In lieu of real content, which will have to wait until it’s cooled down enough for me to think coherently once again, here’s another quiz. Once again, via Dawn.

Are you Addicted to the Internet? 62% Hardcore Junkie (61% – 80%) While you do get a bit of sleep every night and sometimes leave the house, you spend as much time as you can online. You usually have a browser, chat clients, server consoles, and your email on auto check open at all times. Phone? What’s that? You plan your social events by contacting your friends online. Just be careful you don’t get a repetitive wrist injury… The Are you Addicted to the Internet? Quiz at Stvlive.com!

Well, it’s not as bad as I originally feared.

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…