Absolutely No Machete Juggling

Absolutely No Machete Juggling is a blog about software, programming, technology, and me. It serves as a place to share solutions to technical problems I encounter as well as interesting stories from my life.

This blog mostly focuses on my fascination with technical topics and my professional life. Every so often I contemplate posting about more divisive issues such are religion and politics, but so far I’ve managed to avoid doing so.

This blog is divided into categories at the top of the page, allowing visitors to follow posts about technical issues such as programming or technology without following posts about my personal life.

About Rod

I’m a software developer located in Colorado. I primarily deal with Java, though I study a number of different programming languages. I work with Ruby, PHP, Python, and a host of other languages. I’m always looking to learn new programming languages and techniques, and I hope to use this blog to share solutions to weird problems with the world. I’m a very lucky person, because I love what I do for a living. I write code all day for a company, come home, and write more code for myself. As such, there’s not a lot I can say about my hobbies, since they are the same as my career.

Virtually every aspect of my personality has been conveniently digitized and stored on servers connected to the internet. Rather than write a babbling paragraph about myself, I’d rather simply provide links to those servers. As such, this page consists mostly of the results of various online personality quizzes.

Politics

According to the World’s Shortest Political Quiz, I am a Libertarian:

The Political Gauge tells me this:

On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Liberal (36).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Conservative (66).

Your score is on a scale of 0 to 100, with 0 being fully liberal and 100 being fully conservative.

While the The Enhanced Political Quiz also says I am a Libertarian:

And the OKCupid Political Quiz says this:

You are a

Social Liberal
(90% permissive)

and an…

Economic Conservative
(61% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Strong Democrat

The blogthings test says:

Your Political Profile:

Overall: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal Social Issues: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal Personal Responsibility: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal Fiscal Issues: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal Ethics: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal Defense and Crime: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Religion

Belief-O-Matic tells me these religions would be best for me:

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (96%)
3. Secular Humanism (94%)
4. Liberal Quakers (87%)
5. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (84%)

Personality

The Jung Topology Test says:

Your Type is
INTJ
Introverted: 89
Intuitive: 62
Thinking: 62
Judging: 44

INTJ type description by D.Keirsey
INTJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:

* very expressed introvert
* distinctively expressed intuitive personality
* distinctively expressed thinking personality
* moderately expressed judging personality