iq test

I just took an iq test. I'm dissapointed in myself rather because the last time I took one it came up as 130 and this time I was just 110. Rather pathetic. But, they seemed like sappy people who wanted to make you feel good but slightly stupid. So that explains it. Anyway: the quotes:

Mental abilities have the highest correlation with general intelligence of all objectively measurable abilities and they are the primary focus of this test. Furthermore the mental abilities targeted for measurement were specifically chosen because they have been shown to correlate highly with many other abilities. The graphs below show how you scored in various abilities such as pattern recognition and logical reasoning - skills which are all reliable predictors of academic achievement.

Graphical representation of intelligence scores and percentiles

Intelligence score chart
Verbal
Mathematics
Spatial
Logic
Pattern Recognition
General Knowledge
Short Term Memory
Visualization
Classification

Intelligence percentile chart
Verbal
Mathematics
Spatial
Logic
Pattern Recognition
General Knowledge
Short Term Memory
Visualization
Classification

Because I'm not good at anagrams, she spat in her mind. They make me feel like a bloody failure and talking like I am reading Harry Potter (the site's a Brit one) because I'm not good at freaking anagrams. And maybe because I answered truthfully: I don't know in stead of taking a guess. It's all their fault. Right. I really believe that. Not. But maybe if I keep telling myself that I won't cry. Damn hormones, or Brits, or something...

new firefox: hard to get used to.

The new firefox is much better, much cooler, et cetera, et d'arvitting cetera, yada yada. But since the individual "close tab" buttons are on the individual open tabs, I keep confusing myself and, in a hurried quest to click them, close them. This'll take some getting used to...

telcel episode 1.0.0.1

telcel episode 1 beta
So when mom went to LP yesterday she was planning on getting a cell phone but didn't because she had wanted a car charger too.

telcel episode 1.0.0.1
So we were going to go by the two telcel distributors in todos but they were siesta-ing and, we were told, would be until four - and it was one.

So, telcel episode 2.0 beta will be if we manage to go tomorrow.

why telcel episodes 1, 1.0.0.1, 2.0 beta, etc?
because that's a similar way in which versions of firefox are named. First there's the beta which they give to people who debug it, then there's the beta-beta they give to the addon developers, then there's what all of us humans get.

what else is new today?
on digg I am geekinminiature and on del.icio.us I am now a.cat.by.any.other.name . Because I have to have a membership in anything remotely geeky which I shall then forget about after a couple of months and be relived that it hasn't been hacked but stayed right where I wanted it, in my bookmarks and saved passwords.

Little Red Riding Hood needs glasses

Ok, the title was completelly random.

But, there's a municipal escolta competition (Feb. 15 and 16 in LP) - and there are two categories, girls and boys. Which means that from the ashes of our humble co-ed escolta were born two of them to be educated in full formals.

You know I'm in it!

But what position?

Flag carrier.

Flag d'arvitting carrier.

I'm so exited!!!!!!!!!!!

You know, I really don't move much. But whenever we stop I have to put the flag down without looking.

There are going to be some pretty cool diagrams up I think, since Wed. I don't have to go to school because my teacher, Mrs. K, is leaving during recess and though she trusts me to do the homework, she knows most of the others won't and so that's what they'll be doing.

Then on Thursday I get ID pics taken at school.

Then no school Friday or Monday.

Tee hee...

surf pics

Sorry if this takes a LONG! TIME! to upload. I didn't have time to shrink the pics.

that camera of yours

About my camera for surf photography:

"yeah it isn't very good for movement"

"No it isn't especially when I'm taking it REALLY REALLY FAST! I WANT THIS PHOTO RIGHT! FREAKING! NOW!"

Today however I got some of my bestest best ever surf photos with the people even up on boards. I also took a ton of pelicans because I am trying to get a decent pelikan shot

iBabble

Yes, I do. I have iPods on the brain - not even my impending glasses have managed to uproot the general amazingness of Michael from my mind!

So the current thing is headphones. Thing is, I've thought around-ear headphones were SO COOL since I first saw a picture of them (in a muse article about a guy who invented a whole language from scratch for a video game). Before then I had thought that they were all on-top-of ear headphones, and earbuds. What was I thinking? Before it was what you're used to, it was bigger, seems to be the basic law of computer stuff for my generation (what are we? I don't fit in to X - X is, what, I think 15-25? I'm Generation Geek. But that's just me!).

