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Mixed-metaphor alert
Jan. 4th, 2011 05:09 pm"If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate."
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A good comment from SlashDot
Jul. 29th, 2009 03:35 pm(Discussing the novel “Tetraktys”, which is like a Dan Brown story where he got his facts straight.)
Asking people to imagine a Dan Brown where he got his fact straight is closer to asking people to imagine what an Agatha Christie novel would read like if set in a postapocalyptic future where giant mutant weasels fight off vampire dogs aided by elves from a parallel universe, in a metaphor for the fifth century Roman Empire and the collapse of the Catholic church.
Performed as a play written in iambic pentameter, and directed by Spike Lee.
Asking people to imagine a Dan Brown where he got his fact straight is closer to asking people to imagine what an Agatha Christie novel would read like if set in a postapocalyptic future where giant mutant weasels fight off vampire dogs aided by elves from a parallel universe, in a metaphor for the fifth century Roman Empire and the collapse of the Catholic church.
Performed as a play written in iambic pentameter, and directed by Spike Lee.
I won the SlashDot poll!
Jul. 4th, 2009 03:54 pmI usually make a fetish out of marching to the beat of a different drummer, using "it's popular" as a reason *not* to do something. But with DailyKos polls I usually try to guess the most popular answer, in order to show how predictable the DK sheeple are. And quite often that's actually the answer I would have chosen anyway, which makes me feel good in a "voting for the winner in a national election" sort of way. (Americans are really big on that—the electoral system is carefully set up so that there is no value whatsoever in voting for the guy who got only 49.5% of the ballots).
Today's SlashDot poll: How to celebrate US Independence Day. I chose the "Canada Day is over!" answer because (a) I'm living up here; and (b) it includes the traditional SlashDot meme "you insensitive clod", which dovetails nicely with stereotypes about Canucks.
I win! 38% of other SlashDotters also thought this was the correct answer to choose, even though most of them live in the Lower 48. For comparison, in the previous poll the answer that most people voted for was the self-negating "I refuse to vote", while "The least popular answer" turned out to be, in fact, the least popular answer. I guess I should refuse to vote in these polls.
Are you at AnthroCon this weekend? Then why are you reading LJ???
Today's SlashDot poll: How to celebrate US Independence Day. I chose the "Canada Day is over!" answer because (a) I'm living up here; and (b) it includes the traditional SlashDot meme "you insensitive clod", which dovetails nicely with stereotypes about Canucks.
I win! 38% of other SlashDotters also thought this was the correct answer to choose, even though most of them live in the Lower 48. For comparison, in the previous poll the answer that most people voted for was the self-negating "I refuse to vote", while "The least popular answer" turned out to be, in fact, the least popular answer. I guess I should refuse to vote in these polls.
Are you at AnthroCon this weekend? Then why are you reading LJ???
