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Typealyzer

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Have you tried out the Typealyzer beta? It reads your blog and then comes back with an estimate of the Meyers-Briggs index for the style of your blog writings. I find it interesting because in a full scale testing I always come out as the classical INTJ scientist in a Meyers-Briggs test. But he results for my scribblings here seems to be very different.


Example 1: I fed Typealyzer the URL for the whole blog . The result was

ESFP – The Performers

The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead – they are always in risk of exhausting themselves.

The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation – qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.

Example 2: I fed Typealyzer the URL for my discourse on the pledge of allegiance (YAT ) and it gave me:
ISTP – The Mechanics
The independent and problem-solving type. They are especially attuned to the demands of the moment are masters of responding to challenges that arise spontaneously. They generally prefer to think things out for themselves and often avoid inter-personal conflicts.

The Mechanics enjoy working together with other independent and highly skilled people and often like seek fun and action both in their work and personal life. They enjoy adventure and risk such as in driving race cars or working as policemen and firefighters.

Example 3: I fed Typealyzer the URL for my rant about the decline of the scientific method and experimental science (Rant #1 ) and it came back with:

ISTJ – The Duty Fulfillers

The responsible and hardworking type. They are especially attuned to the details of life and are careful about getting the facts right. Conservative by nature they are often reluctant to take any risks whatsoever.

The Duty Fulfillers are happy to be let alone and to be able to work int heir own pace. They know what they have to do and how to do it.

So out of three different samples of my writing, not one came back like my internal personality. I (being an INTJ at heart) wrote a quick script to submit each of the 60 or so pieces in the blog individually to Typealyzer. I got very few analyses that agreed with each other. I interpret this to mean that one or more of the following are true:
  •  I cannot express myself well
  •  Typealzer still has much work to do
  •  I hide my true self every time I pickup up keyboard and type away
So which do you think it is?
P.S. Just so you know, this is the description of the typical INTJ – people who know me think it is pretty close to the mark for my real personality.

INTJ – The Scientists

The long-range thinking and individualistic type. They are especially good at looking at almost anything and figuring out a way of improving it – often with a highly creative and imaginative touch. They are intellectually curious and daring, but might be physically hesitant to try new things.

The Scientists enjoy theoretical work that allows them to use their strong minds and bold creativity. Since they tend to be so abstract and theoretical in their communication they often have a problem communicating their visions to other people and need to learn patience and use concrete examples. Since they are extremely good at concentrating they often have no trouble working alone.

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Sometimes you win …

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 … and sometimes you lose. Meeting tonight was canceled when one of the other committee members could not make it. So we put it off a week and adjourned to go watch football.

Speaking of football, does anyone else find this year uninspiring with the possible exception of three teams. Even the Broncos are so inconsistent that one is never sure which team will show up in any given game. Fortunately they play in a division where the other teams seem to have self-destructed early and often. So barring a really odd occurrence, they are in the playoffs. The three teams I find interesting this year? The Giants, the Jets, and the Titans. Oh well.

I love the odd weather this time of year around here. Today breezy and overcast, tomorrow up to the mid 60’s, followed by Wednesday when it is not supposed to exceed 30 degrees all day. It could be worse, we could already be buried in snow and the temperature could be in the teens.

Back to the salt mines. The Monday Night Football game is not interesting enough to waste the time watching.

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Return of the Dentist

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I write this with a numb half face. You know, the kind of face you get when you’ve been to the dentist and are wondering if you’ll ever feel your tongue and cheek again. Today was the preparation for the crown to replace the tooth a I broke back a while ago (Described here and here and here.). Now all I have to do is live with the temporary cap for the next month (until January 5th) as the crown is made and the Holidays pass. If it is like past occurrences, the temporary will last about 2 weeks and then I’ll have to have a new one put on. My bite tends to grind holes in the hollow temporaries.

We finally got a tiny skiff of the snow that raged around us over the weekend. Not enough of a trace to even tell whether it was snow or just the hoar frost blowing into the cracks. As I walked to the dentist’s office this morning I was debating with myself whether it was snow of the hoar frost. There wasn’t much in any case. The dental nurse said that there was more to the east and west of us and that it was definitely snow. Typical for the valley we live in here. As my wife got ready to return to the mountains yesterday afternoon, we kept an eye on the road reports since some of the interstate route closed briefly due to the snow and ice in the mountains. She got back to the mountains in good shape and reported they had 2-3 feet of new snow. We are still awaiting our first real snow out here on the plains. If it wasn’t for the fact that the farmers need the moisture, I could be happy that it hasn’t snowed yet.

Well, off to return phone calls and get the reports done for tonight’s Boy Scout Committee meeting. Hopefully my face will have returned to normal by then. Right now the front and lower lip is still numb enough it is hard to even drink my morning coffee. What a disaster – a morning without coffee!

NaBloPoMo

Made It!

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This is just a post so I can do my celebration dance for having made it through NaBloPoMo . (Nobody really wants to see me doing my dance. It’d be a lot like watching the dance of some NFL lineman who recovers a fumble in the end zone – not pretty and not a sight for the weak of heart! But I am happy to have managed a post a day for the month of November.) 

It was actually kind of fun and I may do it again next year. The main impact on me was the occasional post done at 10pm rather than 2am just so it would be on the “right” day.

Back to the regularly scheduled football game …

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Blustery Saturday

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Today the wind was howling and the weather was cool. Our compatriots to the northwest in Wyoming and to the west in the Colorado mountains got snow and ice, but no snow here. Just cool and blustery weather that made you wish it would get over its pique and just snow already.

For some reason I also couldn’t get inspired by the football games on TV today. Maybe it was a sense of “I don’t carism” for the dregs of what the BCS is becoming this year. Maybe it was just that none of the games involved a team near and dear to my heart. Maybe it is just sadness that my alma mater had a perfectly disastrous season this year – they went 0 for. They got beat by every team they played. You have to understand that during my youthful years we were often 11-0 and vied for the Lambert Trophy for football supremacy in the east. Now, … I hope that the current coach (who was a player during my last year) can bring the program back to its former levels.

Maybe my blahs for today are due to the fact that my lovely wife will be leaving early tomorrow and I’ll be batching it again. On a strange note, she will be back next Friday because she has a jury summons for … wait for it … municipal court for next Friday. Just to be clear – I didn’t do it. The municipal judge may indeed be one of only three direct employees of the Mayor and City Council, but I have nothing to do with jury selection. (For the curious, the direct employees of the Mayor/City Council are the municipal judge, the city attorney, and the city manager. All other city employees are indirect and report officially through chains headed by the aforementioned three.)

Oh well – time to go see if there is more of the Thanksgiving pie hiding out in the refrigerator. And maybe the Oklahoma versus Oklahoma State game will heat up a bit more.