PurpleCar

This week:  Narcissism
It’s been a long day.  After carting the kids around town on errands, you hope to do a quick return at the department store.  You are about to pull into a prime parking space when you are cut off by a man in a Mercedes. You finally get into the store and are [...]

My last post turned into a forum for some silliness on Twitter.  Troy, a soldier currently serving in Iraq, posted a comment that OF COURSE the guys and gals over there LOVE mail!!!
I started this post so you can comment back to Troy and any buddies he has around him.  Positive words of encouragement only!  [...]

Dear Reader,
As many of my family and close friends know, I have joined the ranks of the caring men and women who have military pen pals currently serving tours in Iraq. Through Twitter, I learned of Email Our Military (@MailOurMilitary), a volunteer service that grew out of a national security measure that banned [...]

Dear Classmates,
Many years have passed.  Most of you haven’t heard from me since the day we graduated from high school.  When the powers that be closed the doors of our school forever that day, I closed the doors on my past.  I left for another city and never returned to live in the area again.
Perhaps [...]

Jonny Goldstein put out a challenge on Utterz for a Haiku-a-Day. I managed only one. You can go to my account, PurpleCar, on Utterz or here to listen, but here is the text:

 
Endless messages,
A desperate search, I swear
you said you loved me.

via @HMason in Twitter:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2252153,00.html
Basically, another chapter in the ‘artificial intelligence’ scare.
“The book-writing machine works simply, at least in principle. First, one feeds it a recipe for writing a particular genre of book - a tome about crossword puzzles, say, or a market outlook for products. Then hook the computer up to a big database full [...]

From Words Mean Things:
 Do you tend to be late or on time? I am pathologically on time - even when I don’t try, I’m there five minutes before I’m supposed to be. My friends, on the other hand, are almost always late. This infuriates me.
From PE Online:
Perennial lateness inhibits success. It’s annoying. It slows [...]

I’ve been so busy over the holiday (and recovering!) that I have been awol on Purplecar. Sorry!   Here’s a bit about multiple intelligences that you can use for character building.
Howard Gardner shook psychology ground back in 1983 when he theorized that there were more measurable skillsets than just the typical math, reading and logic most [...]

There are a ton of sites on the web offering scaled-down versions of famous personality tests, like Myers Briggs or the MMPI.   Lots of sites offer free tests, but they aren’t reliable ones; in fact, most of the tests are just plain fake.  Still, I think you should go and take a few.
Why take a [...]

One of my characters likes to collect antiques. What does this say about her? Characters with a collecting habit can be pretty interesting. The plotline can go so many different ways.