They're surprisingly hard to catch

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Never ask a ham how fast he can tap a key

212 clicks in 30 seconds... Funny enough, I haven't had any coffee today, and only about a liter of diet mountain dew (I usually have about 8 shots of espresso, and 4 liters of dew).

Interesting... how 'bout you?

I Am A: Neutral Good Human Ranger/Sorcerer (3rd/2nd Level) Ability Scores: Strength-15 Dexterity-15 Constitution-17 Intelligence-18 Wisdom-17 Charisma-18 Alignment: Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable. Race: Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like. Primary Class: Rangers are skilled stalkers and hunters who make their home in the woods. Their martial skill is nearly the equal of the fighter, but they lack the latter's dedication to the craft of fighting. Instead, the ranger focuses his skills and training on a specific enemy a type of creature he bears a vengeful grudge against and hunts above all others. Rangers often accept the role of protector, aiding those who live in or travel through the woods. His skills allow him to move quietly and stick to the shadows, especially in natural settings, and he also has special knowledge of certain types of creatures. Finally, an experienced ranger has such a tie to nature that he can actually draw on natural power to cast divine spells, much as a druid does, and like a druid he is often accompanied by animal companions. A ranger's Wisdom score should be high, as this determines the maximum spell level that he can cast. Secondary Class: Sorcerers are arcane spellcasters who manipulate magic energy with imagination and talent rather than studious discipline. They have no books, no mentors, no theories just raw power that they direct at will. Sorcerers know fewer spells than wizards do and acquire them more slowly, but they can cast individual spells more often and have no need to prepare their incantations ahead of time. Also unlike wizards, sorcerers cannot specialize in a school of magic. Since sorcerers gain their powers without undergoing the years of rigorous study that wizards go through, they have more time to learn fighting skills and are proficient with simple weapons. Charisma is very important for sorcerers; the higher their value in this ability, the higher the spell level they can cast. Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)

Oh and for you RPG geeks out there (everyone else just stop reading now) this just shows up one of the weaknesses of the D&D character attributes system; and to a certain extent almost all other RPG systems in some way or another.

I am extremely large, very strong, I can walk all day long with a pack on so long as I don't have to run, I have a strong constitution and a great ability to take damage; but I'm also quite fat, I have bad knees, and I can't run. I'm fast and agile for a fat man, but I'm still not going to be supertheif, or a marathon runner etc...

All of those attributes have to be represented by three numbers, Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution; and sometimes there are multiple factors in opposition. For example, I am an excellent shot, very good at handicrafts and video games, and I play guitar. All of these things are associated with high dexterity. I am not however an acrobat, or a pickpocket, or a tumbler, or a gymnast etc... all of which are ALSO associated with high dexterity.

As for the intellectual and social attributes, I'm very intelligent, quick witted, and well spoken. I'm also friendly and personable most of the time, I talk with new people easily, I have a great deal of life experience for my age, and I'm an excellent leader. However, I am also confident, aggressive, opinionated, more than occasionally offensive, etc... All of those attributes have to be represented by three numbers, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma.

I have excellent leadership skills, but tend to piss off people who I don't have much respect for. I refuse to use "tactfulness" as cover for "bullshit". These are characteristics in opposition to each other, but are both represented by charisma.

It's nearly impossible to classify people, and their habits and abilities and skills with numbers, or dots, or points, or spheres, or whatever else the system uses; the best you can do is give it a general try, and then play things as they would make sense for the story, and the setting, and the character.

HT: Cowboy Blob

Easier than the other "could you pass" ones

Interesting twist on a quiz

	I received 86 credits on The Sci Fi Sounds Quiz How much of a Sci-Fi geek are you?
Take the Sci-Fi Movie Quiz canon s5 is

To a tee...

Your Score: Chris Knight

150 Heart, 152 Genius, 175 Cool, 148 Excitability

Chris Knight - (Val Kilmer)
Real Genius (1985)

You are Chris Knight. You're brilliant, but you know that if you don't think about anything but work, you'll get burnt out. No danger of that for you. You're loyal to your friends, you love the ladies, and most of all the ladies love you.

"Moles and trolls, moles and trolls, work, work, work, work, work. We never see the light of day. We plan this thing for weeks and all they want to do is study. I'm disgusted. I'm sorry but it's not like me, I'm depressed. There was what, no one at the mutant hamster races, we only had one entry into the Madame Curie look-alike contest and he was disqualified later. Why do I bother?"

Other scientific possibilities:

Gary Wallace
Wyatt Donnelly
Peter Venkman
Jordan Cochran
Egon Spengler
Doc Brown
Newton Crosby
Paul Stephens
Ben Crandall
Wayne Szalinkski
Winston Zeddemore
Ben Jabituya
Lazlo Hollyfeld
Ray Stantz
Buckaroo Banzai
Chris Knight

Link: The Which 80s Movie Scientist Test written by xxyl on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

S'About right

Which Discworld Character are you like (with pics) created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Lord Havelock Vetinari You are Lord Vetinari! Supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork! Cool, calculated, and always in control. You graduated from the assassins guild, but failed a course on stealth and camouflage, because the professor never saw you there (even though you attended every class). You always seem to know what everyone is thinking, and after a conversation with you, people feel that they have just escaped certain death. Lord Havelock Vetinari 94% Gytha (Nanny) Ogg 88% Greebo 75% Commander Samuel Vimes 75% Carrot Ironfounderson 63% The Librarian 63% Death 56% Rincewind 50% Esmerelda (Granny) Weatherwax 44% Cohen The Barbarian 31%

THey've made this one a lot better

Used to be these language quizzes didn't do too well in identifying me, because I don't have Boston accent at all really. I don't have the stereotypical dropped R, broad A, and D-T transposition for example.

