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blog from yesterday!

Monday, October 31st, 2005

i wrote this yesterday, but my internet went out in the process, so i’m publishing it today. sO THERE! Happy Halloween! we had trick or treaters at Kinko’s today. they were so cute. i ate a lot of candy and had to go get more from osco, though… here’s the yester day blog:

Hello faithful readers! I am here to tell you about my excellent
weekend, that involved a little bit of Halloweening. Here’s a breakdown,
because I’m too exhausted to write a narrative:
Friday: Tiffany and I went to the MCA to see
the Dan Flavin exhibit
exhibit, which is in its last weekend. We also saw the amazing new
Brazillian exhibit, where I found myself gawking at two large (caged) parrots,
completely oblivious that Tiffany is deathly afraid of birds. What was I
thinking? I felt like a jerk (since she had told me several times before
she doesn’t like birds and, besides, I have one of her paintings of birds with
targets all over them hanging in my kitchen!), so I swore to her I would
protect her from any other birds the rest ofthe day. That took care of
that… The Flavin show was amazing! i hadn’t seen him in person, and
really, if you have any doubts about him from photographs, you really should
check him out live. Also, the Brazil
exhibit was really nice to stumble on. One installation gave a whole
new meaning to the word ‘music box’. Tiffany and I enjoyed playing DJ in
the front hall of the museum, while some old people watched us and enjoyed our
enthuseasm for the piece. We loved them for it. They were so
cute. Tiffany liked the "doodle-doodle-doo" sound and I liked
the "ssssst-stttt-ssssssssst" backwards like sound. There were
other sounds, that when you opened the door of these little music boxes mounted
on the wall together, you would get a while band playing together. Or you
could choose which part (drums, synth, bongos, horns, etc) you wanted to
play. If my description is too confusing (which i’m sure it is), just go
to the MCA and try it out! open-close-open-close-open-close…
Friday afternoon: I met Bruce Boucher, curator of European Decorative
Arts and my former Museum Studies professor, at the Art Institute. We had
a nice two hour conversation, in which I learned he is from Birmingham
Alabama! This is an incredible piece of information if you know him,
because he seems to be from Oxford, England. He just lived there
for-like-ever (30 years) since he was 21 and apparently acquired a helluva
accent and a typically british demeanor. Adam McCoy and Tiffany couldn’t
believe it either.
Saturday Morning: Tiffany and I went to see Nosferatu! With a live
organist! it was so awesome. Then in the afternoon we took a walk
in Graceland Cemetery, the most beautiful one of them all. Daniel Burnham
is buried there. There are also a lot of cool statues and creepy
mausolea, which I loved. Ah, the stench of death and my heart goes
a-flutter. No, really, I want to have a supernatural encounter one of
these days. Ghosts are really amazing.
Saturda Afternoon: After parting ways with Tiffany, I met with my friend
Evita. After searching for two hours, we couldn’t find any Halloween
costumes. We figured we could use the money for something else *a-hem..
food!* so we ditched shopping and went to her place. I help set up for
her brothers’ halloween party. She and I hung out pretty much the whole
time. We left the party early this morning for pancakes at IHOP, and came
back to my place for tea. I had a really fun time!!!!

OK, this is ceasing to be interesting. That means I shall stop.
I woke up at evita’s place twenty minutes before work, and I had to rush
there. I was so bored and tired at work, and now I’m happy to finally be
home and in my bed with some tea! Now I have to play catch up because I
missed out on doing some work… but it was worth it! I had a great
weekend! Now I must be a responsible student and GET TO IT… maybe
tomorrow, after I rest

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i took an iq test today

Friday, October 28th, 2005

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Your IQ score is:

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You scored 133 on Tickle’s IQ test. This means that based on your answers, your IQ score is between
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Most people’s IQs are between 70 and 130.

In fact, 95% of all people have IQs within that range.
68% of people score between 80 and 120. The following chart to your
right, shows these percentages and where your IQ score is on that scale.

There’s more to intelligence than a single number, a single score or a
single label. Tickle uses four distinguishable Intelligence Scales in
the Ultimate IQ Test. By analyzing your individual scores on those four
scales, we are able to look beyond the raw IQ score into how you
process information and thereby determine your Intellectual Type.

How do you relate to other IQ test takers?

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Your Intellectual Type Is: Visionary Philosopher

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mind’s strengths allow you to think ahead of the game — to imagine or
anticipate what should come next in just about any situation.
Because you’re equally skilled in the numerical and verbal universes of
the brain, you can draw from multiple sources of information to come up
with great ideas. The timelessness of your vision and the balance
between your various skills are what make you a Visionary Philosopher.

