Galadriel

Possessing a rare combination of wisdom and humility, while serenely dominating your environment you selflessly use your powers to care for others.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Galadriel is a character in the Middle-Earth universe. You can read more about her at the Galadriel Worshippers Army.

Strange, I'd say the result is unexpected.

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Dwarf

You scored 0% Size & Strength, 76% Morality, 59% Aggression, and 88% Intelligence.

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This is just upsetting beyond words: 


NPR is cutting funding by 60% for the immensely popular Science Friday starting in October, as part of budget problems. SF has 1.3 million listeners per week and 10 million podcast downloads plus science videos, blogs (it has the only full time science reporter based in Beijing), and more. It is one of the successes in engaging the public in science but also talking to scientists ourselves.

An email forwarded from former NSF director Rita Colwell, says the show is short about $500K of the annual $950K budget, which means Science Friday will either go off the air or stay on in a greatly diminished form until or unless new funds are found. What's most surprising to me is that NPR says it will no longer seek foundation underwriting for Science Friday: Rita says if Science Friday is to stay on the air, it is up to the scientific community to raise the money for it. 

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You are The Hermit

Prudence, Caution, Deliberation.

The Hermit points to all things hidden, such as knowledge and inspiration,hidden enemies. The illumination is from within, and retirement from participation in current events.

The Hermit is a card of introspection, analysis and, well, virginity. You do not desire to socialize; the card indicates, instead, a desire for peace and solitude. You prefer to take the time to think, organize, ruminate, take stock. There may be feelings of frustration and discontent but these feelings eventually lead to enlightenment, illumination, clarity.

The Hermit represents a wise, inspirational person, friend, teacher, therapist. This a person who can shine a light on things that were previously mysterious and confusing.

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Am I the only one who misses the days when fortune cookies actually had fortunes in them? These days it seems all I get is some sort of cheesy advice: 

"Discover the talents within yourself"

That is no fortune - it's just some sort of advice (and rather poor, useless advice at that). Though I suppose the value of the advice may increase somewhat if you add the honorary "in bed" to the end of it. 

Anyway, I just wish I could have a cheesy fortune telling me that I'm about to win a bunch of money or something.


On a related note, this has bothered me for some time. A few years ago when my wife and I had a small party, she made fortune cookies and I wrote up the fortunes. I specifically tailored them for our friends and they had a very adult theme about them. It was a big hit - though some of our friends couldn't bring themselves to read their fortunes out loud. My favorite was one of the more subtle - 

"You will achieve enlightenment on your knees"

Though the most prophetic was 

"You will never graduate"

Most of us were still in grad school at this time - my friend who got this one still hasn't graduated with his PhD some 7 years later - everyone else has long-since graduated of course.