Marjorie in Qatar

( Political quiz )

Not too surprising.

From Roman, inspired by Questionable Content:

What autocompletes in your browser after hitting one letter?

accuweather.com/
brotherhood2.com/
cmu.facebook.com/profile.php?id=4810097
douglaspperkins.blogspot.com/
eleather.wordpress.com/
facebook.com/
[my Google Reader RSS aggregator]
howstuffworks.com/
icanhascheezburger.com/
jejuloveland.com/
kbb.com/
[Livejournal's "preview this post" URL]
mail.google.com/mail/
nationalgeographic.com/kids/
oreillynet.com/mac/
paypal.com/
qatar.livejournal.com/friends
religioustolerance.org/hom_caus1.htm
scholastic.com/
thepeninsulaqatar.com/Sectionpage.asp?section=Local_News
[my Yahoo mail login URL]
versiontracker.com/
webmail.qatar.cmu.edu/
[nothing!]
yahooligans.com/
zones.com/Mac_Zone/

I don't usually post webquizzes, but if ever an OKCupid personality quiz were to appeal to my readership, I think this would be the one:

Which dead language are you?

I scored Akkadian, "a blend of the incomprehensible symbols of the Sumerians with the unwritable sounds of the early Semitic peoples," i.e. "a schizoid mess." "However," it says, "crazy as you are, you're much loved and appreciated, and remain actively in use by records keepers long after schools have switched to other languages."

Meme, from chrisamaphone and others. ( Marjorie quiz! )

Update: I've revised some scores since later answers have recalibrated my curve. :-) The current standings are:

y_pestis 67, foobart and meshach 59, douglasperkins 57, qatar_cat 56.5, materjibrail 53, kyra_ojosverdes 51, aristopheles 49.5, Shakir 42

I'm stealing this one from chrisamaphone.

What's in your copy buffer? Comment on this post, and then hit paste. If you wish, and your buffer contents are at all interesting, feel free to do so anonymously, and I will attempt to guess whose copy buffer it was. :-)

because everybody else is doing it... Here's the first sentence or two from the first post I wrote each month in 2006.

January: Happy New Year, everyone! Justin's suggestion of an Oz-themed gingerbread house turns out to have been prescient, as Humboldt County has been hit by a big storm with hurricane-force winds.

February: "We like him [Clinton]. All Arabs like him. But I hate George Bush and all Arabs hate him."

March: There are two interesting conferences going on in Doha right now. One is on human rights in the Arab world; the other is on women in the Arab world.

April: Happiness is over 200 new posts on my LJ friends page.

May: This week, Qatar's National Human Rights Committee released their first major report, which is shockingly candid about human rights abuses in Qatar -- abuses which the report warns "impair the reputation of the State at the international level."

June: Sheikh Jassem Al-Mutawah explains the difference between men and women, using modern computer software.

July: Last night we got an e-mail from a colleague telling us that one of our students, Fahad Al-Jefairi, was killed yesterday in a car accident in Saudi.

August: The publication that's printing my article requested pictures of the authors.

September: This morning's Peninsula reports that 764 expatriates lost their jobs last year due to Qatarization.

October: This makes for a very boring LJ entry, but I think it bears saying anyway: I am really quite happy.

November: The Doha Debate I attended earlier this week will be broadcast on BBC World this weekend at the following times:

December: Today marks the beginning of the Asian Games, for which Doha has been gearing up for literally years.

From kyra_ojosverdes.

( Memeage )

( My Interests Collage! )

As for the other photo meme, I am posting pictures as I take them in the comments of that post. Keep checking it for more photo updates over the next few days!