Author: Karel Kerezman

  • Brain? I have a brain?

    Found this at Dawn’s site and felt perverse enough to not only take the quiz but also make snarky comments on the results. Well, what do you expect from The Journal Entry Of The Beast?

    Your Brain Usage Profile

    Auditory : 33%
    Visual : 66%
    Left : 45%
    Right : 55%

    It’s nice to know that I’m right more often than I’m, er, left. Wait, that didn’t come out right…

    Karel, you possess an interesting balance of hemispheric and sensory characteristics, with a slight right-brain dominance and a slight preference for visual processing.

    Did you get that? They said I’m interesting! Take that!

    Since neither of these is completely centered, you lack the indecision and second-guessing associated with other patterns. You have a distinct preference for creativity and intuition with seemingly sufficient verbal skills to be able to translate in any meaningful way to yourself and others.

    Wait, did they just say I lack indecision? That I don’t second-guess?

    Mwahahahahahaha!

    Oh, and I’m glad my verbal skills are “seemingly sufficient.” That’s a great load off of my mind, let me tell you.

    You tend to see things in “wholes” without surrendering the ability to attend to details. You can give them sufficient notice to be able to utitlize and incorporate them as part of an overall pattern.

    Ignoring the “whole” thing about wholes for a moment… what does “utitlize” mean? I could hazard some guesses but I never know who’s reading this thing so I suppose I’ll have to let that one slide. For now. I will agree that I tend to view “the big picture,” and all that rubbish.

    In the same way, while you are active and process information simultaneously, you demonstrate a capacity for sequencing as well as reflection which allows for some “inner dialogue.”

    For the record, “inner dialogue” is a euphemism for “you talk to yourself all the damned time, you loser.”

    All in all, you are likely to be quite content with yourself and your style although at times it will not necessarily be appreciated by others. You have sufficient confidence to not second-guess yourself, but rather to use your critical faculties in a way that enhances, rather than limits, your creativity.

    Pardon me whilst I guffaw yet again at the notion that I don’t second-guess myself.

    Guffaw. I say, guffaw!

    Thank you. Where were we?

    You can learn in either mode although far more efficiently within the visual mode. It is likely that in listening to conversations or lecture materials you simultaneously translate into pictures which enhance and elaborate on the meaning.

    Agreed.

    What? I can be agreeable if I want to. So there. Nyah.

    It is most likely that you will gravitate towards those endeavors which are predominantly visual but include some logic or structuring. You may either work particularly hard at cultivating your auditory skills or risk “missing out” on being able to efficiently process what you learn. Your own intuitive skills will at times interfere with your capacity to listen to others, which is something else you may need to take into account.

    Or, to translate: “If you shut up and listen instead of jumping to conclusions, you’ll run into fewer problems.” Gee, there’s advice for the world, eh?

    Okay, okay, I’m done. All this because I stared at some shapes and colors for a few minutes…

  • Almost done with Lain

    Only six hours left, and only two episodes left of Lain remain. “Infornography” was just plain strange… The first half was a music video, of all things.

    Wendi’s back from the store and I’m trying to shoo her into bed. One of us ought to get some sleep tonight, after all.

    I’m taking a break from chatting so my shoulder and fingers can rest. They’ve started acting up, which is a Very Bad Thing for someone who intends to type entries all night long.

    Time for another OJ and some more Lain, I think. Then maybe I’ll be rested enough to do stuff online again. Yeah.

  • Wendi, Blogger

    I tried to shoo her into bed, but instead she’s insisting on writing in her journal. Well, it’s not like she doesn’t have things to write about, eh? After all, she’s going through an awful lot right now. I’m glad to have provided her an outlet for some of it.

    Now if you’ll excuse me, I want to finish up with Lain so I can type up my overall impressions of the series. See you at 1:00 Pacific Daylight (but at night) Time, okay?

  • All Lained Out

    So. Serial Experiments Lain. Yeah.

    I was right all along: It’s as if someone decided to try telling a story with lots of the pieces deliberately removed for the sake of being (ooo!) mysterious and cutting-edge.

    Red herrings. Mumbo-jumbo. Unexplained phenomena. Pointless, unresolved plot threads. False endings.

    On the whole, I was disappointed. I kept hoping the thing would go somewhere, you know? Ultimately all the writers could do was simply chase their own tails for a few hours and hope it looked cool enough to impress the kiddies.

    Maybe I’m just missing something, but… well, I’m not going to lose sleep over it.

    Ha. Ha ha ha. Get it? Lose sleep? Yeah. Damn, I’m funny. See you in half an hour.

  • Curious about the weather.

    Here’s what I want to know: How the hell do they know what the temperature “feels like?” For instance, take a look at the current weather indicator for Portland, Oregon. Sixty-three degrees, and it feels like sixty-three as well! Astonishing!

    I’d be delighted if someone could explain this to me. And if you do so tonight, be sure to use small words so I’ll be certain of understanding you. Thanks.

  • More linky goodness

    Since you’re not getting the intellectual stimulation you’re probably accustomed to, let me point you in the direction of The People’s Republic of Seabrook. (That’s in Texas, y’all.) There you’ll find a smorgasbord of delightful diatribes against the absurdities we see through the public eye. Go forth and be amused, outraged, and enlightened.