The 12 Dynamics of People

In my history of living on this planet, I have come to a realization that there are 12 distinct dynamics in which people can be categorized. This is based off their mental intellect and their overall moral compass. Two notes: grammatical errors have no weight on intelligence and if you need to ask questions about any of these classes....then you just fell to bottom 4.

1) Genius + Neutral
“Live long and prosper.”
. Science and logic rule. That’s right. This class of people is relatively Vulcan in thought. Any direction is solely for the sake of knowledge itself. Scientifically speaking, any destruction is as natural as any sign of compassion. They can, oddly, remove themselves from others and view life with a non-condescending presence. Over time they tend to lean towards the evil side.
Probable professions: Scientist, Professor, Professional Chess Players
Pros: Incredibly smart (duh!), witty, probably employed.
Cons: Weak, prone to getting Cancer, probably single.

2) Genius + Evil
“With such large intellect, you would be foolish to not use it against mankind.”
Probably a fair portion of Geniuses walk the earth plotting not its demise but, more than likely, their pursuit for personal gain. Having thought out the consequences and planned accordingly, they have little to lose and really no one who would stand in their way.
Probable professions: CEO, Computer Programmers, Specialized Doctor or surgeon, Lawyer, Unabomber
Pros: More than likely super-rich; world travel; long-life
Cons: 5-inch thick glasses; deal with sinister mustache; paranoia

3) Smart + Good
“Here’s how it works.”
These guys are the most helpful around you. Always willing to work with you, they are the backbone to the upward spiral of mankind. Thank God they far outnumber the Genius + Evil or we would have been doomed already. Quick and vast enough, as a group with diverse fields of training and interests, they can prove to create many great theories, inventions, and laws to make this a long-lasting domination of this planet. Should they dwindle…the race will dwindle with them.
Probable professions: Teacher, Plumber, Entry level computer programmer, Family Doctor
Pros: Liked by everyone, great for conversation, good lovers
Cons: A lot of work and it never ends; fighting a greater evil; realizing the recklessness of society in general

4) Smart + Neutral
“It goes and goes.”
A large group, the members in this group sways as their life sways. If things go well, then so be it and they are more than willing to help. Things go south, though, and it’s each man for himself. Often, members don’t feel powerful enough to conquer the bigger problems in life but powerful enough to maintain a good lifestyle. These are the best consumers.
Probable Professions: CEO, Small Business Owner, IT workers, Seasoned Family Doctors, Jaded Lawyers, Politicians.
Pros: Potential for an easy life, usually has all the cool toys, dates hot chicks
Cons: Usually overweight; has trouble sleeping at night; guaranteed to get Jury Duty once.

5) Smart + Evil
“Did you hear about…?”
A common lot, they are probably the worst of the bunch. These bastards tend to create dissention, mistrust, and a general unharmonious feeling in any group. By themselves, they are not that challenging and easier to ferret out. As a group, they can be formidable. They tend to dislike each other, though, so groups are rare.
Probable Professions: CEO, Retiring Doctor, IT Directors, Salespersons, Politicians, City Planners, Toy Manufacturers.
Pros: They always seem to get ahead; real work bounces off them
Cons: They don’t sleep at all; bad livers from heavy drinking; will hook on the fairway

6) Normal + Good
“And a good day to you sir”
This group is not the largest but can seem so on holidays. Most of these people wade through their lives complacent in knowing that other groups are responsible for both creating and correcting the large messes that make up this world. They are the worker bees of the humans. They build, fix, mend, package, and assist in making products and services that the world uses. They are the largest consumers however they are limited in what they can purchase compared to the smart and genius groups.
Probable professions: Mechanic, IT worker, Customer Service Rep, Interns, Day-care owners, Public servants
Pros: can blend in with crowds; good party people; competent to get cool projects and/or toys
Cons: Never gets credit; the first to get laid off; will get divorced at least once in a lifetime

7) Normal + Neutral
“Please move forward”
This is the largest of the groups. The only true difference between this one and Normal + Good is that these people tend to dislike their daily routines. Be it their job or life, they are unhappy in the direction but knowledgeable enough to realize they cannot change it. The only thing these people do well is procreate. Even though they are the largest group, they are not the best consumers. They tend to steal or bargain-shop and take their time in buying large purchases.
Probable professions: day-care worker, Customer Service Rep, City/State employee, unemployed, student, stay-at-home mom
Pros: just too many of you to blame; make great crowds; can find shortcuts in tasks quickly
Cons: gets a lot of tasks to find shortcuts too; never the first one picked; people take your lunches

