Speaking of Silicon Valley, here’s a photo that captures the spirit of the San Francisco – San Jose drives that Cory Doctorow and I used to make:
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My Primary Personality Defect
As I promised in this entry, I’m going to write about my primary personality defect.
It’s cool to say on your blog that those online “What {insert thing here} are you?” tests are passe, but I think that some of them are still fun. One of them is the Personality Defect Test, my results for which are shown below. If you know me, you’ll probably say “Yeah, that sounds like Joey, all right”…
BraggartYou are 85% Rational, 100% Extroverted, 42% Brutal, and 85% Arrogant. |
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You are the Braggart! Like Muhammad Ali, you would surely tell everyone that you are “The Greatest” whilst bragging incessantly about your intelligence, your skills, and your abilities. You tend to be a thinker rather than a feeler, and combined with your extroversion and arrogance, this makes you someone who probably just LOVES to brag about his accomplishments. Despite this, however, you are a very gentle, tender person and truly care about others’ feelings. You just happen to care more about yourself. Unlike Ali, of course, you are rather rational as opposed to emotional, and you are also much more gentle. But his arrogance and extroversion best reflect the most visible aspects of your personality. But his afro and his penchant for rhyming…not so much. There is not really much to dislike about you, aside from the fact that you can be incredibly annoying, and you probably never shut up about yourself. You may be one of these people who refer to themselves in the third person. If you have a nickname, it is probably one you gave to yourself, because you are too cool for the nickname others have given you–like “doofus” and “shitface”. Your personality defect, in summary, is the fact that you are extremely overconfident, extroverted, and perhaps rather lacking in emotions. YOU ARE THE GREATEST! Or so you keep telling yourself every night as you stare at yourself in the mirror and practically make out with your reflection. Maybe one day everyone else on the planet will agree with your assessment of yourself. Nah, I’m just kidding. We think you’re an arrogant dickhole. But a NICE arrogant dickhole, so no worries. To put it less negatively: 1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.
2. You are more EXTROVERTED than introverted.
3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.
4. You are more ARROGANT than humble. Compatibility: Your exact opposite is the Bitch-Slap. Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hand-Raiser, the Haughty Intellectual, and the Capitalist Pig. If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits. The other personality types: The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble. The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble. The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble. The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble. The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble. The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble. The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble. The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble. The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant. |
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Personality Defect Test written by saint_gasoline on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test |
Yup, that sounds like me, all right.
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Victory! [Updated: Not Quite]
I’m number one! I’m number one! — Update: Dang. In Canada. See below for details.
For those of us surfing in Canada, Google automatically redirects to Google.ca rather than Google.com. This blog is the number 1 Google result in Canada, number 4 in the world. For now.
This will only serve to inflame my primary personality defect, which I’ll blog about tomorrow.
(Thanks to Eldon and GadgetMan for pointing it out.)
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Pinko Redux
Tara Responds
Tara Hunt responds to my two articles on the name “Pinko Marketing” in the comments, and I respond to her response. Tara’s a friend and the dicussion was civilized, so you’re not going to get any Jerry Springer kicks here. What you will get is each of us explaining our rationales.
Zack Exley Responds
An anonymous commenter — who could be Zack Exley (whom I wrote about in my second post about Pinko Marketing) — writes:
You’re totally misquoting me. I said our online campaign was well run, but that the Dem *field* campaign was generally a mess.
That quote is from my notes, which I typed directly into my computer and formatted for this blog entry.
I’m going to go check out the blogs of other folks who attended that session, but for now, my statements stand. Zack, if that’s you, I’ll be happy to give you rebuttal space here on this blog — email me at joey@joeydevilla.com. If any of you attended the Internet + Society conference in 2004, can you corroborate either Zack’s or my account of what was said at that session?
Tuesday was loads of fun, from catching the Mesh conference to doing a quick accordion bit for G4TechTV with Amber to joining Maria and Deenster for chicken wings at Sneaky Dee’s afterwards. Here’s one of Maria’s photos of me performing outside Sneaky Dee’s — I think it would make a great album cover:
Here’s a photo of Tara Hunt doing her keynote on “Pinko Marketing” at the Mesh conference:
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#1 Google Result
I may still be the number 2 Google result for “Joey”, but I remain the number 1 result for the phrase “anal sovereignty” (which I last used in the previous entry).