Weirdness Meme

[altivo]

Lifted from songdogmi who isn't as weird as I am, apparently.

So, altivo, your LiveJournal reveals...

You are... 1% unique and 14% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy writing). When it comes to friends you are popular. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.

Your overall weirdness is: 19

(The average level of weirdness is: 27.
You are weirder than 41% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

Comments

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Herd animal here. :) *hugs the interesting horsie, interested*

So, SoanoS, your LiveJournal reveals...

You are... 0% unique and 44% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy horses). When it comes to friends you are popular. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.

Your overall weirdness is: 28

(The average level of weirdness is: 27.
You are weirder than 64% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

I'm going to add "Olympic fursuit NASCAR" to my interests list. THEN we'll see who's weird.

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Oh, noes. Those don't mix too well. :P

Fursuit NASCAR? Lots of crashes, the new spectator favourite. Got to love the smell of burning rubber and fur in the morning.

Fursuit Olympics? See the wackiest marathon of all times! Who gets a heatstroke first? How many casualties? Who runs from who? See the roles reversed in this exciting new olympic event!

Okay, I am going to stop now. :P

[altivo.livejournal.com]

You'll have to beat out my "kohlrabi" and the unique interest that no one else on LJ has: "Richard Amory".

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Just wait for the fursuit demolition derby. "OK folks, which one of these reindeer suits will lose his antlers first? Ready boys? Bash heads!"

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

Fursuit Olympics might have to be at the winter games. And put studded tires on the NASCARs so they don't slip as much.

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

Have I even seen kohlrabi? I probably have, but I couldn't pick it out of a lineup unless there was a sign. As for Richard Amory, it would be a good excuse for me to dig out the electronic copy of Song of the Loon that I have somewhere and finally finish reading it. (E-books in plain ASCII format aren't easy to read, for me at least.)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Song of the Loon is worth reading (and has nothing to do with the weird film of the same name that was released years later... Well, some characters have the same names, that's all. Actually, though, I thought his later books were better. Unfortunately, each is scarcer than the one before, but Song of Aaron, Listen, the Loon Sings, and Willow Song are progressive improvements. Then there's a pretty funny satire (how do you satirize pornography anyway?) that came a bit later. The title escapes me at the moment, but I'll find it and let you know. It's like the National Lampoon's Bored of the Rings was to Tolkien.

Kohlrabi is tasty, raw or cooked. It's the same plant as cabbage, brussels sprouts, broccoli, and cauliflower, but it was selected for a fat, globular stem. It looks like a green or sometimes purple "sputnik", a rounded globe with stems or leaves poking out of it. You peel the tough skin off and slice it up raw for salads or boiled or steamed as a vegetable dish. Often the steamed vegetable is served with a sweet and sour sauce like German potato salad, or else with a white sauce. Slightly sweet, vaguely cabbage-like, with a texture somewhere between potato and broccoli.

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Kohlrabi. Yum. "Kyssäkaali" in finnish. :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Ahh, a zebra who knows. :)

We like kohlrabi a lot. It's hard to buy here because most people don't know what it is, so the produce sellers don't stock it much. It's usually easy to grow, though this year I'm not having much luck. I planted two varieties and hardly any of the seeds germinated.

Gary's mom and grandmother used to make it with a sweet and sour sauce, some sauteéd onion, and a few crumbles of bacon. Very good that way, but I've grown lazy and often just cut it into little strips and mix it with the tossed salad.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Oh noes! I've been outweirded.

*bows to the superior weirdness of the stripey one*

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Wait, that is what it is? This explains so much.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's what it is. :)

Years ago, in my first library job, I was surrounded by older colleagues who were native speakers of other languages (big university library, multiple language support required.)

One day on a break we were discussing gardening and my boss mentioned how much she liked kohlrabi and how she always planted it in the garden. The ladies from Estonia, Latvia, and Finland were puzzled. "Kohlrabi? What is that?"

A long argument ensued. Finally Tam settled it by saying, "You know, the ones that look like little green sputniks." They all knew immediately, and we found out what kohlrabi is called in Latvian, Estonian, and [ta-da] Finnish.

[heavens-steed.livejournal.com]

I wonder how they calculate all this.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Badly, I'd say. It appears to look at your interest list, the number of friends and mutual friends, and one of those "readability" analyzers that takes vocabulary and sentence length and pretends that determines how difficult your writing is. I suspect the "how you relate to people" is just do you have more friends than mutual friends or not. If you do, you are trying to please, if you don't, you aren't worried about what others think. (Or something like that.)

Someone like xydexx who has an interest list filled with deliberately unique terms is going to come out very weird on this. I know him a little bit, and he's not really weird. He has an unusual sense of humor, but is pretty conventional in many ways, perhaps moreso than I am.

[soanos.livejournal.com]

*hugs and gives you a carrot*

You are much, much more interesting than I am. :)

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Well, I am glad to hear there are some finns around there. You might even learn some Finnish quisine.

Squeaky cheese and lingonberry sauce, anyone? ;)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

*Looks at himself*

I am? Not according to most people.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Heh. That was 35 years ago, and those ladies were probably in their sixties at the time, so I doubt I'll learn Finnish or Latvian cooking from any of them, unfortunately.

Alas, where I am now, I seem to be the one teaching others how to cook in far too many cases. Cooking as in, how to prepare a meal using fresh ingredients instead of things out of cans and frozen boxes.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Your just normally wierd :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I thought I was weirdly normal.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

See what I mean XD *gets the giggles and falls off his seat*