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So, yes, I took a personality profile on the Internet last month. You can take it here if you’d like. Superficial as always, but interesting to note my score.

(Here it is).

Is it a surprise to anyone that my Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Openness are almost off the charts, while we ignore the fact that my Conscientious percentiles are, shall we say, somewhat lower?

My wife’s scores are almost the opposite of mine. Maybe that’s how we complement each other. In fact, I’d say that’s how we avoid (mostly) driving each other crazy.

Or maybe she’s just a saint.

(grin)

One of my favorite podcasts, Cinecast, runs through various marathons where they examine a genre of films with five representative samples. It’s a bit fun, because they listen a lot to viewer feedback, and their chosen samples are always subject to some listener controversy.

I liked their marathon on Westerns (although Kevin recommended The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly over their choice A Fistful of Dollars–thanks to him, I’ve got the DVD now). Right now, they’re doing Hitchcock. An obvious choice of film study, but these guys make it fresh. I’ve always wanted to see Notorious, but I tend to find North By Northwest on TV instead (one of my favorites, at least).

At any rate, if you ever want to look at the marathons and “play along at home,” here’s the Cinecast marathon link. And here’s the link to the podcast, if you have iTunes (it’s all free, so why not?).

And Happy Chanukah. I hope you have a stress-free and cheerful season. Or regardless, that the new year brings you new paths and quests to follow.

After all, things are happening–Aslan is on the move.

😉

It’s been an interesting year for me, the fall particularly so. As I look to the end of the week (and the end of the year), things changed in a number of ways. In fact, I’ve not posted to this weblog in over a month intentionally. I couldn’t trust what I might write once my fingers got going on the keys.

At any rate, I guess what I’m saying is that you’ll see more postings from me now, but I’m not sure what form they’ll take. Not to sound trite, but I’ve spent a lot of time in the past few years trying to be the best this or that at work, and fulfilling various roles elsewhere (including how I write this blog). That’s become a wearying dead end, especially at work. I was always very worried about boundaries, and edges, and how things looked, how people would react, you know the drill. I think now I’ll just be the best me I can, and if things don’t fit for me, maybe it’s the situation that I need to change instead of form-fitting myself into every niche in my life. If I’m not making sense, don’t worry. Things will become clearer gradually.

After all, 2006 is a brand new year for all of us.

Yep, they’re remaking The Prisoner.

I’m just shaking my head over it. First, how can they do that? The original was unique. Secondly, why? What can they possibly add to the concept?

I’m not expecting great, or even passable, things from this remake. It may not really matter in the end, though. Six of one, y’know…

digg.com seems to think so. I’m not much into games, but it held my attention for at least, um, 22 seconds.

Oh, the game is here.

The Steadman band has broken with its label(s), and they’ve released their entire catalogue online at their website for free download. The TWIT podcast last week said that Paul McCartney praised the band pretty highly, but hey–you can freely download every song and decide for yourself.

The list is here.

I’ve read, um, twelve of them. I’ve never completely read 1984, never read Cryptonomicon, am sorely lacking on Philip K. Dick (although I have the feeling that they’re all similar), missed Pratchett, and have never heard of numbers 14, 19, and 20.

Huh. I would have thought that I was more of a geek than that, but it makes sense–I’m more Golden and Silver Age Scifi.

However, it’s in a case on my belt. At several times in last few months I have leaned on it and called the first person in my phone list unknowingly.

So, my cousin Jeannine several hundred miles away has gotten several silent phone calls, one at 11:27 at night.

I’ve now added a new contact in my phone address book at the beginning of its list, namely me. Hopefully I’ll only crank call myself by accident in the future.