I am not sure what is more annoying about a personality test… the setup in which they force you to tell yourself who you are or their uncanny accuracy. I wonder which profile least appreciates being profiled.

But once you get over the trauma of having your inner psyche unraveled by 68 awkwardly probing questions, there comes the blissful comparison of yourself with other well known and famous ENTJs.

• Napoleon
• Bill Gates
• Indiana Jones (well, Harrison Ford anway…)

I have actually been thinking a lot about the whole issue of ingrained personality versus disciplined and purposeful habits. I started reading through proverbs every morning, and I have really been taken back by how blatant the book describes the views and actions of the wise person versus that of a fool. I believe Solomon intends to suggest that we can choose wisdom over folly, and even though we may be born with a propensity for foolishness… we can choose to hold our tongues, listen carefully, seek knowledge, gain understanding, and in time become wise… regardless of our Myers-Briggs breakdown… or is that just typical thinking for an ENTJer like myself?

• Myers Briggs
• Test yourself for free…
• Become wise for free…

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I recently finished reading a book that made me think a little bit…

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  Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology
  Author: Eugene H. Peterson
  Rating: 4

I bought it from Amazon about 2 years ago now, I have a collection of books waiting to be finished dating back better than 5 years now, and I am quite glad that I took my time with this one. I believe what recently spurred me on to finish was a series of interviews with the author, Eugene H. Peterson, through Mars Hill Audio. Peterson has a grandfatherly voice that comes through in his writing, but it is even thicker in his speech. I found myself suddenly trusting him, and looking for some grandfatherly advice.

Peterson is the author of The Message, a contemporary and somewhat controversial translation of the Bible (there are no verse numbers, after all). This tid bit of background information had covertly formed Peterson into a maverick Christian by my estimation. Coupled with my ignorance in never reading The Message, or any other of his books, I had assumed him a pragmatic revolutionary with post modern sympathies. He is nothing of the sort. The one thing he may share with the current bread of post modern Christian authors, i.e. Brian Mclaren, is a decidedly conversational tone and approach to theologically centered discourse. He routinely surrounds Spiritual discussions with the context of “ordinary” life: you know; eating, sleeping, working, and playing.

Peterson speaks with a careful yet firm voice seasoned with a pastor’s experience. When I finished reading, I realized that I had just taken in a thorough description of what it means to be a properly motivated and postured Christian community leader. If I aspire to this calling I will do well to listen to some advice from an old wise sage.

We live in a culture that has replaced soul with self. This reduction turns people into either problems or consumers. Insofar as we acquiesce in that replacement, we gradually but surely regress in our identity, for we end up thinking of ourselves and dealing with others in marketplace terms: everyone we meet is either a potential recruit to join our enterprise or a potential consumer for what we are selling: or we ourselves are the potential recruits and consumers. Neither we nor our friends have any dignity just as we are, only in terms of how we or they can be used.
pg 38

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For years the thought of being “out on my own”, out from underneath the protective wing of corporate America, was one of the scariest possibilities I had to consider.

How do freelancers make a go of it?

… is what I would ask myself…

I believe I am figuring it out.  You learn to swim, and you don’t pity yourself treading water when all the boats around you are sinking.  Jumping into the icy Atlantic is not as hard when you are standing at the tip of the Titanic.  In an odd sort of way, the depressed economy is the biggest boon to my freshly outfitted indipendent business owner mind set.  Most of what I see that has been done is not all that appealing, starting something new has really become my only hope.

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Need a website?

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Some would say that 31 is just too early to retire.
I am not so sure.

There are many compelling reasons to retire at an early age. Adventure sports like hang gliding and wild game safaris can be performed without the fear of pulmonary over excitement. Being young, one is better suited to make the most of modern leisure activities like video games and YouTube viral video watching. A major concern of older retirees is health care and costs, young people are generally better at healing and have the option of forgoing health care all together. Some older retirees can find themselves financially strapped by their children’s education costs, by retiring before your children go to college… or before you have children all together… one can enjoy a much less worrisome retirement.


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You’re Fired.

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Special thanks to all the volunteers who made the first annual DWIFF Challenge a reality

• Scott Dunham
• Suzanne Janik
• Sarah Mark
• Nicole LaDouceur
• Denver Rochon
• Billy Whitehouse
• Mike from CCS
• 23 Willing teams of Detroit film makers…

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These are two words that I never wanted to read next to each other. In my world of fragile technology strung together by bits of wire, IP addresses, and a few lines of code… I am completely vulnerable to the forces of nature.

All the tech support in the world can’t help you when the thing catches on fire and burns to a crisp.


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I have been working in roughly the same cubicle space for about the past 5 years. I actually don’t mind it, I would even say that I find it “cozie”… in a slightly complacent sort of way.

Recently the network connection at my cubicle, indeed the whole west side of the building, has been on the fritz… one of those random ghost problems that only seems to surface when you have managed to forget about the possibility of it coming back. I was in the middle of a project with a deadline, and instead of waiting for a solution from the ever diligent (yet admittedly perplexed) IT staff… I decided to move my work space to the other side of the building.

What happened to be available was the largest conference room in the office, normally seats about 74-100 employees. For the past few days it has seated one employee… me.

From the moment I sat down at my freshly configured work space, I was overwhelmingly satisfied with my new environment. My new cubicle is about 40 times the size of my old one, and thats saying something… my employer does not skimp on even the regular cubicle. But this is whole new universe of work space. The only location more spacious would be to transplant myself outside on the patio. Not only is it larger, but I am situated such that I can actually look out the window… all 70 feet of it. Its an amazing experience…. I don’t know if I have ever had such a beautiful view to accompany the peripheral vision of my working line of site.

Oh ya… the network connection is much faster in here too…

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Failing hard disks are the bane of my existence. I recently dug through my PC junkyard and did a quick catalog of all the dead drives that I could not bare to throw out over the past decade.

27 Dead Hard Drives

I have lost hard drives in my…

• personal computers
• laptop
• corporate server
• personal business server
• i-pod
• external backup drive
• double redundant external backup drive

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Over the past 4 years I have competed in a national competition, known as the National Film Challenge. It has been one of the best experiences of my budding film career. In one weekend, all excuses go to the wayside, and you just make a movie… its a short… but its a finished short. I am very proud to be able to bring this experience to the local Detroit indie film community through the Detroit Windsor International Film Festival.

This is our chance to put everything we have come to love in the national competition into our own and bake in some home grown Detroit flavor and community.

• DWIFF Challenge Website www.dwiff.org/challenge
• DWIFF Website www.dwiff.org

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Just when I thought I had grown up and found “better” alternatives to trusty Taco Bell, they come out with this… its hard to pass up for $5. Its the Cinnamon Twists that really put it over the top, its usually hard to justify paying for the sugared Styrofoam… but here they are included with the meal!

• One Club Chalupa
• One Crunchy Taco
• One Bean Burrito
• One order of Cinnamon Twists
• And of course, a bottomless beverage

What more could you ask for? Way to go Taco Bell!

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