November 2001

Live Journal - story snippets and other things of interest mostly to me.

25 February 2001

Another bit of advice from the school of dumb knocks:  Never polish your wooden floors with Mr Sheen furniture polish.  It might seem fun to go skating across in socks at first, and sure, they're lovely and shiny, but you'll regret it after the 11th time you go sliding across and crash into the walls when all you wanted was to change the TV channels!

25 February 2001

Experiences with Ed Bishop

27 May 2000

A scary look into my subconscious.

30 April 2000

My members profile on RatB

2 February 2000

I did the Keirsy Character thing.  I've done these at University, always with different results, but this result made me laugh as it just seems to describe my entire social life :)

Keirsey Character Sorter Results
Rationals
Mastermind
iNTj

Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition it is the contingency planning or entailment organising role that reaches the highest development in INTJs. Entailing or contingency planning is not an informative activity, rather it is a directive one in which the planner tells others what to do and in what order to do it. As the organising capabilities the INTJs increase so does their inclination to take charge of whatever is going on. It is in their abilities that INTJs differ from the other NTs, while in most of their attitudes they are just like the others.

However there is one attitude that sets them apart from other NTs: they tend to be much more self-confident than the rest, having, for obscure reasons, developed a very strong will. They are rather rare, comprising no more than, say, one percent of the population. Being very judicious, decisions come naturally to them; indeed, they can hardly rest until they have things settled, decided, and set. They are the people who are able to formulate coherent and comprehensive contingency plans, hence contingency organisers or "entailers." INTJs will adopt ideas only if they are useful, which is to say if they work efficiently toward accomplishing the INTJ's well-defined goals. Natural leaders, INTJs are not at all eager to take command of projects or groups, preferring to stay in the background until others demonstrate their inability to lead. Once in charge, however, INTJs are the supreme pragmatists, seeing reality as a crucible for refining their strategies for goal-directed action. In a sense, INTJs approach reality as they would a giant chess board, always seeking strategies that have a high payoff, and always devising contingency plans in case of error or adversity.

To the INTJ, organisational structure and operational procedures are never arbitrary, never set in concrete, but are quite malleable and can be changed, improved, streamlined. In their drive for efficient action, INTJs are the most open-minded of all the types. No idea is too far-fetched to be entertained-if it is useful. INTJs are natural brainstormers, always open to new concepts and, in fact, aggressively seeking them. They are also alert to the consequences of applying new ideas or positions. Theories which cannot be made to work are quickly discarded by the INTJs. On the other hand, INTJs can be quite ruthless in implementing effective ideas, seldom counting personal cost in terms of time and energy.

10 October  1999
I found an old trip diary, and thought I'd share the incredibly deep insights recorded therein:  "We Went shopping and DaDDy bought me a necklas. We hierd a car, and We Sor a bt of Cuntry.  We Went to the bech and I bought my bot. and we Saw the boats in Pearl Harbour".  Hey, I was six, what did you expect?   Shakespeare? 

September: A thought 
I was watching Dilbert, and I thought, I really don't like this cartoon. But I'll watch it because it's animated. I'll watch anything if it's animated. Then I thought, the government should animate their paid party political broad casts. I'd vote for the side that has the best cartoons.

July - something that made me laugh many years ago.

On Being Tongue Tied

If you cannot understand my argument, and declare ‘It’s Greek to me’, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you claimed to be more sinned against than sinning, you are quoting Shakespeare, if you recall your salad days, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you act more in sorrow than in anger, if your wish is father to the thought, if your lost property has vanished into thin air, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you have ever refused to budge an inch or suffered from green-eyed jealousy, if you have played fast and loose, if you have been tongue-tied, a tower of strength, hoodwinked or in a pickle, if you have knitted your brows, made a virtue of necessity, insisted on fair play, slept not one wink, stood on ceremony, danced attendance (on your lord and master), laughed yourself into stitches, had short shrift, cold comfort or too much of a good thing, If you have seen better days or lived in a fool’s paradise - why, be that as it may, the more fool you, for it is a foregone conclusion that you are (as good luck would have it) quoting Shakespeare; if you think it is early days and clear out bag and baggage, if you think it is high time and that is the long and short of it, if you believe that the game is up and that truth will out even if it involves your own flesh and blood, if you lie low till the crack of doom because you suspect foul play, if you have your teeth set on edge (at one fell swoop) without rhyme or reason, then - to give the devil his due - if the truth were known (for surely you have a tongue in your head), you are quoting Shakespeare; even if you bid me good riddance and send me packing, If you wish I was dead as a door-nail, if you think I am an eyesore, a laughing stock, the devil incarnate, a stony-hearted villain, bloody-minded or a blinking idiot, then - by Jove! Or Lord! Tut, tut! for goodness’ sake! what the dickens! but me no buts - it is all one to me, for you are quoting Shakespeare.