A skittery, erratic attempt at a weblog. Rambles will be indulged and depths will be plumbed. Who knows what I'll come up with?
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Tuesday, November 23, 2004 Weather: Crisp, but not as crisp as I'd expect at this time of year Listening to: nothing Taking a break from: child development paper -- Dietary Influences in ASD Sorting Ceremonies I Have Known Muse's recent sorting into Hufflepuff has inspired me to see if a well-known tenet of the Harry Potter fan community is in fact true: the House to which you are sorted depends on the Sorting Hat and how you feel at the time of the Ceremony. (Possibly, I'm on a bit too much of a Harry Potter kick right now.) (Oh well.) Sorting Hat 1:  I'm a Ravenclaw! I think it's reasonable that I could be in Ravenclaw. This test has 4 very obvious choices for each question, though, so it's very easy to bias it unconsciously towards one house or the other. Maybe I just WANT to be smart. Sorting Hat 2:  be sorted @ nimbo.net Again with the 4 very obvious choices...plus they misspelled Professor McGonagall...plus Cho Chang isn't exactly the Ravenclaw I'd like to remember (heehee, I love Luna!). But so far, the consistency thing is working out for me. Sorting Hat 3:  I'm from Ravenclaw! Hogwart's Sorting Hat Quiz made by The Genki Gang And we're 3 for 3 with the consistency. Though this test has 4 answers for each question, though, they aren't all that obvious, and the scenarios are more imaginative than the first two. Sorting Hat 4: 
Get Sorted By The Hogwarts Sorting Hat! Our first outlier. This test is so far unique in that it had more than 4 possible responses for each question. Very based in the world of the books (unlike SH 3). Sorting Hat 5: Wow, this one just sorts people RANDOMLY and it put me in Ravenclaw. Seriously, I'm not all THAT smart.... Sorting Hat 6:  Your a Hufflepuff! Loyal and friendly, your modest and a hard worker. Some people think your a duffer, but your not at all. Your just timid and careful about things. Your an excellent friend and are usually bouncy and optomistic. Hogwarts Sorting Hat Quiz brought to you by Quizilla The gargantuan time vortex that is Quizilla seems to think I belong in Hufflepuff. Of course, they also think that I won't CARE that all of those "your"s should be "you're"s. This is a pretty standard type of sorting-hat quiz, with only about 7 or 8 questions, but some of the answers aren't overly obvious...I guess.... Sorting Hat 7: It doesn't give you the code for your house, but this "most accurate sorting hat on the web" places me in Gryffindor. The questions on this one haven't come up on any of the others, which is interesting. There are also a lot of continuum questions -- "How neat do you keep your things", for example. Sorting Hat 8: My #1 result for the SelectSmart.com selector, The Sorting Hat, is Gryffindor-You are the leader, the pioneer. You are brave and are also compassionate; perhaps the most perfect house. You are the among the ones who do what is inherantly good and right in the world, so you are a teacher or auror. Your primary focus is in helping others, not yourself. Holy complicated quiz, Batman. This requires you to have an encylopedic knowledge of the events of the books, because it asks you for your opinions on what different characters do at different points. It ALSO makes you decide how important your answer on each question is to your overall personality score. Sheesh. That's the most intense one I've seen yet. Sorting Hat 9:  Where do YOU belong? This quiz made me smile. It put me in the predictable house, but once again, if I'd WANTED this to come out Slytherin, I could easily have made it do so.... Sorting Hat 10: This is hands-down the PRETTIEST of all of the quizzes I've tried tonight. Lovely flash intro, big star-spangled fonts, nice effects. The questions were also quick choose-between-two-opposites; I wouldn't have been able to influence this one. It didn't give me HTML to add, but it said I was a Ravenclaw. So, overall: 6 for Ravenclaw 3 for Gryffindor 1 for Hufflepuff 0 for Slytherin What that makes me, personality-wise, is beyond me. :) I'm giving up now -- not because I've gotten the result I wanted or because I'm out of Sorting Hats, but because I'm hungry. :) Try some Sorting Hats at your leisure and let me know how the consistency works for you.... ~SQ - 6 parts Ravenclaw, 3 parts Gryffindor, 1 part Hufflepuff posted by susan | 5:45 PM Tuesday, November 16, 2004 Llamas Just bask in the randomness...or wonder why people do so many drugs...or both.... ~SQ posted by susan | 10:38 AM Friday, November 12, 2004 When in doubt.... ...do a quiz. Sidenote: I don't know the first thing about HTML colours. I do quite like the colour I received, but would be wary about wearing it. Which is probably unfortunate. Maybe I'll go out and get a mediumturquoise sundress next summer.
posted by susan | 1:29 PM Wednesday, November 10, 2004 Further to last post: A couple of people have mentioned that they think the Dave thing is good, because it generates interest/visibility...in particular, any business would be thrilled to have that kind of publicity, and Dave must be laughing all the way to the church. Is it okay that we treat religion the same way we treat consumerism? I agree that the campaign totally generated discussion, which I guess isn't in and of itself a bad thing. Has our society become so entwined with the values of "selling something" that even spirituality should be sold with an effective marketing campaign? Is this now the only way to promote this kind of development, given an MTV generation well-versed in the codes and customs of marketing -- generation of spiritual brand recognition? I take your points, I just feel that they indicate something important about our culture. I have no problem having pop, clothing, motor oil or gel shoe insoles sold to me; I'm not sure that I'm similarly without problem with having religion sold to me. Even if it's my own religion. ~SQ posted by susan | 1:07 AM |
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