Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Stumble Upon you Vicious Bastard

Recently I have begun to use stumbleupon.com for time wasting antics. Sometimes it sends me to weird places, other time a game that amuses me for a couple minutes...and every now and again a real gem...

Such as http://iwl.me/ which analyzes a segment of your writing and tells you which famour author you have a tendency to sound like.

I decided to go chapter by chapter...I got two responses:

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<div style="overflow:auto;border:2px solid #ddd;font:20px/1.2 Arial,sans-serif;width:380px;padding:5px; background:#F7F7F7; color:#555"><img src="http://s.iwl.me/w.png" style="float:right" width="120"><div style="padding:20px; border-bottom:1px solid #eee; text-shadow:#fff 0 1px"> I write like<br><a href="http://iwl.me/w/fdfaad03" style="font-size:30px;color:#698B22;text-decoration:none">Anne Rice</a></div><p style="font-size:11px; text-align:center; color:#888"><em>I Write Like</em> by Mémoires, <a href="http://www.codingrobots.com/memoires/" style="color:#888">journal software</a>. <a href="http://iwl.me" style="color:#333; background:#FFFFE0"><b>Analyze your writing!</b></a></p></div>
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<div style="overflow:auto;border:2px solid #ddd;font:20px/1.2 Arial,sans-serif;width:380px;padding:5px; background:#F7F7F7; color:#555"><img src="http://s.iwl.me/w.png" style="float:right" width="120"><div style="padding:20px; border-bottom:1px solid #eee; text-shadow:#fff 0 1px"> I write like<br><a href="http://iwl.me/w/726f1bdc" style="font-size:30px;color:#698B22;text-decoration:none">Isaac Asimov</a></div><p style="font-size:11px; text-align:center; color:#888"><em>I Write Like</em> by Mémoires, <a href="http://www.codingrobots.com/memoires/" style="color:#888">journal software</a>. <a href="http://iwl.me" style="color:#333; background:#FFFFE0"><b>Analyze your writing!</b></a></p></div>
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I write like Anne Rice and Issac Asimov. You know what? I'm totally okay with that.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The things we do.

It's a little bit funny...this feeling inside....

Okay, forgetting about cheesy song lyrics for a moment, the lines sorta ring true this week for me. I am done with finals and I was pretty sure I'd spend the week catching up on chores that I had fogotten or ignored due to the stress that comes with trying to maintain a 4.0 grade average. I wont remark on the fact that my pride is the only person my GPA affects, that's for another day entirely.

What I will say is I have continued to ignore the chores in place of a new and crazy passion...MEssage Board Role Playing.

For those of you who don't know Message Board RP's are a group of people who write as characters and sorta develop a story between them. Most of them have themese and rules and all of that crapulence but I wont go into to much detail for fear of being boring.

In a little over a week over 300 posts have happened in the setting I am playing in. I am pretty sure I have spent more time in a fantasy world than a real one...and I'm sort of okay with that. I've spent the past couple weeks pretending to be a hero who wants to save the world in the best way possible.

Let's face it...there are worse things I could pretend.