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Assorted quotes are treated like viruses at meme. Find your favorite or enter a new one. Click the “plus” or “minus” symbols to denote your embracing or rejection of any given quote. (I think that moves it up or down the ladder.)

LeetSpeak Star Wars (or l33t $t@r |/@r$)

I was fiddling around this morning and saw the word “leet” twice in less than a minute and thought, “WTF?” Well, that’s leetspeak right there. Short for “elite,” as in Internet gamers and such who get their kicks by replacing le77ers in emailez, you g3t the idea.. I had to check out the Wikipedia entry to get it to really register. ‘Cause everybody probably does it a little bit, IMO.

Admitting to said ungrammatical behavior, this Star Wars trailer with leetspeak subtitles is laugh-out-loud funny.

Oh, That Enneagram…

EnneagramSunday, Lucy and I went to Scott’s Enneagram discussion group. It was a great way to wrap up the day. I feel kind of like a crackpot saying this, but based on my Enneagram Type, my immediate enthusiastic reaction to it as “the answer to all my problems” would make sense. But that aside, it’s totally fascinating stuff, especially as Scott relates it. One girl there said that she’d read many books, but had picked up more in the 2 hours that we sat around gabbing than in all the books.

If you go to the Enneagram Instititute.com, you can do a free quickie profiling test.

Or you can go get your wisdom from Strong Bad instead.

Akiyoshi’s illusion pages

If you loved (still love!) M.C. Escher, or spent your childhood in the library looking at books of optical illusions, there are so many things on the Web for you! And me. Okay, I certainly have better things to do than sit around looking at Akiyoshi’s illusion pages, but sometimes I need a break. Looking at some of these is like looking at blooming spring flowers. And looking at others is like looking at blooming spring flowers after doing too many tours on the Tilt-A-Whirl at the carnival.

Damn, I love my coffee

Most days, I spend at the Toddy Cafe. That’s my house, I guess, although it can be portable. I felt like a fool when I dropped the $34.95 for a big plastic funnel and a carafe, but I have never looked back. I keep my coffee in the refrigerator now. I heat it in the microwave, add boiling water, and my coffee is almost certainly the best you’ve ever tasted. Unless you, too, are a Toddy person. This is one of my favorite things in daily life. And my coffee drinking, sadly, has increased dramatically. I’m okay with that.

Pen Points

Hey, look, the inestimable Dr. Ron Pen has begun da blog. Teacher, learner, mustachionado, and relentlessly groovy transplanted Chicago hillbilly, don’t miss Dr. Ron’s perspective, over at Pen Points!

Hammer Time!

Today is the big day! My first performance with Dr. Han’s Gamelan. I’ve been to three practices, all basically concerning our Gamelan version of Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times Come Again No More.” And then, at the last practice, Dr. Han gives me THREE pieces of music, saying “You need to learn these pieces. We already know them, so you will have to learn them quickly!” Uh, yeah. Actually it’s so hilarious and charming that Dr. Han will even let me do this. And this morning, I came in and practiced the pieces in solitude. It really helps to count out loud, I found. What a delightful experience this is.