*chuckles*
Mar. 10th, 2005 06:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgYou have to love a meme with a explanation:
How the Mood Ring works.
First off, it's not random. It looks at your most recent page of LJ posts, parses out the LJ mood words and looks for your most common mood. Of course, some people are so mood-swingy that it has a hard time deciding on them. For those folks, it just picks one of their moods and runs with it. I didn't feel like working out a way to decide if you're bipolar or not. If you are, though, you should seek medical treatment.
If you want to change the results then you have to change your attitude (or at least your LJ mood tags).
I wrote this about a year ago, after one of my friends said something like, "I wonder if everyone on LJ gets pissy at the same time. I wish there were some sort of mood ring for it." When I released it into the wild, it went crazy. The original version was big and ugly and had some broken HTML. People were posting things like "OMG I HATES THIS GUY LETS CRASH HIZ SERVER PLAYAZ," and I thought that was pretty funny. I made it smaller and I fixed the HTML for this go-round. I didn't, however, change any of the original text. Hate me if you want. I'm on Spring Break.
~robert.
brainporn.org
So on with the show:
-and just for comparison-
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Of course I'm distressed. Happy people host MoveOn parties in their homes all the time.
(See ya all tonight, guys!)
How the Mood Ring works.
First off, it's not random. It looks at your most recent page of LJ posts, parses out the LJ mood words and looks for your most common mood. Of course, some people are so mood-swingy that it has a hard time deciding on them. For those folks, it just picks one of their moods and runs with it. I didn't feel like working out a way to decide if you're bipolar or not. If you are, though, you should seek medical treatment.
If you want to change the results then you have to change your attitude (or at least your LJ mood tags).
I wrote this about a year ago, after one of my friends said something like, "I wonder if everyone on LJ gets pissy at the same time. I wish there were some sort of mood ring for it." When I released it into the wild, it went crazy. The original version was big and ugly and had some broken HTML. People were posting things like "OMG I HATES THIS GUY LETS CRASH HIZ SERVER PLAYAZ," and I thought that was pretty funny. I made it smaller and I fixed the HTML for this go-round. I didn't, however, change any of the original text. Hate me if you want. I'm on Spring Break.
~robert.
brainporn.org
So on with the show:
| kyburg is distressed. |
| If it's not one thing, it's another. Your life is a pitiful wreck, and it's all you ever write about. Why don't you at least make up a happy story for once. Your friends would appreciate that. |
| brought to you by interim32. wanna know your lj's moodring color? enter your user name and hit the button. (discussion thread)
|
| unclejimbo is angry. |
| If you're not careful some delicate part of your circulatory system is going to explode. Take up yoga or something. You're probably making people nervous. |
| brought to you by interim32. wanna know your lj's moodring color? enter your user name and hit the button. (discussion thread)
|
-and just for comparison-
| silverkun is blah. |
| I've met prosthetic legs with more get-up-and-go than you. Could you be less melancholy and go out and do something? |
| brought to you by interim32. wanna know your lj's moodring color? enter your user name and hit the button. (discussion thread)
|
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Of course I'm distressed. Happy people host MoveOn parties in their homes all the time.
(See ya all tonight, guys!)
