Showing posts with label intp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intp. Show all posts
Monday, March 24, 2008
Spontenaity
I have a fear that if I plan and schedule my life and my activities, I will become a captive to my schedule and continually be bound against my will by my own doing. The theory being that I am happiest when I am doing the thing that at that moment I am most inclined to do, and therefore that the best course of action is to avoid planning at all costs, living each moment by my greatest inclination.
This theory I have found experientially, intellectually, and scripturally to be foolishness, yet I find myself clinging to it with my fingernails and teeth, while true happiness, effectiveness, and productivity drift by unachieved.
The happiness and joy that come from discipline: from denying myself the whim of the moment when it is in conflict with my deliberate and considered intent, is the result of the training of my instantaneous desires. If I wish to be able to desire what it is that I know that I want to do, then I must first put my other, short-sighted desires to death.
I must not fulfill any momentary whim except that which is in line with my goals. If I do this, no longer will my desires grow up in contradiction to my goals. My actions will not be a wild patch of brambles, producing bird-eaten berries here and there, but a cultivated field, producing row upon row of fruitful delight.
Oh, that I would walk in this manner with regard to time management, finances, Bible study and prayer, to meeting the needs of my friends and family! How delightful it would be to excel at these things! I would be a fool to believe that I would not think the tasks worth doing; that I would not find joy in them. And yet that is my fear.
I pray that it may be so. That I would not look in the mirror, and the next moment forget what it is that I saw.
Only by walking in the Spirit can I put to death the deeds of the flesh. I pride myself in self-reliance, but that pride must give way to the humble realization that of myself I can do nothing: it is only through Christ: through my connection to the True Vine; only as I yield to His Spirit who lives within me, that I can do what I really want to do.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Viva La Resolutión
Terrestrial exodus? Death? Oh, please.
Mostly I blame my dearth of bloggy effluence on the time leech that is Liz, but it's not as if I haven't been busy before, and still found time to blog. I've been doing lots of memorable things; hanging out with great friends 'till all hours of the night: solving the world's problems, and bearing consternation at our own before the Throne.
I haven't been dancing as much lately. It is both a symptom and partial catalyst of my mental discomfort. I miss it physically; my body is anxious for exercise, but tomorrow morning, I will satiate it well enough with paintball.
I think the main reason I haven't been posting to my blog lately is that my mind hasn't been settled: I write about what I think about, but often, I cannot write my thoughts, particularly if they are unresolved.
Certain breath-bated of my readers will be happy to know that resolution is at hand0. As a P, I tend to thrive on a certain level of uncertainty, ambiguity, and cavalierness, much to the chagrin1 of the Js in my life. This, however, only extends to a point2. My free-spirited intuition must have its basis in truth, and I cannot remain permanently in a state of flux3.
0And, presumably, as a consequence, more frequent posts. 1And intrigue, admit it! 2Or it might be considered a fault, which would be inconceivable. 3The monotony of it would be terribly boring.
0And, presumably, as a consequence, more frequent posts. 1And intrigue, admit it! 2Or it might be considered a fault, which would be inconceivable. 3The monotony of it would be terribly boring.
Friday, March 09, 2007
INTP Profile
I don't usually like to post links to non-original content, but I found this to be a very good, very accurate, description of myself as an INTP. I must warn you other types, however, not to get wrapped up in the details. The article mentions several specific areas of interest which, in principle, an INTP would enjoy should they chose to enter that domain. Some of them I enjoy, others are "irrelevant." In any case, please remember that I don't consider the details of the article to effect the over-arching correctness of it.
I do not wish to present a representation as "myself" and have concrete ("S") types assume that they can apply the details to me. A diagram of the human face does not dictate the appearance of facial features: we cannot from that diagram assume that the nose of the particular man we are considering looks exactly like the nose on the diagram. To do so would be a misuse of the diagram.
The best use of this information is for someone who wishes to relate to me to get a better idea of how we are different. Not "how" in the quantitative, concrete sense, but "how" in the qualitative sense: not "this much" difference, but different in "this way."
