rm ([personal profile] rm) wrote2003-12-18 07:20 pm

what I learned today

- people with long faces are generally considered classically attractive, but tend to have really low Q scores. This explains a great deal.

- the fat little pug goes round and round, round and round, round and round.... sorry, cute dog moment.

- i'm tired, although taking it easy on myself helps.

- crap it's hard to get RotK tickets.

- aparently there is an evil little pet craze sweeping universities in the Southwest. It's called a sugar glider and is a small marsupial that climbs on everything, lives on honey, smells like rotten bacon and makes a horrible sound like an electric pencil sharpener. And it's from Australia!

- I'm still tangled up about some seriously old issues

- casting breakdowns aren't nearly as hard to get as I had heard

- working on NYE may suck, but it's the right thing for me to do, in a spiritual and wallet type sense this year. It's the life I signed up for, after all. And next year, I'll be in Sydney, because I say so. So I think I win.

Okay...I have to ask

[identity profile] mcsquare.livejournal.com 2003-12-18 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
What's a Q score?

More trivia no one needed

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2003-12-18 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a likeability score generally used for TV personalities and celebrities. It's like, how they choose the idiot weather guy for the local news.

Basically panelists just have to say yes or no whether they like someone. Or they have to choose between two, who do they like more.

It's like focus groups at their basest "people are stupid monkeys" level.

Bill Cosby had at one point the highest Q score ever.

[identity profile] lakme.livejournal.com 2003-12-18 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
The sugar gliders are 500 a pop. It's the ferret of the new millenium.

The....fat little pug gobbles up my soup, up my soup :)

[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2003-12-18 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It kept spinning in circles and wouldn't stop!

Yeah, which is insane for an animal that smells like rotten bacon and can live in your sports bra.

[identity profile] lakme.livejournal.com 2003-12-18 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. I wouldn't want to live in my sports bra after a work day. I don't want any pets that do :)

Mimi (my dad's pug) is very good at circles...she gets an itchy bum and rotates on it to try and scratch it for about ten minutes. I wind up laughing my ass off :)

[identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com 2003-12-18 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Professor Livers was obsessed with getting a sugar glider at one point. After he got over his grackel obsession.

[identity profile] delchi.livejournal.com 2003-12-18 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay Grackels!!!

You know those are the birds in my LJ icons.... :)

[identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com 2003-12-19 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Dude, grackels are super evil. Most evil birds ever! :P

[identity profile] delchi.livejournal.com 2003-12-18 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay Pugs!

I have teh reputation of being the guy in the community who talks to pugs. Like I'll be at the library or just wlaking somewhere and a person with a pug will come by, and I'll say hi to the pug and keep walking. sometimes they run up to me and stuff.

[identity profile] lllvis.livejournal.com 2003-12-19 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
My friend S has been talking about Sugar Gliders for a couple of years now, keeps threatening to get one as a pet but just hasn't yet.

And the one place we keep seeing them that seems to be the easiest place to obtain one???......gun shows. Yup...kinda weird, but there's usually a guy there with about half a dozen of'em in a cage.