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Personal DNA Personality Quiz

Personal DNA Personality Quiz

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I research and evaluate workplace assessments as part of my flex-hours consulting job, so I’m “asssessed” all the time. I’d love to see how they crunch the numbers for this “Personal DNA” Quiz, since there is so much variation and subtlety in the choices here. I love the flexibility of the answers. The spine of it looks like a variation of the 4-quadrant model developed by Marston and Jung, with some alternative vocabulary. Comments from the developers are welcome.

My results seem about right for the puppet CEO of Benevolent Deities Inc:

About You: You are a Creator

Your imagination, confidence, willingness to explore, and appreciation of beauty make you a CREATOR.

You are independent, and you enjoy your self-sufficiency.

Defying convention, you are very innovative, and you have a vivid imagination.

The look of things is important to you, and you have a keen eye for aesthetic beauty in multiple arenas.

You have a strong interest in what is new and exciting—and that includes forging ahead with new ideas, not simply discovering what is already out there.

Your eagerness to seek new and varied experiences leads you into many different situations.

You’re not set on one way of doing things, and you are creative when it comes to finding novel solutions to complex problems.

You trust yourself to be innovative and resourceful.

Your confidence allows you to take your general awareness and channel it into creativity.

Your independent streak allows you to make decisions efficiently and to trust your instincts.

If you want to be different:

Appreciate the earthly, practical elements of things—there is beauty in form as well.

While you are good at thinking abstractly, focusing on details a bit more may help you discover things about the world.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

How you relate to others: You are Benevolent

You are a great person to interact with—understanding, giving, and trusting—in a word, BENEVOLENT

You don’t mind being in social situations, as you feel comfortable enough with people to be yourself.

Your caring nature goes beyond a basic concern: you take the time to understand the nuances of people’s situations before passing any sort of judgment.

You’re a good listener, and even better at offering advice.

You’re concerned with others at both an individual and societal level—you sympathize with the plights of troubled groups, and you can care about people you’ve never met.

Considering many different perspectives is something at which you excel, and you appreciate that quality in others.

Other people’s feelings are important to you, and you’re good at mediating disputes.

Because of your understanding and patience, you tend to bring out the best in people.

Your independent streak allows you to make decisions efficiently and to trust your instincts.

If you want to be different:

You spend a lot of time taking care of others, but don’t forget to take care of yourself!

Sometimes you can get overcommitted, and when you sacrifice spending time with those close to you, it can make them feel unimportant.

Then there’s a bar graph display of thirteen personality trait rankings based on the answers of 30,000 other people. I’d want to know more about the sample if I were paying for the quiz.

I’m not sure about some of the results. For example (and maybe I shouldn’t go there), it ranks me as much more “masculine” than “feminine.” I think I’m a pretty even mix – psychologically speaking – of whatever we mean by that. Is there substantial agreement on what is psychically/spiritually/psychologically more masculine and what is more feminine? I wonder what descriptors they would use to label the gender of a psychology?

I know I’m leaving this wide open to all sorts of comments, but hey – comment anyway.

(thanks to Mr. H.K. – that was a good one! )

VirusHead in Space Again

VirusHead in Space Again

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I love, love, love this idea. I don’t care if any marketing folk make fun of me and think I’m a simple mark for the ploy. Here’s the service, here’s the fun stuff – I’ll gladly send them traffic. Honest, don’t you want a certificate every few months that your blog has been transmitted into space? The messages are cute too.

Next, I would really like the flying cars, the transporter beam, and the holodeck. How about that limitless, safe and cheap energy? Anybody working on that? I was sure we’d have it by now.

Dear Humanoid:

The landing of Space Shuttle Discovery was no end at all, yet the beginning to the double digit attempt of having alien life forms contact us as thousands of blogs left Planet Earth for a mission of their own. Please take this certificate as a symbolization of your audacious bravery on July 18, 2006 at 12:07 AM EST at North Latitude 28° 29′ 23” and West Longitude 80° 35′ 08” at a frequency of 5945 Mhz. This mission will not falter.

While many may have followed in your footsteps in the past, taking missions to the International Space Station to fix orbiters, your mission has gone even further, surpassing the station, Mars, Venus and out of the galaxy. Your mission is limitless, until it reaches a being with the ability to transcode, transcribe and transmit a return message. While it may not be in the lifetime, the Blog in Space team is certain this day will come.

Please, only encourage other life forms to return a message through transmitter waves, storks or Morse code. The Blog in Space team supports only safe intergalactic communications.

When Telling the World Simply Isn’t Enough.

Friendly Green Wishes,

– The Blog in Space Team



I’m thrilled to be signified by herby too!

Dubya’s Dashboard – ooh, shiny

Dubya’s Dashboard – ooh, shiny

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Since I’m considered a nationally influential blogger, particularly for the viral distribution of bright shiny Blogger objects, here’s another: Dubya’s Dashboard from JumperBailey.com

In addition to counting the number of days left, it gives a few hints as to why many of us are counting down the days.

I’m placing it on the sidebar right beneath the running national debt so as to quicklook the misery.

Here’s the explanation, and I’ll plug in the numbers for today.