If you ever believe my actions are inappropriate, please talk to me about them--I would never want to point to a personality profile as an excuse to be limited by the dynamics it describes. Part of the purpose of understanding one's self is to grow. Maturity, I believe, occurs when a person is able to balance their innate tendencies in favor of alternate methods/attitudes/behaviors/motivations when an occasion arises that makes this more appropriate.
"Knowing there's a trap is the first step in evading it."
~Leto Atredes, Dune (Frank Herbert)
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Beck's Interview
You have probably seen this on other sites; now it's on mine. Here's how it works.
1. Leave me a comment saying, "interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. You will update your blog with the answers to those questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
The following interview questions were given to me as a result of a comment on this post on Beck's blog:
1. What family traditions did you enjoy most during your childhood (and/or later on)?
I would have to say that the family tradition I enjoyed most as a child, and also value most looking back on my childhood was an open Bible. My father would read to us stories from the Bible all the time growing up. He used to read to us at the dinner table, whenever he was home for dinner: sometimes he would just read, sometimes he would read and comment on each verse, and sometimes he would read, and we would talk about it afterwards (or sometimes during). It was always okay for us to ask questions, or to share what we enjoyed, or to disagree with or clarify something that he had said. We would have these scavenger hunts where he would hide pieces of paper with a reference on them throughout the house and yard. He would read us the first verse, and it would be a clue as to where the next one was hidden.
2. How do you calm yourself down when you're upset/angry about something (situational/relational/etc.)?
I think about it logically. Seriously: I'm like a Vulcan. Sometimes it is logical to be angry about something: being upset is a different matter ("upset", to me, means that you have lost control of your actions to your emotions; hence your personal balance has been overturned). There is nothing wrong, however, with acting on your emotions when they are warranted: it is the right thing to do. To think about something logically is to reflect on it from a wider point of view: emotions are one informational input to this logical question. Sometimes my emotional responses are more perceptive to the reality of the situation than my conscious observation: therefore it is of great benefit to think about what it is that has caused my emotions, and then determine the proper action to take in response. The most difficult times to calm myself down are when I feel truly vulnerable. The best and most complete point of view is the way God sees things.
The most mentally productive window of the day for me is from 11:30PM to whenever it is I finally convince myself that I really do need to get some sleep to be conscious the next day. I'm what's known as a "night owl." Some of my deepest discussions; my best writing; most enjoyable times spent with friends discussing about the universe, theology, and love; my most intimate times with God; have taken place in the wee hours of the morning after staying up past a reasonable person's bedtime. I don't really have a routine for making the most of my time, in any sense of the expression. Mostly, I just have to get on a roll: build enough momentum without distractions. The evening is a good time for this, because it doesn't have a set end time, so you don't have a clock ticking down (except the next morning's alarm clock, but that's why God invented the snooze button). If I don't have a time limit, I feel more free to become completely absorbed in whatever it is I happen to be doing. Most of my longer and deeper blog posts have been published after midnight.
4. Where do you see yourself in 6 months? (answer any way you like)
Oh, the places I could go with this question. Read on.
In six months, if it is what the Lord has for me, I will be in the beginning stages of the construction of my first house. The reason it will probably take so long to start is that King County's bureaucracy is notoriously slow at getting building plans approved. There is hope of an earlier start, however: my builder told me that since this is simply an undeveloped plat in a developed neighborhood, things are a lot simpler and should move more quickly.
In six months, I see myself dating someone. Someone very particular. Why do I think this, you might ask? Because we are dating now, and if I did not see myself with her in six months, then we would not be dating. Do you remember this post? Read the last paragraph. That was written on April 19th. On the 24th, after BSF, I asked her for her number, and we went out for the first time on the 29th. The Lord has blessed the two of us so much in this past month! It's been amazing to reflect back on our pasts and see the Lord preserving and protecting us in the same ways. I knew God had women like this because I know my mother and my sisters. I also know that I don't deserve one: but it's not going to freak me out if God gives her to me: he is after all in the business of giving me blessings I don't deserve. This might all be very distressing if I didn't also know that along with every gift He gives, He also supplies the power to live up to what I have been given.
