The Turkey Trot in Pictures

Videos to (hopefully) come later.

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I read this post over on tidbits by Joe Kissel. I liked this article because it expressed the feelings and tendencies of someone with a very similar personality to my own. I also liked his definition of “introvert”:

A common misconception about the word “introvert” is that it means someone who’s shy, withdrawn, afraid of crowds, or lacking in social skills. If you’ve ever seen me give a presentation to a large Mac user group, you’ll surely know that description doesn’t fit me at all! I will happily stand in front of hundreds or thousands of people, give a speech, answer questions, make jokes, and generally take charge of keeping the group interested and involved. If anything, I have a reputation for being long-winded in social situations, telling stories that go off on one tangent after another - and for being among the last to leave. I like people, and I think I’m reasonably competent and comfortable in a crowd of any size.

I strongly agree with the following statement he made in regards to multitasking and chatting online:

Now, I happen to think “multitasking” is a concept that should never, ever be applied to human beings (regardless of personality type), but be that as it may, I can certainly say that I’m easily distracted, and having more than one thing to think about actively at any given time is sure to make me both ineffective and grumpy. Chatting online while also working on another task, therefore, is unthinkable.

I wouldn’t go as far as to say that I’m easily distracted, but I greatly value solitude and quiet when I’m trying to study something.

If you are interested in learning more about my personality, then read the article and you will get a fairly close representation of one aspect of it.

I received my T-shirt, certificate, and stickers on March 12th - but I only took pictures of my shirt. Enjoy!

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Charity posted this quiz on her LJ, so I decided to take it and see how it rated me.

About this quiz

Unhappiness in relationships is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. It can be helpful to know what language you speak and what language those around you speak.

Tag 3 people so they can find out what their love language is.

Take the Quiz!
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Edit: I tagged Brittany, Jared, and Sarah

I just got an IM from a friend on my MSN messenger account that appears to be some sort of backdoor IRC bot.

(05:18:39 PM) UnamedFriend: Hey, isn’t this YOU?? :S http://mainmsn.com/images/viewimage.php?=myusername@hotmail.com
(05:30:55 PM) Jordan: Are you there?
(05:35:35 PM) Jordan: I think you might be infected with a virus

I changed the above url to www.virustotal.com’s antivirus scan of the file.

Needless to say, I’m trying to contact that friend and let them know about their computer’s actions.

Update:

I attempted to contact the domain registrant of mainmsn.com via the whois contact info and the message bounced. I am now attempting to contact the company that mainmsn.com is using for its name servers. I also submitted the URL to Google’s Safe Browsing: Report a malware page

I just saw this today after reading Franz P.’s comment about how he found my post. I did a search for “information overload” to see if I could find my post on Google. I looked through the first five pages and didn’t see my post, but I did find this:

Cure Information Overload Using Google Reader

Google’s feed reader has an option to sort the feeds by relevance. It’s only available if you go to “All items” and select “Sort by auto”. The cryptic name should mean that Google Reader “prioritizes the items based on their importance to you” by analyzing your reading patterns. - googlesystem.blogspot.com