Meme to Human Resources

[vovat]

My journal is called Stratovania, as a reference to the stratospheric kingdom in Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz. It was basically an extension of my blog being called "The Highways and Byways of the Stratosphere." I think I had recently read Ozoplaning when I came up with that one. Besides, I just like the word "stratosphere," and I sort of also intended it as a reference to the Dukes of Stratosphear and the line "put up your picture in the stratosphere" in Frank Black's song "I've Seen Your Picture." Before that, the blog was called "Orange Juice and Parchment Paper," because it was what my mom was buying at the grocery store one day, and I thought it would be a cool, abstract-sounding title, but I don't think it really was.

My subtitle is "The Greatest Kingdom in the Stratosphere," because it modifies the title. Nothing much more to that.

My friends page is called "The Stratovanian Syndicate." It was "The Stratovanian Coalition" for a brief period of time, but then I remembered hearing that the group that wrote the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books was the Stratemeyer Syndicate, so it's kind of a play on words. (For the record, I don't think I've ever actually read a Stratemeyer book.)

My username is vovat, because it was written on the paper of the guy sitting next to me in senior year high school physics, and I thought it sounded cool, so I've used it for pretty much everything since then.

My default userpic is Mouser from Super Mario Bros. 2, because I was on a Mario kick when I first made the journal.

My webpage is VoVatia, because it's my username turned into a place name.

My name is Nathan, because, well, it really IS my name. It's not very creative, but it's true.


And something else:

1.Take your LJ username and replace each letter with the corresponding number (A=1, B=2, etc...).

22 (V) + 15 (O) + 22 (V) + 1 (A) + T (20)

2. Add all of the numbers together to create a kind of super number.

80

3. Add the digits of the number together.

8

4. Find the post of this number (step 2) in your LJ. If you don't have that many posts, add the digits together again.

I believe this is the entry.

5. Take the digit you noted in step 3, and count that many words into the post, what's the word?

It's "my." Pretty lame word, huh?

6. Use the resulting word in a google image search, and select a picture from the first page and post the results.



I know some people call these things (the things that people copy from each other's journals, not the beans in the picture) "memes," but I've never understood why. Anyone care to enlighten me?