{"id":2656,"date":"2004-07-08T18:21:54","date_gmt":"2004-07-09T08:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/09\/meme-fun\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:40:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T00:40:29","slug":"meme-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/08\/meme-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Meme fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7761,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310005826\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 04:56:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 04:56:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10632,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/images.google.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/images.google.com\\\/?gws_rd=ssl&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10633,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/imlostinthemusic.blogdrive.com\\\/archive\\\/cm-3_cy-2004_m-3_d-13_y-2004_o-10.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20040813064136\\\/http:\\\/\\\/imlostinthemusic.blogdrive.com:80\\\/archive\\\/cm-3_cy-2004_m-3_d-13_y-2004_o-10.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 07:10:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 07:10:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10634,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/angerdog.non-essential.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20211202213021\\\/http:\\\/\\\/angerdog.non-essential.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 07:10:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 07:10:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10635,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/angerdog.non-essential.com\\\/random-thought-generator.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20201030195531\\\/http:\\\/\\\/angerdog.non-essential.com\\\/random-thought-generator.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 07:10:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 07:10:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This was originally a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/\" title=\"LiveJournal\">LiveJournal<\/a> meme, but it was so goofy and intricate that I had to join in the fun. So. Bear with me.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Take your LJ username and replace each letter with the corresponding number (A=1, B=2, etc&#8230;). If your name contains numbers, you&#8217;ll need to convert them to letters first before you can convert to numbers.\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Hanscom = 13 9 3 8 1 5 12 8 1 14 19 3 15 13 (Since I&#8217;m doing this here, rather than on LiveJournal, I&#8217;ll use the name I post under on this weblog &#8212; which, conveniently enough, just happens to be my real name.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Add all of the numbers together to create a kind of super number.\n<ul>\n<li>124<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Make a note of the first digit of this number, then add the digits of the number together.\n<ul>\n<li>First digit is 1.<\/li>\n<li>1 + 2 + 4 = 7.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Find the post of this number in your LJ. If you don&#8217;t have that many posts, add the digits together again. Keep doing so until the number is smaller than your pathetic number of posts.\n<ul>\n<li>My seventh (archived) post was <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2000\/12\/17\/mulder-scully-carey-grant-and-max-schreck\/\" title=\"Mulder, Scully, Carey Grant, and Max Schreck\">Mulder, Scully, Carey Grant, and Max Schreck<\/a>, posted on December 17, 2000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Take the digit you noted in step 3, and count that many words into the post.\n<ul>\n<li>Just<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Use the resulting word in a <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/\" title=\"Google Image Search\">Google Image Search<\/a>, and select a picture from the first page. Post the results for us all to see.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/07\/graphics\/just-try-it.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/07\/graphics\/just-try-it-tm.jpg\" height=\"211\" width=\"150\" alt=\"'Just Try It' from Anger Dog Studios\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>A quick note regarding this image: while it was by <em>far<\/em> the best of the images that Google found for me, it was found on <a href=\"http:\/\/imlostinthemusic.blogdrive.com\/archive\/cm-3_cy-2004_m-3_d-13_y-2004_o-10.html\" title=\"Lost in the Music\">this journal page<\/a> (no permalink, entry &#8220;Wow wow wow!!!&#8221; from Jan. 25, 2004), where it had been re-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/angerdog.non-essential.com\/\" title=\"Anger Dog Studios\">Anger Dog Studios<\/a>. I debated re-re-posting it here, but liked the image enough that I decided to go ahead and toss it up with credit to the original artist, who I&#8217;ll also be e-mailing and asking formal permission to leave the piece up. There&#8217;s a lot more excellent artwork at <a href=\"http:\/\/angerdog.non-essential.com\/\" title=\"Anger Dog Studios\">Anger Dog Studios<\/a>, too, so feel free to wander that way and peruse what&#8217;s available in their <a href=\"http:\/\/angerdog.non-essential.com\/random-thought-generator.html\" title=\"Welcome to the Wasteland\">galleries<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was originally a LiveJournal meme, but it was so goofy and intricate that I had to join in the fun. So. 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