Lists!

[gfish]

No, I didn't forget about the Top Five X lists. I haven't done them all, and I have to say just filling these out was surprisingly difficult. Maybe I'm taking it too seriously? I'll try to get to the others, honest.

Top five nonexistant books you'd like to read:
Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Bene Gesserit training manual
The Hive Queen and the Hegemon
The Pop-up Kama-Sutra: Zero-Gravity Edition
The Necronomicon

Top 5 fake/real band/album names:
Sexual Crossfire
if and only if (My imaginary emo band, abbreviated iff by the fans.)
Six Degrees of Freedom (My imaginary boyband, aka 6DoF)
Hapax Legomena
Deadbolt Seppuku

Top 5 literary classics you've read since you started making an effort to do that:
Pride and Prejudice
Silas Marner
War and Peace
Huckleberry Finn
The Scarlet Letter

Top five units:
c
Ohm
Stadium
Attoparsec
Scoville

Top five nerdy movies:
Real Genius
Hackers
Pump Up the Volume
Sneakers
War Games

Top five characters from any fandom to make a team to save the world:
The Doctor
Miles Vorkosigan
Juanita Callahan
Q (007, that is)
Y.T.

Top five inventions by unknown inventors:
Atlatls
Writing
Pockets
Cheese
Zero

Comments

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

ohm beats attoparsec?

[gfish.livejournal.com]

These are strictly unordered lists.

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

You're sexy.

[orawnzva.livejournal.com]

An attoparsec is cute, but for bringing an astronomical unit conveniently down to a human scale, I find it more useful that, in relativistic units, a nanosecond is almost exactly a foot.

[samildanach.livejournal.com]

gfish Y.T. or Kourier Y.T.?

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Kourier Y.T., sorry.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

OK, off to google to look up what atto is ten to the minus, and a reminder of parsecs in KM...

Ah, 31 mm--a very nice unit.

I've often wondered if one could hit an axolotl with an atlatl.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Well, I once managed to split a rose cane (http://www.cyphertext.net/images/Erato/Groups/misc/atlatl/1144696731-pv.JPG) with one, so sure.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the opening credits to the old a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrLx-Jqm980">Daniel Boone show from the 60's. (the "you can tell it's fake" moment at 0:22)