What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

Eastern New England. Whether or not you pronounce r's, you have the sound of Boston, New Hampshire, and Maine about you.

Take this quiz now - it's easy!

We're going to start with "cot" and "caught." When you say those words do they sound the same or different?

Same, no wait I mean different, maybe, a little bit different... Different Same

In bold: Things I've done

1. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
2. Swam with wild dolphins
3. Climbed a mountain
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
6. Held a tarantula
7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
8. Said I love you and meant it
9. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea (in FL. heck yeah)
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game (Does Wing Bowl count? :)
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables (with Poppy)
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby's diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Posed nude in front of strangers
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an expert
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Had a one-night stand
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children (or raising children)
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
98. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Pet a stingray
110. Broken someone's heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet (though i did take care of about 30 snakes for a summer)
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Petted a cockroach
133. Eaten durian
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one important author who you missed in school, and then read him/her
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone's life

ticking along

applications sent out: 10

interviews had: 1

interviews upcoming: 1

rejections: 1

No punch line.

blue pearly: it's interesting, at this point there are still people with perfect brackets
blue pearly: but so few
Huntzman85: wow
Huntzman85: I guess it's not much of a stretch
blue pearly: no...
blue pearly: i wonder what the probability is
Huntzman85: low
blue pearly: and then compare the # of people with perfect brackets to what you would expect from a probabilistically perfect group
blue pearly: so see if people are better or worse than chance
Huntzman85: ooh, getting all fancy!
blue pearly: hahaha
blue pearly: I am all about the fancifimication
blue pearly: but i don't have the skillz
Huntzman85: :-(
blue pearly: actually, no, i do
Huntzman85: I blame the tree-hugging College of Arts and Crafts
Huntzman85: BURNNNN
blue pearly: ok
Huntzman85: .....thinking of engineering putdown.......
Huntzman85: ....not coming.....
Huntzman85: .......
Huntzman85: ......
blue pearly: oh wait, though, facebook doesn't provide the number of all people playing
Huntzman85: the number?
blue pearly: the total amount of people
Huntzman85: ooh
Huntzman85: I thought it did?
blue pearly: nope
blue pearly: at least, i don't see it
Huntzman85: hmmm
Huntzman85: you may be right
blue pearly: the probability of having a perfect bracket right now is 2.3^-10
blue pearly: and obviously it gets smaller
Huntzman85: goo
blue pearly: what's your global rank
blue pearly: ?
Huntzman85: 1,037,795
Huntzman85: no bueno :-(
blue pearly: i'm 81,794
Huntzman85: only 12 left with perfect brackets
blue pearly: 1037795 times 2.3^-10 is .0002ish
blue pearly: but i'm sure you're not last :-)
Huntzman85: lol, nope :-D
blue pearly: so there must be way more people...
Huntzman85: yeah
blue pearly: still, unless the number of people playing is REALLY huge, it looks like humans do better than chance
blue pearly: which makes sense
Huntzman85: well you should really compare against a bracket that has all the favorites winning
Huntzman85: because it's not 50-50 in each game
Huntzman85: so the best approx would be P(ij) = i/ (i+j)
Huntzman85: like, a 16 over a 1 would happen 1/17 = 5.9%
blue pearly: hm
blue pearly: but the question was: are people better at deciding who will win than chance? not: are people better at deciding who will win than the selection committtee?
Huntzman85: well of course people are better than chance


No punch line here, this was just an incredibly nerdy yet sporty conversation. :)

My Tournament Status

Facebook Rank: Penn Rank:	81,794 136
Bracket Score:	27
Bracket Percent:	84.38 %

Job Stats So Far

applications sent out: 9

interviews: 1

outright rejections: 1

relatives who have offered to let me live with them when I am still unemployed after graduation: 3
(thanks mom, mom-mom, and grammy. must be a matriarchy thing.)

Spring Break thus far

o unexpected bit of crying when I arrived home for the first time in three months and saw that Cookie Dough's corner is now inhabited by a teapot on a stand. group hug ensued.

o sent applications for 7- count 'em!- jobs, all of which involve me living abroad for several months to a year, living in beautiful places and harassing animals. none of which pay any more than your average peacecorps gig.

o lots of daydreaming about sea animals and sunburn, courtesy of The Sea Brings Forth, a memoir that I expect nobody except aspiring animal-botherers will like.

o snow.

o reading The Birthday Party, which does not live up to the hype, but does teach you how to survive a kidnapping.

o salsa dancing with Kimba & Carlos!

o field trip to the post office to mail very, very belated birthday presents (so watch your mailbox)

o got fake nails, painted them purple... it's pretty feo, not gonna lie.

o to be.... continued!

in rehearsal

the penultimate dress rehearsal!

it's act five: lucillius is missing... sevant 1 doesn't actually have a sword... volumnius and strato don't have costumes... sevant 2 doesn't either...

but you know, all business as usual for the underground shakespeare company!