No, I'm not yet sure that she's "the one," though I do believe that God has one picked out for me. He'll let us both know of his plan in time. Meanwhile, I will treat her with honor and purity, and wait on the Lord to show us what comes next. If in the end we are not meant for each other, God's plans are hardly going to be frustrated by such a course of action.
So, why wasn't this plastered all over my blog from the very beginning? Hey, it's me! Don't you know I'm the soul of discretion?
Why am I posting this now? Well, it was bound to come out sooner or later, and that was such a leading question: I figure if you read this far into my posts then you deserve to be thrown a bone every now and then.
I don't believe anyone should ever think they need to read my blog in order to find out how I feel about them: they should know that already, and if I mention them on my blog, what I say should reinforce it. I also don't feel comfortable announcing things that I'm still processing, or things that affect someone else's privacy, though I have been known to slip from time to time.
5. Why did you move to WA?
There was this guy, and he called me up and said that he would pay me to write software. How cool is that! The job offer was the main reason, but I don't know if I would have been willing to come up here with all the wetness and darkness had the Lord not taken steps to prepare me for the journey. You know those times in your life when you think, "I have no clue what God is doing in my life." Yeah, those are the times you look back on later, and say "I can see exactly what God was doing with me then." because those are the times he causes you to grow.
California is a really nice place to live. The weather is awesome, and my family is all there. Need I say more?
So, if you're God and you have to get Tim away from the beach, and his friends and family, and all the nice things in Southern California, what do you do? Well, you start by removing some of these things from him, but not in a mean way; don't yank them out of his hands at once: just tug them far enough away that he is willing to let go. Then make sure that he is amply supported in the place where you're taking him. Give him something worthwhile to do that he can use later: he doesn't have to understand why: remember, he needs to learn to trust you more.
You know that job he has in Long Beach? Yeah, that's going to have to move out to the Mojave Desert. It's close enough that he can come back to all these things every other weekend or so, but far enough away that he can't depend on them. He'll need a bit of stability and lots of love, so let's get his empty-nester parents up there to Tehachapi. Keep in mind that we're preparing him for a specific place tailored to his growth in Washington, so we need to get him used to a small assembly, but make it a spiritually dynamic one: remember how you moved the Peter and Elizabeth up to Tehachapi earlier? They're your ace in the hole at this assembly, really show them off. Now we have to set the stage in Washington:
Tim knows a lot of people from the area, but as far as close friends, he's a bit short. The Tonns and the Klassens are your key assets here, along with each of the other families in the Newcastle and Tacoma assemblies. In fact, why don't we throw in the Kerrs just for good measure. Really work in all their hearts to produce love and care for him. Also, a good trick with Tim to really get him to feel at home is to get him to interact with the kids: that won't take too much work, though. Of course, he'll need a ministry while he's up there: but then you've had that in mind for quite some time: the singing up there is in pretty bad shape too, why don't you see what we can do to work something out. Keep him in the word, and keep him challenged and stimulated to growth: you've got just the recipe for that: BSF and a roommate on a much different, though by your infinite wisdom and design, convergent path to Christ-likeness.
That's not even the half of it, though.
it would be nice if you answered before tuesday, which is when we leave for israel, so i can read your answers before i forget about it.... =)
This didn't happen, but hopefully you'll find my responses worth the wait.
one more question about myers briggs. what personality type is your father? if i recall correctly, your mom and i are the same: INTJ. when sarah was here for the wedding, she observed something in josh and my relationship that reminded her of your parents so i was just curious. as near as we can tell, josh is usually an ENTP but on some characteristics he's pretty borderline.
My mom and you do not have the same type, but you and Sarah do. My mom and dad are ISTJ and ESFP respectively. The following is highly speculative in nature: Sarah may have been referring to the fact that my parents' types are perfect compliments: both concrete, but opposite in other respects, whereas (and here is where I'm really speculating) she may have noticed that Josh is an ENFP, which would be the compliment type to an INTJ. Josh doesn't strike me as an NT, though I readily admit to not knowing him as well as you would, you being married to him and all.