8) Knowingly Dumb + Good
“Hello. My name is…”
They make the best parents. Almost child-like on their own, they can and will gravitate towards children. Always happy and content, they see their lives as fulfilling whether it is spending a day playing volleyball outside in their backyard or working the assembly line talking about the Mets. They would be the worker bees of the world if they didn’t make so many d@mn mistakes. They take and accept blame like it was a compliment.
Probable Professions: Welder, Landscaping, Graphic Designer, Circus Animal trainer.
Pros: drives muscle cars; dates super-models; outside Genius+Evil, they are the next in line to be super-rich
Cons: known to die early; will go through one trauma as a child; cannot swim

9) Knowingly Dumb + Evil
“It wasn’t me.”
These are the most opportunistic of all the groups. They feed of everyone including each other. They realize, with hatred, their limitations and lash out in frustration at local taverns, malls, and golf courses. Deceptively cunning, they hang around crowded areas as to become one of a crowd. When singled out and focused upon, they become frightened and may attack like a cornered animal.
Probable Professions: Apple Employee, Mall cops, lower-level management
Pros: Surprisingly quick; heightened sense of awareness; very good at smelling money
Cons: Cops hate you; your face is easy to pick out in a crowd; gets drunk too easy and too often

10) Unknowingly Dumb + Good
“Hello, I think my name is…”
The friendliest and most outgoing, they are the world’s comedians. Often young and new to almost everything…they attempt to soak up all that’s around them. Unfortunately, the information, like water, falls off them like the wings of a Mallard. The comedy continues in watching them try.
Probable Professions: Bouncer, Ball-room Dancer, My kids.
Pros: Amazingly strong; will have a large-screen LCD TV and great stereo; dogs love you
Cons: Dogs will try to make love to you; you like classic rock; your hair-line is going backward like your career

11) Unknowingly Dumb + Evil
“Gimme all your...!”
Everyone hears about this bunch. Their works are typically all over the news. Most happen, unfortunately, when one of them attempts some fatalistic feat. They appear to be waning as the rest of civilization has little tolerance for them. No doubt, this is the only group which has almost no contribution to society and, if destroyed, would not disturb the natural order of things.
Probable professions: Criminal, Taxi Driver, referee
Pros: You get everything you want; in your world—you kick ass; you’re unaware of the cops tailing you
Cons: 8-by-8 cell; fatalistic events are supernaturally drawn to you; the opposite sex finds you disgusting

12) Dead
“…finally…”
We all get to this point eventually. In reality, this is the largest group and just keeps getting bigger. It is the easiest group to be a member of although there really is no benefit once attained. This is the most mysterious group and each member appears to have sworn an oath of silence.
Probable Professions: food.
Pros: All the answers become known; no more tiring work; so much food…..
Cons: The answers you found…are not the ones you wanted; moving 30lbs of shaved glass with your mouth from Hades Ring 1 to Hades Ring 8; the frickin heat…..

I'm Certified.

Certifications seem rampant out there. No one's taken mine yet. hmmm.

Jason Hunt certification:

1. You will be hit repeatedly in the face at one point during the next 5 minutes but you will not know when. When being hit, the technician will throw out a question. Answer it correctly within the first 5 seconds after the striking stops. You will receive no credit for this question if answered, even correct, after the 5 seconds have lapsed.
2. Sprint a half mile. at the end of the race you will find a 12-foot deep pool. Assemble a computer submerged at the bottom of the pool and make sure it boots. you have 3 minutes to complete this.
3. Write a program that can count the number of hairs on your head. You can use bar-coding, OCR, and a kodak camera to accomplish this task. At the end we will shave your head and count the hairs ourselves. You can be off by 10 hairs max. Begin.
4. Below you is a teddy bear. On it, we have attached a GPS device that includes an altimeter. Get this teddy bear into upper orbit. We don't care how you accomplish this but you cannot involve NASA. One caveat....attached is an explosive. Any descent greater than 1 meter and it will explode so you must keep moving it up. We will verify its location within 2 hours.
5. Put $385,000 into my account. You have no idea which bank I use and/or under what name. I will check my account in the next 10 minutes.
6. Attain some political office that is widely known. It can be at the local level. You have 3 months to get this done and assassination can be used.

