Journey Inside My Mind ™

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RULES:
1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write down that song name no matter what!
4. Put any comments in parentheses after the song name.

If someone says “is this okay?” you say:
“You Can’t Get What You Want (Til You Know What You Want)” (good point)
Joe Jackson

How would you describe yourself?
“Part Of My Life”
India.Arie

What do you like in a guy/girl?
“Crazy in Love”
Beyonce

How do you feel today?
“Free and Easy”
Lovespirals

What is your life’s purpose?
“Save A Prayer”
Duran Duran

What is your motto?
“Pump Up The Volume”
M/A/R/R/S

What do your friends think of you?
“Channel Z”
The B-52′s

What do you think of your parents?
“I Know You’re There” (wow)
Matthew Ebel

What do you think about very often?
“Lullaby” (guess I need to get more sleep?)
The Cure

What is 2 + 2?
“This Very Moment”
K-Ci and JoJo

What do you think of your best friend?
“Dizzy Lizzy”
G. Miles featuring Soul Therapy

What do you think of the person you like?
“Indian War Whoop” (LOL)
John Hartford

What is your life story?
“Policy of Truth”
Depeche Mode

What do you want to be when you grow up?
“I’ll Fly Away”
Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch

What do you think of when you see the person you like?
“Always In My Head”
India.Arie

What will you dance to at your wedding?
“Ocean Floor”
Audio Adrenaline

What will they play at your funeral?
“Before It’s Over”
Rotten Cheri

What is your hobby/interest?
“Blow Away” (haha)
munk

What is your biggest fear?
“Desert Rose”
Sting (w/ Farhat Bouallagui)

What is your biggest secret?
“Every Color” (blue is still my favorite, though)
Matthew Ebel

What do you think of your friends?
“Outro” (interesting – guess it means I can’t wait until we get together again?)
India.Arie

What will you post this as?
“No One Else Like You”
The Radicals

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This blog post originates from http://journeyinsidemymind.com

ToddOrRyan
Originally uploaded by tvanhoosear

You be the judge.

It’s so funny how we get to certain places on the web.

1. Yesterday on Twitter, C.C. Chapman encouraged people to take pictures of themselves at work, upload them to Flickr, and tag them with “slackershots“. He even registered www.slackershots.com to point to the tag page for it.
2. One of our fellow Twitter friends, Todd Van Hoosear, uploaded a picture of himself.
3. I browsed the gallery and remarked on Twitter that his picture resembled Ryan Stiles of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
4. Todd then posted the picture you see in this post and mentioned it on Twitter.

Todd and I have never met in person, but I sure hope we get to at some point.
What’s that? You want to know what picture I submitted? I didn’t have my camera with me yesterday, so I resubmitted my picture as a Home Fry Speed Demon.

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I didn’t really understand what a meme was until about a year ago. Jason asked me what it meant, and that forced me to look it up at Dictionary.com, who defines meme:

A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

In my early days of blogging, I participated in a number of quizzes, personality tests, etc., most of which I’ve included in this blog (Journey Inside My Mind Blog: memes).

As I look at what we’re doing on the internet five years later, I’m beginning to think that anything we share can become a meme.

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I guess that means I’m almost famous?

Thanks to Jason Alba for passing on the meme.

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I just took a superhero quiz and found out which one I’m most like. I guess I had nothing better to do at the time.

Your results:
You are Iron Man

Iron Man 90% Spider-Man 85% Superman 85% Batman 65% Robin 60% Catwoman 60% Green Lantern 55% The Flash 55% Hulk 55% Supergirl 50% Wonder Woman 45%

Inventor. Businessman. Genius.

Click here to take the “Which Superhero are you?” quiz…

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Oh my gosh! I’d started the draft of this post back on 12/14/2006, and just recently remembered it.

