We have our dog! Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I am now officially Looking For a Job. My previous position was magically transformed into 2 or 3 positions in India, and I'm not willing to go halfway around the world for a pay cut.

Edit: My most recent jobs have been in Software QA and Support, so that's the vicinity in which my experience lies.
Of course, acting for a living would be ideal, but I don't think I could pull that off.

Darkness!

Inspired by joyeous:

25 interesting things is too much work, so... Three boring things about me!
__________________________

1) I'm using a computer.

2) I enjoy chocolate.

3) I know how to tie my shoelaces.

All day today and tomorrow! Come help us, after noon-ish, at 134 Winthrop St., Medford! There will be pizza and beer and snacks and soda and friends for you!

...the friends are not for eating.

...unless they're okay with that.

Look at me! I'm POSTING! Wheeeeeeee!

No idea what the numbers have to do with the characteristics, but hey -- interesting quiz.

You Are 9: The Peacemaker

You are emotionally stable and willing to find common ground with others. Your friends and family often look to you to be the mediator when there is conflict. You are easy going and accepting. You take things as they come. Avoiding conflict at all costs, you're content when things are calm. At Your Best: You feel connected, trusting, and fulfilled. You feel at peace with your place in the world. At Your Worst: You compromise your values to make sure peace is maintained. You give in to bullies. Your Fixation: Harmony Your Primary Fear: Causing conflict Your Primary Desire: To preserve things as they are Other Number 9's: Marge Simpson, Ronald Reagan, Audrey Hepburn, Jerry Seinfeld, and Abraham Lincoln.

I finally got a Wii! Wheeeeeeeeeee!

I wonder if it'll be one higher if I take it again next month...?

You Are 23 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

As a followup to the Tone Deafness test (75%, see below), I have these two, from the same site:


Rhythm, and

Pitch perception.

Your results:
You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man 80% Robin 63% Hulk 60% The Flash 55% Catwoman 50% Superman 50% Iron Man 45% Green Lantern 45% Supergirl 41% Wonder Woman 31% Batman 25%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

Click here to take the "Which Superhero am I?" quiz...

Yeah, not a quiz, but... this one really hit home.


Ode to the Nice Guys

This is a tribute to the nice guys. The nice guys that finish last, that never become more than friends, that endure hours of whining and bitching about what assholes guys are, while disproving the very point. This is dedicated to those guys who always provide a shoulder to lean on but restrain themselves to tentative hugs, those guys who hold open doors and give reassuring pats on the back and sit patiently outside the changing room at department stores. This is in honor of the guys that obligingly reiterate how cute/beautiful/smart/funny/sexy their female friends are at the appropriate moment, because they know most girls need that litany of support. This is in honor of the guys with open minds, with laid-back attitudes, with honest concern. This is in honor of the guys who respect a girl’s every facet, from her privacy to her theology to her clothing style.

This is for the guys who escort their drunk, bewildered female friends back from parties and never take advantage once they’re at her door, for the guys who accompany girls to bars as buffers against the rest of the creepy male population, for the guys who know a girl is fishing for compliments but give them out anyway, for the guys who always play by the rules in a game where the rules favor cheaters, for the guys who are accredited as boyfriend material but somehow don’t end up being boyfriends, for all the nice guys who are overlooked, underestimated, and unappreciated, for all the nice guys who are manipulated, misled, and unjustly abandoned, this is for you.

This is for that time she left 40 urgent messages on your cell phone, and when you called her back, she spent three hours painstakingly dissecting two sentences her boyfriend said to her over dinner. And even though you thought her boyfriend was a chump and a jerk, you assured her that it was all ok and she shouldn’t worry about it. This is for that time she interrupted the best killing spree you’d ever orchestrated in GTA3 to rant about a rumor that romantically linked her and the guy she thinks is the most repulsive person in the world. And even though you thought it was immature and you had nothing against the guy, you paused the game for two hours and helped her concoct a counter-rumor to spread around the floor. This is also for that time she didn’t have a date, so after numerous vows that there was nothing “serious” between the two of you, she dragged you to a party where you knew nobody, the beer was awful, and she flirted shamelessly with you, justifying each fit of reckless teasing by announcing to everyone: “oh, but we’re just friends!” And even though you were invited purely as a symbolic warm body for her ego, you went anyways. Because you’re nice like that.

The nice guys don’t often get credit where credit is due. And perhaps more disturbing, the nice guys don’t seem to get laid as often as they should. And I wish I could logically explain this trend, but I can’t. From what I have observed on campus and what I have learned from talking to friends at other schools and in the workplace, the only conclusion I can form is that many girls are just illogical, manipulative bitches. Many of them claim they just want to date a nice guy, but when presented with such a specimen, they say irrational, confusing things such as “oh, he’s too nice to date” or “he would be a good boyfriend but he’s not for me” or “he already puts up with so much from me, I couldn’t possibly ask him out!” or the most frustrating of all: “no, it would ruin our friendship.” Yet, they continue to lament the lack of datable men in the world, and they expect their too-nice-to-date male friends to sympathize and apologize for the men that are jerks. Sorry, guys, girls like that are beyond my ability to fathom. I can’t figure out why the connection breaks down between what they say (I want a nice guy!) and what they do (I’m going to sleep with this complete ass now!). But one thing I can do, is say that the nice-guy-finishes-last phenomenon doesn’t last forever. There are definitely many girls who grow out of that train of thought and realize they should be dating the nice guys, not taking them for granted. The tricky part is finding those girls, and even trickier, finding the ones that are single.

So, until those girls are found, I propose a toast to all the nice guys. You know who you are, and I know you’re sick of hearing yourself described as ubiquitously nice. But the truth of the matter is, the world needs your patience in the department store, your holding open of doors, your party escorting services, your propensity to be a sucker for a pretty smile. For all the crazy, inane, absurd things you tolerate, for all the situations where you are the faceless, nameless hero, my accolades, my acknowledgement, and my gratitude go out to you. You do have credibility in this society, and your well deserved vindication is coming.


Fu-zu Jen, SEAS/WH, 2003
originally published for the Wharton Undergraduate Journal.


(Oh, and there's a similar one for the nice girls too.)

The (probably) most famous personality test, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, testing whether one is:
Extraverted (E) or Introverted (I),
Sensing (S) or iNtuitive (N),
Thinking (T) or Feeling (F), and
Judging (J) or Perceiving (P).

I tested as INTP (Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving), but very close to ISTP (Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving).

The test can be found here.

I was apparently VERY bored one... year... and took a whole slew of quizzes. (please do read the disclaimer at the top of the page.)

I got 22/30 answers correct on this very difficult "IQ test," which apparently puts my IQ at about 140.

http://www.puzz.com/core.html

Quote: "There is no time limit, and reference materials (books, computers, internet, etc.) may be used, but soliciting or receiving help from other people is against the rules."

Taking about an hour to finish, I used the following reference materials: Google (avoiding pages that reference this test), Wikipedia, Thesaurus.com, Dictionary.com, IMDB (for one question), and a Perl script I wrote that allows me to search the dictionary via regular expressions :-)

The questions I got wrong: 4, 12, 15, 18, 20, 22, 26, 30.