I noticed that, although it's easy enough to tell the creator of a test how much you liked or didn't like it (by sending them a message), there didn't seem to be an obvious way to discuss tests with everyone else on OKCupid.

So I created this post as a place where people can get together and talk about The Martian Personality Test -- not with me, but with each other. You can leave your own comments here, and you can use this thread to reply to the comments that other folks have left. If you'd like to check back to see if anyone else has answered you, then just bookmark this page.

(Note: if you're making a comment that you'd like me to see, I recommend sending a copy of it directly to me as well, since I check my mailbox here more often than I check my journal comments.)

I noticed that, although it's easy enough to tell the creator of a test how much you liked or didn't like it (by sending them a message), there didn't seem to be an obvious way to discuss tests with everyone else on OKCupid.

So I created this post as a place where people can get together and talk about The Time Travel Test -- not with me, but with each other. You can leave your own comments here, and you can use this thread to reply to the comments that other folks have left. If you'd like to check back to see if anyone else has answered you, then just bookmark this page.

(Note: if you're making a comment that you'd like me to see, I recommend sending a copy of it directly to me as well, since I check my mailbox here more often than I check my journal comments.)

Well, I guess we're finally officially living in the future. I really didn't expect the bill to pass, but with the Digital Media Association of America backing it, I should have been more cynical. Back before socialized medicine, this probably wouldn't have stood a chance -- I mean, how could you legally force people who couldn't afford the surgery to pay for it? -- but now that getting eye replacements is as trivial and as mandatory a procedure as having your organs RFID tagged (if you want to drive anyplace outside of Tennessee and New Hampshire, at least), it's a whole new ball game.

Woohoo, I suppose. I should be happy I waited so long to get mine done, really: I feel bad for the early-adopters who got them when they were all region-free, and now have to go get them ripped out and go through the whole ordeal all over again just to get a properly region-coded pair. I mean, those eyes might not be organic, but they're still just as much a "circumvention device" as the ones you were born with.

I wonder if they'll let people with dual residences get mismatched sets.

Time has been getting away from me a lot lately, so I finally decided to do something about it. I found a big rubber bucket in the closet, and I left it where I figured the time was most likely to be leaking out. It took a few wrong guesses, but I finally figured it out (there was a crack in the baseboard behind my desk). So now I've got this big bucket full of time.

The problem is, I'm not sure what to do with it. I tried splashing some on my watch (after taking the watch off -- I'm not crazy or anything), and the hands started spinning like mad. When I managed to get it all dried off, it had gone forward about five months (I think -- the calendar part only shows day of the week and day of the month, so I had to work it out by hand based on the difference between the two). I wanted to test it out on a bug, but as soon as the first drop hit it, it vanished.

This is dangerous stuff. I don't even want to handle the bucket, from fear that my fingers will suddenly get all wrinkled and knobby and arthritic if I get too much time on my hands. And what if I get it on my legs or feet? Will I start running out of time? I don't want to just pour down the drain where it could ultimately get into the water supply; that seems really irresponsible, even if time is like a river.

This whole thing really has me worried. I've got the bucket in the closet right now, with a big sign on the door saying, "DANGER: LOST TIME". But I just noticed that the clock on the wall next to it is running about five minutes fast...