In addition to your strengths in math and linguistics, you have a knack
for matching and anticipating patterns. These skills and your uncanny
ability to detect the underlying blueprint of most of life’s situations
add to your Visionary Philosopher mind.

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Two philosophers who share the same combination of skills you possess
are Plato and Benedict Spinoza. Spinoza had insight into how things
worked in the world. He could envision a future based on the patterns
he saw in life, and used mathematical logic as a structure within which
to present his philosophical arguments. With that base he was able to
use logic to formulate his theories. Borrowing from his linguistic
strengths he wrote eloquent texts and, therefore, was able to bring his
philosophical ideas and structure to the rest of the world. His story
exemplifies the talents that are present in the Visionary Philosopher
intellectual type.

Whatever you decide to do in life, you’ve got a powerful mix of skills
and insight that can be applied in a wide variety of ways. You can
expand your mind to understand a situation. Your strong balance of math
and verbal skills will help you explain things to others. For example,
if you were on an archaeological dig and discovered an object, you
could probably use your deductive powers to figure out not only what
the object was but also how it was used. Given your ability to put
things together, you are more than capable of inventing a life plan
that is in synch with your perspective on how things were, how they
are, and how they might be one day.

Great Jobs For You

Because of the way you process information, these are just some of the many careers in which you could excel:

Archaeologist
Detective
Psychologist
Sculptor
Architect
City planner
Chief executive

Some of Your Greatest Talents

You’ve got tons of strengths. It wouldn’t surprise us if you:

Think of the "big picture"
Can anticipate and predict patterns
Are good at context clues
Can see similarities in seemingly disparate things

Your 4 Intelligence Scales

Now let’s look at the factors that contribute to you being a Visionary Philosopher with a 133 IQ score.

Based on the results of your test, Tickle divided your scores into four
distinguishable dimensions — mathematical intelligence, visual-spatial
intelligence, linguistic intelligence and logic intelligence.

Here’s how each of your intelligence scores break down:

Mathematical Intelligence

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Your Mathematical Percentile

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scale.This means that you scored higher than 80% - 90% of people who
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Your mathematical intelligence score represents your combined
ability to reason and calculate. You scored relatively high, which
means you’re probably the one your friends look to when splitting the
lunch bill or calculating your waitresses’ tip. You may or may not be
known as a math whiz, but number crunching might come a little easier
to you than it does others.

This is the kind of question that helped to determine your mathematical intelligence score:

A boy is 4 years old and his sister is three times as old as he
is. When the boy is 12 years old, how old will his sister be? 16, 20,
24, 28, 32.

answer: 20.
The sister is (3 )three times older than her (4)
four-year-old brother. Three times 4 is 12, in other words, when he is
four, she is 12. Twelve years old is 8 years older than 4 years old,
which makes her 8 years older than him. This never changes. Therefore,
when he is 12, she is still 8 years older, or 12+8=20.

Flexing Your Math Muscles

Like anything, keeping or
improving your math talents requires practice. Here are some everyday
mental exercises that could be particularly helpful to you:

Balancing your checkbook
Figuring out your monthly budget
Predicting what the change will be the next time you buy something
Calculating your waitperson’s tip in your head

Visual-Spatial Intelligence

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Your Visual-Spatial Percentile

You scored in the 100th percentile on the visual-spatial intelligence scale.
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test and that 0% - 10% scored higher than you did. The scale above
illustrates this visually.

The visual-spatial component of intelligence measures your
ability to extract a visual pattern and from that envision what should
come next in a sequence. Your score was

relatively high, which could mean that you’re the one navigating the
map when you’re on an outing with friends. You have, in some capacity,
an ability to think in pictures. Maybe this strength comes out in
subtle ways, like how you play chess or form metaphors.

Here’s the type of question that contributed to your visual-spatial intelligence score:

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Answer:

The answer lies in recognizing not only the visual sequence of a
square and then a line, but in the recognizing the solidity of the line
in the first example and the broken quality of the line in the second
example.

Vision Quest

Like anything, keeping or improving visual-spatial talents requires
some practice. Here are some everyday mental exercises that will be
particularly helpful to you:

Playing chess, or video games like Tetris
Studying maps and become the navigator on your next trip
Sculpting or photography

Linguistic Intelligence

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Your Linguistic Percentile

You scored in the 90th percentile on the linguistic intelligence scale.
This
means that you scored higher than 80% - 90% of people who took the test
and that 10% - 20% scored higher than you did. The scale above
illustrates this visually.

