Way To Kill Time Online
Look around the Musée d’Orsay in Paris at their website, here. A camera actually gives you a pan of the room and allows you to scan different levels and artists’ areas.
Month: June 2001
Happy Birthday, stuftmj!
Go by here and leave this sweetie some 
s for a present if ya like.
Virgil verboodled him, too! This is getting fun!
True Confession
I watched Thursday Night Smackdown with Gray last night.
I’ll do almost anything to get some action. 
Ways To Kill Time Online
Today: Free Assessment Tests on The Web
As if blogging and reading Xanga sites wasn’t addictive enough, here are other alternatives to housework and forging a fulfilling relationship with Judge Brown. Enjoy! (I’ll post my scores in the comments section. You can to, if you want!)
Communication Style Profile
http://www.communicationu.com/103.html
Are you looking to become a better communicator to even more
people? This assessment tool will assist you to narrow down the
specific communications areas you’d want to work on next.
Supersensitive Person Test
http://www.supersensitiveperson.com/selftest2.html
This unscientific test will help you to recognize the supersensitive people in your life… could that be you?
Stress Test
http://www.eap.com.au/stress_test.htm
Change, be it negative or positive, may trigger our stress reactions. This test identifies different life events that can cause
the most amount of stress.
The Keirsey Character Sorter
http://keirsey.com
This on line personality questionnaire, available in 6 languages, identifies four temperament types: Guardian, Artisan, Idealist, and Rational. Which type do you think you are?
Barbarian’s Online Tests
http://www.wizardrealm.com/tests/
Less serious tests, more for entertainment value than anything else. Contains: Stephen King Test, Your Life As A Gorilla, etc.
Directory of Assessment Tests
http://www-acc.scu.edu/~tnahal/psych.html
There is no end to the amount of Assessment tools on the web.
This site proves it!
EMode
http://www.emode.com/
The mother of all testing sites.
True Confession
I always lick the batter spoon (and sometimes the bowl) when making brownies.
Annoying Trick of the Day
Finish the 99 bottles of beer song.
This used to drive my mom bonkers on car trips, even if it was just a quick run down to the post office. I would get my younger sister and brothers to sing along. Of course at the time, it was 99 pitchers of Koolaid, but the effect was the same.
Art of the Day
Claude Monet (1840 – 1926)
La Grenouillère, 1869
Oil on canvas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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One of the early paintings by Monet, La Grenouillère shows further proof of his talent and range. In this period of time, about three years, Monet frequented marinas around the harbor of Le Havre especially at Sainte-Adresse beach. The contrast between the sky and the water fascinated him and would continue to be a theme for him for years to come (ie, Lilies).
“I’m thinking all the time about my painting, and if I knew I were about to miss it, I think I would turn crazy.” — Claude Monet
Drumroll, Please
The 3000th ePropper was: the utterly faboo twirl_dawg
The 175th subber was: mslady, a Xangaholic from Mississippi
Honorable mentions go out to gadget19, NasusYelserp and harmony_star for trying so hard.
Annoying Trick of the Day
Stand over someone’s shoulder, mumbling, as they read.
Art of the Day
Claude Monet (1840 – 1926)
La Japonaise (Camille Monet in Japanese Costume), 1876
Oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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What? It’s not a painting with blurry flowers or water? And it’s still Monet? I told you that he had range. The subject here, Camille, was Monet’s wife.
Of course there are some similarities to his other work, but this is a bit of a departure from the floral pieces that most people associate him with. This was much earlier than his more famous work. Painted 29 years before Water Lilies, yesterday’s AOTD, La Japonaise is housed with Lilies in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.