Well, whaddayaknow....

What Famous Leader Are You?

I gakked this test from ilcylic, and ended up getting the same result as him.  Go figure.

Musical meme

OK, I'm going to have a go here at technoshaman's "important music" meme.  I have little hope of keeping to his "ten-ish" guideline, and no specific order is implied.  I'll try to include explanations where I can pin them down.  This means it's going to be long, so I'll ( put it behind a cut )

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is it just me ...

...or are a lot of LJ's mood icons REALLY poorly matched to the mood they're supposed to be representing?  I keep selecting a mood for a post and then finding that, for any but the most obvious moods, the icon seems to have little to do with the mood.  I mean, "thoughtful" for example should not (IMHO) yield a shit-eating grin, and a dictionary search on "pensive" returns "Deeply, often wistfully or dreamily thoughtful" as the first result, not "Woe is me, the world is ending."

In other news ...

...Wen the Eternally Surprised, at 17.5 months, has mastered the art of climbing over the expanding child-safety gate to get into the kitchen, a feat never achieved by her bigger sister, the Dread Pirate Bignum (now 3.5 years old).  Her technique is interesting: she climbs the latticework to the top of the gate, rolls over the top of the gate, then grabs the edge of the counter and does a modified gate-vault dismount.  She has not yet been seen to fall, either.

As cymrullewes said, "We are in so much trouble now."