mountain man takes bronze
this weekend was the special olympics basketball tournament at wpi. every year, tke runs the tournament--handles all the volunteers, does registration, all that jazz. it's one of the most rewarding things i do, and i think i'll be helping out special o for many years to come. the most fantastic aspect of the games is the way the athletes behave when it comes time to handing out awards and medals. it doesn't matter if they took dead last and didn't win a single game, they are still excited to be there and having the chance to compete--the true essence of sport. and for the last 3 years, i've had i think the most rewarding job at the games. i'm special events chairman, which boils down to opening ceremonies and awards ceremonies. this year i had the bad boy chris sim helping out, so we rocked it hardcore. but it's the most rewarding job because you get to see the happiness when the teams are announced and cheered and celebrated for competing, no matter their finish. it's the best part of games, and i'm glad i've had the chance to do it multiple times. two highlights of the weekend were these: on saturday belmont won the gold in their division and when the medals were all handed out, one of the athletes asked to have the mike, and i have no problem letting the people speak. he gives thanks to their coach and how they'll miss him since he was done coaching after this tournament. the whole team then proceeded to take their medals off and place them around the coaches neck. it was one of the coolest things i've ever seen. the second was on sunday when the stompers were playing (i didn't catch where they were from), and they had this one guy on the team. we called him mountain man, cuz of the ridiculously huge gray beard he had. besides being mentally handicapped, he was also deaf. but that didn't stop him from having game. the guy was the man. insane d. he was making steals and play tough defense better than anyone else i had seen. and in one game he scored 20 of the team's 34 points. insane! so when it came to their final game, they had to win to take 3rd (which meant bronze medal instead of a ribbon). now, i shouldn't be cheering against another team, but i wanted to see mountain man get his medal. and he did. and how happy he looked at the awards ceremony made the gettting up at 6am and spending 10+ hours on both sat and sun made it all worth it. the atheletes embodied what it was to enjoy life and be happy in the simple pleasure of sport. i take my hat off to you, special olympians, and i hope you a long and healthy one
3.28.2003
ENTP
so i took about 4 myer briggs/keirsey temperment tests today and all of them came back as me being ENTP. which is cool with me.
here's a good test to see what you are
here's my description and a site that describes them all.
"Clever" is the word that perhaps describes ENTPs best. The professor who juggles half a dozen ideas for research papers and grant proposals in his mind while giving a highly entertaining lecture on an abstruse subject is a classic example of the type. So is the stand-up comedian whose lampoons are not only funny, but incisively accurate.
ENTPs are usually verbally as well as cerebrally quick, and generally love to argue--both for its own sake, and to show off their often-impressive skills. They tend to have a perverse sense of humor as well, and enjoy playing devil's advocate. They sometimes confuse, even inadvertently hurt, those who don't understand or accept the concept of argument as a sport.
ENTPs are as innovative and ingenious at problem-solving as they are at verbal gymnastics; on occasion, however, they manage to outsmart themselves. This can take the form of getting found out at "sharp practice"--ENTPs have been known to cut corners without regard to the rules if it's expedient -- or simply in the collapse of an over-ambitious juggling act. Both at work and at home, ENTPs are very fond of "toys"--physical or intellectual, the more sophisticated the better. They tend to tire of these quickly, however, and move on to new ones.
ENTPs are basically optimists, but in spite of this (perhaps because of it?), they tend to become extremely petulant about small setbacks and inconveniences. (Major setbacks they tend to regard as challenges, and tackle with determin- ation.) ENTPs have little patience with those they consider wrongheaded or unintelligent, and show little restraint in demonstrating this. However, they do tend to be extremely genial, if not charming, when not being harassed by life in general.
In terms of their relationships with others, ENTPs are capable of bonding very closely and, initially, suddenly, with their loved ones. Some appear to be deceptively offhand with their nearest and dearest; others are so demonstrative that they succeed in shocking co-workers who've only seen their professional side. ENTPs are also good at acquiring friends who are as clever and entertaining as they are. Aside from those two areas, ENTPs tend to be oblivious of the rest of humanity, except as an audience -- good, bad, or potential.
Extraverted iNtuition
ENTPs are nothing if not unique. Brave new associations flow freely from the unconscious into the world of the living. Making, discovering and developing connections between and among two or more of anything is virtually automatic. The product of intuition is merely an icon of process; ENTPs are in the business of change, improvement, experimentation.
The attraction Extraverted iNtuition has toward the real and physical amounts to a cosmic non sequitur: theory is drawn to practice. Such encounters are clearly puzzling. Both parties--the intuitor and the realist--are aware of a xenic quality in their meeting, with reactions ranging from recoil to reverie.
Introverted Thinking
Thinking is iNtuition's ready assistant, an embodiment of the sort of logic found in laws, boards and circuits. Thinking's job is to lend focus and direction to iNtuition's critical mass. The temporary habitations of changeling iNtuition are constructed of Boolean materials from Thinking's storehouse. Ultimately, Thinking is no match for iNtuition's prodigiousness. Systems lie in various states of disarray, fragmentary traces of Thinking's feverish attempts to shadow and undergird the leaps of the dominant function. One can only suppose that Thinking must continue to work during REM sleep pulling together iNtuition's brainchildren into integral wholes.
