Whilst on one of my well-deserved breaks from PhD monotony yesterday I stumbled across this cool online game called Pandemic 2. The aim is to create a virus, infect the entire planet and kill every human being. Grim stuff eh!? You have to choose which mutations the virus, bacterium or parasite goes through in order to outwit the poor humans and help it on it’s journey to global domination.

I played the game five or six times until I finally defeated those pesky Homo sapiens in less than a year of game time. I scored 43744, which is pretty dismal compared to the all-time High Score of over 900′000. Enjoy!

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Was looking through my old Facebook posts (a well-deserved rest from Powerpoint Punishment) and found this. Cheers for the original idea Al.

Rules:

Google Game: Go to Google and type in quotation marks your name and then “likes to” (eg. “Liam likes to”). Type in the first ten things that come up and repost in your own note.

1. Liam likes to help, but Annika wants in on the action.

2. Liam likes to slide. But he does it his way!

3. Liam likes to listen and he likes to talk. Therefore he moved to marketing.

4. Liam likes to take a car with him to his bed when he is napping.

5. Liam likes to diaper dig: For those of you not familiar with the term, this means to reach his hands into his diapers and smear the contents around wherever he happens to be.

6. Liam likes to hang out in his saucer, flying around… 

7. Liam likes to go to 7-Elevens, which are apparently a pleasure destination for the region, but I don’t see how that makes the area superior.

8. Liam likes to wind up for a good run. And, like all three year olds, he runs EVERYWHERE.

9. Liam likes to drink beer. Liam’s favorite beer is Miller Lite.

10. Liam likes to pull the DVDs off their low shelf under the television, and this annoys/distresses Jamie, who doesn’t like the mess.

Some other funny ones:

* Liam likes to call me; Orange Banana.

* Liam likes to eat, sleep, and be cute.

* Liam likes to smile too – he seems to do it almost on command.

* Liam likes to pull a blanket over his head and ‘calm down’ when he overloads.

* Liam likes to play the piano and sing songs of his own design.

* Liam likes to do the behind the leg wank. ?!?

Here is how I scored on the political compass, which unsurprisingly shows that I am indeed a moderate Left Libertarian.