Worn down -- Another "24" Post 4/4/2006

First of all, let's go through last night's episode shall we? In this one, Jack obviously came out unscathed from the blast from last week's episode to hand over Bierko. Another given really. As quickly as he was the mainstay Lex Luther of this group he turns to a small time player. I've gotta say that any terrorist group doesn't need that many members as they have as many government people as they need right here in the good 'ol USA. I wonder what a typical goon gets paid doing the dirty work. I'm talking the henchmen. For example, the sniper at the meeting location. Probably a good shot and more than likely military trained. I wonder what he gets paid a week. I'm rambling. Anyway, we find that Homeland has taken over CTU and Bill is kicked out. Also, we learn that the secret service chick is in on something as well with her daughter kidnapped.
This really wasn't a great episode in my book. A lot of loose ends were filled in (or seemed to be) and one gaping one was exposed. This is where I get the title of this post. Worn. Like an old sweater that's unravelling. Fox is trying to make each episode seem like a page-turner and this one may be a little too much. By far the worst President on record, now he's in league with Henderson. Too much. I'm interested in seeing how they'll tie it together. Off topic, why is Chloe's face always so contorted. She looks like she's battling a bout of constipation and she's just about to conquer it. Wierd. For this week's post, I'll put together my prediction so far of chance of a villan and/or death.

Character chance of being villan chance of dying
Jack 0% 2%
Chloe 5% 9%
Bill 10% 14%
Audrey 17% 23%
Wayne 21% 36%
Secret Service Dude 22% 49%
Homeland Chief 30% 51%
Homeland Assistant 43% 64%
Secret Service Chick 44% 69%
Mike 52% 23%
Vice President 60% 18%
President 85% 4%
Bierko 92% 89%
French Agent 32% 74%
Hot Traitor chick 97% 70%
Unknown Villan in car 67% 95%
Henderson 100% 100%

"24" prediction 3-28-06

In desperation for blogging material, I thought I'd give my predictions of the next coming hours of perhaps the best show on the planet "24". I'll start with a recap of the previous episode and then tell you what I expect are insights to be shown in the future hours.

Last night's show: 9pm-10pm. Last night, they had the explosion at the natural gas powerplant. In the final minutes of the hour, rubble was slamming against the cop car in which Baur and Beirko were battling. Wayne Palmer was heading to the retreat with the Secret Service dude. Audrey was interrogated thoroughly by Jack and some other schmuck and turned out to be on the right side.

Here's my predictions:

• Bierko will be captured. Problem is we'll find out he's only another rung in the ladder of this never-ending list of bad guys. That's the problem with this show. Villians will be played with some soulful wrath only to later learn that they inturn are pawns. Don't worry, Jack will interrogate the frickin' shit out of this guy. I'm sure He'll take a shit too. On the floor right in the room. That's one job I wouldn't want. To be the janitor of that place. Feces, vomit, pee, blood, and any other fluid the body can generate is on the floor there. Of course you need to have Level Alpha-omega Class double X clearance to even mop the floor. I'd have a better chance doing a space walk than trot through there with a mop. Of course any bad guy can easily walk in there. That's because any bad guy on the show has a quadruple major of Computer Science, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering so they can easily be familar with any foreign device, element, or blueprint that crosses their path.
• Wayne Palmer will learn than the Vice President is connected to all of this somehow. He has been behind this from the get go. Trouble is Palmer is a nobody and basically the equivalent of crewman Shepard on Star Trek episode #45. That means he's a goner. Bye-bye. Of course, he'll have some secret paper that will be taken from him at his dying moment from another top-level government agent working for our enemies.
• That Homeland Security guy is bad news. Not the main chick but her right-hand jackoff buddy of hers. I don't know about the Sexual Harrassment thing but he just doesn't read right with me. He's got the same mental wiring as the dead Hobbit who was running the joint. His side agenda superscedes the emergency and people like that need to take a big breath of the gas that's been stolen. I hate people like that.

You know you'd think that after all the damn moles in the place, they'd run an extensive background check of everyone but that just doesn't seem to happen. It appears that Chloe, Jack, and a few others must go against a team of villians that have more thought out plans and are better at executing them than we are. Thank God we can always throw a bad guy or two into a closed room with Jack, some needles, a .45 and we'll catch up in a hurry.

