Daniel E. Renfer’s Blog

This is what that site wants me to put in my code. I’m not quite sure I want to do that. I would love to find a way to serve all of my site as application/xhtml+xml, but I have all these old quizzes I took back in my Livejournal days. I’ve tried to clean it up, but there’s just so much of it. I would need a better way to open and edit the MySQL database that Wordpress uses before I’m really going to get it all cleaned up.

That’s my clean up of it. It’s not pretty, but it’s a lot better, markup wise.

I don’t want to talk about my rankings. I don’t really know enough about the records of any of these people (politically correct term) to verify if this is accurate or not. All I had to do was answer a few questions about how I feel about certain current issues, and then rank my interest in those issues. I’m assuming the script merely matched my answers to the public stated opinions of these candidates.

This makes me think that more and more we need a RDF version of APML. The amount of good, semantic, machine-readable data is increasing all the time. I want to be able to link from my FOAF file a service that gives all of the data it has collected for me the ranking and weight of my interest in any given URI.

Once the service is in place, then would come the tools that let me manipulate those settings, and other applications that dump into it. We would just need to mint a URI for each of these issues. Then we could create a database of the candidates, and their relation to those issues. Once I have rated those issues, it’s a simple matter to pull together my interests (in the political profile) and the stances of the politicians, and do a simple match.

Oh well, the happy, shiny, semantic world will come one day. Until then, I will base my voting decisions on a simple CGI script.

Emo Kid You are 28% Rational, 14% Extroverted, 28% Brutal, and 28% Arrogant.

You are the Emo Kid, best described as a quiet pussy! You tend to be an intuitive rather than a logical thinker, meaning you rely more on your feelings than your thoughts. Not only that, but you are introverted, gentle, and rather humble. You embody all the traits of the perfect emo kid. You are a push-over, an emotional thinker, gentle to the extent of absurdity, and so humble that it even makes Jesus puke. If you write poetry, you no doubt write angsty, syrupy lines about depression, sadness, and other such redundant states of emo-being. Your personality is defective because you are too gentle, rather underconfident in yourself, decidely lacking in any rational thought, and also a bit too inhibited. I probably made you cry, didn’t I? Fucking Emo Kid. To put it less negatively: You are more INTUITIVE than rational. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted. You are more GENTLE than brutal. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant. Compatibility: Your exact opposite is the Smartass. Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hippie, the Televangelist, and the Starving Artist. * * If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits. The other personality types: The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble. The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble. The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble. The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble. The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble. The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble. The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble. The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble. The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

	You scored higher than 11% on Rationality
	You scored higher than 11% on Extroversion
	You scored higher than 25% on Brutality
	You scored higher than 20% on Arrogance

Link: The Personality Defect Test written by saint_gasoline on Ok Cupid

Take my Quiz on QuizYourFriends.com!

Also… What do you think of the name “D. Emerson Renfer”? Not many people use that form for their name. It could be interesting to try for a while.

Meme Path: <=

• A - Age: 21.99178082191780821917808219178082
• B - Best Quality: I am able to view the world through the eyes of a child
• C - Choice of Meat: Human
• D - Dream Date: Either a movie or a band, followed with driving around talking, followed by coffee at Cole’s, followed by more talking at home.
• E - Ex (most recent): Candice (I guess, otherwise Meghan)
• F - Favorite Food: Spaghetti
• G - Greatest Accomplishment: I’m still alive
• H - Happiest Day of Your Life: everyday (cop-out, I can’t think of it)
• I - Internal conflicts: way of life
• J - Jam or Jelly: Jam
• K - Kool-Aid: Does it have acid, or just poison
• L - Love: more that you’ll ever know
• M - Most Valued Thing I Own: I really hate to say it, but either my car or my computer
• N - Name: Lord Anas Mystosis Nebuchadnezzar XXXVII
• O - Outfit You Love: Black button-up shirt /w white stripes that I got at Goth Topic
• P - Pizza Toppings: Ham & Pineapple (if anyone will let me get it, substitute other toppings if not)
• Q - Question you want to ask: Now what?
• R - Radical thing you’ve done: One time, at band camp…
• S - Sport To Watch: Football & Hockey
• T - Television Show: Many. (I am a collector)
• U - Unique habit: I’m fidgety.
• V - Very favorite Verb: Discombobulate
• W - Winter: Don’t really care for them, but couldn’t live without
• X - X-rays you have had: Like 40 of my chest last summer
• Y - Yesterday’s best meal: A&W, played off as if Jeff had made a home-cooked meal
• Z - Zodiac Sign: Gemini