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Thought I might as well re-introduce myself, rather than jumping right in. Browsing through the members list, looks like a number of the more familiar faces and names have been gone for years. Finally got around to completing my first long-distance cycling tour this past summer, and I gotta...

I took a job as a bike courier in Toronto, figuring that it would be easier to train for my cross-Canada bike tour while working rather than training after work. Started the job on Monday, and today I had my first collision; not with a car, but with a pedestrian. Just as I was entering the...

I've been working warehouse and factory jobs for the past few years. Forklift, material handling, shipping/receiving. Combines short periods of problem-solving (tetrising 60 skids into a 53 foot trailer) with long periods of repetitive boredom. As mentioned by others, those periods of repetition...

I'm doing well. It seems I pulled a classic INTP move, and found myself in a relationship without knowing how it happened, but it turned out all right. She's been a fantastic stabilizing influence on my life. We moved to Barrie, which is located on the beautiful Kempenfelt Bay. We're about 1km...

I've taken a long hiatus from online forums entirely, but stumbled across an old link to one of my threads from the last time I was a regular contributor. Considering rejoining the community, but I'll likely just lurk for a while. Just wanted to say I'm back, even if I'm not necessarily...

It's interesting to me that on the day that I started reading through my Facebook notes, one of which linked back to INTPf and a thread regarding MBTI typing and criminal behaviours, I notice not one but two threads with recent activity regarding criminality. I'm going to head over and read...

Pallet jacks are already an integral part of the warehouse environment. http://wiki.vpa.mtu.edu/wiki/images/3/3f/Pallet_jack.jpg http://www.midlandpallettrucks.com/adminimages/Company_16/HS-0809-HIGH-LIFT-PALLET-TRUCK.jpg Or were you looking for something motorized...

Not sure if I already answered your question elsewhere... I'm currently in Newmarket, but have been all over SW Ontario my whole life. Spent a few years in Cambridge, some in Milton, been down as far as Windsor... Been seriously considering moving to Hamilton next, as I have a few...

I'm not sure that I would trust a machine as my doctor... unless you were referring to something like this. Beyond that, however, I agree that as time goes on, we should start seeing societies moving more towards something an INTP would be comfortable in, if not necessarily run by INTPs...

A lifetime total of 20 books read willingly is still much more than a large number of people who I've met will ever claim. Personally, I go through phases of reading activity. I'll have times when I'm reading 3 or 4 books at once, scattered around the house, but those times are offset by...

WHAT???? Please tell me you're joking... If not, where can I find these comments to see the idiocy for myself? What the hell is wrong with our educational system in North America that people don't know that a popular movie had it's basis in a real-life disaster that resulted in the loss of...

To be honest, I'm not into any drugs, period, but what this seems to be describing sounds like pure hell... why would I want to take a drug to disconnect from reality when a book, or in some cases, my imagination on its own, can create the exact same result? At least with books and my own...

Pretty sure the leap from luminous fish to loom was based on the word play here... 'LUM'inous=loom? Not sure which function would precipitate that leap though, as I've not done near enough researching into the whole MBTI/typing deal. Just saying... I understood the intuitive leap...

Am I the only one who finds it distasteful that James Cameron is not only once again trying to upstage the anniversary of the Titanic disaster on it's anniversary, but he chose to do it on the centennial? I mean, you know that most people are going to be all abuzz about the re-release of the...

But the sky really is falling, honest it is... why won't you believe me???

Since I'm sure some of us would like to have relatively clement weather at least part of the year, perhaps Iceland would be best? They're supposed to be joining the EU soon, so passport-less travel to sunny destinations in Spain, Italy, etc., but you still get the 24-hour night during winter and...

It's only because Synthetix still hasn't told us where this intpf mansion is going to be. Once we know where we're going, we can stop picking on you.

Self-deletion gets a little confusing for those of us who didn't catch it before deletion, doncha think, Auburn?? Shame on you.

I've tried this. The world seems to resist all attempts by puny humans to rule it. Obviously, it simply doesn't see the benefits that would come of being ruled. I have come to the conclusion, therefore, that the world is not worthy of being ruled, and hiding from it is much more enjoyable when...

Trying to sneak in without being introduction? Well done, I must say. Welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy your stay.

Stolen as my Facebook status for the day. If Visionary doesn't object too strenuously... or even if he does. @OP, I don't have too much trouble with "You should be doing this, that or the other" regarding everyday chores and errands; I seem to fall victim more to the sort of thinking embodied...

Gotta say I love the idea. Give me a generalized address (or at least the location of this community), and I will be there in a heartbeat... well, maybe a bit longer, as I'll be biking from Ontario, but I'll get there as quickly as I can. Did Auburn's post that Czech quoted get deleted, or is...

Depending on how soon this project is due, could you not just either email the physics department at one of the local universities, or go to one of the local universities in person (after school, of course), and talk to a physics prof there??? I know that's what I'd be doing in a situation like...

OK, unless someone changed the rules, wouldn't G = ∞, G = 0 mean that ∞ = 0? How can infinity be equal to zero???