No "Easy" Goodbye

As I look to the South, I am reminded of the VooDoo bar. I still have their business card at home. Plain, essentially, it carries more value to me now as I wonder if it is still there. New Orleans was like a fleeting affair which would and could never last. It's lasting allure was that there was so much more to see and do and my time was limited. Now, it is a sad reminder of how some things in life will be lost and never regained.
I know they are going to rebuild it and I want to see it again but it just won't be the same. The people won't be the same. Tragically, some history was lost in the currents which also took some of the civility in the people. It won't be the same. As a queen, she enters a twilight dance filled with emotion and attention until the next headline reduces her to page 6 on the newspapers.
I've heard both the Garden and French district went mostly unscathed but nothing and no person who lives there can say they were "unscathed".
Never a fan of a po' boy and certainly not one of crawfish, I found a dark facination in the bayou and the general laziness of the landscape. You just moved slower when you were down there. To me, every event both sour and sweet was glazed in this "it's all good" attitude. Hurricanes, I mean the drink, you gotta love 'em. There was too much to do. Like any woman who grabs your heart you know there was just too much about them that you never got to see. Wait another day and you'll find more. As we all appear two dimensional, these people posses a depth that can only be savored in jealousy. Thus, it is the same for New Orleans. There was another woman who I never got to say bye to. I won't make that mistake again. There is only one "Big Easy." That's why it is so hard to say:

Rest in Peace, New Orleans. (1718-2005)

You falling makes me laugh.

Seems right. I guess I'm a dick.

A Jedi could give you a close shave but I'd never let him watch my kids.

Let's face it. A Jedi makes the worst parent. After seeing 'Revenge of the Sith' I have to blame the Jedi for the whole problem. They started it. I've always said, the biggest and strongest bond for any child is with the one raising him/her. Their strength, fortitude, convictions pass in some shape to the one being raised. That being said, Ben was a pretty good guy. So, who the Hell did Anakin fall so quickly and so hard? It's like this:
"I'm on the good side. I'm on the good side. I'm on the good side. I'm on the good side. I'm on the go..."
"Hey Anakin, wanna come to the dark side?"
(quick pause)
"I'm on the dark side. I'm on the dark side. I'm on the dark side. I'm on the dark side."
It was that fast. Let's base it on Christianity shall we? Besides, many of Lucas and Spielberg's movies are based on WWII and the Holocaust. Okay, a Priest who is taught of the Divine ways to live may learn the ways of the Devil and evil as well. He's at least aware of them and what they stand for. Okay, now let's say you're a priest. Not a good one either. Other Priests think you're not so strong and you haven't even heard one confession yet. Along comes a Politician who communicates with the Priests fairly regularly. He's telling you that the other Priests are fools and you should be giving Masses let alone hearing Confessions. Are you immediately going to sway? Would you even think about it? Now, disagreement is human and I'm sure it's no different for Jedi. But, the code Man! The Oath! The principles of the Sith and Jedi are pretty much laid out. I'm sure even non-Jedi people running around know to be wary of the Sith. My God Anakin, get a frickin' backbone. Even worse, come on Ben. Wake up! His attitude was lacking in Episode 2. Didn't you see that! Bad parent! Bad parent! Don't they have boarding schools for wayward Jedi someplace? Anyway, I guess I'm a little upset that he didn't see the lie coming. Maybe Christianity isn't the best analogy. Karate is better. Almost everyone past the age of 10 knows about the existence of karate. Not everyone knows it and it can be used both ways. Offensively and defensively. Some bully might be using it to steal lunch money and gain power where there is some softspoken chick on Biology class who has kicked ass during recess to help out another kid. Every knows it. Now, the kid who uses it bad....who is to blame? Mom and Dad that's who. They're too busy working on computers or the lawn to care. Kids go awry. Same thing with the Jedi. Too busy meddling with political crap or finding Sith Lords.
One last note. It appears that all the other Jedi went through some training of some sort at the Headquarters. There were "younglings" running everywhere in Episode II and III. It appears to me that Ben did the raising and teaching on his own for Anakin. That was a bad experiment if it were true. They paid for it in the end. Stormtroopers rioted in the streets raping and pillaging the Wookie while Ben was eating camel in the Gobi desert while Yoda was eating fish and crawdads in the jungles of the Congo. If James Tiberius Kirk were there, he would have cleaned it all up by the end of Episode I. But, he probably would have impregnated 3 of the female jedi in the process.