Do you want to practice with WordPress?
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Note to everyone: to get a free WordPress blog click above link.
How better to no cost achieve minimal literacy in WordPress? It is not difficult or rather it is like learning Microsoft Word and likewise unless you go at it you or rather the typical user uses 1-5% of what WordPress can do. I, starbadger, Richard Larratt, do not claim expertise in WordPress. Nor does John but as you can see Castlehom has been running six-months.
It’s a chicken and an egg. After the site has as few as a half dozen editors or animals up and running the site will begin to be the disinterested web source of how does WordPress works, second to none.
For anyone lurking and thinking about applying to be one of the sixteen I recommend you get the free copy of WordPress. Among other things it will tell you short of “community” what you need to master the basics. =======================================================
ArkhamVonWicker <twkwicker@gmail.com> Question:
Is my assumption correct in that each animal will have free reign as to how their particular neighborhood will look regarding colors, templates, etc? Or will they all share a basic template so they flow with the hub page?
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The hub page of Castlehom is fixed except for a few small thwacks. You are INTP which puts you at the extreme right of the sixteen sliding doors. At this point you could still elect to be a different type (if you’d rather we use a different animal for INTP I suppose we could do that but I do have a rat story I intend place in the (to be built) library at Castlehom Chronicles. It is the Story of which bits and pieces are already posted that has Raymond as a world’s oldest lab rat who was liberated from Harvard Psychology Lab and now lives in a field by a year-round Spring of fresh clean water on the hobby farm of a left-leaning economics professor from Harvard. That said you will find once you get into it that is just plain fun. If you don’t like rat – don’t agree to it – want to be a crow – tell me.
Until I set up this site I did not know so many people take their Myers-Briggs so so seriously. Myers Briggs Foundation It is widely assumed that Albert Einstein was an INTP. He probably was albeit I would be surprised if he gave it as much thought as a lot of people posting on the web out of Myers Briggs Interest Groups appear to – some post exclusive to INTP-only sites. So be careful. At the time I thought that there was a short list of smart animals and birds that live or co-evolve with man. In no particular order I’d mention rats, raccoons and crows. These last few months I have had a lot of Google Alert information on rats. In particular dumbo rats. There is no question that there are millions of people who have rats as pets and see that a dumbo rat is not a hamster but rather a wonderful pet blacklisted by his wild brother. Actually two – the black rat or ship rat is a different species than the brown rat or Norway rat. A lot of the eyes on INTP at castlehom will go away if Ray does.
As the first editor in one of the four categories you have more freedom than the next. Nothing to do with anything more complex than being first. Read up about the category – the rational. What you might notice is that the four sliding doors are shades of green but inside the main color is blue. That is wrong and for you to fix. It should be green inside. Use the outside door to give you an idea of the shade of green. You can read the four colors of Myers Briggs to understand of what I speak and the world out there assumes correct. You are the lucky one as you are first in the category.
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ArkhamVonWicker <twkwicker@gmail.com> Question.
What exactly would I be putting into the neighborhood for others to read? Will other INTP’s be submitting things and I edit them to place into the page?
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You couldn’t do better than to really get your head into the theory of INTP then set up your google analytics to let you study the INTP activity on the Web. I’ll be more than willing to help you with that albeit I am still learning but I am I’d imagine six-months ahead of you as that is when I started the site. As you become comfortable with castlehom and discover that a free WordPress and Castlehom are not the same you will then have the knowledge to be able to invite in your friends but to Castlehom not facebook, my space, etc. where you may all remain friends and have sites. Castlehom works with never against these big sites. There is the irony that the more computer literate your friends are the quicker it will be a benefit to you that they be on your site. But don’t expect all your “members” to be INTP. The way google works if you start doing things INTP right then google will direct eyes to your site (remember some one can come straight in off the web to your site). It would help if you had an artist or at least someone who can cartoon rats. That and a mastery of INTP would work. such that your site might end up mostly INTP.
But you do it a day at a time. It’s not a pet rock. The google alerts will put you in touch with other INTPs. You get to know them. You talk to them. You tell your stories. Stories you’ve told me.
ArkhamVonWicker <twkwicker@gmail.com> Question.
What kind of content is to be expected of my running that neighborhood? Regular entries based off of life observations? My progression of writing from idea to finished product? Or is anything allowed?
