Interesting. I tried out "TrustFlow", which assesses your "friends" list and their lists and so on and nominates people who are popular among your friends but not directly your friends. Their model is that friend = trusted party (not a safe bet with LJ, but what can you do?), and each person distributes "trust points" evenly among his friends, and after you run this a few levels out you start to get a picture. (Algorithm description.) (I found out about this from dragontdc.)

I recognize many of the names on my list, which isn't surprising. What is surprising is that I don't recognize the top scorer and we have only one friend in common. I'm curious about that.

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Created by ciphergoth; hosted by LShift.

TrustFlow II: Who is closest to your friends list?

This looks like an interesting exercise that everyone seems to be doing (with predictable site-availability results sometimes). If you like, go to this site, choose half a dozen traits you think I have, and then see how that compares to everyone else's assessments. http://kevan.org/johari?name=cellio

There's a meme going around (not for the first time) along the lines of "if you read this, post a comment about $SUBJECT here" (implied: so I know you're reading my journal). I usually don't do those, and you shouldn't draw conclusions about my reading habits from my silence. (I never do ones that say I "must" do something, though the current one doesn't make that demand.) If I wasn't planning to read you, I wouldn't have subscribed to your journal in the first place.

My, what a pretty visualization. I wonder what all the symbol encodings mean. Size seems to be tied to number of connections and color to clusters (people who are mostly friends with each other). I don't know what the brackets and position mean.


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Edit: Hey, I just noticed that some of my mutual friends aren't here. I wonder what's up with that, given that some who are very loosely connected (clique size 1) do show up.

Both variables being measured here surprised me, but in different directions. (In one case I suspect a flawed test.) I'm mildly curious about what they consider the "right" answers to be, but not curious enough to perform the exhaustive search.

Link swiped from siderea.

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At the request of tangerinpenguin:

List 5 things you enjoy, even when no one around you wants to go out and play. What lowers your stress/blood pressure/anxiety level? Post it to your journal and then tag 5 friends and ask them to post it to theirs.

• Rewatching "comfort" TV shows -- M*A*S*H, Twilight Zone, Blake's 7, others. The key is the rewatching, it seems.
• Cooking something adventurous. "Adventure" is more likely to be about flavors and ingredients than about technique; diving into complicated pastry, for instance, is not my idea of relaxation.
• Snuggling with the cats. Ok, snuggling with the human is nice too. :-)
• Writing -- here, fiction from the D&D game, or other stuff, so long as it doesn't involve deadlines and customer requirements.
• Thinking/talking through off-the-wall halacha -- the less practical, the better.

I don't generally "tag" people for stuff like this; if you want to go ahead and I'll enjoy reading the results.

Ok, three different people have asked me to fill out this survey so far, so let's see what I can do.

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Seen in many journals, most recently dragontdc. This is a list of the most-often banned books (time period unknown to me). The convention is to use formatting to indicate which you've read all or part of and which others you want to read, but I'm going to sort the list instead.

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While I'm a little surprised at the number of items on that last list, I must admit that I have basically no curiosity about them.

Lots of people are doing the "invite a rant" thing, but I like gnomi's variation on it:

-- Want me to rant about something? Pick a topic, and I'll see what I can do about ranting about it.
-- Alternately, not so much in the mood for a rant? Want me to rave about something? Pick a topic, and I'll try to rave about it.

Please tell me which you want -- a rant or a rave. If you do not specify which one you want, I'll do whichever tickles my fancy (and I do warn you that leaving me to my own devices can be a scary, scary thing).

This should be an entertaining way to queue up topics for future posts. :-) (None of which will occur before teh end of Shabbat, just in case there was any doubt.)