Ars Magna

A while ago, I figured out some amusing anagrams of my name:

Loud Oranges
Dragon Louse
Aerosol Dung

Apparently I never actually ran an anagram program, because when a friend ran one for me at a party a few weeks ago, he found some good ones that I hadn't seen before:

Sugar Noodle
Gondola User
Lo, Dangerous!

Thanks to The Internet Anagram Server I found a bunch more:

Soul Groaned
Long Aroused
Sugared Loon
Unloose Grad
Loosen Guard
Load Surgeon
Sound Galore
Neural Goods
Rude Lagoons
Soda Lounger

Actually, some of these do sound familiar. But I'm pretty sure I hadn't ever seen Sugar Noodle before.

The Two and a Half Men Pledge

One of the best new TV shows this season is the sitcom "Two and a Half Men", starring Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer. It was co-created by Chuck Lorre, who previously co-created "Dharma & Greg", which I also loved. I was especially happy to see that "Two and a Half Men" continued the practice from "Dharma & Greg" of showing Chuck Lorre's vanity card at the end. Vanity cards are the 2-second clips at the end of a show mentioning the creators and producers; Chuck Lorre uses a different one for (almost) every episode, filled with text, for those who record the show and can freeze-frame to read it. Fortunately this is much easier with Tivo, so I've read all 112 of them so far. (You can also read them at his web site, but that's cheating.)

Anyway, this past week's episode, which was a rerun of the season's second episode (which I missed the first time around), used the vanity card to make ( "The Two and a Half Men Pledge" )

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Personal trivia

Three posts in one day? I'm like a crazy person!

Here's a chain-letterish thing (i.e. a meme with explicit instructions for self-replication) that comes to me from emmacrew:

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know really well, some I've hardly talked to at all. Perhaps you lurk, for whatever reason or we just never got a chance to chit chat. But you friended me and I thank you :)

But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she likes to watch tv upside down."

I'd love it if every single person who friended me would do this, please! Even you people who I know really well. Then post this in your own journal.

I posted 5 random facts about me to her journal. Five seems like a good number, it being Friday and all.

Oh, and, I'll extend the invitation to those without LiveJournal accounts who read my journal (I think there are a few of you out there in the shadows). Although now that they've gotten rid of invite codes, maybe you should just give in and get an account?