Meme

[brigdh]

I jump on the bandwagon along with, well, everyone: go tell me what you think of me.

Also, tomorrow I'm going up to the computer store where I bought my laptop, because I can't get the wireless connector to work without whatever program it was that they had installed for the driver. Hopefully they will fix it for me, otherwise I will have to try to find random programs in an attempt to make it work.

Someday, I fix all of these bloody problems. And to think that once I had a perfectly operational computer.

Comments

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

Computers are evil. Too bad there's no living without them.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

Hey, that reminds me, did you ever get that music I sent you -- I ask only because my email has been irritatingly treacherous lately, so there's a real possibility that you didn't...

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I did, thank you! I'd meant to write you back and tell you how much you appreciated it, but I have so much stuff to download that it's all going terribly slowly (my computer doesn't appreciate my trying to download and install three programs simultaneously with several folders of music while running Imesh and reading livejournal. I can't imagine why). Still, thank you! You picked some of my favorite artists.

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

No worries ^^ I just didn't want to have done something spazzy on my end and then have all the YSI links lapse. And I'm glad I guessed more or less right (though the random songs folders will probably be a lot more hit and miss).

Yeah, I know. I always have a ton of things open, driving my computer to the point of nervous breakdown, and then I get mad at it when it runs slow or crashes -- reasonable, that.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

This is me, not saying it. No, not even now that new Macs allegedly support right-click mice. But only because I love you.

I've been looking at the Johari-box meme with mingled fascination and confusion. I haven't tried filling anybody's out yet, because the words are so imprecise and ambiguous, sitting there starkly with no context; and furthermore, it's hard to prioritize in the absence of more context. I'm going to go try to do yours anyway, but when you see the results you should look at them with the knowledge that whatever I've wound up with, I'm not wholly satisfied, and that I've probably interpreted every word I've chosen in ways not necessarily parallel with how anyone else would have interpreted them.

Nevertheless, I'm going to be very intrigued to see how the box turns out when everybody has chimed in. -- Consistent? Why should I be consistent?

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

I'm filling out the box now, and so I'm back to make a few contemporaneous notes on the kinds of issues faced in word choice.

For instance: I'm kind of looking at the thing you do where you suffer fools with grace, if not with gladness. Doing that can be characterized as "giving," "accepting," "patient," "sensible," "calm," "powerful," "wise," or perhaps a few others I haven't even focused on. The truth is, it probably grows out of some combination of all of those things, in different measures -- and how much of which is in play will shift from situation to situation. I think I'm going to go back in and pick "wise," because that seems to do the best job of incorporating the many factors in play, but it doesn't mean all of what I want it to mean, and it's susceptible of being interpreted in icky Hallmark-ish ways I don't necessarily mean.

And then there's the set of personality traits that result in things like your admirable refusal to let your freedom of movement be restricted by people's notions of what's dangerous. Does that arise out of a trait I should identify as "bold"? "Brave"? "Confident"? "Able" (because it reflects a confidence that whatever happens, you can handle it)? "Idealistic" (because you're consciously making a statement about how the world is going to work around you, and what compromises you'll make with social expectations? Here, "idealistic" might be the best choice, but it implies things that I don't mean, like a tendency that you do not have to confuse the way you want things to be with the way they actually are.

As I say so often, what to do, what to do? How does anybody fill these things out without angst?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

I keep having a similar problem with the clever/intelligent/knowledgeable set. Because while they have different connotations, they're very similiar ideas, and which one do I really want? If I decide I need both 'intelligent' and 'knowledgeable', now I've got one less word to choose from to describe the rest of the person's personality. And why are all three of those options anyway, when it seems like there's so many more varied aspects of a person that are missing entirely?

I'm amused by this meme, but it is terribly frustrating.