genocide is occurring, but that intervention need not be military. But the question on this issue brushes over that difference, so it was hard to know how to answer.)

Here’s the cultural breakdown (again, no surprise here):

My Culture War Stance
Score: -7.4

Political Spectrum Quiz

I’m going to be running a Star Wars Miniatures tournament tomorrow. In honor of that, I thought I do a quiz to see what Star Wars character I am. I don’t mind the result. But I don’t like what came up as second place. Hmmm…

I realize I haven’t posted a quiz in a long time, and I wish I had found this quiz earlier. But in honor of the last 60 days of the Bush administration, I figured I should post this. (Executive orders are easily undone within 60 days. So after today, Bush cannot try to rush something through without the chance of Obama undoing it once he takes office.)

I highly recommend this quiz for the humor in the questions and answers. I’m still puzzled as to what I answered that kept me from 100%, though.

An iTunes meme swiped from John Kovalic’s livejournal (and he swiped it from somewhere else):

How many songs total: 6640
How many hours or days of music: 21 days
Most recently played: “Long Cold Day” by Fish
Most played: “Courage” by Mychael Danna (91 times)
Most recently added: “Day Trip” by Pat Metheny

Sort by song title:
First Song: “A” by Barenaked Ladies
Last Song: “( )” by They Might Be Giants (this is the untitled track from Then: The Early Years with a woman leaving a message on their Dial-A-Song system)

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: “Who’s Knocking on the Wall” by They Might Be Giants (:04)
Longest Song: “A Passion Play” by Jethro Tull (44:58)

Sort by album:
First album: “Aart” by Acoustic Alchemy
Last album: “90125″ by Yes
First song that comes up on Shuffle: “I came, but. . .” by Zuco 103

Search the following and state how many songs come up:

Death – 14
Life – 133
Love – 185
Hate – 21
You – 533
Sex – 5

Most Represented Artist
Rickie Lee Jones (168 songs)

I was worried about my less than complete enthusiastic response to Steve Jobs’ keynote address Tuesday. So I swiped this quiz from Thane.

78%How Addicted to Apple Are You?

I feel a little better now. (And to be clear, I am still intrigued by the new announcements. I’m just not desperate to have one, the way I sometimes am.)

Grading has swamped my weekend, so I haven’t been able to come up with really great ideas for blogging. (Of course, some of you are going to cleverly ask what my excuse is the rest of the time… Jerks… )

I took a few moments to skim through blogthings.com to see if there were any quizzes I thought might be worthwhile… One caught my eye. I didn’t expect much out of it, but at least it wasn’t an “enter your name to get results” quiz.

The result, however, really shocked and surprised me. I’m almost too embarrassed to share it, but in the interest of full disclosure, I feel I must.

You Are Most Like George W. Bush

So what if you’re not exactly popular? You still rule the free world. And while you may be quite conservative now, you knew how to party back in the day!

What Modern US President Are You Most Like?

That shocked me quite a bit, as I’m sure you all can imagine. So I had to find another quiz to clean the palate, so to speak. Just to reassure everyone that I have not complete lost it, I present a second quiz…

Your Political Profile:

Overall: 10% Conservative, 90% Liberal Social Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal Personal Responsibility: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal Fiscal Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal Defense and Crime: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal

How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?

Presumably, this isn’t surprising. But I felt it necessary as an antidote to the first. I should say that, given the nature of this quiz (namely, as an all-or-nothing style choice), I think I came out a bit more liberal than I might have otherwise. But still…

I am worth $2,746,670 on HumanForSale.com
How much are you worth?

Obviously, I’m not going to reveal all my answers to the questions here, and I wouldn’t be surprised to find someone disagreeing with this amount…

But if anyone’s looking to buy, I’d cut you a deal for an even 2 million.

I thought I had posted something similar before, but I can’t find it, so I’m going ahead with this. It seems to be based (at least a little bit) on the enneagram (which is a new-age-y personality theory). I didn’t know that when I started taking the quiz. If I had, I would have been much less surprised by the result. (Since I happen to know that I’m a Four on the enneagram.)

You Are 4: The Individualist

You are sensitive and intuitive, with others and yourself. You are creative and dreamy… plus dramatic and unpredictable. You’re emotionally honest, real, and easily hurt. Totally expressive, others always know exactly how you feel. At Your Best: You are inspired, artistic, and introspective. You know what you’re thinking, and you can communicate it well. At Your Worst: You are melancholy, alienated, and withdrawn. Your Fixation: Envy Your Primary Fear: To have no identity Your Primary Desire: To find yourself Other Number 4′s: Alanis Morisette, Johnny Depp, J.D. Salinger, Jim Morrison, and Anne Rice.

I just noticed my “primary fear” and “primary desire” in the above… Now I’m just amused.

I don’t intend this week to be nothing but quizzes, but this one was too weird not to post.

Keep in mind that it’s been years since I’ve read the Bible every day. Now my exposure is basically limited to class preparation and the occasional bout of research.

I took the following quiz once. I did not go back and change any answers. I just wanted to see how I did. Needless to say, I was a bit surprised. I was sure I had gotten at least a few questions wrong.

This is totally silly, but amusing anyway…