To think of the difference between NT and NF, think of the difference between me and Josh (my brother) (INTP/INFP) or Anna and Sarah (ENFJ/INTJ). Not that all differences in personality can be accounted for using types, but they can be a useful tool. For a good reference ENTP, one need look no further than Caleb.
Sarah seems to have dropped off the face of the blogosphere. Perhaps if enough of us prod and poke at her, she'll return and address this pressing matter in a comment or some such.
It's too bad about his borderline personality disorder, though. That must be tough.
CONGRATULATIONS on the property. when does escrow close and/or you start mortgage payments? were you able to do it in one loan (buy and build) or did you have to get another one to build? i really hope all goes well and i really hope it doesn't rain while they frame your house. that can set things back so much. when will it be all completed? 2007? 2008? i'm a fan of the bumped out window on the first floor; is it a window seat? are their vaulted ceilings? and so on and so forth.
Thank you. Escrow is set to close on July 28th. (Barbecue, anyone?) I'm going for a single construction loan including land, which will convert to a mortgage when the house is complete. While under construction, I will pay interest-only (it's a higher rate than the final loan) on what has been drawn from the loan account. At this point, I'm looking at getting an interest-only loan, because I intend to sell the house after a few years (like, say, 2). I plan on renting out the rest of the rooms while I'm living there, because otherwise I have no idea what I would do with all that space, and rent money is a nice way to pay a house payment. I can pretty much count on it raining during construction: that's just the way things are up here. The builder said it would take about 6 months from start to finish to build the house.
As for the architectural details: the builder told me when we went to visit the lot that it would work quite well to put in a daylight basement. It would be unfinished, but I could take care of that. The only question is, would it add significantly to the resale value? I'm not here to build my dream home, at least not yet. I'm looking at putting 9ft ceilings on the bottom floor with 10ft in the living and dining rooms, and a vaulted ceiling in the master bedroom upstairs. I'm also told that I simply "must" put in a secret passage that opens behind a bookcase.
1. Leave me a comment saying, "interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. You will update your blog with the answers to those questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
The following interview questions were given to me as a result of a comment on this post on Beck's blog:
1. What family traditions did you enjoy most during your childhood (and/or later on)?
I would have to say that the family tradition I enjoyed most as a child, and also value most looking back on my childhood was an open Bible. My father would read to us stories from the Bible all the time growing up. He used to read to us at the dinner table, whenever he was home for dinner: sometimes he would just read, sometimes he would read and comment on each verse, and sometimes he would read, and we would talk about it afterwards (or sometimes during). It was always okay for us to ask questions, or to share what we enjoyed, or to disagree with or clarify something that he had said. We would have these scavenger hunts where he would hide pieces of paper with a reference on them throughout the house and yard. He would read us the first verse, and it would be a clue as to where the next one was hidden.
2. How do you calm yourself down when you're upset/angry about something (situational/relational/etc.)?
I think about it logically. Seriously: I'm like a Vulcan. Sometimes it is logical to be angry about something: being upset is a different matter ("upset", to me, means that you have lost control of your actions to your emotions; hence your personal balance has been overturned). There is nothing wrong, however, with acting on your emotions when they are warranted: it is the right thing to do. To think about something logically is to reflect on it from a wider point of view: emotions are one informational input to this logical question. Sometimes my emotional responses are more perceptive to the reality of the situation than my conscious observation: therefore it is of great benefit to think about what it is that has caused my emotions, and then determine the proper action to take in response. The most difficult times to calm myself down are when I feel truly vulnerable. The best and most complete point of view is the way God sees things.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. ~Romans 8:28
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. ~Psalm 127:2It is an inexpressable comfort to know that no matter what happens to me, no matter how bad I just screwed things up in my own self-will, I have a Father who loves me and he will bend the past, present and future of the universe around me in order to lead me in the path of maximum blessing from where I am at that very moment. Sometimes it means I need to be humbled: perhaps I must suffer the consequences of my actions, perhaps He will grow me through sharing in the sufferings of Christ for righteousness. Whatever comes my way, I know this from scripture and experience: it passed through His hands first, and there is One who I can go to who has gone before me and overcome it all.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. ~1 John 4:183. When is the most mentally productive window of your day and do you make the most of this time?