Extraverted Feeling
To the extent that Feeling is developed, ENTPs extravert Feeling judgment. As a result, it is not uncommon to find affability and bonhomie in members of this species. Tertiary functions are potentially utilitarian. Their limitations appear in their relative underdevelopment, diminished endurance, and vulnerability. ENTPs may harness Feeling's good will in areas such as sales, service, drama, humor and art. ENTP loyalty often runs high and can be hooked by those the ENTP counts as friends.
Introverted Sensing
Like a tail on the kite of iNtuition, Introverted Sensing counterweighs these beings drawn to nonconformity and anarchy. These shadowy sensory forms, so familiar to SJ types, serve as lodestones which many ENTPs employ Herculean measures to escape. "Question authority! (then do exactly what it tells you)" sums up the dilemma in which ENTPs may find themselves by attempting to best the tarbaby Sensing. Occasionally acknowledging awareness of norms and abnormality could, in theory, be potentially freeing.
Additionally, I've noticed that ENTPs have the need to have areas of expertise/excellence/uniqueness in which one is second to none. I've never beaten an ENTP at his/her own game--not in the final analysis.
so i took about 4 myer briggs/keirsey temperment tests today and all of them came back as me being ENTP. which is cool with me.
here's a good test to see what you are
here's my description and a site that describes them all.
"Clever" is the word that perhaps describes ENTPs best. The professor who juggles half a dozen ideas for research papers and grant proposals in his mind while giving a highly entertaining lecture on an abstruse subject is a classic example of the type. So is the stand-up comedian whose lampoons are not only funny, but incisively accurate.
ENTPs are usually verbally as well as cerebrally quick, and generally love to argue--both for its own sake, and to show off their often-impressive skills. They tend to have a perverse sense of humor as well, and enjoy playing devil's advocate. They sometimes confuse, even inadvertently hurt, those who don't understand or accept the concept of argument as a sport.
ENTPs are as innovative and ingenious at problem-solving as they are at verbal gymnastics; on occasion, however, they manage to outsmart themselves. This can take the form of getting found out at "sharp practice"--ENTPs have been known to cut corners without regard to the rules if it's expedient -- or simply in the collapse of an over-ambitious juggling act. Both at work and at home, ENTPs are very fond of "toys"--physical or intellectual, the more sophisticated the better. They tend to tire of these quickly, however, and move on to new ones.
ENTPs are basically optimists, but in spite of this (perhaps because of it?), they tend to become extremely petulant about small setbacks and inconveniences. (Major setbacks they tend to regard as challenges, and tackle with determin- ation.) ENTPs have little patience with those they consider wrongheaded or unintelligent, and show little restraint in demonstrating this. However, they do tend to be extremely genial, if not charming, when not being harassed by life in general.
In terms of their relationships with others, ENTPs are capable of bonding very closely and, initially, suddenly, with their loved ones. Some appear to be deceptively offhand with their nearest and dearest; others are so demonstrative that they succeed in shocking co-workers who've only seen their professional side. ENTPs are also good at acquiring friends who are as clever and entertaining as they are. Aside from those two areas, ENTPs tend to be oblivious of the rest of humanity, except as an audience -- good, bad, or potential.
Extraverted iNtuition
ENTPs are nothing if not unique. Brave new associations flow freely from the unconscious into the world of the living. Making, discovering and developing connections between and among two or more of anything is virtually automatic. The product of intuition is merely an icon of process; ENTPs are in the business of change, improvement, experimentation.
The attraction Extraverted iNtuition has toward the real and physical amounts to a cosmic non sequitur: theory is drawn to practice. Such encounters are clearly puzzling. Both parties--the intuitor and the realist--are aware of a xenic quality in their meeting, with reactions ranging from recoil to reverie.
Introverted Thinking
Thinking is iNtuition's ready assistant, an embodiment of the sort of logic found in laws, boards and circuits. Thinking's job is to lend focus and direction to iNtuition's critical mass. The temporary habitations of changeling iNtuition are constructed of Boolean materials from Thinking's storehouse. Ultimately, Thinking is no match for iNtuition's prodigiousness. Systems lie in various states of disarray, fragmentary traces of Thinking's feverish attempts to shadow and undergird the leaps of the dominant function. One can only suppose that Thinking must continue to work during REM sleep pulling together iNtuition's brainchildren into integral wholes.
Extraverted Feeling
To the extent that Feeling is developed, ENTPs extravert Feeling judgment. As a result, it is not uncommon to find affability and bonhomie in members of this species. Tertiary functions are potentially utilitarian. Their limitations appear in their relative underdevelopment, diminished endurance, and vulnerability. ENTPs may harness Feeling's good will in areas such as sales, service, drama, humor and art. ENTP loyalty often runs high and can be hooked by those the ENTP counts as friends.
