CAW! CAW!

I don't think I'm as open as this test does, but it's not too far off!

Your Score: Jokester Soul

You scored -3 Extroversion, -14 Sensitivity, and 5 Openness!

You are a confident person with a strong sense of self. You can be loud and jocular, and you don't really care who hears you. You don't spend too much time stressing about how other people see you. If they like you, well, good for them. If they don't like you, well, that's their own problem.

People need to earn your respect in order for you to really start taking them into consideration. You might bend yourself over backwards for a friend or family member, but you aren't going to give that sort of special treatment to any old Joe Blow. Your loved ones know that under that bold, brash exterior, there is a person who is loyal and even clannish at times. You will fight to defend your friends and family from any and all comers. With these special few, you drop that joking exterior and be your real self.

Your daemon's form would represent your confident ways, your joking and insensitive manner, and your secret tendency for soft-heartedness. He or she would probably help you criticize all the idiots whom you meet on a day to day basis, and back you up when you are on the defensive.

Suggested forms:
Magpie, Raven, Kangaroo, Wild Boar.

Link: The Golden Compass Daemon Test written by wolfcaroling on OkCupid.

right on the money!

Perfect!

Uh oh, I just realized I'm posting those stupid things like myspace now. Shit.
Will I let that stop me? No.

I need a PADD!

Amazon's Kindle is like the future! I want one so bad! It looks smooth, the screen is clear and glare-free, and it's like science fiction come to life. I can only imagine how much better devices like these are going to get in the coming years.

My only worry with them is the effect they could eventually have on paper books as an industry and an art. I love the feel of holding a book as I read it, and the Kindle doesn't feel quite like that. A heavy, well-made book is something to appreciate in many ways, and even cheap little paperbacks have a comforting feel. Additionally, publishing is my intended career, and I don't want to work to produce something that's only going to come out electronically. There's less joy to it, less evidence.

And I wonder if it will have an effect in the long term on other things near and dear to me, like libraries and BookCrossing. You can't stumble upon a free e-book on your way to work...

However, I don't think something like the Kindle can boot hard-copy books out for a long time, if ever. My science fiction sensibilities are way more excited and powerful than my Luddite doubts. So, once I have money and a need to keep tons of books in a very small space, I'll head right out and buy myself something like a Kindle. Until then, I'll be happy with reading, loving, and giving away my paper.

The first rule of book club is you do not wait for the movie.

Now I have to start a book club, just so I can use this. Thanks, Indie Rock Pete.

This segues nicely into chatting about Fight Club, which I finally got to see the ending to the other night. Let me just say, all the people who voted to watch it on the bus are pricks. Watching it again, I noticed so much stuff I missed just because of a small screen and wonky volume. Also, the timing was awful and, looking back on the movie as a whole, we stopped at the worst possible time: after the twist and just as Jack is realizing what he has been doing and how extensive his creepy net is.

Speaking of that creepy net, people can't be that easy to suck in, can they? But they can, and that's really the scariest part of the movie. All the violence is pretty awesome, actually, except when Edward Norton's beating himself up in the parking garage. Awkward!

On the shallowest level of cathartic violence, I'm all for the idea of Fight Club, since gym memberships can be pretty expensive, and just using your body against someone else feels good. On the (pseudo?-)intellectual levels, I disagree almost entirely. Sure, commercialism is not so good, but you're no less of a man if you know what a duvet is or aren't particularly fond of being a hunter-gatherer. Commercialism's not the fault of a feminist society, it's the fault of greedy folk exploiting people who will buy shit.

Will I watch again? Hell yes! Brad Pitt sans much clothing, tormenting Edward Norton...hot hot hot. Hot hot hot hot hot.

And did you know Meat Loaf was an actor? I did not. I was pleasantly surprised. Jared Leto? Also an actor! Wow! The Rock? Actually not in Fight Club, but has a seriously convincing body double.