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Friday, September 26, 2003 isopraxism revisited Dictionary.com/isopraxism: "No entry found for isopraxism. Did you mean asparagus's?" Uh, wow. No, I didn't. I meant isopraxism. Update on wondering how many Googlers would be drawn to my site via a search on isopraxism. Answer? Zero. However, one from Yahoo, and I find that Yahoo currently lists my site first for such a search. Way over the site of the man who coined the term, Dr. Givens. Google doesn't make that mistake. It finds his site first. Check out his entry on the Big Mac in the nonverbal dictionary. An "edible sign". Brilliant. Hilarious. Sorry, by the way, to not have anything enlightening to add on the subject of isopraxism. I'm really not trolling for Google (or Yahoo) hits, or I'd mention this term again, which gets a zillion hits a day. And I'd sure like to know why. posted at 11:42 AM Happy Birthday, T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) Selected poems of T. S. Eliot. Especially cool: The Waste Land, with annotations. It's been too long since I read that. link via wood s lot posted at 11:23 AM Tuesday, September 23, 2003 purty sunset We were enjoying this sunset from the patio of Nuevo Leon (Mexican restaurant with great margaritas) the other night. Purty, huh? Realized September was sliding by without enough photo postings to bog down your old 14.4 modem. posted at 3:49 PM LazyLlama This one's for Nigel, the Lazy Llama. We saw these guys on the way back from a weekend on the Blanco River. posted at 3:42 PM personality types, cont'd Many years ago, I went to a talk (sponsored by our local Jung Society, of which I was then a member - board member, even) by a psychologist, Dr. Richard Grant, on typology by Drug of Choice. It blew me away. I made notes, but eventually tracked down the chart he'd made to illustrate it - pre-Power Point, to be sure. (A friend was a client of the good doctor and got a copy of the chart for me.) I find it very interesting, and I've put it online. I then tried to create a hyperlinked version of it and use it for a jumping off point. I haven't worked on it for quite awhile, but here it is. I found that it began to unravel as I tried to glom more things on to it. But, as another psychologist said of Grant, "he's an Extroverted Intuitive; he sees connections everywhere." It's still very interesting to me and I return to it often. posted at 11:04 AM INFP (?) I've been noticing lots more bloggers posting their Keirsey (or Myers-Briggs) temperament type. I was thinking all bloggers were Extroverts, but maybe that's just the bloggers I read. I'm a wannabe Extrovert. However, I am very definitely an Introverted Intuitive, to use Jung's original terminology. I'm not absolutely sure about the F. It might be T. The test has said one or the other on various times. (Thinking and Feeling, that would be.) Today, at least, I am INFP. From the Keirsey site: "Idealists, as a temperament, are passionately concerned with personal growth and development. Idealists strive to discover who they are and how they can become their best possible self -- always this quest for self-knowledge and self-improvement drives their imagination. And they want to help others make the journey. (....) Idealists are rare, making up no more than 8 to 10 percent of the population." Personal growth... huh, so that's why I've been doing biofeedback, yoga, Jungian analysis, all that... it's wired in. But "help others make the journey"? Shee-it, I can't even get the car started, myself. posted at 10:55 AM super weird quicktime... in Swedish Layoutkungen Dang, these are some weird but wonderful little animations. Beautiful in their own twisted way. Can't understand the narration, but I still like 'em. Thanks, Rodney, once again, for a bizarre link... posted at 10:38 AM Monday, September 15, 2003 herky jerky Ever since I discovered and blogged about myoclonic jerks, several Googlers a day find my site. I can't wait to see how many people come here for isopraxism. posted at 12:45 PM Friday, September 12, 2003 isopraxism I can't wait to use the word isopraxism. But what really made me haw haw out loud was the illustration, taken from what looks like a late 40's, early 50's college yearbook of a fraternity's members and the mouse-over 'alt' tag that says "Look Alikes". I swear I scanned and animated the exact same photos just a few years ago (and used one, slightly morphed, for the cover of the Lupe CD). But then, I guess isopraxism was a lot more prevalent in the 1950's. (I didn't have to wait very long, did I?.) The yearbook I scanned was the 1950 University of Texas yearbook. "Our tendency to imitate clothing styles and to pick up the nonverbal mannerisms of others is rooted in paleocircuits of the reptilian brain." Yes, indeed. posted at 5:06 PM Center for Nonverbal Studies Home of The Nonverbal Dictionary © Ah, now this is just my cup of tea. I could (and probably will) spend hours going through this site. I found it while searching for information about how anger relates to the "fight or flight" response of the sympathetic nervous system. Google turned up this page (to give you a toe-hold in this site; it's hard to get started from the front page, unless you just go straight to the nonverbal dictionary). Or, since yesterday was 9/11, you can check out the article, written shortly after 9/11/01, called, "New York Drops Its Game Face". posted at 10:20 AM Tuesday, September 09, 2003 dizzy, my head is spinning "The latest works" of insane optical illusions. Thanks, Rodney, for the link. posted at 2:42 PM Mark Flood Groovy. Just found the cyberhome of artist Mark Flood. I had no idea he was such a prolific artist. I am more familiar with his music. I've been a fan of Culturcide since seeing them in the early 80's. posted at 10:47 AM Monday, September 08, 2003 early bird I've been at work for 5 hours already... and usually I'd still be asleep. Had to upgrade one of our "mission critical" servers while no one was here. I'm tired. posted at 6:46 AM Friday, September 05, 2003 more spaghetti Here's a picture of the spaghetti man himself. The show was fun. Outdoors (on the porch of a salon). Nice evening. posted at 2:58 PM Thursday, September 04, 2003 dj spaghetti dj spaghetti and I are doing our thing down South Congress tonight. Come on out. He'll be doing his techno remixes of classic Country-Western music, and I'll be showing my remixes of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood movies and other video stunts. Listen to dj spaghetti. posted at 4:45 PM Corpus Christi Flawless weather on the coast, despite persistent warnings from the locals that a tropical storm would hit in the middle of the night. It must've hit somewhere, because the surf was huge (by Texas surf standards) the next morning. The surfers were everywhere. But the night sky was crystal clear. We sat out on the beach til after midnight and watched the stars. I hadn't seen the Milky Way in quite some time... maybe since Jenni and I were driving through New Mexico a couple of years ago. posted at 9:27 AM