Judgement and Understanding

I remember taking the Meyers-Briggs personality test. It asked me if I was comfortable making value judgements. Since then (5 years ago) I've been thinking, and here's my answer:

My tendency is always to understand first and judge later, if judgement is even required. For me, understanding is usually all that I want. I don't try to make a judgement call (whether something is good or bad). That usually takes time to figure out. But if I do give it time, the whole good/bad thing will make itself evident.

Look What I Did

I don't post here often, as you might have noticed ... but every once in a while an idea strikes me to put something up. Usually it's in the form of "hey guys, look at what I just did." And this time is really no different.

Yesterday we had our annual design review at the Church for last year, and as an emerging tradition, we have a poster design contest. Whoever wants to comes up with a poster and then we all vote on which one we think should win. Last year I came up with a poster and entered it (didn't win). This year I came up with three posters and submitted one (don't know if I won yet, but my hopes aren't up).

So I thought I'd post my three posters here and see which one you guys liked the best.

For a Moment, I Was a Champion

We had a team off-site today which involved go-kart racing. There were three groups of 8. Each group did two races and then we had a finals race of the fastest 12 people. I made it into the champions race and got 6th place. Dead middle, that's not the exciting part, I live my life in the dead middle of the advanced crowd (if that makes sense). The champion part came in my second race. I scored the fastest lap of the day. Of our group, nobody beat my lap time of 40.52 seconds. There were people crowding around me to ask my advice, people wanted to hear what I did, what it was like, what was my secret.

All the fame and attention lasted about 3 1/2 minutes before they went on with their normal lives, but it was actually very satisfying to have people rushing up to greet me. What a rush. I was literally shaking form all the adrenaline.

So it seems I've used up about one fifth of my 15 minutes of fame. I wonder what's next, maybe I'll make it to the 10 o'clock news !!!

Good analogy for how we progress through life

Flowerpots from Crictor on Vimeo.

Tips for Surviving the New Depressions

Surviving the New Depression: Tip #34 from Steve Delahoyde on Vimeo.

Coming Soon to a Boom Box Near You

This is what I did with most of my day today. I was very much inspired by the realistic-looking icons Mac OS X has for printers. I'm working on a web site for the Church and needed an image of a cassette tape. Finding a high-res image of a cassette tape proved a little more lame that I thought (that is, until a co-worker showed me tapedeck.org). So I grabbed an image of the current LDS Catalog site and more-or-less traced it. The fun/challenging part was adding the color. That is what made it realistic and that is where I pulled in the expertise of my co-worker.

And while I'm showing off things I've done at work, check out LDS Account. It's a service that the church is offering which will (eventually) allow you to sign in to nearly any online service the church provides. Currenly there are few services our there that utilize it simply because it's so new. Eventually your Stake and Ward websites will use it. But now you are in the know.

I Think I Just Got Punked

Here is an exchange I had with a lady sitting on a corner downtown (verbatim, as far as memory serves):

Lady: So how's your McDonalds?

Me: Huh?

Lady: How's your McDonalds? Is it good food?

Me: Yeah, I think they have pretty good food nowadays.

Lady: Hmm. I think I might do carry-out. That might be nice.

Me: Yeah.

Lady: Carry-out, just like they did Mildred.

Me: yup ...


This is what I love about working downtown.