For a while now, I have been one of the 25+ people my aunt sends her great forwards to (yes, they’re not sent Bcc). Yesterday, it was about bananas (glancing over it now, I see it says that bananas are a good cure for constipation, warts, and hangovers. It ended with the inspirational cry of “PASS IT ON TO YOUR FRIENDS”)
Today, it went back to the usual format: A subject line containing the word {UNCLASSIFIED}. It contained questions such as “ababaaabbbbaaaabbbb ababaabbaaabbbb (Ans. = long time no 'C')”
The best thing about it was the comments between the questions. I’ll let them speak for themselves; they do a lot of it:
“Okay, let's see if you've got the hang of it.
OK . . Got the drift ?
Let's try a few now and see how you fare ?
Not having a good day now, are you ? Redeem yourself.
Not easy to figure out ha!
C'mon give it a little thought!!
U can prove u r smart by getting this one.
Oh no, not again!!
Now u messing up big time.
Not even close ! !
Okay last chance ........... ......
And the last one is real fundoo - - -“
It had the typical ending of:
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE
I can only hope that she will somehow leave me off of the forward list, like she did to Fu-oo-yan. Until then, the delete button is my friend
Monday, March 19, 2007
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Book Meme
I got this meme from the much celebrated Lori
Hardback or trade paperback or mass market paperback? Paperback
Amazon or brick and mortar? Amazon (I mostly get world music here, though)
Barnes & Noble or Borders? Borders (I mostly get music here, too)
Bookmark or dogear? Nothing (I don’t dogear them or use a book mark; when I'm done, I just shut the book, and have hopefully remembered to look at what page number I'm on)
Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random? Random, but with all the books by one author in one area.
Keep, throw away, or sell? Keep so far.
Keep dustjacket or toss it? Keep it.
Read with dustjacket or remove it? Start reading it with it, but when it gets in my way (typically on larger books) I take it off.
Short story or novel? Novel
Collection (short stories by same author) or anthology (short stories by different authors)? Collection
Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket? Neither
Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks? I try to stop at chapter breaks, but if I have to, I will stop in the middle of a chapter.
“It was a dark and stormy night” or “Once upon a time”? Neither (they're a little overused), although if I had to choose, the former.
Buy or Borrow? Buy
New or used? Preferably new, or used in good condition (there’s nothing quite like happily reading a book, then finding a chunk of food in it)
Buying choice: book reviews, recommendation or browse? Recommendation
Tidy ending or cliffhanger? Tidy ending usually
Morning reading, afternoon reading or nighttime reading? Night and very early morning
Stand-alone or series? Either
Favorite series? The Lord of the Rings
Favorite children's book? Anne of Green Gables and the rest of that series
Favorite book of which nobody else has heard? I don’t know.
Favorite books read last year?
Fiction: War and Peace
Nonfiction: Material World: A Global Family Portrait (Hungry Planet would be up there, too, but I didn’t finish it until this year)
Favorite books of all time? The Lord of the Rings
Least favorite book you finished last year? Thr3e
What are you reading right now? The Thirteenth Tale
What are you reading next? To Kill a Mockingbird (Yeah, I hope your happy, Lori. Don’t bug me about it anymore, or I might put off reading it some more. Perhaps then it would become the Pride and Prejudice of just me)
Hardback or trade paperback or mass market paperback? Paperback
Amazon or brick and mortar? Amazon (I mostly get world music here, though)
Barnes & Noble or Borders? Borders (I mostly get music here, too)
Bookmark or dogear? Nothing (I don’t dogear them or use a book mark; when I'm done, I just shut the book, and have hopefully remembered to look at what page number I'm on)
Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random? Random, but with all the books by one author in one area.
Keep, throw away, or sell? Keep so far.
Keep dustjacket or toss it? Keep it.
Read with dustjacket or remove it? Start reading it with it, but when it gets in my way (typically on larger books) I take it off.
Short story or novel? Novel
Collection (short stories by same author) or anthology (short stories by different authors)? Collection
Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket? Neither
Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks? I try to stop at chapter breaks, but if I have to, I will stop in the middle of a chapter.
“It was a dark and stormy night” or “Once upon a time”? Neither (they're a little overused), although if I had to choose, the former.
Buy or Borrow? Buy
New or used? Preferably new, or used in good condition (there’s nothing quite like happily reading a book, then finding a chunk of food in it)
Buying choice: book reviews, recommendation or browse? Recommendation
Tidy ending or cliffhanger? Tidy ending usually
Morning reading, afternoon reading or nighttime reading? Night and very early morning
Stand-alone or series? Either
Favorite series? The Lord of the Rings
Favorite children's book? Anne of Green Gables and the rest of that series
Favorite book of which nobody else has heard? I don’t know.
Favorite books read last year?
Fiction: War and Peace
Nonfiction: Material World: A Global Family Portrait (Hungry Planet would be up there, too, but I didn’t finish it until this year)
Favorite books of all time? The Lord of the Rings
Least favorite book you finished last year? Thr3e
What are you reading right now? The Thirteenth Tale
What are you reading next? To Kill a Mockingbird (Yeah, I hope your happy, Lori. Don’t bug me about it anymore, or I might put off reading it some more. Perhaps then it would become the Pride and Prejudice of just me)
Monday, March 12, 2007
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
What books I've read meme
"What Books Have You Read?" meme from Lori
Look at the list of books below:
* Bold the ones you’ve read
* Italicize the ones you want to read
* Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.
* If you are reading this, tag, you’re it!
(Just so that you don't get twitchy, yes, none of the books are italicized, and no, that doesn't mean that I don't want to read any of them; I just did not feel like italicizing anything.)
1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) (These are my favorite books)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy) (Unabridged)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)
Look at the list of books below:
* Bold the ones you’ve read
* Italicize the ones you want to read
* Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.
* If you are reading this, tag, you’re it!
(Just so that you don't get twitchy, yes, none of the books are italicized, and no, that doesn't mean that I don't want to read any of them; I just did not feel like italicizing anything.)
1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) (These are my favorite books)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy) (Unabridged)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)
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