The most mentally productive window of the day for me is from 11:30PM to whenever it is I finally convince myself that I really do need to get some sleep to be conscious the next day. I'm what's known as a "night owl." Some of my deepest discussions; my best writing; most enjoyable times spent with friends discussing about the universe, theology, and love; my most intimate times with God; have taken place in the wee hours of the morning after staying up past a reasonable person's bedtime. I don't really have a routine for making the most of my time, in any sense of the expression. Mostly, I just have to get on a roll: build enough momentum without distractions. The evening is a good time for this, because it doesn't have a set end time, so you don't have a clock ticking down (except the next morning's alarm clock, but that's why God invented the snooze button). If I don't have a time limit, I feel more free to become completely absorbed in whatever it is I happen to be doing. Most of my longer and deeper blog posts have been published after midnight.
4. Where do you see yourself in 6 months? (answer any way you like)
Oh, the places I could go with this question. Read on.
In six months, if it is what the Lord has for me, I will be in the beginning stages of the construction of my first house. The reason it will probably take so long to start is that King County's bureaucracy is notoriously slow at getting building plans approved. There is hope of an earlier start, however: my builder told me that since this is simply an undeveloped plat in a developed neighborhood, things are a lot simpler and should move more quickly.
In six months, I see myself dating someone. Someone very particular. Why do I think this, you might ask? Because we are dating now, and if I did not see myself with her in six months, then we would not be dating. Do you remember this post? Read the last paragraph. That was written on April 19th. On the 24th, after BSF, I asked her for her number, and we went out for the first time on the 29th. The Lord has blessed the two of us so much in this past month! It's been amazing to reflect back on our pasts and see the Lord preserving and protecting us in the same ways. I knew God had women like this because I know my mother and my sisters. I also know that I don't deserve one: but it's not going to freak me out if God gives her to me: he is after all in the business of giving me blessings I don't deserve. This might all be very distressing if I didn't also know that along with every gift He gives, He also supplies the power to live up to what I have been given.
No, I'm not yet sure that she's "the one," though I do believe that God has one picked out for me. He'll let us both know of his plan in time. Meanwhile, I will treat her with honor and purity, and wait on the Lord to show us what comes next. If in the end we are not meant for each other, God's plans are hardly going to be frustrated by such a course of action.
So, why wasn't this plastered all over my blog from the very beginning? Hey, it's me! Don't you know I'm the soul of discretion?
Why am I posting this now? Well, it was bound to come out sooner or later, and that was such a leading question: I figure if you read this far into my posts then you deserve to be thrown a bone every now and then.
I don't believe anyone should ever think they need to read my blog in order to find out how I feel about them: they should know that already, and if I mention them on my blog, what I say should reinforce it. I also don't feel comfortable announcing things that I'm still processing, or things that affect someone else's privacy, though I have been known to slip from time to time.
5. Why did you move to WA?
There was this guy, and he called me up and said that he would pay me to write software. How cool is that! The job offer was the main reason, but I don't know if I would have been willing to come up here with all the wetness and darkness had the Lord not taken steps to prepare me for the journey. You know those times in your life when you think, "I have no clue what God is doing in my life." Yeah, those are the times you look back on later, and say "I can see exactly what God was doing with me then." because those are the times he causes you to grow.
California is a really nice place to live. The weather is awesome, and my family is all there. Need I say more?
So, if you're God and you have to get Tim away from the beach, and his friends and family, and all the nice things in Southern California, what do you do? Well, you start by removing some of these things from him, but not in a mean way; don't yank them out of his hands at once: just tug them far enough away that he is willing to let go. Then make sure that he is amply supported in the place where you're taking him. Give him something worthwhile to do that he can use later: he doesn't have to understand why: remember, he needs to learn to trust you more.
