Snaffled from Sciolist. You see, I’m a well-adjusted sociopath.

You Are 80% Sociopath

The good news is that you’re devastatingly charming. The bad news? You mostly use those charms for evil!

Not sure about the five values. That strikes me as being so much popcorn. After all, my ego is so huge it could blot out the sun. I’ve been told this by a reliable source and I can’t disagree. Not without snickering behind my hand as I do so, anyway.

Your Values Profile

Loyalty: You don’t really value loyalty. In your opinion, friendship should be earned. If you don’t agree with someone, it doesn’t matter how close you are. You’ll let them (and everyone else know) exactly what you think. Honesty: You value honesty a fair amount. You’re honest when you can be, but you aren’t a stickler for it. If a little white lie will make a situation more comfortable, you’ll go for it. In the end, you mostly care about “situational integrity.” Generosity: You value generosity a fair amount. You are all about giving, as long as there’s some give and take. Supportive and kind, you don’t mind helping out a friend in need. But you know when you’ve given too much. You have no problem saying “no”! Humility: You value humility a fair amount. You tend to be an easy going, humble person. But occasionally your ego takes over. You have a slight competitive streak – and the need to be the best. Tolerance: You value tolerance highly. Not only do you enjoy the company of those very different from you… You do all that you can to seek it out interesting and unique friends. You think there are many truths in life, and you’re open to many of them.

Nicholas Cage as Ghost Rider? That could work. That could just work.

Volume VIII Episode 9 is now under way. it’ll take me a while to complete this one as I’m rushed off my feet.

We need to make a decision, really. It can go two ways after the end of this Volume: either I carry on and make a concerted effort to do at least one a month, which I’ll do if I think I have a continuing audience, although I’ll have to cut the cast list down and change the rules slightly for reasons I shall explain presently; or we call this the last one. The League has suffered from falling attendance recently, with a scant few loyal regulars sticking it out with the kernel of those who made the migration in the first place. It’s a bit of a shame, really, but there you go. It makes it very difficult to keep up and therefore work out the plot.

While I can just about keep up to date with Cycling Plus, the rather oppressive dictatorship of Asteroid M puts me off going over there even if I didn’t think I’d be arrested for potential incitement just by crossing the border, especially after being told about this.

A bad pun, I know. We’ve I’ve decided to organise the Scottish Dun Run for around summer Solstice next year (2007) as this gives plenty of time to get things sorted. If you check the thread over at the Clubhouse you’ll see a potential route I just hashed together using my big Phillips Road atlas. According to the the AA routeplanner it should be around 110 miles, and we should avoid any major hills by following the Enrick Water valley between the Fintry Hills and Campsie Fells.

As the Forth Bridge services are 24 hours (I think!) that solves the problem of where to stop. I’ll check that though. There’s a big Tescos at South Queensferry I think is 24 hours.

What I’m really looking forward to is crossing the Forth Road Bridge in the very early morning. If it’s quiet we could even go on the road, although for once the cycle path has an advantage — the views are better. How cool would that be?

Not sure about where we could go for breakfast in St Andrews, but if we leave it until June next year than that gives me plenty of time to try to persuade the Aquarium to open early so we can poke the seals.

While I appreciate that the desperate urges of the vast seething biomass to keep up with the world’s most important event of the decade — the World Cup — has meant an overload on the company servers; and that the various IT monkeys have a system to maintain; and that people with business needs might well be narked if they can’t get onto the internet because of all the football-obsessives trying to keep up with every twitch of every blade of grass on every pitch: is it really necessary to block every single vaguely sports-related site?

I just wanted to look at a Mavic Ellipse lockring. Just out of interest. AlexB supplied the link. But I can’t go there because it’s blocked as part of my employer’s response to World Cup fever.

Another good reason to hate fupball. Chiz chiz.

While I’m generally frustrated by my lack of progress in the running department — I’m sure I should have my short route down to below 20 minutes by now, and not get home and melt into a pile of grease panting about the heat — the swimming is coming back to me. Forty lengths today, crawl (can’t do breastroke because of my knee, so I have to do crawl, no excuses) in a sniff under 25 minutes.

This not kicking lark is surprisingly effective. Although I’m not entirely convinced by the advice to use my boobs as a hydrofoil.

An antidote to X3. The worrying thing is that I know that episode of the original series and could tell you exactly what the plot was.

Before it was pimped. With a pimp cane.

Snaffled from Estara.

Seductive Vampy: You were made to make a grand entrance, from that revealing ensemble to those come hither eyes. You are the sex scene. It’s because of you that Goth girls have reputations as being total sex bombs. Go on, you know you’re gorgeous and so does everyone else. This makes it a bit hard for your friends not to backstab you, they’re so jealous of you aren’t they? Your life revolves around what parties/clubs you are going to attend and which sexy new boi you are going to snare. You can dress yourself well, regardless of how much money you have to spend and you always look glamorous. Most people tend to think you are a shallow slut; however there is more going on then they could ever know. You’re certainly not stupid. You’ve realised that life is too short to be chained to one unappreciative guy. You wear your slinky, sheer dress and skirts so that maximum flesh exposure is guaranteed. Your motto is “Catch me if you can”

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I SO need a picture of that big blue thing with the flower on its head from Samurai Jack. The cute one. Huge and blue and it had flowers on its head and flies buzzing around and briefly turned into a ginormous terrifying monster to kill the cowboy robot bounty hunters.

Ties for best episode of Samurai Jack ever with Peach Boy. Oh, and the one where he learns how to jump.

Please don’t try to talk me into doing PBP 2007. I know I was planning on doing it but I have no chance in hell of completing an SR series this year, and that would mean qualifying with no experience of an SR in the first half on next year. And we’re kind of short of qualifying options this side of the border.

I can’t think past completing the Dun Run on fixed this year anyway. I hear the lovely Mrs Pike is going to be doing it on her accidental Pompino. Does this mean we have a Sorority Fixie Chicks peleton this year?

The men don’t stand a chance. We’ll break their hearts. They won’t be able to ride properly for the discomfort they will be experiencing in their shorts. Hot chicks on fixed bikes wearing skimpy lycra while feasting on jelly babies and midnight espresso.

I wonder if I can remember which field it was in which MVC and I had our little diversion last year.