A Twisted Mind

What's Your Personality Type?

2009-03-14T16:04:04Z

You Are An INTP

The Thinker

You are analytical and logical - and on a quest to learn everything you can.
Smart and complex, you always love a new intellectual challenge.
Your biggest pet peeve is people who slow you down with trivial chit chat.
A quiet maverick, you tend to ignore rules and authority whenever you feel like it.

In love, you are an easy person to fall for. But you're not an easy person to stay in love with.
Although you are quite flexible, you often come off as aloof or argumentative.

At work, you are both a logical and creative thinker. You are great at solving problems.
You would make an excellent mathematician, programmer, or professor.

How you see yourself: Creative, fair, and tough-minded

When other people don't get you, they see you as: arrogant, cold, and robotic

What's Your Personality Type?

I don't normally go for this sort of thing, but I was curious if anything had changed in the 20 or so years since the last time I did a Myers-Briggs. Nope.

I've suffered for my music...

2009-01-02T01:45:40Z

...now it's your turn.

I have become addicted to Audiosurf, which is Tetris meets Guitar Hero using your MP3s. It's currently on sale for $4.99 until tomorrow. Techno is really good with this.

Download at your own risk. Muhahahaha.

(Favorite song so far: Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Scha-wing!

2008-12-11T03:11:04Z

Employment is mine again! I start tomorrow for a DoD project. No clearance yet, but they might get me one in the future.

Oh, and I'm a team lead! More responsibility for less pay! Woot!

Ask not for whom the bell tolls...

2008-11-17T22:30:58Z

...it tolls for me.

Today the layoff fairy came to my cubicle and said "Lo! Though you have six years exemplary service with this organization, we are indeed too cheap to pay your lavish salary. Therefore, begone foul wretch!" So, here I am, just before the holidays in a Hoover economy, unemployed.

If anyone has need for a .NET or Java programmer, I am in need of a job.

Woot!

2008-11-05T04:59:41Z

Richard Wright: RIP

2008-09-16T00:03:11Z

Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright died of cancer today. Time to pull out the black hammer armbands, folks.

Happy Birthday, Bridgit!

2008-04-08T10:52:38Z

Well, it's time to celebrate your birthday, it happens every year
We'll eat a lot of broccoli and drink a lot of beer
You should be good and happy that there's something you can eat
A million people every day are starving in the street

Your daddy's in the gutter with the wretched and the poor
Your mama's in the kitchen with a can of Cycle Four
There's garbage in the water
There's poison in the sky
I guess it won't be long before we're all gonna die

Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you

That's one hot Chick!

2007-11-29T02:10:57Z

Just to remind me that I live in redneck country, I got a Chick tract on my windshield tonight! I feel so special since this is my first. You can see it here. It's no Dark Dungeons, but, hey, it's still paranoid religious ranting.

I think this is the most autobiographical picture Chick ever did:

He rails against televangelists in this one, so I guess he's not all bad. I'm still trying to figure out who this guy reminds me of. Bert Convy? Englebert Humperdink?

I swear I've seen him on The Love Boat.

Cool! Party at Satan's Bar down the street! I'm buying!

Scary Thought

2003-10-03T22:50:58Z

20 years from now, somebody is going to say "Gee, they just don't make music like Britney Spears any more."

What's scarier?

The music that's currently on the radio when they say that.

Rules of the Road

2003-08-14T02:00:48Z

OK, so it's been about 6 weeks since I posted. I got busy writing a java project for a class. Hopefully it'll be up for folks to look at/break soon. Enough of my uninteresting life; let's get on to brainy contents.

So...driving in DC. Now, I've seen all kinds of emails about "Rules for Driving in [X]", but here in Our Nation's Capital¹, we have but one simple rule.