You know that job he has in Long Beach? Yeah, that's going to have to move out to the Mojave Desert. It's close enough that he can come back to all these things every other weekend or so, but far enough away that he can't depend on them. He'll need a bit of stability and lots of love, so let's get his empty-nester parents up there to Tehachapi. Keep in mind that we're preparing him for a specific place tailored to his growth in Washington, so we need to get him used to a small assembly, but make it a spiritually dynamic one: remember how you moved the Peter and Elizabeth up to Tehachapi earlier? They're your ace in the hole at this assembly, really show them off. Now we have to set the stage in Washington:
Tim knows a lot of people from the area, but as far as close friends, he's a bit short. The Tonns and the Klassens are your key assets here, along with each of the other families in the Newcastle and Tacoma assemblies. In fact, why don't we throw in the Kerrs just for good measure. Really work in all their hearts to produce love and care for him. Also, a good trick with Tim to really get him to feel at home is to get him to interact with the kids: that won't take too much work, though. Of course, he'll need a ministry while he's up there: but then you've had that in mind for quite some time: the singing up there is in pretty bad shape too, why don't you see what we can do to work something out. Keep him in the word, and keep him challenged and stimulated to growth: you've got just the recipe for that: BSF and a roommate on a much different, though by your infinite wisdom and design, convergent path to Christ-likeness.
That's not even the half of it, though.
it would be nice if you answered before tuesday, which is when we leave for israel, so i can read your answers before i forget about it.... =)
This didn't happen, but hopefully you'll find my responses worth the wait.
one more question about myers briggs. what personality type is your father? if i recall correctly, your mom and i are the same: INTJ. when sarah was here for the wedding, she observed something in josh and my relationship that reminded her of your parents so i was just curious. as near as we can tell, josh is usually an ENTP but on some characteristics he's pretty borderline.
My mom and you do not have the same type, but you and Sarah do. My mom and dad are ISTJ and ESFP respectively. The following is highly speculative in nature: Sarah may have been referring to the fact that my parents' types are perfect compliments: both concrete, but opposite in other respects, whereas (and here is where I'm really speculating) she may have noticed that Josh is an ENFP, which would be the compliment type to an INTJ. Josh doesn't strike me as an NT, though I readily admit to not knowing him as well as you would, you being married to him and all.
To think of the difference between NT and NF, think of the difference between me and Josh (my brother) (INTP/INFP) or Anna and Sarah (ENFJ/INTJ). Not that all differences in personality can be accounted for using types, but they can be a useful tool. For a good reference ENTP, one need look no further than Caleb.
Sarah seems to have dropped off the face of the blogosphere. Perhaps if enough of us prod and poke at her, she'll return and address this pressing matter in a comment or some such.
It's too bad about his borderline personality disorder, though. That must be tough.
CONGRATULATIONS on the property. when does escrow close and/or you start mortgage payments? were you able to do it in one loan (buy and build) or did you have to get another one to build? i really hope all goes well and i really hope it doesn't rain while they frame your house. that can set things back so much. when will it be all completed? 2007? 2008? i'm a fan of the bumped out window on the first floor; is it a window seat? are their vaulted ceilings? and so on and so forth.
Thank you. Escrow is set to close on July 28th. (Barbecue, anyone?) I'm going for a single construction loan including land, which will convert to a mortgage when the house is complete. While under construction, I will pay interest-only (it's a higher rate than the final loan) on what has been drawn from the loan account. At this point, I'm looking at getting an interest-only loan, because I intend to sell the house after a few years (like, say, 2). I plan on renting out the rest of the rooms while I'm living there, because otherwise I have no idea what I would do with all that space, and rent money is a nice way to pay a house payment. I can pretty much count on it raining during construction: that's just the way things are up here. The builder said it would take about 6 months from start to finish to build the house.
As for the architectural details: the builder told me when we went to visit the lot that it would work quite well to put in a daylight basement. It would be unfinished, but I could take care of that. The only question is, would it add significantly to the resale value? I'm not here to build my dream home, at least not yet. I'm looking at putting 9ft ceilings on the bottom floor with 10ft in the living and dining rooms, and a vaulted ceiling in the master bedroom upstairs. I'm also told that I simply "must" put in a secret passage that opens behind a bookcase.
Friday, May 26, 2006
Friday, January 21, 2005
Weird Nerd Loser Die!
