I found out about these quizzes from the blog of Mr. Matt Quirk. Both results are surprising - I wouldn’t generally identify with either of these characters. (the less geeky among you are probably wondering why I’d identify with any comic book character…)
Your results:
You are Superman
| Superman |
|
75% |
| Spider-Man |
|
60% |
| Hulk |
|
55% |
| Robin |
|
53% |
| Supergirl |
|
53% |
| The Flash |
|
40% |
| Catwoman |
|
35% |
| Green Lantern |
|
30% |
| Iron Man |
|
30% |
| Wonder Woman |
|
28% |
| Batman |
|
20% |
|
You are mild-mannered, good,
strong and you love to help others.
 |
Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz
Your results:
You are Mr. Freeze
| Mr. Freeze |
|
58% |
| Poison Ivy |
|
39% |
| Apocalypse |
|
30% |
| Dr. Doom |
|
30% |
| Dark Phoenix |
|
30% |
| Juggernaut |
|
29% |
| The Joker |
|
28% |
| Lex Luthor |
|
27% |
| Green Goblin |
|
25% |
| Mystique |
|
25% |
| Catwoman |
|
21% |
| Kingpin |
|
20% |
| Magneto |
|
20% |
| Venom |
|
13% |
| Two-Face |
|
9% |
| Riddler |
|
8% |
|
You are cold and you think everyone else should be also, literally.
 |
Click here to take the “Which Super Villain am I?” quiz…
The fruit you can’t pick up. Also not very filling.
So, a month or so ago, I was sitting on the couch, watching a video - I forget what it was. I had my cat Shark on my lap. I also had been eating a bit of dessert, and had a glass of milk in my hand, resting on the couch next to my leg.
At one point, after not taking a drink for a little bit, I looked down and discovered that the tip of Shark’s tail was sitting in the milk. Had there been a camera handy, there would be a picture, but alas, there was none.
I removed the offending protuberance, and tried to clean droplets off. Shark now realized that his tail was wet and proceeded to clean it - he cleaned it for a long time actually, presumably because it tasted good. Meanwhile, I removed a few hairs from the glass and drank the rest. Yes, I probably ingested some remaining cat hairs, but it isn’t as though I don’t do that all the time anyway. Those with hairy pets understand.
I don’t normally write restaurant reviews, but then, this isn’t really a normal review. That is to say, I have nothing to say about the food at Marge’s Kitchen, because I haven’t actually had any.
Here is the story: Marge’s Kitchen is a small breakfast restaurant in Northampton, MA. It’s a short walk from where we live now, and, as we often like going out for brunch, we decided to try it today. The menu is not very extensive, but has most of the breakfast staples, and has very reasonable prices. There are a few unusual items as well, such as the choice of sweet potato home fries in addition to regular potato ones. The place also seems to have a slogan: “The customer is never right.” I found this amusing at first, but apparently it isn’t a joke. More on that later. Click Here to Read More »
This past August, I went hiking on Section 8 of the M-M Trail. Unlike the previous hike in section 7 (see previous post), I did this one by myself. I hiked this section from East to West, starting at Mt. Harris Rd. in Southeast Amherst, and finishing at the Notch Visitor Center on Route 116. In order to do the hike just one-way, I first drove to the Visitor Center with my bike in tow. I parked the car there, and rode the bike along surface roads to the other end of the trail section. Then, locking the bike up there, I did the hike, and had the car waiting for me at the end (so I could drive to pick up the bike and then home).
I also took some pictures on the hike. Click Here to Read More »
Here in Western Massachusetts, we have a lot of hiking trails, and some of them go over mountains (they’re really more like big hills, but we call them mountains).
In particular, trails run along the Holyoke Range, which is just to the East of the Connecticut River. Every year, the students and staff of the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics go on a hike over part of the range, and I’ve gone along the past 2 summers. This year, I took a camera, so there are pictures to be seen (and posted).
This particular trail is part of the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail. Specifically, it’s Section 7. We started at the Eastern end of the section, at Hwy 116, and hiked West to the summit of Mt. Holyoke in Skinner State Park (so not quite all the way to the Western end of the section).
Here’s what I saw along the way: Click Here to Read More »
Or, “What I did on my summer vacation”
So, I’ve had some stuff I’ve wanted to post for quite some time, but haven’t had time to blog for a while, as a result of searching for apartments, moving, and setting up the new household. Now I have gotten caught up, and will present the first of 3 posts showing a bunch of pictures I took this past summer. I suppose this is a little like making people look at a vacation slideshow, except that you’re free to leave this page at any time.
At the end of June/beginning of July, I went on a whirlwind road trip to attend my cousin’s wedding reception in Sault Sainte Marie (the wedding itself had occurred on an earlier date in Jamaica). The reception was to be held on Saturday evening. I say “whirlwind” because I drove to the Detroit area Friday, saw a friend for a few hours in the evening, stayed the night at my Mom’s, drove to the UP barely in time for the reception, left there after 11:30 and went to a motel room for the night, then drove all the way back to Massachusetts on Sunday.
It was a fun trip nonetheless, and I took some pictures, which are the reason for this post. Click Here to Read More »
I find it amusing that the 2 senators who conceded today are named Burns and Allen.
So, some number of weeks ago we had heard a scratching sound in some of the kitchen cupboards. We suspected mice. Fortunately, this cupboard area did not contain any food. At one point, a small furry thing was spotted briefly, and the cookbooks in the cupboard then got removed to prevent their being shredded.
Plans were discussed. Traps were purchased. Traps did not work - that is, the traps (the live trap kind) were found closed with no rodents in them. Soon after the setting of these traps, the noise ceased for a couple of weeks.
But then tonight, we heard it again, and opened the cupboard to get a good look at what was creeping around. It looked too big to be a mouse. Its head was not pointy enough. Its tail was not thin and hairless. In fact, after some googling of images, we discovered that we have a Southern Flying Squirrel lurking in our cupboards!
We have yet to actually snap a picture, or figure out what to do about the thing. We are finding it bizarre and kind of cool to have such a creature in there, rather than a run-of-the-mill mouse. Of course, the squirrel probably finds it exceedingly odd that there are people lurking in its ‘tree’.
My domain has been transferred to a new registrar and hosting provider. I actually posted with the same title as above before moving the blog to the new server, but apparently that post didn’t make it over. So the move wasn’t quite as transparent as I thought.
In any case, it seems to be all done now. Welcome to my new old site. 
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