Category Archives: philosophy

maslow’s hierarchy of needs, megalomaniacal blogger edition

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Maslow's Hierarchy of Writer's Needs, click for full size

Found via a loopy stagger around and off sulz‘s blog. Cross-posted to running through rain.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is more well-known than well-understood, but now any old Myspace slacker still straight enough to click a quiz without having to close one eye and move his lips while watching YouTube can find out how self-realized s/he may be without all that icky “reading for comprehension” stuff that just slows us down.

The internet moves at the speed of thought. Which explains why it takes this blog so long to load, eh?

Maslow's real hierarchy of civilian needs although who cares about the plebes, eh?

 

Maslow Inventory Results
Physiological Needs (80%) you appear to have a deficiency in your basic needs.
Safety Needs (50%) you appear to have an adequately secure environment.
Love Needs (57%) you appear to be semi-content with the quality of your social connections.
Esteem Needs (37%) you appear to have a high level of personal competence.
Self-Actualization (55%) you appear to have an average level of individual development.

Take Free Maslow Inventory Test
personality tests by similarminds.com

Monstrously detailed analysis over the jump…as I may be, if it’s not too cold to walk to the Lion’s Gate. Have a happy!

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admission price to the theatre of the absurd

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Useless Science, by Remedios Varo 

On the one hand, I had a job interview today, yay, go me, etc, etc, whatever.

Ruptura by Remedios Varo

On the other hand, if I get the job I will earn money, but I will not now, nor in the future, actually receive the money.

Naturaleza Muerta Rescusitando by Remedios Varo

Still, for me this is progress.

Exploration for the source of the Orinoco by Remedios Varo

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conspiracy 911: the real reason it happened

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Another video from apeman, the twisted Canuckistani genius who brought Hinterland’s Who’s Who’s Crack Spider into being.

Again, I’m sticking the video and lyrics over the jump because I was told that it was kinder to the people on dialup and also because I hope this way I won’t have to do a bloody restart every time my cache fills up.

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what cheese are you?

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Who audited my cheese?

I’m sure that this question is keeping you awake nights. “Am I more nutty or dry? Fragrant or just pungent?” you doubtless mutter to the dark spaces between the stars as you lie abed, consumed with existential dread and the faint aroma of the dairy products you inadvisedly consumed in the search for knowledge, even though you are lactose intolerant.

How, O Lord! How can we go on without knowing what verdict the Online Cheese Comparator will render?

Neufchatel...but they don't tell you what happened to the other eight, eh? One word: Bluebeard.Your cheese rating is: Neufchâtel

A traditional soft, white table cheese from Normandy in France. Neufchâtel smells and tastes of mushrooms. It has a dry, velvety rind, and a grainy texture. When mature, Neufchâtel develops a bitter, salty, acrid taste.

Well fuck that ridiculous Online Cheese Comparator, then! It’s obviously completely inaccurate and can’t tell a mellow, non-fungal-scented, soft and gentle soul when it runs one through its cheese-identity-detector algorithm.

Harumph!

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stats: the forbidden love

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This is the so-called lecture, in actuality dialogue, that I gave at Moosecamp, which is the first, more free-form day, of the Northern Voice Blogging Conference. It was my intention to get people talking about the simple right to care about hits, but it turned out that this was taken as a given and we went off on all kinds of tangents. I’m a big tangent person, so I love this. Here’s the whole podcast, thanks to Podcastspot.com; I shall never again question the relevance of podcasts.

I’ll snippet the bits of wisdom and the URL’s later.

http://northernvoice.podcastspot.com/episodes/61B26D/download/mp3_96

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