Here are some quizzes I took. I'm looking forward to their upcoming "Nerd Type" quiz, as well as what appears to be a Meyers-Briggs temperament sorter, though in the latter case this has more to do with the proliferation of "all the ISPQFCs."0
I'm more weird than Krud, if you can imagine that.
Since someone asked (and for a while I appeard to be begging), yes, it is possible to post comment without an account1. You click on the "# comments" link at the bottom (if this is the main page), then on "Post a comment." If you don't have an account, post as Anonymous (some people chose to sign their names at the bottom of their comments).
I am pleased to report that Steph is slowly caving in to the pressure, so keep it up, all of you.
I'm planning on flying to eastern Canada at the end of next month, eh? Well, not flying there, but flying near there and then driving the rest of the way3.
0 I'm pretty sure this doesn't stand for 'Internet Service Provider - Quality Food Centers'.
1 The lack of this feature is why I don't like Xanga. How will he ever find out that in Firefox, Netscape 4, Netscape 7, and Opera, his page has no right margin (but it does in MSIE) if I can't tell him?
2 Hey, look at that! A footnote that isn't referenced anywhere.
3 I think the airports are all frozen over. That, or the control towers melted.
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Since someone asked (and for a while I appeard to be begging), yes, it is possible to post comment without an account1. You click on the "# comments" link at the bottom (if this is the main page), then on "Post a comment." If you don't have an account, post as Anonymous (some people chose to sign their names at the bottom of their comments).
I am pleased to report that Steph is slowly caving in to the pressure, so keep it up, all of you.
I'm planning on flying to eastern Canada at the end of next month, eh? Well, not flying there, but flying near there and then driving the rest of the way3.
0 I'm pretty sure this doesn't stand for 'Internet Service Provider - Quality Food Centers'.
1 The lack of this feature is why I don't like Xanga. How will he ever find out that in Firefox, Netscape 4, Netscape 7, and Opera, his page has no right margin (but it does in MSIE) if I can't tell him?
2 Hey, look at that! A footnote that isn't referenced anywhere.
3 I think the airports are all frozen over. That, or the control towers melted.
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
A pep talk to my [reader(s)?]
Well I guess that discussion struck the whole Internet with apathy, boredom, or finger paralysis. Is the server down? Lisa is the only one excused--unless she has one of those squishy wrist-rest thingies (then she's not). Not that I have any evidence that she actually reads my blog (This fits in with my above (arrogant) implication that the whole Internet community watches this space with bated breath). I really do appreciate comments (no pity/guilt comments, please; those aren't appreciated--I'm simply sharing my feelings and don't expect you to fix them1). I post things on my blog because in order to make my thoughts coherent2 I have to process them, and they become more developed and fleshed out. I also post because I want to share what's important to me with others. I do this with the assumption that those who read what I write will process the same, and that said processing will produce equally valuable feedback, which may be posted via comments hereto appended.3
To be fair, I didn't actually "compose" the previous post in the way that I normally compose, and it may have been hard to follow for all but the most determined readers who also didn't mind scrolling up and down constantly to match up my superscript note numbers. I had hoped that in the previous post my jokes and allusions, as well as the serious subject matter, would provide enough balance (although now that I think about it, almost everything in that post occurs in the left hemisphere of the brain) to keep enough of you going. Also in retrospect, encouraging you to read two articles in the course of reading my post seems to have high distraction potential and time commitment factors.
Am I intimidating? Do I give the impression that if you disagree with me I will pounce at you and bite your intellectual head off? I know what it is: I always do such a thorough and concise job of encapsulating whatever it is that I talk about, that a comment would just distract from the--HA! I caught you thinking of a retort. What excellent comment fodder that would make!
Speaking of intellectual heads, I have noticed that my blog tends to be about that a lot--what goes on up yonder in the gray goo. I'm an INTP4, and I like to talk about ideas and all their intricacies, and what happens when one idea meets another idea and whether or not and how they play nice together. Fact is, most of you aren't likely to relate to what I say unless I make it somehow practical.
