Self-portrait, waiting at East Falls Church metro

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Personality

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About a week ago -- while unintentionally backing up my SSP06 email to my Gmail account... -- I discovered a long lost personality test that was given to us participants at the ISU Summer Session Program in Strasbourg, France. I was going to post it sometime anyway, for "fun," but after giving someone a hard time and trying my best to ruin their Christmas yesterday, what the hell, I'll post it today.

Maybe this makes sense to you -- what do you think?

Link: Personality

Attached is your personality profile from the questionnaire you filled out at SSP06 this summer. Be sure to open the powerpoint file in the NOTES view (if it opens in the slideshow format, right click, choose EDIT and Notes) so that you can see the text explanations for the graphs.

There is no such thing as a 'bad' personality profile. Each profile identifies the characteristic way a person responds to the world if there are no strong situational constraints shaping our responses. For instance, we act very differently at a funeral than we do at a party. It is the situations that limit what behaviors and responses we choose to display. Your profile may have identified predispositions to deal with the world that present challenges to you or make things more difficult at times (e.g., if you were quick to anger). These should be considered to be elements of your personality that you can focus more attention on developing more positive ways of managing your response to the world. By adulthood, personality (the predisposition to react in certain ways) is fairly well set…it changes in mostly minor ways as we grow older. In rare situations, extreme experiences can bring about dramatic personality changes but for most of us, we must learn to emphasis our strengths and modify the impact of our less favorable traits. For example, people who are quick to anger may develop strategies to give them time to calm down before trying to interact with others or shy people will use a job role to help them initiate conversations with others. Once we know what our natural predispositions are, we can look for ways to enhance the best and buffer the rest...

Least surprising trait: I score high on the scale for neuroticism. Who would have thought that?

Thanks to Sheryl Bishop for providing this for us and for being a hell of a cool instructor at ISU. Now I have to ask your permission to post this...

Kittell Graph

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True story: Kittell Graph

In its full glory:


From MathWorld

Why would I waste your time in such a way? No distinct reason. After setting up kirkkittell.com, I was curious exactly how someone might come across it. Searching for "kirk kittell" brings you more or less directly here. Searching for "kirk" is hopeless... unless you're interested in Star Trek or Kirk Douglas. Searching for "kittell" is slightly more interesting. Kittell is not a common surname--being an Anglicized version of a German name and all--so all results make me think it is a different branch of the same tree.

But this I. Kittell, who published "A Group of Operations on a Partially Colored Map" in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, who knows?

This is your largely uninteresting comment of the day, internet folk--imagine how lucky you would be if you had to deal with this junk in person. Every. Single. Day. (Why, you'd be a very lucky lady indeed, hey, hey)

New site: kirkkittell.com

Instead of posting the TODO's here every day, I've finally set up kirkkittell.com to help me keep things in order. See the wiki, especially.