New Myers-Briggs Personality Types Disclosed

When I originally completed the Myers-Briggs "type indicator," my personality fell into the ESTJ bucket.

According to the graphic above, as an ESTJ (top left) I am a natural-born supervisor in the tradition of such legendary administrative types as Queen Elizabeth I and Joseph Stalin.

As an ESTJ (Extrovert-Sensing-Thinking-Judging), I am energized by my interactions with humans (and golden retrievers), I like concrete data (like the indisputable facts you find in Facebook and Twitter updates), I make decisions based on logic (unless I'm pissed), and I am miserable when situations are unresolved (you should be too).

Not so fast though! Based on exhaustive research just published online at McSweeney's, there are 11 new personality types. I'm certain that if I took the test again today, I would be re-classed as WDDD.

McSweeney's Additional Myers-Briggs Personality Types

• Unfeeling Uncaring Judging Screaming (UUJS)
• Lurking Touching Hurting Regretting (LTHR)
• Lying Denying Confessing Lying (LDCL)
• Smoking Dancing Laughing Fucking (SDLF)
• Moping Whining Crying Leaping (MWCL)
• Loving Buying Owing Impoverishing (LBOI)
• Hating Marrying Abusing Divorcing (HMAD)
• Running Swimming Boxing Fencing (RSBF)
• Writing Drinking Drinking Drinking (WDDD)
• Opening Sniffing Tasting Questioning (OSTQ)
• Eating Sleeping Videogame Playing (ESVP)

I'd love to hear if anyone else is questioning their original Myers-Briggs type in light of these new classifications, or if perhaps, you think they may have left something off the list. (Anyone else out there think they might be an ABCD - Angsting Bitching Complaining Delaying?)

Food, Fun, and Holiday Cheer For One

McSweeney's Internet Tendency offers a regular feature of weird but creative "lists" that people have written. This one, Fun Holiday Recipes for the Self-Sufficient Single, had me laughing so hard I nearly wept in my severely spiked eggnog.

I particularly enjoyed the microwaved cider recipe. Enjoy.

The Shallowest Sympathies for Your Loss

It's not always easy to find the right thing to say to someone who has just lost a loved one, but we should all be able to fairly easily avoid the colossally wrong things to say.

In the latest from the McSweeney's feature entitled Open Letters to People Who Are Unlikely to Respond, a woman addresses her correspondence to a co-worker who showed remarkable insensitivity in attempting to offer her condolences regarding the death of a parent.

Charts About Graphs (from McSweeney's)

Ben Greenman's latest installation in his series Charts About Graphs and Graphs About Charts. This type of information is too powerful not to share.