Linguistic abilities include reading, writing and
communicating with words. Tickle’s test measures knowledge of
vocabulary, ease in completing word analogies and the ability to think
critically about a statement based on its semantic structure. Your
score was relatively high, which could mean you know your way around a
bookstore and maybe like to bandy about the occasional 25-cent word to
impress friends.

Here’s the type of question that contributed to your linguistic intelligence scale score:

Inept is the opposite of:

Answer: Skillful.

The answer is derived by prior knowledge that "inept" means "unskillful" (Oxford Concise Dictionary).

Word Power

Like anything, keeping or improving linguistic talents requires some
practice. Here are some everyday mental exercises that will be
particularly helpful to you:

Doing crossword puzzles
Start reading just for fun
Befriending your dictionary
The next time something breaks, try reading the instruction book first

Logical Intelligence

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Your Logical Percentile

You scored in the 100th percentile on the logical intelligence scale.
This
means that you scored higher than 90% - 100% of people who took the
test and that 0% - 10% scored higher than you did. The scale above
illustrates this visually.

Tickle’s logical intelligence questions assess your ability to
think things through. The questions determine the extent to which you
use reasoning and logic to determine the best solution to a problem.
Your logic score was relatively high, which could mean that when the
car breaks down, your friends look to you to help figure out not only
what’s wrong, but how to fix it and how you’re going to get to the next
gas station.

Here’s the kind of question that contributed to your logical intelligence score:

If some Wicks are Slicks and some Slicks are Snicks, then some Wicks are definitely Snicks.

Answer: False
The statement is false because while some Wicks might be Slicks, there is no conclusive proof that any of them might be Snicks.

Logic Lessons

Like anything, keeping or improving logical talents requires some
practice. Here are some everyday mental exercises that will be
particularly helpful to you:

Trying some brain teasers
Throwing away the instructions and relying on instinct to fix something
Playing chess

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yum yum!

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

i got onto this site of the International Federation of Competitive Eating, you know, to check who tops the ranks of those who can stuff their faces the most. with the white sox in the world series, my general apathy toward this, but my jealousy of all those passionate die-hard fans, i thought i would take up a sport of my own. ok, so here are some of my favorites:

Takeru Kobayashi, Nagano, Japan. age: 27, weight: 132
NUMBER ONE!!! This guy is the littlest of them all, and he STILL beats them (including the guy below). unbelieveable!!! I read that his secret is to break the food (like hot dogs) in half and stuff both halves in his mouth at once. What strategy!!! go Takeru!!

Eric Booker, Copaigue, NY. age: 35: weight: 420
I like Eric because not only does he eat alot, but he drives a metro train in NYC, AND he’s a budding rap artist. His album is called "Hungry and Focused". Here’s an ad for it:

carlene levebvre, and her husband, richard (#9 and #6, respectively), are married and live in a house they like to call the "pink palace" in Henderson, NV. I like
carlene because she bounces up and down when she eats, supposedly to
get all the food packed down in her stomach so she can EAT MORE! go
CARLENE!!! What a woman! She also is said to be the most elegant eater in the organization, often reapplying lipstick after competition. What class!
Her husband looks really excited in this picture. That’s all I think about him. Oh yeah, and Richard LOVES birthday cake.

patrick bertoletti, 20, Chicago, IL. I like him because he’s from chicago, he has a mohawk, and he listens to music while he’s eating. I wonder what he’s listening to. maybe creed? Also his motto is "The children are our future". The website doesn’t list his number, so he must be pretty low on the list. However, his motto shows that he obviously has hope for his career as a professional eater! good luck patrick!!

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me = clueless

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

so i figured out that i have to SAVE the pictures to my computer before uploading them, instead of trying to copy and paste pictures directly from the internet. WHO KNEW friendster would try to regulate the amount of pictures i post like this? i didn’t. obviously. i hate those tiny pictures, too. i want the big ones! i’m kind of miffed about it.

yes i used the word ‘miffed’, which always reminds me of my freshman year of high school american history teacher, mr. allison, who had a tiny speech impediment, and for some reason allowed a lot of saliva to accumulate in the front of his mouth so every time he talked (which was a lot) you could see it there. but otherwise he was a cute old man, about 60, a neat white beard rounding out his red little face, and making up for the lack of hair on top. oh, mr. allison, oh american history.

oh yeah, i never sat in the front row of that class. one student was accidentally spat on. i think that chair remained empty the rest of the year.

