Mal ,'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Convo with the nephew #1 (cause #2 will be here eventually):
D: Hi!
S: Hi D! What are you doing?"
D: Gramma?
S: Nope, Aunt S, Daddy's sister.
D: YOU ARE GOING TO JAIL AUNT S!
S: I'm going to jail? Why?
D: YOU KILLED THE CHOCK!
S: Um, ok. I love you, D.
D: Love you too. YOU ARE GOING TO JAIL! Love you! BYE!
My brother had to wait for me to stop laughing.
Barnes and Noble wants to promote my book on a table. What does that mean?
WOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
(Roughly translated, of course.)
Barnes and Noble wants to promote my book on a table. What does that mean?
That's the first place I go... I'm lazy shopper, so I figure table books are already vetted, so if I'm just browsing, I will absolutely see all the table books. But if a book is in the stacks somewhere and I don't know that it will strike my interest, I'll probably never find it. So, table books means more people will see your book and be captivated by it. In short - awesome.
I am also a face recognition machine, people. Except for Tony Blair, so since no one got that one, I'm saying they've got a bad shot up there.
Famous People:
Out of 30 faces, you correctly identified 29.
You were familiar with 30 of the people in this test.
If we exclude the ones you were unfamiliar with, you got 97% correct.
Unfamiliar Faces:
Out of 20 target faces (ones you studied in the first part of this test), you correctly identified 18.
Out of 30 nontarget faces (ones that didn't study in the first part of this test), you correctly responded that you had not seen 29 of them.
Overall, you got 94% correct
The other, longer, unfamiliar faces test:
Out of 72 faces, you correctly identified 68.
In other words, you got 94% correct.
And yet another skill that I've no way to exploit for monetary gain. Oh, well.
And finally, words cannot express how much this [link] and this [link] slayed me. (Matilda and Matilda and Emmett for the unidentified-link shy among us.)
Woo Allyson!!
Go Florida!
Yeah, that's all I got.
I also identified Tony Blair as Donny Osmond, glad it wasn't just me. Only one I got wrong. I got 85% on the stranger test.
Famous Faces:
Out of 30 faces, you correctly identified 29. You were familiar with 30 of the people in this test.
If we exclude the ones you were unfamiliar with, you got 97% correct.
I guessed John Edwards for Tony Blair, but he was familiar to me as a politician!
Unfamiliar faces:
Out of 20 target faces (ones you studied in the first part of this test), you correctly identified 16. Out of 30 nontarget faces (ones that didn't study in the first part of this test), you correctly responded that you had not seen 22 of them.
Overall, you got 76% correctThe average person with normal face recognition scores about 85% on this test. If you scored less than 75% on this test, this may indicate face recognition difficulties.
That is very awesome news, Allyson. Really, there's no way that means anything but they like you, they really really like you.
Doesn't it mean Barnes & Nobles is gay?
Only Noble. Barnes is bi.
Bwah!
DUDE. It means you are MADE OF AWESOME.
I was going to post this exact thing! Except I was thinking about italics.
I am so excited about your book. Will you still love us if it goes completely huge?