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Castlehom will never be an “ADULT” site albeit driven by adult wisdom and experience in the context of a love of story telling. There is a way to tell adult stories to children and someone should. You for example.
After say a month or so when you are past the basis learning curve and castlehom has its library it is very much you do what works. Think back if you may to the old IAM site and how it was carried by a handful of sites. Your site has to be one of those. As to what is allowed – it is already on the masthead. Parents, Children, Story telling, the reCAPTCHA if you will of the best of America, past, now and ever the future, the city on the hill. We are all things and all are welcome as per the usage of the 16 to cover the spectrum of being but if you insist we are somewhat libertarian. We are no Religion but can’t we all be Buddish. Well yes but no. We will over time be a lot like the Paris Review was. Never critical of the story teller. No critics here as there are none at the review or rather there were not twenty years ago when I read it –
ArkhamVonWicker <twkwicker@gmail.com> Question
My last question for now is regarding stories. I’m digging out one of my ideas I’ve been tossing around for awhile and am hoping to finish it and have it published one day. Did I read correctly in another post that that is a possibility here with what is going on with the drowning book?
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The drowning book could be a winner and if you can organize around that there is the next six months of all the time you can spend on the Web. Remember the drill. You sign on. Get up and running. Then you at the minimum talk to that girl who wrote a story. She’s active on facebook and if you can’t raise her I can. Actually there was a bunch of them did but it is for the moment a lost opportunity. But that is always the way.
Lets get going.
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My apologies if the questions seem mundane. They are questions that I have and if posted publicly, others on the fence coming on-board may read the answers and take the plunge as well.
Mike
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hope the above helped
reminds me we are a “play in progress”
richard
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago at 9:09 pm.
Meet the animals of Castlehom
the rationals (NT) GREEN
INTP – Raymond Dumborat – http://castlehom.com/raymonddumborat/
ENTP – Billy Bob – http://castlehom.com/billybob/
INTJ – Onan Eule - http://castlehom.com/onaneule/
ENTJ – Alberta Eagle - http://castlehom.com/albertaeagle/
4 legs good – animal farm – george orwell – two legs bad
the dreamers (NF) BLUE
INFP – Twoeyes Cat – http://castlehom.com/twoeyescat/
ENFP – Dakota Dumbo - http://castlehom.com/dakotadumbo/
INFJ – Rebecca Racoon- http://castlehom.com/rebeccaraccoon/
ENFJ- Brown Bat - http://castlehom.com/brownbat/
the guardians (SJ) GOLD
ISTJ – Wail Wolf - http://castlehom.com/wailwolf/
ESTJ – Brunobrunhilda - http://castlehom.com/brunobrunhilda/
ISFJ – Willie Wasp - http://castlehom.com/williewasp/
ESFJ – Tabla Truthan - http://castlehom.com/tablatruthan/
the artisans (SP) ORANGE
ISFP – Tim Fox - http://castlehom.com/timfox/
ESFP – Elisabeth Thrush -http://castlehom.com/elisabeththrush/
ISTP – Doodle Hund - http://castlehom.com/doodlehund/
ESTP – Red Pork - http://castlehom.com/redpork/
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago at 8:17 pm.
If you are an INTP you are smilin’ knowin’ better
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago at 1:09 pm.
INTP
a lot of you are …
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago at 8:14 pm.
For those of you who have been lurkin’
It will be just a few more days. We have built this multi-user blog on the multi-user Word Press not the old single user Word Press. The benefit is sixteen animals with whom you can blog versus one. Instead of one point of view www.castlehom.com opens with sixteen sentients correctly distributed across the Jungian Dreamscape via the Briggs-Myers Categories, beginning with Raymond Lothario, an INTP.
A Major Player in the social network games will be taking on the role of BrunoBrunhilda, death dealing rat snake as well as drawing and painting the sixteen creatures. Yes there will be T-Shirts with totally original Art. Five full-length 2nd edition books for Christmas. There are a number of Posts outlining a yearly routine in which books are written and shared and proofed as .pdf files arising out of the multi-blog dialogue. Lets make this site a lot more than “everything old is new again.”