Aaaugh! It's late! I'm tired, so I'm going to abandon this post in its current state. I went to Starbuck's twice5 yesterday, and while it didn't prevent me from sleeping, I think all that caffeine in my system made my rest uneasy. Anyway, I ended up sleeping in until 9:20. I don't normally do coffee; I'm a social drinker.
1 Listen to me! I sound like a woman!
2Oh, go ahead! Comment all you want on how incoherent my posts are. There! I spoiled it for you. How unoriginal you are! Why don't you sulk and pout and give me the silent treatment. Oh, that's real mature! (Actually I would be interested to know if any of this (not this note--it sounds like a raving, bitter, lunatic) is coming across.)
3 I here refer to insightful comments, but no less valuable are the funny, provocative, strange, helpful, warm, quid-pro-quo, consescending, , sarcastic, arrogant--oh, wait, that's just me-- inside jokes, comments of agreement, disagreement, apathy, encouragement, surprise, disgust... the list goes on. In general, a good comment is one that shares what goes through your head when you read a post. That's the only way a community exists: feedback.
4 This page contains an interesting article explaining the subtle differences between INTPs (me) and INTJs (beck, sazzly), and sheds some light on why, in addition to gender differences, I might come across more "brainy" than they in the ways that we tend communicate. For a more basic overview of what the heck all those letters mean, you might try this site. Better yet, if you really want to know what it's all about, you'll want to read Please Understand Me II.
5 A Caramel Frappuccino in the morning, and a Caramel Macciato in the evening.
To be fair, I didn't actually "compose" the previous post in the way that I normally compose, and it may have been hard to follow for all but the most determined readers who also didn't mind scrolling up and down constantly to match up my superscript note numbers. I had hoped that in the previous post my jokes and allusions, as well as the serious subject matter, would provide enough balance (although now that I think about it, almost everything in that post occurs in the left hemisphere of the brain) to keep enough of you going. Also in retrospect, encouraging you to read two articles in the course of reading my post seems to have high distraction potential and time commitment factors.
Am I intimidating? Do I give the impression that if you disagree with me I will pounce at you and bite your intellectual head off? I know what it is: I always do such a thorough and concise job of encapsulating whatever it is that I talk about, that a comment would just distract from the--HA! I caught you thinking of a retort. What excellent comment fodder that would make!
Speaking of intellectual heads, I have noticed that my blog tends to be about that a lot--what goes on up yonder in the gray goo. I'm an INTP4, and I like to talk about ideas and all their intricacies, and what happens when one idea meets another idea and whether or not and how they play nice together. Fact is, most of you aren't likely to relate to what I say unless I make it somehow practical.
Aaaugh! It's late! I'm tired, so I'm going to abandon this post in its current state. I went to Starbuck's twice5 yesterday, and while it didn't prevent me from sleeping, I think all that caffeine in my system made my rest uneasy. Anyway, I ended up sleeping in until 9:20. I don't normally do coffee; I'm a social drinker.
1 Listen to me! I sound like a woman!
2Oh, go ahead! Comment all you want on how incoherent my posts are. There! I spoiled it for you. How unoriginal you are! Why don't you sulk and pout and give me the silent treatment. Oh, that's real mature! (Actually I would be interested to know if any of this (not this note--it sounds like a raving, bitter, lunatic) is coming across.)
3 I here refer to insightful comments, but no less valuable are the funny, provocative, strange, helpful, warm, quid-pro-quo, consescending, , sarcastic, arrogant--oh, wait, that's just me-- inside jokes, comments of agreement, disagreement, apathy, encouragement, surprise, disgust... the list goes on. In general, a good comment is one that shares what goes through your head when you read a post. That's the only way a community exists: feedback.
4 This page contains an interesting article explaining the subtle differences between INTPs (me) and INTJs (beck, sazzly), and sheds some light on why, in addition to gender differences, I might come across more "brainy" than they in the ways that we tend communicate. For a more basic overview of what the heck all those letters mean, you might try this site. Better yet, if you really want to know what it's all about, you'll want to read Please Understand Me II.
5 A Caramel Frappuccino in the morning, and a Caramel Macciato in the evening.
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