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Thursday, June 27, 2013

What Does Your Blog Say About Your Personality?

So I found Typealyzer, site that analyzes a web page and attempts to predict their Myers-Briggs Type Indicator from the writing. It sounds fascinating to me so I thought I'd try it out on my blog.

It was classified ESFP (Performer).

I especially like the picture the site uses with the description:



While I do recognize some of those traits in myself, however the algorithm works it is going to be heavily influenced by content of the blog. In other words, I've written thus far mostly about cult movies and craft projects and in the process written the phrase "totally awesome" more often than any human being over 14 should be allowed to.  If I wrote a bunch of articles about differential calculus or linguistics, I doubt the Typealyzer would assign the same type.

I would add that I did have a Myers-Briggs test administered to me about ten years ago. It came back ISFP, but I've lived a lot (and switched genders) since then, so I suppose it's plausible I'd score differently if I took a test again.

Monday, June 17, 2013

The Incredible Never Ending Hand Stiched Rag Rug.

No, I haven't forgotten abandoned crafting in favor of inflicting my reviews of obscure movies on the world. In fact, I am up to my eyeballs in my current project:

Okay, it's not quite up to my eyeballs exactly, but still, I got of work ahead of me. I am making a rag rug from a stack of old clothes (and one full sized bed sheet) that were in too bad a shape to toss in the big yellow clothes donation box around the corner from my house.

So I cut my big pile of old clothes (and one full sized bed sheet) one inch wide strips and braided them into one long multicoloured rope. Then I took started to coil it into a strip and stitch it into a rug. Did I mention that I am hand stitching all this? Well, I am because I don't have a sewing machine.





That's what I've got so far, and it took most of a roll of thread to get that done. I'll do an update on this project when I this finished (it may take me a little while).   



Sunday, June 9, 2013

The Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)


The Simians have returned and they still want Earth for their new home. Unfortunately, like the last time (Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla). Godzilla stands in their way. Their solution? They pose as human and put together a project to build a new Mechagodzilla with which to battle Godzilla (the previous one was destroyed by Godzilla, and the beginning of the movie has a recap of that battle).


Now, the more astute of you may be asking,"But that sounds kinda like their last evil world domination plot?" Apparently also recognizing this flaw in their plans, the Simian's leader, Mugal (Goro Mutusumi) enlists the help of mad scientist, Dr. Shinzo Mafune (Akihko Hirata) and his cyborg daughter, Katsura Mafune.

Dr Mafune has a normally peaceful giant aquatic dinosaur, the Titanosaurus, under his mind control. Dr Mafune shares the Simans' goal of destroying humanity and loans them the use of his Titanosaurus. Actually he seems to be more eager to destroy humanity than the Simians as he unleashes Titanosaurus on Yokosuka. And at this point we can ignore the actions of the non-kaiju characters and enjoy the carnage as Godzilla battles Mechagodzilla and the Titanosaurus in Yokosuka and the Japanese country side.

This movie was the last of Toho's Showa era Godzilla movies, they wouldn't make another one until 1984 when they rebooted the series with The Return of Godzilla. It was also the last movie directed by Ishiro Honda, who directed not only the original Godzilla in 1954, but a series of interesting tokusatsu films from the 50's through the 70's.


I'd recommend this movie to any Godzilla fan, and if you wanna see more in this vein, I'd suggest also watching Destroy All Monsters, and King Kong Escapes.

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