Oh, you know you’ve done it.
- Moby Games — I kind of like the mystery portrait of me up there and, frankly, the photos of me looking exhausted and pissy at E3 — you can find them yourselves, thanks — are nothing I want people to find too easily.
- Googlism — Even though I know how these got put together, it’s cool seeing stuff like “a journalist with a secret identity” on there.
- Google — 15,900 hits, many of them still pointers to my work at Comic Book Resources or outright thefts of that material, with my name still attached.
- Technorati — Only 18 hits, and even then, nine of them seem to be automated grabs of my work elsewhere, in this case, the Hesperia Star.
Everyone else in America is probably taking it easy today, as it’s the day before Thanksgiving — OK, not the grocery store employees — but today I’ll be putting together next week’s paper and cursing you all under my breath.
But here’s some fun Thanksgiving stuff for everyone whose thoughts are going to turkey and pecan pie:
We’re going to see the new Harry Potter movie after work tonight, to celebrate my brother-in-law’s birthday.
On another note, happy birthday to Jonah, who is now, in his own words, an “old bastard.”
Peter, my editor, has made the leap and now has his own blog. Unlike me, he does editorials, so he can feel free to express any sort of opinion that he’d express on the editorial page (which is most of them).
- Although I can’t find the non-ugly URL (Yahoo’s new 360 blogs still have a lot of kinks that need ironing out), former Hesperia Star advertising representative Rodney Lambert also has a blog.
It’s so crazy, it must be true:
Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions (either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from the cranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified. These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government’s invasive abilities. We theorize that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.
Hey, they’re from MIT. They must be right.
My father loves personality tests, so this one is for him:
Extroverted: 1
Intuitive: 50
Feeling: 12
Judging: 22
You are:
slightly expressed extrovert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
slightly expressed feeling personality
slightly expressed judging personality
There’s also a marriage compatibility test, if I can get Jenn to do the above test as well.
From another site:
ENFJs are the benevolent ‘pedagogues’ of humanity. They have tremendous charisma by which many are drawn into their nurturant tutelage and/or grand schemes. Many ENFJs have tremendous power to manipulate others with their phenomenal interpersonal skills and unique salesmanship. But it’s usually not meant as manipulation — ENFJs generally believe in their dreams, and see themselves as helpers and enablers, which they usually are.
ENFJs are global learners. They see the big picture. The ENFJs focus is expansive. Some can juggle an amazing number of responsibilities or projects simultaneously. Many ENFJs have tremendous entrepreneurial ability.
ENFJs are, by definition, Js, with whom we associate organization and decisiveness. But they don’t resemble the SJs or even the NTJs in organization of the environment nor occasional recalcitrance. ENFJs are organized in the arena of interpersonal affairs. Their offices may or may not be cluttered, but their conclusions (reached through feelings) about people and motives are drawn much more quickly and are more resilient than those of their NFP counterparts.
ENFJs know and appreciate people. Like most NFs, (and Feelers in general), they are apt to neglect themselves and their own needs for the needs of others. They have thinner psychological boundaries than most, and are at risk for being hurt or even abused by less sensitive people. ENFJs often take on more of the burdens of others than they can bear.
As with psychics and astrology, I would be surprised if any of these profiles boils down to anything other than “this person is awesome,” so take the above with a grain of salt. (Although, you know, I am awesome.)