10,000 babies were born in the USA. Hurricanes Erin. Felix, and Gabrielle were in various stages of development. Parliamentary elections were held in Norway. I'm sure other interesting things happened, but I don't have the interest to go running around the web trying to find reference to them.

Wait, I'm not supposed to eat meat on Good Friday??? *looks at breakfast sausage* *shrugs* *eats it anyway* Oops... didn't know about that part. Pagan rabbit festival makes sense, I suppose. I had always thought that the rabbits and eggs came afterwards, as a commercialization of the holiday...

I'm not sure what's so good about it. I mean, besides the obvious fact that it's a statutory holiday, which means no-one has to go into work today, what's the 'good' part of this holiday? Before it was a stat holiday, it was still considered good, and yet the origin of the holiday comes from the...

Gotta agree with lucky on that one. Head-sized rocks are gonna be troublesome regardless of what you're riding. As far as men's or women's, I've personally ridden both and don't see that there's much of a difference in the ride itself. Granted, I haven't done any serious riding on a womens...

If you're going into a decent bike shop, you shouldn't have too much trouble with being sold a lousy bike. In my experience with cycle shops, the staff is usually incredibly helpful and incredibly knowledgeable about their product. If the bike is selling for less than about $500, you'll want to...

Hmm, I've only read the second book of the series, but I do recall Tyrion being a complete ass pretty much throughout it. Very conscious of the fact that he is 'deformed', and very arrogant about his learning; nevertheless, he was still one of my favourite characters in the book.

Mello, this reminds me far too much of my bike accident in December '09. Pulled the same thing, then found out the next day that I had broken my fibula when I crashed. As amusing as it was to see people stare in shock at a guy wipe out on his bike, practically get run over by his buddy, then get...

I had been wondering the same thing, but didn't see the point of bringing it up, and wasn't quite interested enough to go searching through the forum for the reason. At least I have the excuse of having been gone from the Internet for 11 months... what's yours, Solitaire??

Hmm, so just out of curiosity, whereabouts in Ontario are you??

Michigan, or New York???

Ahh, snafupants, we know you love us Canucks! Mizzykin, welcome to the forum. Glad to see another Ontarian around here. I was starting to think I might be the only one up here.

This bothers me. May I assume you meant the treat which is named after them, rather than implying that rice crispies are somehow named after the treat that is their main ingredient? Back on topic, the full breakfast rice crispie treat sounds fantastic. I think the next time I have the...

Considering Israel's history of wiping out their neighbours, I wouldn't give Iran very good odds... has it been 40 years since the Six Days War yet? Forty seems to be a big number in their history (Noah, the wandering in the desert, Jesus' temptation) Explain how one explains a question...

I think it's a great idea, but the above quote may be a bit idealistic. If you're already running the business with a modest profit to cover expenses, what would be wrong with a small dividend? Especially if you were to keep the number of shares or the dividend per share low, there's no reason...

Just finished a 34 hour, but only slept for ~8 hours afterwards... like Jennywocky, I'm usually running really low on sleep. 2-3 hours per sleep session is normal, with 20-24 waking hours in between. My sleep schedule refuses to correspond properly to a 24-hour day, though. Interestingly, while...

lol, you would be slightly surprised??

Alright, so I know that digging up old posts is sort of frowned upon, but I really didn't see the point of opening a new thread to ask a question regarding perpetual motion when this one was sitting here, unused. I was over on Wikipedia earlier today, looking at their page on the subject, but...

Sorry, I just happened to see that she had already answered your question...

Does my browser use a separate dictionary for spell check, or the same one as my word processor? I don't know enough about spell check to go fooling around with it, because I proofread my own writing, but it's annoying when it screws with my posts online. Because it's made of Tigers...

This forum has such crappy smiley options because we're INTPs and don't express our emoticons very well. Explain why the auto spell check has underlined "emoticons", "icebreaking", and "longwinded" tonight.

Welcome to the forum, Kira. The whole INTPs meeting and finishing each others sentences thing is actually pretty cool. I agree it's eerie, or can be, but the whole idea of having someone who is able to think along with you is amazing. I know when I first met my biological father (INTP trying too...

lol, this is so incredibly true for me, except that the last bit should say 9:00 instead of 8.

Funny, I was always the guy that never did any homework, aced all the tests, then did makeup assignments at the end of semester simply to get a decent grade. I was looking at my high school transcript recently and was amazed that I got mid-60s and low 70s in classes that I don't even recall...

Earth was bulldozed to make way for a hyperspatial expressway. Explain why certain ideas become phenomenal successes, while others burn out.

Power lines are insulated to avoid ensure that the electric energy follows the conducting wire, instead of flowing into the critters running on the line. Explain the answer to life, the universe, and everything. EDIT: Sorry, just realized you asked about communications lines, not power...

78. I find it odd, however, that according to their chart, most people who take the test are scoring in the mid 40's and up... I find it hard to believe that the majority of the population believes in Machiavellian ideals. Perhaps the vagueness of the questions is influencing the data too...