Meme, evolved

Your brain: 20% interpersonal, 15% visual, 10% verbal, and 55% mathematical!

A substantial difference in scores between two people means, conclusively, that they got different scores. Matching Summary: Each of us has different tastes. Still, I offer the following advice, which I think is obvious: Don't date someone if your ages differ by more than 80%. Don't be friends with someone if they only offer salad. Don't have sex with someone if they think any percentage can be over 100%(*).

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 79% on interpersonal You scored higher than 64% on visual You scored higher than 62% on verbal You scored higher than 93% on mathematical

So clearly your average 25 year old woman uses less than 100% of her brain.

Link: This Nonsensical IQ Test written by chriscoyne who gets a 0% mathematical score from me.

(*)Where here I'm just talking about dividing-into-pieces-of-pie percentages. Duh. Cos, for example, it's fine to say "2(**) is 200% bigger than 1". Happy now Mr Pedantic?
(**)Where by "2" I of course mean "3".

And I was kidding about the salad :)

Further down the spiral

I was talking to someone at a party (tandia maybe?) and came to see the truth about the internet. I think goth_grrl is coming to realise it too. This truth is simple: We are all on the path to being internet fangirls. And I'm not talking looking up fan-sites every now and then, I mean several hours a day doing everything from reading critical analysis of furry web-comics to writing erotic stories about hobbits to moderating a thread vitriolically arguing about the nature of light.(*)

Sure, you might start just using the internet for email. Then all your friends get blogs so you start reading them. And you realise, heck, you might as well get an lj just to keep track and comment. Then you hear about an interesting forum and see cool meme you can post. Pretty soon you're writing fanfic. And from there things can only accelerate downwards.

My point? Well...I just wrote my first piece of fan-fiction. Harry Potter fan-fiction. Inspired by some Snape/Harry slash(**) I came across linked from the lj of a friend who got me to beta her Hikaru No Go slash.

And of course my first reaction is to write a blog post.

(*)I have done two of these things.
(**)I attempted to skip all the sex scenes but there were too many so I just skipped to the end. I didn't get it :) Not that I have huge issues with slash as such, I just can't help imagining such mental conversations(***). So why did I read it? Boredom.
(***)Only it's not quite right. Anyone got any suggested improvements on the dialogue? Huh?

Drowning my sorrows in black metal

Since I'm stuck home purely as a result of my own stupidity I decided to finish updating the jewelry section of my Arty stuff page, as well as my freeform jewelry page so I have some small glimmer of goodness in an otherwise dark and empty evening *sob*. I did the css myself, aren't I clever? This despite a UWA computer science major.

So, go look! You may have seen the blue bracelet or super cool eyeglass chain, but only me, Cam, and the fine customers of Subi markets have seen the glory that is this choker. The chainy ones are so easy I'm considering making more for other people, if they want them. I stole the idea from here, but it was my genius idea to make them black, thus more goth. Also 50 times cheaper.

Gee, expounding on my own genius has cheered me up :)

I'm big in Europe

A week or so ago I was chatting to davyd, and he mentioned the wierdness of having fans in Finland or something. "Gee", I thought "That'll never happen to me." Well it has! Kind of...

I got emailed (at my maths address, for some reason) by a spanish guy wanting to put my Old Ones picture on his Lovecraft Page. I said yes, and he replied gratefully and full of enthusiasm about me drawing some more and joining the forum despite the fact I speak absoltely no spanish. So I had a look, and with the help of babelfish found this message. The incomprehensibility of the translation of his translation of my email indicates how well babelfish works :)

I emailed my handy neighbourhood spanish postgrad to ask if they really do think I'm a professor, and also to check if they're unaware that my comic was meant to be silly and humourous :)

Edit: It turns out "professora" just means teacher, so thats ok. Also I should make it clear that whats above is the babelfish translation, I'm sure the original spanish is quite well written :) (Certainly if the english sections of the site are anything to go by)