If you kick yourself for not getting in at the ground floor of the last site delurk now. I’ve had hits as high as “22” mutuals with people who weren’t born when SDL was logging unto a BBS in Toronto from Picton and 1200 baud was the speed of a blazingly fast U.S. Robotics modem. There are legals to be posted, paper work, but now is the time to uncloak and let us see your warbird or your story. In a week or so we’ll have the upload to the site automagic but if you have a story – email it to me as an attachment. richard@castlehom.com
We need a couple experts in social networking, I mean people who really scope facebook and twitter. Read the Web20 post. Enough for now. And don’t be shy. There is a lot of room to do things on this new site we could not consider 15 years ago and far from facebook and twitter being a competitor they can be the wind in our sails. We need people who understand the new ways the new folks, i called one a newbee in error the other day, that’s a whole new set of opportunities. Help us now when we’re just restarting. Please.
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago at 8:03 pm.
Myers-Briggs notes for the Animals
How does that lament go, if I only knew then, what I know now.
I might have developed the website off-the-net then opened it in a few weeks from now which is about when this website will be as intended. It is my intent to develop other “for profit” websites and to the extent that “I” am a “we” I cannot expect the others in the Project to give me too much more time with castlehom & it’s mixed agenda of do right do good.
All too many kids are a lifetime denied becoming the adults they are predisposed to be by the conforming pressures of parents and teachers. I note http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori remains a 1% solution in the face of overwhelming evidence that there are better ways to teach than is the rule in all-too-many of the seats in other classrooms.
I hesitated to mention Montessori because each human each person each child is a special case and I have no interest in Montessori (in anything) as a dogma. Shannon has his daughter in a Montessori school in Toronto. Shannon (and for that matter his brother and sister) came to the conclusion to become themselves in the ideal fashion which is with some adults saying one thing and others saying another. I half remember a very old Woody Allen movie mocking Montessori with the little girls pretending to be frogs and laying their eggs in the pond, then it is the boys’ turn, well that was Woody’s take, more funny than critical.
Something which may be an issue with this site is the 16 blogs and the sliding pictures to find the right animal which in turn is a personality type. I did that to stretch the population of animals across the spectrum of human types. I did that to ground the types in a published scholarship. A problem I encountered is that there is no consistent agreement in that scholarship on how to color code the four temperaments. From an ease of use standpoint no matter what color they are the rationals are a group and should be on the Menu together, INTP, INTJ, ENTP, ENTJ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keirsey_Temperament_Sorter
High-Level Description of the Sixteen Personality Types
http://www.personalitypage.com/high-level.html
ENFJ: “Teacher” = BEAVER (`5% IN HUMAN POPULATION)
Family life is crucial, can dam up and block the flow. Busy beaver.
ENTJ: “Field Marshal” = WOLF (pack animal)
The top wolf must be obeyed or defeated in battle.
ENFJ/ENTJ: FOX
Smart is not enough, guile is essential to survive.
ENFP: “Journalist” = FERRET/WEASEL 3%
Enthusiastic hunter, ferret/weasel out of information.
ENTP: “Inventor” = the SNAKE 2% (Visionaries)
Their minds are an Alien system as if they cannot hear our words, only feel the vibrations and sense our body heat in the dark.
ESFJ: “Seller” = HORSE 13%
Wild horses are terrifying, but they can be tamed and ridden.
ESTJ: “Administrator” = BULL 13% Enforcing [Guardians]
The Ox pulls the plough on behalf of the bosses. The herd can stampede and crush other animals.
ESFP: “Entertainer” = BUTTERFLY 13% (Performer)
Males are often more colorful than the female.
ESTP: “Promoter” = LION or TIGER 13% Persuading [Doers]
Ferocious predator, but not malicious. Ruthlessness cause the same damage as malicious (WOLVERINE).
ESFP/ESTP:
Variants: SPIDER
INFJ: “Author” = HERMIT THRUSH 1% Guiding (Counselor)
Very complicated singing the tune or spinning the web.
INTJ: “Scientist” = HAWK 1%
Penetrating eyesight with talons.
INFJ/INTJ: PIGEON Speedy messenger
Variants: BUDGIE, OWL
Posted 5 months, 4 weeks ago at 8:01 pm.
INTP
INTP Personality Type
Hallmark Characteristics: Self-Determined, Introspective, Independent, Reflective, and Speculative