Introverted Sensing
Like a tail on the kite of iNtuition, Introverted Sensing counterweighs these beings drawn to nonconformity and anarchy. These shadowy sensory forms, so familiar to SJ types, serve as lodestones which many ENTPs employ Herculean measures to escape. "Question authority! (then do exactly what it tells you)" sums up the dilemma in which ENTPs may find themselves by attempting to best the tarbaby Sensing. Occasionally acknowledging awareness of norms and abnormality could, in theory, be potentially freeing.
Additionally, I've noticed that ENTPs have the need to have areas of expertise/excellence/uniqueness in which one is second to none. I've never beaten an ENTP at his/her own game--not in the final analysis.
3.27.2003
short hiatus
there were problems with our internet server here at tke. we got new carriers, and it was causing some problems with the dns and ip. i don't know what that stuff means, but i know it's fixed. i am not that internet savvy at all. i couldn't tell you the difference between dns and stmp (or smtp, if that's correct). i know how to go on the internet and make webpages at places that already host them. ask me to set up a host and do that crazy stuff or write php or xhtml, i'm like a lost puppy with those cute hungry eyes that you just can't resist and you have to pick him up and hold him and pet him til his tail is all a-waggin' and he's licking your face like there's no tomorrow. that's what i'm like.
but i'm back on internet and i'm good to go with the continual blogging. and i was just starting to get my readers back, when it went all downhill, but hopefully they are loyal and will excuse this technical mishap.
war: what is it good for? absolutely nothing. say it again.
i will continue my position of supporting our troops but not our president. i am going to hold this position and hold a cynical view of our reasons to be there until they--and i am skeptical they actually will--find bio or chem weapons. then i would offer my apologies, admit i was wrong, and ask for a regime change. until that happens, i will continue to contend that saddam was not a threat to the usa or a threat to stability in the region or a pool of terrorist activity towards the west. i hope and pray our troops make it home alive and those that are captured are released well and soon. and those that have lost loved ones, i offer my moment of silence for the fallen.
both the minnesota timberwolves and the minnesota wild are going to make their respective playoffs this year. it's good time to be a sports fan from minnesota. and baseball starts this weekend. wickedy-bam!
another internet problem. blogger is fucking my shit up. i try to add people to my list of blogs, i try to change some other stuff, and it won't accept my changes. it just doesn't change it. when i look in my template, the changes are there, but it doesn't actually change them. what the shit is that? you would think that a major corporation like this could handle a small problem like that and fix it? (i enjoy pyra's blogger and i'm glad they have it, but let's have a bit of followthrough!)
there were problems with our internet server here at tke. we got new carriers, and it was causing some problems with the dns and ip. i don't know what that stuff means, but i know it's fixed. i am not that internet savvy at all. i couldn't tell you the difference between dns and stmp (or smtp, if that's correct). i know how to go on the internet and make webpages at places that already host them. ask me to set up a host and do that crazy stuff or write php or xhtml, i'm like a lost puppy with those cute hungry eyes that you just can't resist and you have to pick him up and hold him and pet him til his tail is all a-waggin' and he's licking your face like there's no tomorrow. that's what i'm like.
but i'm back on internet and i'm good to go with the continual blogging. and i was just starting to get my readers back, when it went all downhill, but hopefully they are loyal and will excuse this technical mishap.
war: what is it good for? absolutely nothing. say it again.
i will continue my position of supporting our troops but not our president. i am going to hold this position and hold a cynical view of our reasons to be there until they--and i am skeptical they actually will--find bio or chem weapons. then i would offer my apologies, admit i was wrong, and ask for a regime change. until that happens, i will continue to contend that saddam was not a threat to the usa or a threat to stability in the region or a pool of terrorist activity towards the west. i hope and pray our troops make it home alive and those that are captured are released well and soon. and those that have lost loved ones, i offer my moment of silence for the fallen.
both the minnesota timberwolves and the minnesota wild are going to make their respective playoffs this year. it's good time to be a sports fan from minnesota. and baseball starts this weekend. wickedy-bam!
another internet problem. blogger is fucking my shit up. i try to add people to my list of blogs, i try to change some other stuff, and it won't accept my changes. it just doesn't change it. when i look in my template, the changes are there, but it doesn't actually change them. what the shit is that? you would think that a major corporation like this could handle a small problem like that and fix it? (i enjoy pyra's blogger and i'm glad they have it, but let's have a bit of followthrough!)
3.17.2003
3.16.2003
3.14.2003
more politics
Socialist - You believe the free market can be
beneficial, but that a large and powerful state
is necessary to redistribute the wealth of the
top classes to those of the bottom. You also
think that basic utilities and trasportation
should be publicly owned. Your historical role
model is Eugene Debs.
Which political sterotype are you?
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this guy presents a very interesting argument
blog of a correspondent in iraq
the pro-war side speaks out
english sans french
another poster for peace
Socialist - You believe the free market can be
beneficial, but that a large and powerful state
is necessary to redistribute the wealth of the
top classes to those of the bottom. You also
think that basic utilities and trasportation
should be publicly owned. Your historical role
model is Eugene Debs.
Which political sterotype are you?
brought to you by Quizilla
this guy presents a very interesting argument
blog of a correspondent in iraq
the pro-war side speaks out
english sans french
another poster for peace
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