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pocky? and daniel day-lewis and zelda

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

hi, sorry the pocky pictures keep disappearing. they’re very cute. i will have to stop trying to put them on, and maybe they will come back to me.

i’m writing a paper on Scorsese’s Gangs of New York right now, and I strangely find Bill the Butcher very sexy. I thought maybe I’m just attracted to the actor, Daniel Day-Lewis… But that’s not it. I think it’s the waistcoat. What do you think? Am I crazy?

[first] BENE!
[second] very patriotic.

sorry, the pictures are small. friendster imported them like this. but i assure you, the actual pictures are large and clear on my DESKTOP!

nope, the third picture doesn’t do it for me. hm.
Here he is in the Age of Innocence (also above). I thought maybe the waistcoat appealed to me, but still, nothing.

I guess it’s the mustache, the matted hair, all those knives, the bastard english/new york accent that would fit nowhere in our contemporary world… the bloodthirstiness, power, and manipulation that I always look for in a man…
But then, again, I’m as always quite taken with Liam Neeson…

Also, I have just downloaded the very first zelda video game (from nintendo), and I LOVE IT! you can download and play it too at this website.

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renegade craft fair 2005

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

i’ve been meaning to post my favorite artist’s websites from the renegade craft fair i attended with tiffany funk in september! here there are:
Christine Haynes/twoSPACE/Venice, CA
TROW
the Bohemian Bauble/unconventional charm/Madison, WI
Zola Jones Design by Jason Loper/Handcrafted Original Design Handbags and Shoulder Bags
Crazy Coconut Creations/hand printed/Portland, Oregon
A Susi/specializing in unique, quality handcrafted goods
molly mast/ann arbor, mi
k, that’s it.

… also courtesy of tiffany: Flying Fish Gallery from Milwaukee
and I forgot hollyhue/custom made hip zip hoodies and accessories

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what kind of pocky are you?

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

i am…

you try it

hm.. the first time i tried i was ‘milk pocky’

i guess it changes from day to day… right now i don’t FEEL like a chocolate pocky! esp b/c i’m doing this and not working

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my mom is awesome

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

here is a small picture of me and mom. today i called her. i’ve been feeling lost, unmotivated, lonely, stuck… you know, all those feelings symptomatic of trying to finish a huge project and finding yourself every day wasting a lot of time. this year, i have realized that in so many ways my mom and i deal with things in just about the same way, so when i’m having problems she is a really big help. today she gave me a pep talk, and really motivated me to get my shit together! go mom! again, she’s AWESOME!

on that note, i really must get to work! i got up at 3 pm today, which really sucked. my friend chuck called me at 10:30, but after talking to him, i just rolled over and went back to sleep even though i wasn’t really that tired. that’s depression. or just plain laziness. whatev. i have to learn the difference between the two. ok, it’s study time! bye!

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ah, saturday

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

yes, i can already tell that today is official party day. there’s some guy in the courtyard of my apartment shouting as if he’s just made a touchdown. maybe he’s responding to the cars honking at each other in this annoying and absolutely uneccesary way. ugh, now some girls are giggling and screaming about something. if i were to hate college this would be the reason why.

oh, north halsted, how i will never miss you. how i will never miss how you make me write angsty cliche’d enteries in my blog.

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Ugh, Terrible, and it is

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Never, ever try this horrible beer:
La Terrible

Since	2002
Type or style	Abbey Style
Alcohol/Volume	10.5% alc./vol.
Colour	Dark Brown
Beer on lees	Yes
Size	750 ml
Shelf Life	10 years +
Serving Temperature	10 ^oC to 12 ^oC
Type of glass sugg.	Chalice
Organoleptic Profile	Topped by a sumptuous head of foam, La Terrible possesses a fruity aroma enriched with notes of roasted malt and Madeira. Its long lasting flavour is both elegant and full bodied.
Recommended Foods	Grilled and smoked meats, roast beef or cervidea, refined cheeses such as Chevalier Mailloux, Cru des Érables, Rougette de Brigham and blue cheeses such as le Ciel de Charlevoix. It can equally be served alongside desserts or may be served like a Porto.

La Terrible is a dark brown beer on lees and is part of a
collection of exotic and refined Unibroue beers brewed using 100%
natural raw materials. It may be drunk as an aperitif or as an after
dinner digestive. It is equally a perfect accompaniment to the
above-mentioned dishes or a pleasant alternative to coffee.

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Archive for October, 2005

blog from yesterday!

i took an iq test today

yum yum!

me = clueless

pocky? and daniel day-lewis and zelda

renegade craft fair 2005

what kind of pocky are you?

my mom is awesome

ah, saturday

Ugh, Terrible, and it is

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