Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

The entirety of a post by final_girl titled stray cat strut (2005-06-18):

moshpit has stolen the insole out of one of my shoes in the closet and is running around the house with it, rearing up on her back legs and batting it with her front legs while holding it in her mouth.

it looks for all the world like she's playing stand-up bass.

i gots me a rockabilly girl.

because she's got cat class and she's got cat style.

Blame evadne.

The instructions started, "First, write down the names of 12 characters. Then read and answer the questions. You can't look at the questions (or click on the cut) until you write down the 12 characters you're going to use.", so I jotted down the first eight characters that popped into my head and then picked four more from the dozen or so that all sprang into my brain at once at that point shouting, "Pick me! Pick me!":

1. Gully Foyle (The Stars My Destination)
2. Bruce Wayne (Detective Comics, etc.)
3. Lemuel Gulliver (Gulliver's Travels)
4. Tristan (Tristan and Isolde)
5. Chet Kinsman (Millenium and Kinsman)
6. Odysseus (The Oddessey)
7. Lorelei Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
8. Lois Lane (Superman, etc.)
9. Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
10. Oz (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
11. Inspector Clouseau (The Pink Panther, etc.)
12. Dorothy Gale (The Wizard of Oz)

Now I should go rinse my brain.

[Edit: I belatedly realized that when asked to list "twelve characters", I should have written, "Eth, Yogh, Thorn, Aleph, Sigma, Delta, Division Sign, Conjunction, Trine, Hermaphrodite, Copyright, and Em". That would have made this meme more my speed.( And then ... )

I finally remembered what the fourth item in my "this and that" entry a couple of days ago was going to be:

I was given a machine with Debian Linux already installed on it, and instead of scrubbing it and installing from scratch I took advantage of the convenience of having an already-running box (and the fact that the version of Linux on it is more recent than anything I have install media for) and made it the bedroom X workstation. So it's got a bunch of screensavers that I didn't configure, and every so often I'll walk into the room and see it doing something really pretty that I hadn't seen before.

But this week I came into the bedroom and saw the computer playing Pong with itself. I found that a little disturbing.

In other randomness, I just Googled "ficton". Turns out that yet another of the words I've been using comes from a Heinlein novel that I haven't read. It figures. I suppose I should take the hint and read more Heinlein, huh?