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[robinturner]

It's a sign of my current extreme work avoidance that I've been hitting the random livejournal button. Results so far indicate that questionnaires of the "If you were an X, you'd be a Y" have reached pandemic proportions. kristian is probably right that answering questions makes us feel important, because normally only famous people are interviewed about trivia.

Personally, though, I can't be bothered to go through all the clicking just to find out what vegetable or domestic animal I am. A few seconds of introspection is enough to find a satisfactory answer, and may be more revealing. So here, of the top of my head are some "If solri were an X, he'd be Y" results:

Kitchen utensil: spatula
Computer system: Beowulf cluster
Programming language: Lisp
Markup language: LaTeX
Mathematical construct: Julia set
Furniture: old leather armchair
Mythical beast: that gargoyle thingy in Ghostbusters
Musical instrument: harpsichord
Beethoven Symphony: Seventh
Shakti: Jvalamukhi
Poetic form: sonnet
Item of clothing: scarf

Note: unlike some of my pseudo-surveys, these are all genuine answers.

Comments

[ex-fauxpas266.livejournal.com]

I was interviewed once for an article in a local newspaper! Am I famous?

[ex-fauxpas266.livejournal.com]

Also, I made the mistake of using the f-word in said interview, and then I had to show the article to my parents and grandmother, who were all dying to see it. Fuuuuuuuuuuck ...

[kiad.livejournal.com]

I must ask:

Shakti: Jvalamukhi

??

[kristian.livejournal.com]

Why?

[solri.livejournal.com]

Yes - locally.

[solri.livejournal.com]

In some Tantrik traditions there's a triad of shaktis corresponding to the conventional Brahma-Shiva-Vishnu trinity:
Lalita ("playful") - creation
Kali ("black") - destruction
Jvalamukhi ("flame-faced") - maintenance

[ex-fauxpas266.livejournal.com]

Why what? Why was I interviewed? Some jerk was doing an article on high school students in El Cajon who did zines. All my friends were interviewed too; woo!