well, i had the brilliant idea that taking pictures of our party without any sort of flash would be wonderful, and the photos came out accordingly. that is, shittily. but i'll still post them. because i'm an exhibitionist! behind the cut.
oh yeah - i had been meaning to post this site, found by julie, which analyzes a photo of your face and tells you all sorts of things about yourself, like your ancestry, intelligence levels, what salary you make, etc. i'm not sure how accurate it is, but it sure is fun! here's my info:
racial ananlysis:
19% Eastern European
32% Anglo Saxon
36% Korean/Japanese
13% Chinese
(i find this weird - i do have an eighth of chinese in me, as i'm fond of telling people, but no korean or japanese, so i'm not sure why that percentage was so high. as far as i remember, my dad's side is mostly anglo-saxon, and i don't think we've got any eastern european, at least not in the last few generations.)
Personality Profile Rank
Intelligence 6.2 Average Intelligence
Risk 4.4 Low Risk
Ambition 6.0 Average Ambition
Gay Factor 1.5 Very Low Gay Factor
Honor 5.2 Average Honor
Politeness 5.7 Average Politeness
Income 6.4 $30,000 - $50,000
Sociability 5.8 Average Sociability
Promiscuity 3.5 Low Promiscuity
well, they're right in that i have a low gay factor. and i'm average in all other regards. woohoo!
Personality Profile, White Collar:
You especially enjoy the traditional way of life. Having drinks with your friends, attending parties and relaxing while watching TV are some of your simple pleasures. You may also enjoy physical exercise. Your driving force is to retire as early as possible, so that you can do the things you enjoy more often. Your main source of ambition comes from this desire.
You dont particularly like your job but you do it without complaining. You realize that the income that it provides is essential to your lifestyle. You are friendly yet competitive with your co-workers. This competitiveness may lead you to squander your earnings to match other peoples' possessions.
You operate most effectively when there is a set power structure, and the lines of authority are clear. You know your place in the ranks, you play by the rules, and will deliver what is expected of you. You do not care for responsibility; you would rather be care free.
Your view of other types
You sometimes disagree with Boss types, but you respect them for the most part. You may even be envious of their lifestyles. You find Academic types boring and uptight. You have very little in common with them. However some White collar types may respect the accomplishments for certain Academic types. You think that Artist types are unrealistic and immature. You like interacting with Charmer types, and sometimes envy their charisma. You perceive Gambler types mostly as loners and untrustworthy. However, since you may have to interact with them on a daily basis you are not hostile to them. You believe Drifters are too lazy to work for a living but you sometimes feel pity for them.
Other types' view of you
Boss types may have some things in common with Blue collar types, but for the most part they only interact with you during the course of business. Academics see White collar types as unsuccessful versions of themselves, but because of work situations they may have to interact with you often. Artists do not interact with you, for they consider you to be a slave of conformity. Charmer types may associate with you; they find that the collar types are the people that mostly want to hang around them. To the Drifter types your repetitive routines seem boring; they would prefer having more fun and excitement. They may however enjoy the company of some Blue collar types.
obviously this isn't the best indicator of everything (i got almost exactly the same profiles/ratings as julie, so i don't know that they actually differentiate that much between people), but i think it's fun. give it a shot!
UPDATE - haha, i put in a random photo of tommy and it said he was 51% chinese and 49% korean, when he has absolutely no asian in him. but a different picture said 29% Eastern European and 71% Southern European. who knows? but both times it did say he was an Artist Type.
so, posting will no doubt be light in the next week or so (from my side at least) as i get thursday and friday off from work and will be in the full throes of all the holiday activies. i've got fun stuff planned for the next few days: tomorrow evening my family, my uncle's family, my grandparents (who are in town from laramie, wyoming) and tommy and i are going out to dinner at l'auberge chez francois to celebrate my grandparents' 80th birthdays. this french alsatian country inn in great falls, va, is apparently THE place to go for fancy occasions, and its food and service are supposed to be out of this world. and i'm thrilled to be celebrating my grandparents' birthdays with them - they are totally amazing people and wonderful grandparents, even though i don't get to see them as much as i would like since they're out in wyoming. my grandfather, francois dickman, is the american-born son of two belgian immigrants who were french professors at the university of wyoming. he got his master's from the fletcher school of law and diplomacy, and went on to serve in WWII and the korean war. he then became a foreign service officer, first being stationed in colombia (where my uncle was born), and later serving as ambassador to both the united arab emirates and kuwait, in the late 70s/early 80s. he's fluent or near-fluent in french, arabic and spanish, and overall just informed on just about everything (including miniature ship building and wyoming history), even though i really don't think he enjoyed his grandchildren until they could hold conversations with him :) AND he thought the iraq war would be a shitstorm from the start.
my grandmother is the daughter of otis hoy, who was a chinese-american who moved from san francisco to cheyenne, wyoming in the early 1900s (god knows why). she graduated from UW with degrees in agriculture, home economics, and food and nutrition, and then met my grandfather and traveled with him all over the world - and from what i understand, being the wife of a diplomat is essentially like being a diplotmat yourself. when my grandparents moved back to laramie in the 80s, she became heavily involved in community service and volunteering, and won the Laramie Community Service Award in 2003. plus she's just about the most amazing chef that i know.
so, anyway, happy birthday grandma and grandpa! look how cute they are! (without fail, my grandfather has that befuddled look in photographs, like, "what is this camera thing you point at my face?".)
in other news, i really want this breadmaker so i can make this panettone recipe. if you've never had panettone, you are doing yourself a disservice - it's an italian (milanese in particular) cake, made exclusively around the holidays, and it's just delicious. look! there's even a wiki for it!
and in other other news, i woke up with a cold this morning, and even though i've already popped several zinc tablets, i still feel crappy. so i'll sign off for now.
happy holidays!
