What In Tarnation?!?!?

While trying to trim down my blogroll, I came across this website and I took a few quizzes.

Interesting how the results are not the same from earlier this week.

Class dismissed!

I found this ABC Match-O-Matic from Lance in the comments.

The results:

You can check your own political leanings here.

Class dismissed!

Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.

Explanation of the Results:
This type of personality test uses four indexes of personality and the combination of the four is your personality type. The first index relates to how you interact with other people and can be Extroverted (E), meaning you’re more outgoing or Introverted (I), meaning you keep more to yourself. The second relates to how you make decisions; whether you’re Intuitive (N), getting answers from within, or you rely on Sensing (S) information from your surroundings, using your five senses. The third relates to whether you’re more emotional and Feeling (F) or rational and Thinking (T). The fourth relates to whether you prefer things to be organized, meaning you’re Judging (J), or you prefer things to be more unbound, meaning you’re Perceiving (P).

For more information about real, scientific personality typing, visit the Kiersey Temperament and Character Website.

Previously on WIT?!?!?:

• 2002 in TV
• Best and Worst of 2003 II
• Top 10 List 2004: TV
• TV of 2005
• The TV of 2006

The tradition continues and because I know you really want to know what I think… (ahem!) I present my round-up of the TV of 2007. In previous years I have had a top ten list and a bottom five list but I think I will continue the method of simply listing the TV I liked and the TV I didn’t like.

I will retain the little arrow icons that indicate whether the show is on the way up (up arrow ) on the way down (down arrow ) or staying even (sideways arrow ) from last year or the beginning of the year. If I haven’t seen the show (I’m talking to you The Wire) it won’t appear on the list. Let’s go…

Good Stuff

• Heroes - A shaky second season, which I feared. Though they did start to correct those problems in the last couple of episodes of this shortened season.
• The Office - I love, love, love The Office. My concern about the new season was all the promised one hour episodes, which to me don’t pay off like the half hour episodes. This season was all worth it to see Michael Scott drive into a lake. I thought that was the funniest scene this season.
• Drive - I thought this show had promise. I HATE YOU FOX!
• 30 Rock - Brings the funny every week. There isn’t an unfunny person on the cast.
• Boston Legal - This plucky little show that could continues to be one of my favorites. I find it hilarious and thought provoking. Denny being carted into court for tapping his foot too much was funny. And through it all, whether it is “green-friendly” clients, airsoft guns, or mad cow, Denny and Alan are friends to the end.
• Lost and Battlestar Galactica - Both of these series have had very uneven seasons and both of them had blockbuster season finales. 1 more season for BSG and 3 for Lost (depending what happens with this season.)
• Jericho - I thought CBS had pulled you from our hands, just as it was getting good. Well you know what the fans had to say to that? NUTS! Jericho has been given a second chance and CBS has a show ready for mid-season despite the writer’s strike. Sounds like a good deal for everyone. Now that there isn’t anything new on TV, everyone needs to watch it!
• Reality TV - Some of it has been enjoyable. Namely Kid Nation, Kitchen Nightmares, Dirty Jobs and the latest season of Survivor in China was swell. I also enjoyed The Next Great American Band. Despite how much I enjoy it, it still feels second rate. Guess we better get used to it.
• Feasting on Asphalt 2 - I will try to pronounce your name correctly Alton. It is just really hard living so close to Alton, IL.
• High School Musical 2 - Sure it was a misfire on when they released it (a movie about the end of school and summer vacation just as the school is starting) but what can you say, I am a sucker for such things.
• Full Episodes Online - For free. This was the only thing that got me through when my old TiVo died and went to the heaven for our dearly departed PVRs.
• My favorite new series of this season would be Reaper. It is funny and witty and also it is funny.

Bad Stuff

• FOX - I HATE YOU! First Firefly and then Drive.
• Reality Shows - Despite the few I mentioned above, most of it is garbage.
• The Writer’s Strike - I hope they get what they want. Right now I blame it on the studios.
• Full Episodes Online - One problem. Not all show are available to watch online. If I were a network (ahem CBS), I would make sure that if a relatively popular TV show had the possibility of being significatly delayed because of a sporting event that it would be online so people who recorded 45 minutes of 60 Minutes and not Amazing Race could go catch up online. This would be why I haven’t seen the Amazing Race this season.

