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  1. EditorOne

    Just a thought for people looking for something to read

    I may have mentioned it before, but I just read another book by "Nevada Barr" (her pen name) and was struck that she has successfully created a mystery-adventure series with a full blown INTP and occasionally J. Her protagonist is Anna Pigeon, a law enforcement ranger with the United States...
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    Firefighting: Spinning off from 'anger' thread

    OK, moving this to a separate thread so Sweetheart can stay on track with anger. "No altruism on the job, but what got you there in the first place? Idk, maybe I just don't want to let go of my idealization of the profession. Do you see it as a positive way to contribute to your...
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    Screwing yourself with unintended consequences

    I've noticed that some people have tendencies to project personal experiences onto career expectations, usually with dismaying results. It's most apparent right now with all the younger posters who eyeball some form of computer science as a compatible career. They are deriving satisfaction from...
  4. EditorOne

    No quarter

    OK, so it occurred to me how interesting it would be to have a new doorbell chime. I'm thinking one that plays 32 bars of Le Deguello. How would I make that happen? I mean, big speakers to blast the visitor with sound, yeah, but I'm a little sketchy on the mechanics and electronics of getting...
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    Any cyborgs? Or long-term invalids?

    OK, I'm using the term "cyborg" loosely, but I'm finally getting my bad knee, about which I have surely complained in here, totally replaced. In addition to having to declare and explain my chromium/cobalt component at airport screening checkpoints from here on out, I'll be pretty much helpless...
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    Space station tour

    I'm late getting to this: A tour of the space station by a departing commander. Just because it's cool and she's proof humans can adapt to anything and be important and funny at the same time. It's way above the average youtube experience, technically and every other way. Note that every day...
  7. EditorOne

    In search of Mr. Goodhouse

    So where would you expect to find the best vibes for living: By reclaiming a church or reclaiming a factory, each perhaps 150 years old? There is a certain attractiveness to stained glass, on the other hand the aura of good clean work and all the overhead pulleys and shafts that got it done...
  8. EditorOne

    Habitat choices

    Architect's house got me thinking. Where would INTPs live if they could live anywhere? I've opted for man-made caves made of interconnected steel shipping containers coated with closed-cell foam for waterproofing and insulation. Somewhere in a rural area, on farmland that can still be worked...
  9. EditorOne

    U.S. Second Amendment

    I suggest, and I believe, that the current debate over private ownership of firearms in the United States is informed by historic ignorance, and that a great many people have confused what the facts were when the Bill of Rights was created to what the facts are now. The Second Amendment does...
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    When you have to mingle....

    There are times in almost every INTP life when you can either disappear by schmoozing and socializing, or stand out by standing alone in a deliberately organized crowd and say nothing. If you want to stop standing there and having people ask you "what's wrong?" because you aren't doing the...
  11. EditorOne

    Alternative for jobseekers: Social business

    I stumbled across this Yunus guy in my Rotary magazine -- no smiles please -- and thought it might alter the paradigm usefully for some of us. In a nutshell: Pick up the abandoned part of Adam Smith's teaching and create businesses that meet social needs, not primarily to make profits. The...
  12. EditorOne

    "Oh, now I've done it."

    OK, an ultimate test of some sort for an INTP: I agreed to make a presentation and speak for an hour or so on my latest fiction book, 'The Ludlam Legacy,' because it's my home town that wants me to. They want me to because I blended local history (a created historic village is the venue for my...
  13. EditorOne

    Dragons are flying

    Any Anne McCaffrey fans here? She's died. I started reading about dragons and Pern ten years after she started writing the books, enjoying them tremendously. As a writer she showed a lot of respect for the thinking ability of her young readers, and the series is much broader and more complex...
  14. EditorOne

    Very weird form of deja vu

    "Law and Order" used to boast its stories were ripped from the headlines. I found a headline ripped from one of my books. I can't imagine any group more prepared to embrace the irony of this than the INTP forum, so here you go. I dislike linking to another Web site, especially when it's...
  15. EditorOne

    Just passing time with SMALL TALK

    For the benefit of those mostly younger folks who just don't feel comfortable generating small talk, here's some. Notice that my avatar has changed. It's me again, not Robert Mitchum with the raised eyebrow that got him into fights. That's because my knee finally stopped hurting enough that I...
  16. EditorOne

    Psychopaths in the forest

    My wife and I ran into a psychopath last week. He got bent out of shape because my dogs were running loose in state game lands. Not only is it legal for dogs to run loose in state game lands, his dogs were also running loose. Nevertheless, I was an asswipe, an asshole, etc., even though he was...
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    Testifying in court

    Here's a new terror for INTPness: Testifying in court. Had to go on the stand for an old, old (nine years old) $27 million libel suit this week. Being on the stand wasn't so bad -- probably like the moment when you hear the guillotine start down, a certain internal adjustment amounting to...
  18. EditorOne

    Research, research, research

    I am so glad I found this obscure little fact out that I've just got to share it. I'm working a young adult novel, as some know ("A 16-year-old must survive the Civil War by land and by sea before he can solve the mystery of his parents' death and claim his inheritance.") It's like I'm...
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    Crisis Manager

    Now that I am retired/redundant/paid too much to keep on, I'm thinking of inventing an occupation called "crisis manager." You'd get paid to step in after the SFs have created a disaster, analyze what needs to be done, have the authority to do it, and move on to the next crisis. Politics...
  20. EditorOne

    Halloween? Anyone?

    OK, it's coming up on Halloween in America and we're all impersonating extroverts, for our costuming, right? We'd be unrecognizable. I'll post my photo in mufti if there's one other brave soul willing to post on here also. It's the most frightening thing any of my colleagues and...
  21. EditorOne

    "Witch hunt" - Discussion

    Not all who drool on their keyboards are trolls. Some of us just drool a lot.
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