Profile

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 ColdFusion, PHP, Perl, Python, C, 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.

I watch a lot of movies. Everyone says that in their personal profile, so it's pretty pointless for me to even bother. I am very cynical about movies, and I find most of them to be garbage, yet I find myself entertained by even the most idiotic movie because there is always something for me to enjoy. In case you're wondering, here is a list of movies I really enjoy: Se7en, This is Spinal Tap, The Matrix (yes, all three!), Star Wars (yes, even the prequels! Except Clones, that sucked), Fight Club, The Truman Show, Edward Scissorhands, Groundhog Day, Gattaca, Dark City, 12 Monkeys, Contact, Wargames, Sneakers, Terminator, and many more. I really like science fiction that isn't Action/Sci-fi or Horror/Sci-fi, but just plain science fiction such as Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Rather than bore you with paragraphs about my political and religious beliefs, I will now provide the results of a number of oversimplified web-based tests. These are better than paragraphs, because they summarize every single possible aspect of my personality in a single image each.


Tastes

Here you can see the music I like to listen to, as defined by last.fm:

Of course, I listen to most of my music on shuffle, so this really represents the artists who use up the largest portion of my hard disk. In a way, it represents the artists I like enough to have a lot of their material (Nine Inch Nails) and artists I like less, but who have discographies going back a long, long time (Rush)


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:

More poll results

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