Your thoughts in the comments.

Class dismissed!

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Now playing: Caedmon’s Call - Sacred
via FoxyTunes

Previously on WIT?!?!?

• 2002 in Movies
• Best and Worst of Movies 2003
• Top 10 3 List: Movies 2004
• The Movies of 2005
• The Movies of 2006

Good Stuff - The movies I really liked this year. Bold title movies are my favorite of the year.

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - With each passing sequel, the kids (or formerly kids) hone their craft. Each movie matures along with the books that they adapt. The movies continue to get the important parts and leave out the bits that didn’t really need to be there, though some of those cuts are painful.
• Bourne Ultimatum - One of the third movies that was successful for me. It keeps the momentum of the first to movies. It has all the elements that have become familiar to Bourne fans but that could also become an issue for future movies. Don’t want to do the same old all over again. Just ask Bond.
• Bridge to Terabitha - A beloved novel and a movie that didn’t hurt the original material.
• Disturbia - I’m a big fan of Hitchcock. I really like Rear Window. Despite the somewhat zany climax of the movie I really like this modern spin of Rear Window.
• 3:10 to Yuma - I’ve only recently grown an appreciation of westerns. I wanted to see how this modern take on the Western keeps up with older fair. Turns out pretty well. I really appreciated the moral muddy ending. Not the ending that I was expecting from a Western at tall.
• No Country for Old Men - I just recently caught this movie over Christmas break. The movie has several things going for it. First and foremost the movie is by the Coen Brothers, makers of one of my favorite movies of all times, Fargo. Not only that, No Country for Old Men returns to some of the same themes of Fargo. In a word, this movie was fantastic! Simply the most suspenseful movie made in a long time. I was feeling uneasy from the first scene. I think the absence of a soundtrack raise the tension to a max. Bonus: not as many F-words as Fargo! Let’s not mention the villain that is creepier than Hannibal Lector. Yes, kids, this would be Uncle W’s favorite movie of the year. Warning: Very violent.
• Amazing Grace
• Children of Men - I don’t remember if this was released this year, but I watched it this year. This would be my second favorite.
• Zodiac - There is a gritty realism to this movie that I really like. The second most suspenseful movie of the year and my third favorite.

Okay Stuff - These were decent movies, just not the best of the year.

• Ratatouille
• The Simpson’s Movie
• I Am Legend
• Spiderman 3 - I decided that it wasn’t as good as number 2.
• Shrek 3
• The Bee Movie
• Blades of Glory
• Shooter
• Surf’s Up
• Hot Fuzz

Despite the good showing of animated movies in last year’s list, this year didn’t quite perform to make it on the top of the list. 5 animated movies on this portion of the list. The curse of the number three rears its ugly head here (though I liked Spiderman 3 much more than most folk.)
Skip It - Buckets of junk. Avoid at all cost.

• 300
• Transformers
• Fantastic Four 2
• American Gangster
• Ghost Rider
• No Reservations
• The Number 23

MIA - Stuff I haven’t seen that I might like. I will edit this as I do.

• National Treasure 2
• Sweeny Todd
• Charlie Wilson’s War
• The Kingdom
• The Seeker: The Dark is Rising

Gasp! Yes, it is new content. I will try to be better.

Class dismissed!

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Now playing: Caedmon’s Call - Love Grows Love
via FoxyTunes

For your Christmas enjoyment. Quick gather the kids around the computer monitor and enjoy five of the most compelling minutes of Wookie dialogue. Yes it is the original Star Wars Holiday Special with special guest stars Bea Arthur and The Jefferson Airplane!

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Introducing Chewbacca’s family.

Don’t miss out on the other nine parts.

Class dismissed!

There have been quite a few searches for Christmas carol quizzes here at WIT. Last year Three years ago I did a series of entertaining Christmas Song Challenges. I won’t post them again but I will point them out in cast you missed them. 

First Letter Challenge (Answer)Figure out what these Christmas songs are, each letter stands for a word in the opening line of the song.

JBJBJATW    

Oh Wait, Could it Be? (Answers)Name the carol depicted in the picture.

2nd Christmas Challenge (Answers)What carol is represented by a ridiculously long title.

Colorless Yuletide    

Enjoy!

Your Elf Name Is…

Sassy Twinkle Wink

Class dismissed!