My Inner Californian

Thanks to Evil Spock, who in turn thanks someone else, I found a little site with things to put on a blog, aptly named BlogThings. A Blogthing is “a quiz, meme, or toy you can put in your blog or journal.”

The list of existing blogthings is pretty extensive and includes:

• What kind of rocker are you?
• Are you a good driver?
• How is your vocabulary?
• Should you vote Republican or Democrat?
• What 2004 Hit Song are you?
• What planet should you rule?
• What mythological creature are you?
• What superhero are you?
• Could you pass 8th grade history or math?
• What is your religious philosophy?
• What age will you die?
• Outrageous Name Generator

But the one that captured my attention, inspired by Josh, was this one:

Where Does Your Inner Californian Belong?

You Belong in Sacramento

You’re a little too down to earth to be considered a true Californian… But you still too weird to fit in anywhere else! With it’s diversity and cultural opportunities, Sacramento is just enough California for you.

That’s someplace in the middle, right? Do they still pan for gold there?

Of course, the algorithm behind it all seems to really rely on the answer to a single question. You select David Bowie among your music likes, and suddenly you are a Glam Rocker. Or, in the above case, I thought being Governor would be a better career than Movie Star, and I wind up in the state capital. I would suggest Blogthings needs a Ph.D. researcher to make these things more interesting, but that would make me a bigger nerd.

Sincerely, Batman … 8th-grade proficient and the future ruler of Saturn, until my death at age 73.