Online Quizes

I agree, online quizes can be very fun. However, the results should be taken with a grain of salt. The people making these don't put much effort into accuracy. I guess that's just one superhero's opinion. You might think that they would calibrate something like a superhero test against superheros. Maybe I'm just bitter. See for yourself.

You scored as Batman, the Dark Knight. As the Dark Knight of Gotham, Batman is a vigilante who deals out his own brand of justice to the criminals and corrupt of the city. He follows his own code and is often misunderstood. He has few friends or allies, but finds comfort in his cause. Batman, the Dark Knight 100% James Bond, Agent 007 83% Captain Jack Sparrow 75% Indiana Jones 71% The Amazing Spider-Man 63% Lara Croft 63% William Wallace 58% Maximus 54% Neo, the "One" 50% El Zorro 42% The Terminator 33% Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0 created with QuizFarm.com

Idiosyncrasies

This seems to be going around.  So here it is, a list of 5 of my idiosyncrasies.

1. I have sticky palms, probably from all the web work that I do.  It is a hassle and very annoying.


2. When I go to a specialty coffee shop, I always try to order a normal drink in a weird way.  I do this solely to interrupt the flow of the cashier.  Also to remind people that it's just coffee.  Not some fancy-schmancy thing.


3. I wear my pajamas at home as much as possible.





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4. I have a lot of trouble swallowing pills.  I know that I can swallow them.  I sometimes accidentally swallow ice cubes, and those are way bigger than pills.  But for some reason, pills just seem like an impossible thing to swallow.


5. I love to go to the skyway during lunch hour and people watch.  Corporate people are such strange insects during lunch.  It is quite entertaining to watch two people having an
   animated conversation and then catch a 3 second piece. "...so I told her..."

Keeping in Shape

Old Super Heros Home

Inverted Crunches

One Arm Pushups

Nobody likes to see a super hero get old and flabby, that's why even though I'm on sabbatical I do my inverted crunches and one arm pushups every morning. Plus gym four times a week, hour and a half plus stretchin'. Life Cycle, Life Step, Life Circuit. Bonus points if you figure out what movie that's from.

I know that the words are not enough to match the pictures here, but hey, I have stuff to do and I can't always be posting stuff here if I'm going to be out having adventures and stuff. I will tell you that my "spidy sense" is tingling, which usually means I'm about to have something taht you would call an adventure. So keep checking back.

You should email me your questions at spidymn@gmail.com

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Site Seeing

Spiderman at Lake Calhoun

I started out the day by visting Lake Calhoun. You can just barely see the beach house on the far side, and off in the distance is downtown Minneapolis. The park around the lake is in readiness for winter. The snow fencing is up, the trees have all lost their leaves, and they already have signs that say "Don't go out on the ice you idiot."

Spiderman visits a church

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I then headed north towards downtown. It's time for a fun fact (by fact I mean my observation from my semi-random wanderings) about Minneapolis. The per-capita number of churches that feature tall pointy things is much higher here than in California. In California each of these churches would be called a cathedral. But there are too many of them here for that. So they are just churches. They are so amazingly huge, they would make anyone feel like they were only 6 inches tall. But maybe that is [part of] the point. Right across the street from that church is one of the enemies of modern religion, modern art. The new Walker Art center is still under construction, but the outside looks like it is almost done. The finish is some kind of polished metal, over which they put battered screens to give it a textured/many faceted look. When it is in direct sunlight it is very stunning and amazing. Personally I'm about done with the polished metal/shiny object look.

Spiderman Visits Loring Park

Geese at loring park

Our last stop of the day is Loring Park. Loring park has the first "dirty" lake I've found out here. It doesn't have the trash that you usually associate with a dirty lake in California, or the water polution (which is at least partially linked to the trash). What it has is poor water circulation and lots of geese. So it smells a little bad. In the background you can see another church that would be a cathedral in California. Approximate distance from the church in the last photo: .25 mile. I saw a few geese there that had been 'tagged', I presume for tracking or some such thing. The collars look extremely uncomfortable, but I can't tell if the geese care or not. See ya later.

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Hangin'

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I had big plans for today, however we ran out of daylight (partly because of car trouble) so we couldn't get to them. Hopefully I'll be able to do those plans tomorrow. For now I'm just gonna be hangin' with my new pals Spoke and Zora in their huge hammock. This thing is great. Everyone should have a hammock this big.

Fauna!

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I thought because I was inside I would be safe. How wrong can one spiderman be? Halfway between the coffee table and the bookcase I was surprised by a very large rat. I immediately sprang into a battle readiness pose as the beastly thing reared on its hind legs. I started to put it into a headlock, and it responded by licking my hand. I would have been able to handle biting scratching, but licking! I'm ashamed to admit it, but I was so startled by this approach that I released my hold. In my stunned surprise the creature could have done me much damage. Instead, it opted for mostly sniffing and licking. It did knock me down, but I think that was mostly from over exuberance on it's part. When I recovered I beat a hasty retreat to the top of the bookshelf. I think that the creature is not hostile, but it's ways are strange to me. I seemed to form a friendship with it by offering it noodles which it would consume with great enthusiasm. Perhaps it is no threat to me, which may explain why my spidy sense didn't tingle to warn me of it's approach.

Arriving in Minnesota

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The trip was not what I would call pleasant. "Water bottles are excellent packing material" he said. "Third class postage won't get mishandled" he said. Well. Just so you know. Water bottles might seem like excellent packing material, but when you're riding third class postage being tossed, hammered, beaten, shaken and left out in the rain they make very poor traveling companions. In the end I had to brace a water bottle on each side and push off the side of the box just to stop them from continually crushing me. After about the fifth hour my calf started to cramp and then things became *really* unpleasant.

Maybe I'm just cranky because it was a long trip. I think I'll go find a place to sleep off this box-lag. Tomorrow is another day and hopefully I'll be able to explore my new home some.