  • Days Left, 911
    The number of days left in Dubya’s presidency. 911, huh?
  • Approval = 31%
    Dubya’s current approval rating as determined by Gallup (updated every couple of weeks)
  • Deficit/Surplus = $319B
    The current U.S. budget deficit (updated annually)
  • Forbes 400 = $1.13T
    The cumulative wealth of the richest 400 Americans, which interestingly dwarfs the deficit (updated annually)
  • Soldiers = 2648
    The number of coalition deaths in the Iraq War (updated weekly)
  • WMD = 0
    The number of “weapons of mass destruction” found, which is the ostensible reason we went to war in the first place (updated whenever we find them)

Links:

  • An approval “trend” graph which shows the president’s Gallup approval rating over the course of his administration. (Updated every few weeks)
  • A budget deficit “trend” graph (shown as a percentage of GDP) which charts our budget deficit history from JFK to Dubya. (Updated annually)
  • A “winners” table which shows which segments of society won and lost after taxes from 2002 to 2003.
  • A list of the names, ages, and hometowns of the men and women who have lost their lives in the Iraq conflict. (Updated weekly until the deaths stop)
  • A “Get the Dashboard!” link which allows people to get their own dashboard.

My criticisms are these:

  1. The statistics, graphs and lists aren’t updated often enough.
  2. It’s not intuitively clear that you can click within the frame to return to the original state of the display.
  3. I had to adjust the width and height to get rid of scrollbars.
  4. It would be a better strategy all around to have the links go out to full webpages

I would like to see an expanded version of these kinds of statistics. Here are some of my suggestions for blog toymakers:

  • How much money is being printed (trend report)
  • Amount of tax revenue lost through corporate welfare (trend report)
  • Environmental effects – Increase in children with asthma, extinctions, top 50 companies who destroy for profit, etc.
  • Number of schools “left behind” (Does that phrase remind you of the Rapture, or is it just me?)
  • Average college tuition (trend report)
  • Average student loan debt (trend report)
  • Average household credit card debt (trend report)
  • Consumer price index, and price of a gallon of: milk, gasoline, housepaint, water (trend report)
Stem Cell Funds Veto – Who Benefits?

Stem Cell Funds Veto – Who Benefits?

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Bush finally decided to veto something after six years: Stem cell research – a bill that even this Congress passed in both Houses.

“Now that’s something to save yer virgin veto for! All the people who might benefit from the research – well, they don’t matter so much. Those are future people – they don’t hardly count, not like those itty bitty blobs of cells so dear to the heart of that God-guy who’s gonna kill all you damn Liberals right soon. What matters is the manly action (superman!) to protect them pre-differentiated embryonic cells from study before they still get discarded. Well, we never said they wuz goin’ anywheres to thrive.”

My first line of thinking on this was simply that if this research doesn’t go forward here, it will elsewhere. Scientists in other countries will move ahead, and we won’t. Meanwhile, Rove is slinking around with his typical misinformation.
Tell me the truth – are there people who believe anything at all that Rove says? Can’t we just bestow a title, like “Duke of Propaganda and Slander,” upon him? Maybe they could have some pagentry, with flags and boots (or slippers?).

But wait! Didn’t Bush already allow limited funding of embryonic stem cell work in August 2001?
I think we should be debating bioethics on several fronts, including this one.

However, I don’t really think the Bush “virgin veto” is about morals or values – or even religious conformity.
It’s not even primarily about his “base” (did you know that’s how “al Qaeda” translates?).

This bill isn’t so much about the research itself. It’s about the funding! It’s about….privatization!

Private foundations and companies have continued funding this research, after all. It’s an investment.

Hmmm…. could it be that there might be private interests who might (gasp) want to be the ones to make all the money on this?

Maybe even…. some major contributors to Bush and the Republican party?

I wonder if someone would do a crosslisting of the likely companies who might profit from internal discoveries and applications and, say, those who were given the Medicare drug benefit to write for our legislative branch? Can we see a list of the companies who are doing this research now, and their campaign contributions?

I’m sorry to say it (and to believe it too), but when this administration talks values and morals, follow the money.

Corruption is a serious threat to our form of government, and all the more so until we have public-funded elections. The news tonight was full of horrified reporters noticing that some Katrina money was wasted and used inappropriately (they don’t mention the money that went to Pat Robertson, though). Still, we haven’t gotten much explanation of the disappearance of much larger sums through the hands of completely different segments of our population (and corporations who have been granted “personhood”).

What would be the benefit to Americans if the research was funded by the federal government, rather than by corporate interests? I’m not a lawyer, but if anyone out there has an informed opinion on the possibilities here, please comment.

Theoryheads and Postmodernism

Theoryheads and Postmodernism

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I’ve added a new page – “About VirusHead.”

There is a short explanation of why the blog is named VirusHead.

There is also a long rambling section about theoryheads and postmodernism (only for the intensely curious).

I’ve also added a page dedicated to Jehovah’s Witnesses issues, news and resources. In addition to page links (to bits of the main VirusHead site), the page lists all the titles of the blog posts on this topic, so that you don’t have to click through the category pages to get a sense of what’s there.

I’ve also moved my tag cloud to its own page, which includes all the tags. All of them.

Inconvenient Truth Widget

Inconvenient Truth Widget

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I guess they don’t count my own pledge. They didn’t have this widget for bloggers then.

I still haven’t seen the movie. Still working on the babysitting situation…

I’ve added it to my sidebar for a bit. It’s strange that the javascript will work in the sidebar but not in a post.