Ganns, the Official Superblessed Blogger of Journey Inside My Mind, posted a ten things that begin with the letter ___ meme. Here’s how it works: When you see this meme and want to participate, post a comment requesting a letter (as I did at Ganns’s site), and the blogger will respond in the comment form with a letter of his/her choice. Then you go back to your blog and post about ten things that start with that letter.

In response to my comments, Ganns, who says I’m one of the “most creative men [he's] ever had the pleasure of knowing“, has given me an “E.” These were the top 10 things that came to mind, in no particular order of importance:

1. Encouragement. I have been told that I have a gift for encouragement. I have the ability to see something good about something or someone and point it out. In college I used to call up friends and leave encouraging messages on their answering machines.
2. English. Not only is this my native language, but I was very good in it in school. I could one day become an English teacher, and the English teachers I had in school had a profound impact on my life.
3. Expressive. This word really describes my work personality. For example, at work I am gregarious and outgoing. I draw motivation from social interactions and relationships with others. As a result I help to make the company a better place to work.
4. Empowering. This word describes my leadership style. I am encouraging and motivating, and I help others reach their goals and dreams. People see me as a good mentor for my patience and talent for giving direction.
5. Elves. It’s Christmastime, and there is a lot of talk about elves, especially a certain jolly old elf that pays a visit to girls and boys this time of year. I have been fortunate to have worn the suit at different occasions in my life, and I have the opportunity to do that again this coming weekend. But don’t tell my daughter that, okay?
6. Emmanuel. God with us. We remember the birth of Jesus Christ at any time during the year, but especially during this time of the year. God invaded our world, grew up into a man, showed us how to live, and gave his life, enduring suffering to show us the extent of his love for us, to reconcile us back to him. Were there enough clauses in that previous sentence?
7. Eternity. God has set eternity in the hearts of all men. Everyone thinks about what will happen once they are gone. We can have eternal life with God through Jesus.
8. Evanescence. A couple years ago, while working at McDonald’s, Evanescence’s song “Bring Me To Life” came on over the stereo system being piped through the restaurant. Those familiar with the song will know that there is a crescendo as it builds up to the chorus. Well, it was during a busy part of the day on crew, and that song came on, and when the chorus first broke, I really got into it. I got into it so much that I yelled the chorus. The manager, who was in the far corner of the building in the back, came out to see what was wrong. I was a little overzealous, I guess.
9. Ed’s Mixed Bag. This is one of my favorite independent music podcasts, and Ed, as the Official Audio Commentator of the Journey Inside My Mind Podcast, has become a great friend.
10. Elvis. Back in the early 1990′s, Mojo and Skid has a song called “Elvis is Everywhere”. I was living in the Detroit, Michigan area, and I rented a video camera and made a music video of me singing this song. Lip-syncing it, actually. If I remember correctly, the chorus goes something like this:
    

    Elvis is everywhere
    Elvis is everything
    Elvis is everybody
    Elvis is still the King
    Man oh man
    What I want you to see
    Is that the King
    He lives inside
    You and me

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… previously on the Journey Inside My Mind… the Five Questions Interview – Part 1 – The Questions…

Don’t worry. I’ll repost them here, this time with the answers:

The instructions:

1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your journal with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

*****
Now, for my first interview, here are some questions from Ganns, the Official Superblessed Blogger of Journey Inside My Mind. Thanks for the questions, bro! It took me awhile to come up with the answers, but after stewing on them for awhile, they just seemed to flow.

1. Describe yourself in three sentences, from the perspective of any movie character.

   These three come from Dicky Fox, from “Jerry McGuire (1996)“: “I love getting up in the morning! I clap my hands and say, ‘This is gonna be a great day!’” (that’s 2, here’s the 3rd): “Roll with the punches; tomorrow’s another day.”

