Blurred Line

Well, Christmas is just about here. Somehow, it's only three days, which I find a little bit disturbing. It seems to be coming around with less and less fanfare each year. But maybe it's because I've resigned myself to the fact that I won't be getting a pony this year, or any year. Sniff.

More likely, it's because I'll be working through the Christmas season -- I'm only taking Christmas Day and New Year's Day off. The rest of the time I'll be putting my nose to the grindstone and trying to rake together some sweet, sweet commissions. And, as the blogosphere tends to get pretty quiet around this time of year, I figure I'll save all my post ideas for January and just wish everyone a Happy Holidays for the remainder of the year.

Still, it just wouldn't seem right to go without handing out a few fun toys first. So, here you are:

Wordle! This is a fun little tool that'll take recent blog posts from your RSS or XML feeds and turn it into a funky word cloud. Clearly, I've been talking about covers lately. And I say "Just" a lot. Go play!

Assess your blog's reading level! Even small children can enjoy my blog, preferably ones who are jaded writer types. (That totally just gave me an image of an eight year old in a black turtleneck, a soul patch Sharpied onto his face, puffing on a Popeye cigarette and making air quotation marks whenever he says the word literature). Anyway, just admit it...you wanna know how smart your blog sounds.

Typealyzer! Apparently I write like an ESTP, or a "Doer" (I note with interest that a comprehensive personality test I took established me as an ISFP, which I think is a lot more accurate). As a point of interest, if you've never had the opportunity to take a Myers-Briggs test somewhere, it's kinda cool. Anyhow, the diagram shows what parts of my brain were active when I was writing. If the assessment is accurate, the interesting thing is that the personality of my writing and my own personality are totally different. Craziness!

Anyway, have a good holiday, everybody!


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