Originally published in 1964, the First Things First Manifesto is something to be quite proud of as a to-be designer out there.
Adbuster republished/rewrote the manifesto and you can read it here.
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We have a pretty awful and small back yard. There is this patch of grass – well weeds, to one side complete with carcass of dead bird. We periodically rip out the weeds in this section to pass rental inspections and it becomes dirt again. It’s a rental, I’m not interested in gardening.
Today it was sunny and I was inspired being my last day before I have to go back to uni, so I put a picnic rug down, grabbed a pillow and another blanket and lay outside and read Cest La Folie – a book about a guy who moves to France to reclaim life, challenge himself with starting out somewhere he knows no one and keep some chickens. The awful, small backyard was pretty lovely.
Perhaps I will move to France, reclaim some life, challenge myself, start somewhere I know hardly anyone and keep some chickens… but then it’s not half bad here at times.
So here I am drinking tea and thinking about my INTJ’ness.
I am drinking tea because it seems to me to be a kind of cure-all. The real cure-all for an INTJ however is not tea, it is getting things done. And the source of angst for an INTJ is, not surprisingly, the inverse.
After a rather extended period of ‘angsty inverseness’, I put the kettle on, washed all the dirty cups in the short time it took for the water to boil, found the list I made early this week and crossed off the things I’d done. I then made a cup of tea. 15 things on the list, four left. Not bad considering this list does not have a particular end date. Things feel better.
I can verify that the following statements match whatever strain of the INTJ I happen to have in relation to stress and stressful things.
“A large number of INTJ folks reported that they often felt a strong desire to clean when under stress”
“If they do not take a project to completion, they may set themselves up for frustration and depression resulting from too much self-criticism.”
“They become frustrated if they are too tightly controlled.”
There is also an excellent description of INTJ’s on Urban Semiotic
Personality Page gives a good general overview of INTJ’s they also, naturally, give overviews of the other types.
And because only 2% or so of the population happen to be INTJ’s the you can take the test (Jung/Myers-Briggs) along with a stack of other interesting personality tests over here at Similar Minds. But only after you’ve made yourself a cup of tea.
Well the Problogger tried it and it intrigued me. It’s a Delicious Magazine recipe which means it’ll appear on taste.com.au soon enough. It’s tasty but really too sweet to eat a big bowl, small amount before proper dinner (but who does that when you’re just cooking something easy for tea!) would be okay.
So the verdict: nice but not mind blowing and you can’t eat a large quantity of it. It’s not particularly mapley, more just sweet.
Had to whip together a simple banner ad for a program that I designed a while back (Will take photos of the postcard part when I get my act together). I am re-doing my folio site at the moment. If anyone cares to check it out and tell me if anything is amiss with the image rollovers etc – I’m warping a folio blog theme for my evil purposes to vaguely match this one, having trouble making some of it behave, as there a quite a few little clever php tricks going on. And I do design not hardcore programming even if I have picked up bits and pieces along the way. It’s dummy data/stuff there at the minute.
On a slightly related note I just finished a website today www.samoasunsetview.com I wish everyone used macs, things always look 80 times more brilliant on a mac, cleaner web fonts and I’m far too used to it now.
