Sunday, 28 December, 2003

Type Logic The other thing that caught my eye was Mir's pass through the typelogic web site via another site. Typelogic is based on the Myers-Briggs test. It presents an abbreviated web version of that test. I took a "returning students" class a few years ago - kicking off my current slow motion effort to finish my degree, as part of that class we took the full official version, the MBTI. When I first came across the Typelogic version I did it and largely came out the same way I did with the full test. Looking over the packet I got with the MBTI, I note the test creators claim their work is based on the work of Carl Jung.. The test I took has me favoring the INTP profile. The last indicator dichotomy (judging into perceiving) scored shallow directionaly. Looking at this now set me to thinking. What that last indicator is trying to establish is a mode of living - a preference for a planned and organized life or one spontaneous and flexible. I don't have any preference here. When It comes to accomplishing particular things I find that I must become very structured in approach - take notes make outlines often for writing, consider ergonomics, hand positioning, muscle memory for mutable tasks. For all things I need to stop and develop a systematic approach, or I cannot complete anything. It is easy from this to flip over the other way. To become convinced that you have found the way through method and list, and through habits, to a productive life in a large and general sense. The needs of work, and home absorb a great deal of organized living. As much as one can give. You will not find you way back to ideas until you begin breaking patterns, small patterns big patterns and not with strategic goal directed deliberateness, but randomly, continually, and with no expectation. 11:51:25 PM    comment [];trackback []; Arachnaeblogia I make notes - in various medium - for myself of things I want to write about. Its an imperfect system insofar as it relies on my finding and unfolding small wadded scraps of paper and further bringing the glyphs encountered back across the wider gulf to meaning and relation. This one says : "exq corpse & typelogic". Fortunately I remember what this means. This are two things off of Dim Sum Diaries that I wanted to think of something to say about. One entry led to a Andrei Codrescu piece for All Things Considered, in which he compared web loggers to spiders. I listened to the piece at work (broadband) a couple of weeks ago. I don't recall he explicitly stated that web loggers are trapping and eating their fellow netizens. On the other hand he didn't say he didn't think so. He did say that in his country the spiders (which he described as being rather large) die off in the winter. Here it was possible to spot the metaphoric mind in action: Webloggers are constant hunters, trappers who will experience a winter when no food will come and will freeze in the cold. I feel he's trying to say something here, but I'm not sure what. I know Codrescui mostly from his movie Road Scholar where armed with a drivers license he sets out across the United States. Idiosynchronicity (not a real word, just similar to one) seems to have been that projects hallmark. He also went back to Romania for PBS Frontline special Romania - My Old Haunts, which I haven't seen. Codrescu is an original editor of the he E 'zine Exquisite Corpse. This is a web site I used to look at often, and one of those sites that I visit less frequently since my web viewing got skewed towards RSS. Now on its thirteenth, issue stuffed full of the poetry of his friends, fiercely literary, and calling itself a journal; this corpse looks hearty enough to live through even a Carpathian winter. No starving spiders there. Should web loggers strive to be resolutely A-literary in their writing. Carefully compartment themselves as techbloggers, warbloggers, or photobloggers, in order to avoid their motives and aspirations being questioned for their commitment to and converscence in the history of literary ideas. Or like the Brown Recluses I keep finding in my apartment, should we just look for a warm-air draft and try to stand our ground, eight feet on the floor, through the winter of dis(claimed)content. 12:00:16 AM    comment [];trackback [];

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