Personalities

A friend directed me to a site that, after you answer 8,234,247,896,240 questions, gives you a few sentences that allegedly describe your personality to a T.  My response was as follows:

You are a skywalker. You love adventure, both intellectual and physical. And you greet new challenges with passion and bravery.

When you get interested in a project, you can become extremely focused on it, sometimes to the exclusion of all around you. You complete it carefully and thoroughly, often with great originality.

And because you have a lot of energy and tend to be enthusiastic about your ideas, inventions, and projects, you can be very persuasive.

You tend to like to collect things, experiences or ideas. And you are eager to make an impact on those around you, as well as the wider world.

Although you enjoy people and can be charming and humorous, you are not very interested in routine social engagements or boring people. You are comfortable being by yourself, pursuing your own interests.

People probably call you a non-conformist, an original. You like to have good conversations on important topics. People tend to admire you for your innovativeness. You make an exciting, though at times distant, companion.

Actually, this does seem to be dead-on.  But these online personality tests remind me of the mediums who allegedly tell people what the dead are whispering; if we want to believe it, the actual words are vague enough that we can encode whatever meaning we wish into the language we encounter.

Still, though.  Fun stuff.

Update woes

You will notice that that posts older than this one are marked by an accented “A” character — this is the unfortunate legacy of a subrelease upgrade to the WordPress software that powers this blog.� Not sure what the issue is, at this point, but I will search for a solution.� Until I find one, […]

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Reflections on the ’08 GOP Field

Not too many are happy with the current, official GOP candidates.  Including me. I was initially thrilled with the Giuliani candidacy; he was, after all, America’s Mayor, and he is tough on terror and tough on crime and tough on bad budgets.  Sure, he’s a bit wobbly on social issues, but that’s the direction the electorate […]

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Reflections on the '08 GOP Field

Not too many are happy with the current, official GOP candidates.  Including me. I was initially thrilled with the Giuliani candidacy; he was, after all, America’s Mayor, and he is tough on terror and tough on crime and tough on bad budgets.  Sure, he’s a bit wobbly on social issues, but that’s the direction the electorate […]

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Another Massive Update

Goodness — has it really been a month and a half since the last update?  Herewith some more updates and observations. 1.  Work has been … work.  Not too bad; it’s helpful having more people in my area to share the workload.  Yet the tasks and the environment haven’t changed much in the last six […]

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Fostering Innovation

My employer has a relatively new program designed to foster innovation throughout all levels of the organization.  The program is fairly straightforward — anyone can attend a half-day session wherein various creative exercises and principles are shared by senior leaders, to help staff learn to think “outside the box.” Then, any staff member who has the […]

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Retirement Plan

I’ve decided on the perfect cash-out-young retirement plan:  Custom-build a live-aboard sail boat and circumnaviate the world. No worries.  No agendas.  No missed connecting flights.  Want to lay at anchor in the Carribbean for a week?  No problem. Apart from the threat of pirates and the occasional stormy sea, a self-sufficient existence upon the ocean sounds […]

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Recapitulation

I’ve been doing less blogging lately, mostly because my evenings are increasingly filled with activities that preclude a visit to Kava House for coffee and writing.  Herewith a summary of recent events and observations, dutifully chronicled for the benefit of posterity: Holy Week went well.  I ended up serving as parochial master of ceremonies for the […]

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The scarecrows of fools

A letter arrived yesterday; I didn’t recognize it for what it was, so I didn’t open it until this morning.  I didn’t expect to receive it at all, to be honest.  Its body consisted of a single sentence — a sentence that hit with almost physical intensity, and its effect downgraded my mood from “introspective” to […]

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Grand Canyon of Philosophy

Grand Rapids is a fairly conservative place, filled with common-sense Midwest types who don’t take a cotton to extremism of any stripe.  My hometown is, significantly, the home of President Gerald Ford, Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, and Rep. Vern Ehlers — gentle pragmatists, all. So it’s with equal measures of curiosity and distaste that I witness the anti-war […]

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