You are the only driver on the road

Simple, no? Suddenly, the seemingly moronic and insane things the other drivers do make perfect sense when this rule is applied. Let's look at the ramifications of this:

Don't bother being in the right lane before you reach your exit. Due to the lack of other cars, it's perfectly safe to shoot across four lanes at the last possible instant.
If stopping in traffic would cause you to block an intersection, go ahead and do it. Luckily, there's nobody around who may need to get through.
The whole concept of fast lane-slow lane is pretty meaningless when you're out there alone. Just pick a random lane and go a random speed.
When approaching a toll booth, wait until you get to the booth before finding money to pay for it. Heck, there's nobody behind you waiting to get through or anything.
Turn signals are irrelevant. Thus, you are saved from this arduous and difficult task.
Pedestrians? Oh, there aren't any of those either.
Having trouble fitting that SUV into that compact car spot? Well, be sure to back up and try again as much as you like. Good thing nobody's around to try to find a spot of their own.
Boy, that cell phone conversation sure is intense; lots of lane drifting and speed variation going on here. Fortunate that there aren't any fellow motorists at risk from this behavior.
Yield signs and stop signs assume approaching traffic. Ignore them.

And people say driving in this town is hard.

¹Washington DC, for you furners.

I Can't Wait Until October

2003-07-09T00:14:22Z

Have you registered yet?

As of October 1st, I will start answering the phone differently when a telemarketer calls.

"Congratulations! You are the winner of an $11,000 fine! But that's not all! Our truly dedicated contestants get a harassment lawsuit! No purchase necessary!"

Who taught them that annoying the hell out of people is a good marketing technique? Must have gotten it from the car dealers.

Rick

It Lives! It Lives!

2003-07-06T23:08:13Z

Beware, O denizens of the Internet. My computer is back to functioning.

Turns out it was indeed the power supply doing its impression of David Duchovny's career.

Rick

@&^%*!

2003-07-04T00:51:03Z

My computer shit itself as I was reading email. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping it's a blown power supply.

[Beavis]

Heh heh heh...he said "blown".

[/Beavis]

SUVs

2003-07-01T00:02:34Z

I'm convinced that the auto manufacturers make special owner's manuals for SUVs.

"Congratulations on your purchase of our fine Sport Utility Vehicle! We and our friends in the oil companies really appreciate your business. You're now part of an elite group of drivers. I'm sure you've heard that every time you've bought a car, but this time, it's true!. Now that you own one of the largest vehicles on the road short of a Mack truck, some pesky 'rules of the road' no longer apply to you!

1) "Fast Lane". Why should people get to hog an entire lane and get to their destinations faster than you? No, it is your sacred duty as an SUV owner to drive exactly two miles per hour over the speed limit in the left lane. And if there's already an SUV there, then you must take the next lane to the right and go the exact same speed, just to reinforce the idea that nobody passes an SUV.

2) Stop signs. Your vehicle is bigger than theirs; why should you have to stop and wait for them? Remember to at least slow down a bit just in case another SUV is coming the other way.

3) Yield signs. Don't make me laugh.

4) Turn signals. Extensive market research showed that none of you will ever use one, so we thoughtfully removed this extraneous and confusing lever from your SUV.

5) Emergency vehicles. Since the law says it's their fault if a police car, ambulance, or fire truck hits you, why on earth should you let them run the red lights? Make it clear that you pay their salaries, and you're not going to be sitting around so they can get to McDonalds five seconds earlier.

I'm sure all of you can come up with your own unique ways to surprise and annoy your fellow drivers; the sky's the limit! And remember, regularly scheduled maintenance is for the weak! Let's keep those MPG ratings spiraling down to single digits! Remember, drugs finance terrorists far more than oil does. Really."

DNRs

2003-06-30T01:08:15Z

I got to thinking the other day about DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) orders. I've decided that my DNR will have only one condition for resuscitation.

Oral sex from Kirsten Dunst.

I figure, first, if that doesn't wake me up, nothing else will. Second, I get to tell everyone in the Afterlife that I got a BJ from Kirsten Dunst before I died.

Welcome To My Nightmare

2003-06-30T00:41:25Z

So, now I get to see what all this LiveJournal stuff is about. Posting your innermost thoughts/desires/wants on the Internet for all to see!

What fun!

But that's not all! You, dear reader, get to have these thoughts inflicted upon you!

Aren't you lucky?

Sit back, enjoy the ride, and take a look at the inside of one whose brain works at a right angle to reality.