{"id":1057,"date":"2007-01-29T06:13:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T06:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2007-01-29T06:13:55","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T06:13:55","slug":"re-organizing-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"Re-organizing the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I work at re-organizing things, fixing what once was wrecked. I took a quiz.  I took it twice, truth be told.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I took it, I was:<\/p>\n<table width='90%' border=1 cellpadding=8 align='center'>\n<tr>\n<td width='1%'><img src='http:\/\/paulkienitz.net\/quizpix\/skiffy_stanislav.gif' width=200 height=200><\/td>\n<td>I am:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><big><big><b>Stanislav Lem<\/b><\/big><\/big><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This pessimistic Pole has spent a whole career telling ironic stories of futility and frustration.  Yet he is also a master of wordplay so witty that it sparkles even when translated into English.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><b><a href='http:\/\/paulkienitz.net\/skiffy.html'>Which science fiction writer are you?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know this fellow so I took it again and changed my answer to the question: &#8220;What is the grand theme of life that you focus on most often?&#8221; from &#8220;Individuality vs. tyranny&#8221; to &#8220;God&#8221; and got:<\/p>\n<table width='90%' border=1 cellpadding=8 align='center'>\n<tr>\n<td width='1%'><img src='http:\/\/paulkienitz.net\/quizpix\/skiffy_phil.jpg' width=200 height=200><\/td>\n<td>I am:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><big><big><b>Philip K. Dick<\/b><\/big><\/big><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The brilliant yet trashy master of the reality warp always left you unsure of what was real, but never forgot compassion.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><b><a href='http:\/\/paulkienitz.net\/skiffy.html'>Which science fiction writer are you?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Oh, what a difference a deity makes.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=3633\">Warren Ellis\/Arthur C Clarke<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/01\/28\/i_am_robert_a_heinle.html\">Corey Doctorow\/Robert Heinlein<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I work at re-organizing things, fixing what once was wrecked. I took a quiz. I took it twice, truth be told. The first time I took it, I was: I am: Stanislav Lem This pessimistic Pole has spent a whole career telling ironic stories of futility and frustration. Yet he is also a master [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quizworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}