Looks like they've upped the discrimination factors and improved their weighting; because this is pretty darn close:

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far) Northeastern This could either mean an r-less NYC or Providence accent or one from Jersey which doesn't sound the same. Just because you got this result doesn't mean you don't pronounce R's.(People in Jersey don't call their state "Joisey" in real life)

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Gee, there's a shock

What is it?

Reader TBone asks: "I've got a new project in the works. See if you or your readers can identify this blast from the past."

Well, my guess is that it's a .38-45 Clerke; which was a .45 acp case, necked down to take .355 bullets.

It's hard to tell the diameter by perspective, and that would be a VERY rare and unusual chambering, but it would seem to be the closest fit. I'm pretty sure it's not a .400 cor-bon or a .38 casull; because it looks smaller than a .40, and seems to have more shoulder than a .400 Cor-Bon, and it's got a .45acp headstamp and doesn't take a small rifle primer like the .38 Casull.

What's your guess?

S'about Right

What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm You're probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people's grammatical mistakes make you insane.
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Almost perfect scores... I'm not sure that's a good thing

I didn't get any wrong, but I did have to use the second clue on a couple of them:

NameThatDisease.com - Test your disease knowledge

None wrong, needed second clue on a couple:

NameThatDrug.com - Test your drug knowledge

Didnt even need any of the second clues:

NameThatSerialKiller.com - Test your serial killer knowledge

A couple of ambiguous answers here

Civics Quiz

You answered 55 out of 60 correctly — 91.67 %
Average score for this quiz during September: 75.1%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 75.1%

Three of the answers they thought were correct, I think are really not... or at least are less correct than other options... Though I admit, I spaced on two of them.

I think their tables of statistics related to the results are fascinating.

Nerdgod with a life

Where's Ronnie?

Not that I think hes' got a shot, but he IS a declared candidate, he should be up there.

Sure, why not

This Is My Life, Rated
Life:	7.6
Mind:	7.4
Body:	6.3
Spirit:	8.4
Friends/Family:	8
Love:	9.1
Finance:	7.6
Take the Rate My Life Quiz

Nothing surprising there. I have generally got a great life. Sure, there are bumps and whatnot, but I've got a great wife and two great kids, a job I don't hate... really the only problems I have are physical. I'm an insomniac with bad knees, arthritis, and I'm overweight.

You might as well face it

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Anti-Government Free Market Gunslinger

Caught this cute little quiz over at Tams place. There ware a couple of questions where I wasn't sure if I wanted one answer or another, so I just went with the snarkier choice of each, and came up with this:

My Conservative Identity:

You are a Free Marketeer, also known as a fiscal conservative. You believe in free-market capitalism, tax cuts, and protecting your hard-earned cash from pick-pocketing liberal socialists.

Take the quiz at www.FightLiberals.com

But I wanted to see what it would have been if I changed over the answers I was iffy on.. I changed just one answer and got this:

My Conservative Identity:

You are an Anti-government Gunslinger, also known as a libertarian conservative. You believe in smaller government, states’ rights, gun rights, and that, as Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”

Take the quiz at www.FightLiberals.com

Hmmm.... Anti-Government Free Market Gunslinger... Yeah I can deal with that.

Apparently, the average number right is only 18...

Uhhhh ok, I can see getting one wrong... maybe two... but 7?

I weep for the nation.


Oh and here's the breakdown on race and gender that they provide... I wonder why they are bothering. Perhaps a social experiment, or jsut for gits and shiggles:

Male Average:	19.12
Female Average:	17.45

East Indian	19.1
White/Caucasian	18.37
Pacific Islander	17.75
Asian	17.45
Native American	17.37
Middle Eastern	17.35
Black/African Descent	17.3
Other	17.3
Latino/Hispanic	17.08

Ehhhh... pretty close

Your results:

You are Will Riker Will Riker 90% Mr. Scott 80% James T. Kirk (Captain) 75% Geordi LaForge 75% Deanna Troi 75% Spock 65% Worf 65% Data 63% Uhura 60% Jean-Luc Picard 60% Mr. Sulu 60% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 55% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 55% Beverly Crusher 50% Chekov 45% At times you are self-centered but you have many friends. You love many women, but the right woman could get you to settle down. Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Quiz

Ehhh, one or two questions a bit stronger or weaker and I'd have been Scotty or Kirk; and if you took a combination of Riker, Scotty, and Kirk, you'd be pretty close to my personality so... Ok.

HT: A Mutt at the dog show