Posts by BenWilson
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You guys are way behind on your Kiwiblog. You're now all Progressives. I don't know when the official conversion happened. I think it's meant to be slightly worse than socialist, which only commits crimes against the Free Market. Progressives commit crimes against moral decency, permitting such outrages as promiscuity, homosexuality, and solo parenting.
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You laid out your master plan for the next 30 years. I struggled to keep up. Myer Briggs would probably suggest my P type was conflicting with your J, that planning the future in such detail caused me stress. But I think it was simpler than that...
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The bottle will get hotter if a sheet of plastic is put over it with a small air gap between the sheet and the bottle that insulates it. But I suspect with a black sheet of paper on the back half of the bottle and a bit of foam behind the paper the temperature should cruise on up PDQ - Give me sun lots of sun but!!
Put it on a dashboard, or a rear window of a car. Or lay smaller bottles in the corrugations of a piece of darker colored corrugated iron.
I don't think it really needs to get that hot. It's pasteurization that is required, not boiling.
You can cook with solar power too. A premade one would be light and easy to pack in an emergency kit, but it's another thing for which the parts can easily be found.
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y'know, I'm not surprised by that one, Sacha. I worked with a few ENTJs and they were all capable of giving me tachycardia ;-)
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Trying to remember what I was last time..
Do the test again...you might have changed :). I wonder if I might answer the questions a little differently now that there's not even a chance of having some management wanker beating me over the head with it.
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You're right - it's what you put in, but in such a limited question form there wasnt a lot to input...
Yup. I seem to remember something on the order of 200 in the one I did, with a scale of one to six. Even then, for some of the questions, I found it very hard to choose. But the even number forced you to one side or the other. I believe the rationale for this is to deal with the people who always answer in the middle. It forces them to make a decision, even if it's only just away from the center.
Also, the final result may be one of 16 categories, but the extent to which you are in any dimension matters. You might be 'I', but only just.
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Islander you must have done a different test to me. The one I did asked you to scale your response along an axis, with the only oddity that the responses had to be one side or the other, there was no exact middle. Each dimension (there are 4) also had lots of questions contributing, which gave it whatever nuance it has. The aggregation always put you one one side or the other too. I seem to remember that there were always an even number of choices and an odd number of questions.
What letter combination did you get?
I think the biggest danger with any personality test is to read too much into it. To me, the main value was simply to ask yourself a bunch of questions, then consider what that might mean for how you deal with people - but that was because it was being taken as part of management training. It was especially interesting as a group activity, seeing how different people, grouped in one dimension, approached the same tasks. Very, very different ways of thinking showed up.
The groupings are fairly arbitrary. To boil down humanity to 4 binary dimensions, leading to 16 personality types, is obviously simplistic. There could be as many dimensions as questions. Also, you answer the questions yourself, so you could just be wrong about yourself.
It's a self-analysis tool, really. Like all of them, you get out as much as you put in.
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I doubt the PET bottle sterilizing process and wouldn't have anyone use it if there was any alternative.
I think most people who do use it don't have much alternative. In a disaster, I think I'd risk it. If it was that or just drinking dirty water....
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Webweaver, yes, their idea of introvert/extrovert is perhaps not exactly how people think of these names. My wife is 'E' type, but never speaks in public - I'm 'I' type but have no qualms about it. That comes back to practice.
I remember a deeply introverted (in both the MB, and the common-or-garden ways) database analyst in Australia who was actually a bit of a party animal. But apparently it was only over the last 5 years that he had been (and he was about 50). He claimed that alcohol had opened his eyes to the possibility of enjoying social interaction with others, and he'd just worked hard at the skills since then. Before that he was almost completely reclusive.
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I've got a kit, but the main thing of use in it is really the water.
It's pretty hard to plan for an unspecific emergency. There's virtually no assumption you can make, including whether or not your preparations will even be available. I guess mental preparation is the only thing you can be sure to have on you, and even then only if you made the effort, and renewed it occasionally.
Incidentally, if you still have power or gas, or even wood, then fresh water is not that hard to make from salt water. Boil it off, directing the steam at something cold, and fresh water will drip off it. Also, sterilizing water that has gone bad is pretty easy. I find it pretty hard to believe that there wouldn't be a lot of plastic bottles floating around even if you didn't have the foresight to hoard them. One thing to be said for recycling is that I always know where there's a handy supply of plastic bottles. A disaster would probably conveniently scatter them around.
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