The Matrix: Examinations

This test comes courtesy of John of Arrgghh!, who got Mr. Anderson when taking this test. I, being one of the folks who likes the series, was drawn to taking it. Here's the result:

You are Persephone, from "The Matrix: Reloaded."
Tough cookie, you are, yet there are strains of
sadness and desire that lie beneath you- of
course, you wouldn't want anyone to know.
You're too busy putting up a facade.

What Matrix Persona Are You?

I don't disagree with some of this, but at the same time, I would rather have gotten Agent Smith. You can't go wrong with a Desert Eagle of some mark, a black suit, and dark sunglasses.

Tip of the Wisconsin hat to the crew at the Imperial Arsenal of Doom.

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Do You Believe in Miracles? Yes!

Once again, the Country Pundit endeavours to bring you, the gentle reader, the results of his laborious undertaking of an examination into the world of Internet-based tests.

Today's test asked, "Which member of the Bush Administration are you?" As Wreck-Gar said in Transformers: The Movie so many years ago, "...and the answer is..."

You're the warlike Rumsfeld! So simple, so
subtle, so darned...cute. God bless you, Donny!

Which member of the Bush Administration are you?
This hasn't exactly made my evening (not with several hours of Federal income taxation classwork staring me in the face) but nonetheless, it's lightened the tone.

Tip of the Wisconsin hat to elgato at Swanky Conservative for pointing me in the direction to find this.

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The Fictional Country Pundit

Yes, there is substantive content---stop laughing---in this blog. However, this post isn't one of them. As stated before, I like taking anything that tells you something about yourself. Sometimes those results aren't pretty. This entry revolves around the author whose fiction I most resemble, or something thereabouts:

Anne Rice is writing your life. Go you goth girl, go.

Which Author's Fiction are You?

Picture omitted because I'd prefer not to get billed for the costs of replacing a lot of keyboards ruined by vomit. Viewing all possible results, I think I would like to have gotten either William Faulkner or Robert A. Heinlein. I could understand maybe Tom Wolfe or Hunter S. Thompson, but Anne Rice?! I mean, I've seen & read Interview with the Vampire, enjoying them both, but darned if I'm some morbid black-wearing pansy who mopes about writing stupid poetry about the sweet embrace of death. (You're a khaki-and-blue-wearing wiseacre who lays about, writing stupid blog entries. -Ed.)

Anyways. I promise (and hold me to this!) that I won't do more than one of the test-result entries per day at most. I'm sure the readers would rather hear my ruminations on why Rumsfeld rules or something, and I'm also sure that in the grand scheme of things, nobody cares.

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Revolution-Era Poll, Round Two

After a slight error in entering a URL, I found a different, less noble quiz at the Founding Fathers site. I duly punched in the answers as they came to me, and I came up with the answer to the question of which Revolutionary War er, hole I most resemble:

Hee hee. Having watched Disney's The Swamp Fox as a kid, I'm generally acquainted with Colonel Banastre Tarleton, but General John Burgoyne will do. Americans ought to like him since he surrendered his army to Major General Horatio Gates after the Saratoga campaign, on 17 October 1777.

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Which Founding Father?

The Country Pundit enjoys celebrity personality tests on the Internet. They're fun, meaningless, and involve precious little in the way of resources. They're also a way to boost one's ego if the results come out right.

To wit: This quiz asks which Founding Father you are. I took the test back in November of 2002 and took it again today. The results, rather shockingly, were the same:

Back then, I took the thing again and got the following:

I can see where me clicks with this variant of John Adams. I think I've said before that I'm not particularly interested in being liked but would rather be the one that people ask "What's the answer?" That being said, I also liked John Adams in a stage performance of 1776, so Adams isn't too far away from a facet of my personality. ("Cool Considerate Men" is arguably my favorite song---y'think?---followed closely by Richard Henry Lee's song-and-dance routine. Absolute-Lee.)

This one's actually too bloody close for comfort. I'm told (by suitably enlightened people!) I've got a great sense of humor and it usually works, but when it doesn't, hoo boy. I'm also reportedly pretty amusing to hear on a live rant. At any rate, I'm working on the mover and shaker part. "Wait'll they get a load of me..." From what I gather out of a French Revolution Time Machine book, Paine collected the death sentence on twelve star systems from Robespierre's government, and that's a bad thing. He did, however, escape, due to the fact (I think) that Messrs. Robespierre et al got marched to Mme. Defarge's salon before Mr. Paine did.¹

In the final analysis, it is good to know that I am like one of the most famous Virginians. The fact that we both have sideburns determines that we will both be President, muahahaha. You know, Internet quizzes being so reliable in predicting anything other than that people will waste time at them.

1. Ed Burke was right and that revolution was bad. The more I think about it, one of the last things that the French did right was to help us out in 1789; after that, it was all downhill. Sigh. You'd think the land of Jeanne d'Arc, Laetitia Casta (broadly), and the TGV might be able to come up with something other than knee-jerk opposition to America. Hope springs eternal, I suppose.

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The Country Pundit Visits the Gender Genie(!)

Some people get taken to see the Oracle. Others have to make do with visiting the Gender Genie. I'm one of the latter. I took all of the entries below this one that are currently displayed on the page, and entered them.

Lo and behold, the software was able to confirm (broadly) what I could have told anyone after a quick check of various attributes and so forth: The Country Pundit is a man. Under Gender Genie (heh heh heh) analysis, the score is 'male' by more than 2:1, on results of a "male score" of 16209 versus a "female score" of 7726.

Of course, this thing also called Virginia Postrel a man, so I'm not entirely sure that it works all that well. However, VP does point out that the thing's underlying theorems are supposed to work on fiction as opposed to non-fiction, so it's going to be a little out of whack on non-fiction.

I've got an irreverent question at this point: Has a Turing test been given at some level? If the Turing test requires Human A to be incapable of distinguishing between the responses given by Human B or Computer C in a blind test, then perhaps the Gender Genie has failed an ersatz Turing test. I had a theoretical construct of how this was minutely significant somehow in the development of computer intelligence, but the heat of the room in which I'm composing it caused me to forget or otherwise bungle the theory. My law school's too bloody cheap to turn off the heating when the temperatures creep above 70 in the city. Their excuse is something about coolant and so forth, and all this may be true and objectively problematic. That doesn't change the fact that I'm subjectively sweltering in here.

Ende.

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