the world has turned and left me here

In regards to the law or conservation of flux.

How do we intrepret the escence of static input, random chaos at it's purest. When a person receives, but cannot intrepret the input. Addition, he expells flux into an abyss. ¿Flux in, flux out; introvert, extrovert, or insane?

You mean to say, GIGO? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIGO) Or maybe GOGI--we live inside a feedback loop after all.

In the end, the intro/extro thing is dumb binary typecasting perhaps. At best it's just a scalar metric for something that probably shouldn't be a scalar--or even a mathematical object--in the first place.

That said, for some reason making the qualitative quantitative has an undeniable attraction for me and for apparently many others. There's a great chart on the wikipedia Meyers-Briggs page that correlates your score with various personality traits. Gross oversimplification, but fun:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyers-Briggs#Statistical_studies

thanks for a great slice of new york. did you really do all of that in one day. it's a good day when i make down to save-mart for some milk.

my mouth is drooling and the itch is set. fuck i wanna move there man! it's all going down without me and i need a piece of this rainbow pie. it might not be until act three but it's a comin my way.

"making the qualitative quantitative" - I just spent a few days with a bunch of poli-sci folks & people at the stats-heavy fringes of the social sciences (add scare quotes as necessary). It is a damned widespread impulse.

'course, I suppose in some sense that's what science itself does. I just wish people with a misplaced impulse to quantify would stop foisting their intellectual baggage on, say, the entire process of education, as if numbers, any numbers, actually had a kind of mystical, incantatory power to them...

Anyway I liked the writing. :)

Yes, to answer your Q, I did this all in one day--and more! At the end I met that writer Simone at a coffee shop, the one you talked to randomly on the phone. We talked for probably 4 hours. She was a really interesting person.

...so I guess there was an 11th vignette at the end that I omitted. Oh well. You need *some* balance between blogging and actually doing the stuff you end up blogging about I guess.

GIGO aye, seems feasible. I took the "official" test when I thought I was going crazy. It quanitified me as an INTJ.

Wes I am also INTJ. You're the first other one I can remember meeting. Do you think they publish a Myer's Briggs code horoscope anywhere?

Once upon a time, I was the aberrant, heavily tested, going to the school shrink at least once a week kid. Go figure, right? Anyway, I must have taken any popular psych/personality/IQ scale you'd care to name at some point before graduating highschool. I just wish I could remember any of the results...

I do remember being classed as "oppositional defiant" at one point. Which is at least more interested than "depressive" or the raging cliche of "attention deficit disordered".