Sometimes these quiz things are fun, this one is one of those times.

Interesting stuff, and shockingly (probably not) it hit the nail right on the head.

trait snapshot:
clean, self revealing, open, organized, outgoing, social, enjoys leadership and managing others, dominant, makes friends easily, does not like to be alone, assertive, hard working, finisher, optimistic, positive, likes to stand out, likes large parties, respects authority, practical, high self esteem, perfectionist, dislikes chaos, busy, not familiar with the dark side of life, controlling, high self control, traditional, tough, likes to fit in, conforming, brutally honest, takes precautions

I was inspired by Crystal, who posted her 10 things she’s not afraid to admit today to post mine. Feel free to follow suit.

By the way, these are in no particular order:

1.) I eat Chef Boyardee beef ravioli (both regular and overstuffed) straight out of the can.

2.) I have enormous crushes on Miley Cyrus, Hayden Panetiere, The Olsen Twins, Rachel Bilson and Avril Lavigne (who would probably be irritated to be in the same category as the others)

3.) I some times pretend like I am the star of my own reality show when I’m in public.

4.) I absolutely detest with a passion Apple and Google and hope that one day they meet their demise. (Though, I would feel bad for all their employees)

5.) I go to the mall most of the time just to watch people.

6.) I eat at Golden Corral an average of 3 times a week, though most weeks it is more.

7.) While I subscribe to a crap load of RSS feeds there are only about 10 that I actually read in great detail. The others just get skimmed.

8.) Most of my friends are girls because most guys smell, are obnoxious, and tend to make me feel crappy about myself.

9.) Most of the guy friends I do have are married, engaged or involved seriously with someone and I don’t hang out with them often because I’m way to attracted to their significant other.

10.) I seriously enjoy the taste of Miller Lite beer and drink it for no other reason outside of the taste.

Despite popular belief I think that change is probably one of the greatest feelings to experience.

I am about to experience some insane changes in my life over the next few weeks. One HUGE change actually, which will put in to play a series of other changes that will affect my life. Once things get to a point where an announcement can be made, you most certainly can expect me to make the announcement, however right now it is still in the midst of process, so I must keep my mouth shut.

I am freakin thrilled about this change though as it honestly is the greatest lifestyle adjustment that I’ve made in quite a long time, more on that later though.

Do you embrace change, or does change scare you?

I am pretty much the last person to find out about the viral internet video hits. Mostly because I hate google, and try to spend as little time as possible on any site related to them.

Crystal posted a video of Matt Harding a.k.a. ‘Dancing Matt’ on her blog, and I traveled over to his blog to find these 3 videos.

All I can say, is like most I’m pretty jealous of this guy. Look how much fun he is having!

Dancing 2005

Dancing 2006

Dancing 2008

I said Monday that I was working on some minor tweaks here at UI. The (semi) end result you’ll notice is to your left.

I moved the about me section over to the left, as well as made a navigation area. I received a couple messages telling me that folks, for whatever reason, couldn’t figure out to click the banner up top to return to the main page, so you can now do so by clicking ‘Home’ on the left side. I’ve also put my blogroll and links on the left.

In addition I added the ‘Get At Me’ section which features links to the social-networking and other sites I am connected to so that you can add me or whatever. There are a few more that I need to get up there, but I’ve got to find a button for them first.

These changes are in response to feed back from you, so if you have any further feedback, please shoot me a line.

I am doing some tweaking to some of the pages here at UI.

You know I don’t like to follow the crowd, this whole “rotating link-lovin” bull crap annoys me. Unfortunately having a blogroll the size of the Mississippi River on my front page annoys me too. As a result I have to give them their own page now. I figured since I was giving them their own page that I should categorize them too.

I am doing the same thing with my links.
I am also finally getting around to getting contact info up as well, as far as my various user names on the different social-networking sites, as well as e-mail, etc.

Hopefully all of this will be done by Wednesday evening. (No promises, but that’s my goal)

Thanks for hanging in there.

If you’d like to be listed in the new blogroll shoot me a message either on twitter (|at|wfyoung3) or via e-mail will|at|willyoungband|dot|com. You can also shoot me a line on myspace or facebook, but I’m not linking those right now because I don’t feel like it.

Chris posted a screenshot of his desktop in response to Tony Morgan making a statement about what your desktop says about you. It seemed fun and since I can’t think of creative fun things to do on my own, I decided to semi-participate. So here’s mine (click on it to view full size):

That’s my work desktop, my home desktop is the same image, just a few less icons. You don’t need a psychologist to tell you what my desktop says about me. It’s pretty simple: I’m a 23 year old single guy. Rachel Bilson is beautiful. When I get married I’ll replace the picture of Rachel with a picture of my beautiful wife…hopefully I’ll marry Rachel so I don’t have to do that. (What…a man can dream can’t he?!? There’s no shame in my game…or lack thereof.)

psychoanalyzing

My boss, who in the 1.5 years I’ve been employed with this company has NEVER forward me any e-mails, did this morning and it’s a freaking hoot.

Check this out:

An easy way of explaining the economic models of the world.

SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbor.

COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The state takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.

NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.

BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away…

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.

SURREALISM
You have two giraffes, but you believe them to be cows.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow has dropped dead.

ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public then buys your bull.

A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows
You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called ‘Cowkimo’ and market it worldwide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don’t know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
You count them again and learn you have 2 cows.
You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows, none of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have 2 cows.
You have 300 people milking them, you claim to have full employment and high bovine productivity.
You arrest the journalist who reported the real situation.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION.
You have 2 cows.
You worship them.

A BRITISH CORPORATION.
You have 2 cows.
Both are mad.

AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
No one believes you, so they bomb the crap out of you and invade your country.
You still have no cows, but at least you are now part of a democracy.

AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION.
You have 2 cows.
Business seems pretty good, so you close the office and go to the pub for a few beers.

A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION.
You have 2 cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive.

So I upgraded to Wordpress version 2.6 this morning and it was fairly painless.

I’ve got to admit switching over from Blogger (thus ending all but one connection with the *evil* empire that Google is creating on the internet) to Wordpress was a great idea. I’m finding the possibilities and the places I can take my blog are almost endless. This of course doesn’t matter to most non-blog-geeks out there, but seriously if you haven’t considered it I would definetely encourage you to check into Wordpress. There is so much out there you can read about them and generally speaking I haven’t ran into one person who does not like them.

Check out this video for an overview of Wordpress version 2.6:

Thank you Wordpress developers for making an easy to use, complex tool to allow bloggers to step up their game.