The movie alphabet quiz

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This is really, really evil — identify the movies whose logos were used to create this alphabet.

So far, I’ve got A, B, D, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, V, W, Y, and Z (mouse over each letter to see the answer).

I’m missing C, E, F, J, O, S, T, U, and X, and it’s driving me up the wall…some of them look so familiar.

(via D, who deserves a special circle of hell for subjecting me to this) ;)

I’m 100 percent British!

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I'm 100 percent British!

Jolly good, wot! Anyone for tennis? That’ll be ten ponies, guv. You’re the epitome of everything that is english. Yey :) Hoist that Union Jack!

How British are you?
This quiz was made by alanna

Incidentally, I think I’m going to have to come up with some special prize for the first ‘net quiz I run across that gives you “Put this in your blog!” code that is actually well-written, doesn’t use unnecessary tables, properly opens and closes paragraph tags, uses proper break tags (<br />, not <br>), and so on. I always have to re-write the tag soup they give me before I can post the results here…

Getting closer!

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It’s still not Seattle, but it’s at least closer than San Francisco…

PORTLAND, ORE. – It has happened in Massachusetts, San Francisco and now it is happening in Portland.

The Multnomah County Clerk’s office plans to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples starting tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. at their office located at 501 S.E. Hawthorne.

Oregon’s marriage law states that marriage is a civil contract entered by males who are at least 17 years old and females who are at least 17 years old.

A statement issued by the county said simply: “Based on a legal opinion released today by the County Attorney, a majority of the Board of County Commissioners supports a policy change to allow the county to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples.”

Congratulations, all you Portlanders!

(many thanks to Pops for pointing this out in the comments here!)

Toilet tourism

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Ever wanted to use a public toilet? Usually, they’re items to be avoided, not sought out. Seattle looks to be trying to change that, though, with our new high-tech public lavatories…

The doors open and close like those on an elevator. You step in. They softly seal shut behind you.

“Welcome to Seattle’s public toilet,” says the kind of voice you might hear as you board a space ride at Disneyland.

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Tour the potties at Occidental Park in Pioneer Square, Hing Hay Park in the International District, Victor Steinbrueck Park at Pike Place Market, Waterfront Park at Pier 59 and the 1800 block of Broadway on Capitol Hill.

I just may have to check one of these things out at some point…just because. ;)

(via Pops)

Just feeling a little quiet

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There’s a lot of stuff out there on that in-tar-web thing these days, but I just haven’t felt terribly talkative as of late. It’s not really writers block as such, more of a general feeling of not having anything to add. It happens every so often.

The weekend’s been good, with a few days of lounging around, relaxing, and watching movies with Prairie (Lost in Translation, Donnie Darko, Willard, and Party Monster), and out to the Vogue to bounce around, flirt, and hang out with friends. All in all, a very enjoyable night.

I’ve gotten back into the eternal project of re-importing all my CDs into my computer — so far, I’m up to 6,913 songs over 583 albums in 30.38Gb, and that’s probably somewhere under halfway done. Yikes.

And…well, that’s about as exciting as things get right now. I’m sure my usual babble will resurface before terribly long. Until then, though…

iTunes: “Son of a Gun” by K.M.F.D.M. from the album XTORT (1996, 4:23).