2. What five things bring you most joy?

   Relationship with God, spending time with my wife, spending time with my daughter, music, encouragement – giving and receiving

3. What is the Bible verse you recite to yourself most during times of trouble?

   It’s so hard to pick only one because I remember several during times of trouble (This almost sounds like the beginning to “Let It Be” by The Beatles.). I would have to say that, if I could only choose one, it would be Romans 8:38-39, which I reproduce below from the NIV:
   

   For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

4. Ultimate dinner party. Who are three of your guests?

   Jesus Christ, my wife Jennie, and my daughter Keisha. Otherwise I’d be in big trouble, huh?

5. Why should we journey inside your mind?

   Where else can you find out what happens when a man goes through his own portal? Seriously, though, you need to find out all about my super powers, and being here is a good start.

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I have been tagged by the Official Superblessed Blogger with the following five questions, which I’ll have to respond to in a separate post:

1. Describe yourself in three sentences, from the perspective of any movie character.
2. What five things bring you most joy?
3. What is the Bible verse you recite to yourself most during times of trouble?
4. Ultimate dinner party. Who are three of your guests?
5. Why should we journey inside your mind?

These are some tough, open-ended questions that require more thought than I can provide at this time. Readers want to know, so I’ll be sure to reply soon!

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Doug from salgoud.net has apparently started a new meme in the blogosphere, involving the new Google multi-directional maps.

I went to Google Maps and entered in every place I’ve lived since I was 3 years old:

I honestly can’t remember the streets where I lived before then. Some of them might not be around any more. And I think I left out some of the times when I moved from one place to another and back. In addition, I purposely made sure some addresses were vague to protect those who still live there. I also left out the addresses where we stayed with the Official Mom when we visited in Texas because I couldn’t remember them. I’ll probably have to check with her.

Check out the resulting Google Map (note, made into a TinyUrl for convenience).

According to Google, the journey that took me 33 years is 766 mi and can be traversed in about 14 hours.

What’s your Life Map look like? Go to Google Maps and create yours. Post a link in the comments or put it up on your own blog if you’ve got one. Leave a comment here so we can go see it.

Vertigo by U2

“The night is full of holes Those bullets rip the sky Of ink with gold They twinkle as the boys play rock and roll” In 2004 you partied so hard… you forgot how to count.

Truthfully, I kept revising my answers until I got something I was satisfied with.

Hosted by Bill Nye, whom you may recall from the program “Bill Nye the Science Guy” (BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL!) (“Science rules!”).

The website contains a Eureka Quiz in which you can see how much you know about the greatest science discoveries of all time (BTW, I got a 9 out of 16).

For fun the whole family will enjoy – educational, too!

Rob’s Amazing Poem Generator produced this poem, based on this blog:

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Ahoy, mateys! I’m Mad Davy Flint!

Well, that’s my pirate name, anyway, according to the “What’s My Pirate Name?” quiz:

Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. Like the rock flint, you’re hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you’re easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!

Missing Alias

I look forward to September 28th, the season premiere of Alias. The show ended last season with an incredible cliffhanger twist. My wife and I are following this show in the same way we used to follow the X-Files.

I recall reading an article in a recent TV Guide that included some spoilers for the upcoming season, but, when I went to their website, it had been updated to the current issue. Nevertheless, I found a neat quiz to test your knowledge of Alias trivia. How well can you do?

Well, maybe not. I just thought the Austin Powers quote was a good title for this post. I just took the BBC’s Tech Jargon Quiz, and I got the following results:

You got 7 right!
Have you thought about entering the competition to find the sexiest geek alive?

Austin Powers, look out!

Jennie took the Book of the Bible test, too:

You are Lamentations.

Which book of the Bible are you?
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Which book of the Bible are you?
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Here it is:

You are Psalms.

Thanks to Irene, Rachel, others for the link

The link to this quiz comes via Dog News: weird, inspiring dog tales:

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Quiz – Music

You’re nothing, really. But you’re nice.

What type of music are you?
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Well, at least I tried.

be sorted @ nimbo.net

‘Scuse me while I hop on my Firebolt…