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My Inner Californian

Thanks to Evil Spock, who in turn thanks someone else, I found a little site with things to put on a blog, aptly named BlogThings. A Blogthing is “a quiz, meme, or toy you can put in your blog or journal.”

The list of existing blogthings is pretty extensive and includes:

But the one that captured my attention, inspired by Josh, was this one:


Where Does Your Inner Californian Belong?

You Belong in Sacramento

You’re a little too down to earth to be considered a true Californian… But you still too weird to fit in anywhere else! With it’s diversity and cultural opportunities, Sacramento is just enough California for you.

That’s someplace in the middle, right? Do they still pan for gold there?

Of course, the algorithm behind it all seems to really rely on the answer to a single question. You select David Bowie among your music likes, and suddenly you are a Glam Rocker. Or, in the above case, I thought being Governor would be a better career than Movie Star, and I wind up in the state capital. I would suggest Blogthings needs a Ph.D. researcher to make these things more interesting, but that would make me a bigger nerd.

Sincerely, Batman … 8th-grade proficient and the future ruler of Saturn, until my death at age 73.

By Kevin Makice

A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.

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