After a year of research and hunting, I’ve finally embraced the urban geek stereotype and ordered a moped.
I wanted one because I was jealous of my neighbor when I saw him ride his classic Vespa to the office on hot days. It’s not worth driving to avoid a half mile of walking in the […]
Tag Archives: personal
Electric Oxygen
February 9, 2007 – 8:46 pm
Relevance
February 6, 2007 – 10:08 pm
Jim captures the essence of why I stopped following local news: it favors the trivial. During college I ended up relying on NPR to keep abreast of things.
But when I stopped commuting, I lost that radio-listening time. Since I’d already taken to RSS feeds for most information streams, I eventually tried adding the […]
Rendered with ink
January 30, 2007 – 9:11 pm
I don’t order books online often. When I do, they’re typically gifts for others.
It’s not that I don’t read dead trees, I just prefer to browse in a bricks-and-morter store, even though I usually know what I’m looking for and don’t need to review before purchasing. Fond memories of childhood hours spent in […]
Being erased
January 28, 2007 – 9:17 pm
Inspired by a mention of Eternal September, I spent some time today trying to place my memory of it on the ol’ mental timeline.
Last time I researched myself, Google found many of my Usenet posts from 1993. Today, though, it finds only a handful, with the earliest discoverable message from November 1993 and a […]
There’s always one
January 19, 2007 – 6:28 pm
Why must every group have someone who just has to be a contrary asshole?
I don’t mean playing devil’s advocate. Or even being skeptical and working against consensus until every detail has been worked out. A healthy fear of groupthink is valuable.
I mean the guy that has to take an unjustified position of authority […]
MBTI
February 4, 2005 – 10:48 pm
Several MBTI tests have rated me an INTp, although I’ve never taken the official Myers Briggs. Over time, I’ve moved from extreme Introverted to only mildly Introverted, but the other measures have been stable.
20 Questions to a Better Relationship
February 4, 2005 – 9:42 pm
measure
result
eXpressive
5/10
Practical
8/10
Physical
5/10
Giver
6/10
You are a RPYG-Reserved Practical Physical Giver. This makes you a 1950s Parent.
You are relentlessly patient, loving, generous and devoted. You are unflappable. If on some rare occasion you do raise your voice or say a swear word in anger, anyone around to hear it will remember it (and think it was funny). At the […]
