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Top-Trumps with livejournal usernames (or other names...)

hmmm_tea is a Giant Dragon that shoots Electricity from its Eyes, has a Computer for a Brain and Tough Leathery Skin, carries a Flamethrower, and is Cold-Blooded. Strength: 8 Agility: 9 Intelligence: 12 To see if your Giant Battle Monster can defeat hmmm_tea, enter your name and choose an attack: fights hmmm_tea using Strength Agility Intelligence

And another one...

LIVE TRUMPS hmmm_tea Player 3571 hmmm_tea Social Rating 76 Sophistication 113 Speed 0.22 Honesty 100.00% Ambiguity 57 Depth 8 Parent bagrec watch hmmm_tea fight CREATE YOUR CARD

oooo.... these are fun today!

I died in the Dungeon of Hmmm Tea

I was killed in a cobwebbed torture chamber by Ylla the troll, whilst carrying...

the Sceptre of Cowe, the Amulet of Folk, the Sword of In Thered, the Dagger of Eating, the Dagger of Trees, a Figurine of Axamendes, the Shield of Feanelwa and 45 gold pieces.

Score: 72

Explore the Dungeon of Hmmm Tea and try to beat this score,
or enter your username to generate and explore your own dungeon...

Urgh! Algebraic Geometry...

If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Robin Hartshorne's Algebraic Geometry. My creator studied algebraic geometry with Oscar Zariski and David Mumford at Harvard, and with J.-P. Serre and A. Grothendieck in Paris. After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1963, he became a Junior Fellow at Harvard, then taught there for several years. In 1972 he moved to California where he is now Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. My siblings include "Residues and Duality" (1966), "Foundations of Projective Geometry (1968), "Ample Subvarieties of Algebraic Varieties" (1970), and numerous research titles. My creator's current research interest is the geometry of projective varieties and vector bundles. He has been a visiting professor at the College de France and at Kyoto University, where he gave lectures in French and in Japanese, respectively. My creator is married to Edie Churchill, educator and psychotherapist, and has two human sons and one daughter. He has travelled widely, speaks several foreign languages, and is an experienced mountain climber. He is also an accomplished musician, playing flute, piano, and traditional Japanese music on the shakuhachi. Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test

...and in other news

thethirdvoice managed to find me a pair of size 13 socks today.

Wahooo, big socks...

Can't remember the last time I wore socks that actually fitted. Wow!

OK, I'll stop now...