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In My Head

May 17, 2005
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I’ve taken a few personality tests recently (via links at Tears in Rain, Respectful Insolence and Ahistoricality)

The most serious one states: Temperament Score Idealist 8 Rationalist 7 Traditionalist 4 Hedonist 11 Your temperament type is Hedonist.The Hedonist type prefers pleasure and disprefers pain. Obviously there are some strange people out there. The next tells me what sort of post-modernist I am.

You are a Theory Slut. The true elite of the postmodernists, you collect avant-garde Indonesian hiphop compilations and eat journal articles for breakfast. You positively live for theory. It really doesn’t matter what kind, as long as the words are big and the paragraph breaks few and far between.

Actually all the recent Hip Hop I’ve bought is Austrian, so not 100% accurate.

Finally…

You scored as

…and this one suggests that I’m not very postmodern, which would seem to corroborate my classification as theory slut. One who talks about it rather than does it.

I’ve have to get my Viking Name Generator back on line. The one that labels people with names like Thangrad the Mad or Brunhilde Skullcrusher. I did have one which generated authentic Australian names, but had to take that one down after an email exchange which started “Dear Sir, I cannot help noticing that whatever I enter into the ‘100% genuine Australian Name Generator’ I get the the response ‘Bruce’…” —–

 
 
 

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