So. Headphones. Yeah. That. Did you know that my folder called headphones... well, here's the domain deal (I don't know if domain applies but you know what I mean, right?) in FireFox (which I recommend!!) is:

Bookmarks toolbar folder (duh! required for it to show up in the tool bar!!)

Apple

iPod

Headphones

around-ear

(I don't know if the formatting will show up right)

Ok, so you are asking why apple? Because iPod is in Apple.

So you are asking why iPod (if you haven't dozed off yet?)? Because I'd want to use it with Michael for the songs that have nice bass and stuff, and also because earbuds leak sound like CRAZY, though they are great quality (the apple ones).

Headphones should be self explanatory.

And around-ear is, obviously, for the around-ear ones!!

Thus concludes my babbling!

Verdict

Glasses.

You really wanted to know whether I need them, did you not?

Here's the deal:
We went to Costco, and so, I got this appointment with this lady who's the doctor, eye doctor, what's that called? - her name was... let's call her A, she was really nice - and so we did this whole big huge eye test thing with different glasses and lenses and stuff. I talked a lot because I talk a lot anyway but when I'm nervous I REALLY ramble. So when it's done I tried on all these glasses and stuff.

Have you guessed yet? I need glasses. We ordered them. She said they'd be ready by the 9th or the 10th. Of February.

They're pretty nice, all bronze-y... I'll post a photo.

Okay so we were looking at the glasses, and mom comes in, she was putting the groceries in the pickup and she says that

This guy was looking at her funny so she kind of stayed there to check that he wasn't gonna steal our dog food which was in the back and which is serious buisness seeing as it feeds our three large dogs for a month and so probably costs quite a bit. Then all these unmarked cars pulled up and cops came out! waving guns! "Get down get down" and handcuffs and all that I think, I don't know I wasn't there, I was discussing the pros and cons of looking like Harry Potter if you can see. Jokingly. Some of the glasses were that round.
Well so by the time we got out there the cops (one of whom had told mom, "move on move on nothing to see here" to which mom replied "it's my car!") were gone, the guy's car was gone, yada yada.
The dog food was there though.

So grandma's gone, she called a bit before four (impressive considering we dropped her off around 8:30) to tell us she got home fine, says it's snowy and she misses our clear skies with sun who belatedly came to wave bye bye, as if in apology for the crappy weather most of her three week trip. She left me with more clothes (much needed. They are bigger.), a couple dresser drawers reluctant to shut, black curtains for my closet, and the fact that I miss her, though I won't miss sleeping on the couch.

Bye.

PS to the post before

These are the ones I got.

The best explination is the letter of comlaint.

I found the Sonic Impact website and thought I might as well have a go at their customer service. The letter is the best explination since I detailed all corresponding events.

"I recived a Sonic Impact speaker set for the iPod Shuffle for christmas, since my family does the whole santa claus thing I don't know where it was bought. I didn't know where my iPod shuffle was but I tried it with a CD player I hadn't used in a while and the sound was distorted. I wasn't sure if that was the CD player or the speakers though.
Then for a late hannukah/christmas gift I got a 30GB iPod (black, BTW) and so I decided to test it with that.
So I plugged it in and I was like, "well I don't think Jack Johnson's voice is really that quiet in relation to the music on that song but oh well, I think it's fine"; then I decided as the ultimate test I'd put on the original song it had so much trouble with, since I had ripped it to iTunes.
And it distorted it in the same way! So here I am with a pair of speakers that aren't designed for my primary music player and, on top of it all, don't WORK! So I was wondering what I can do; if possible I'd like to exchange them for something compatible with my video iPod, but I'm not sure if that's possible... A refund might be nice, but I don't know: I have the packaging, but I don't know where to return it, and I have no idea if there's a proof-of-purchase or not, I have to talk to my mom, but since I found this website I thought I might as well go for it.
Since I live in Mexico, please email me back to contact me.
I hope this'll work out!

With all due respect,
Cosima"

Verbal diarea

"Whatever I say is going to end up on your blog!"

"That's because you're smarter than me!"

Why not to learn DOS, and why my reasons not to are sadly laughable... kind of.

I'm trying REALLY hard to learn the DOS command prompts and all, but, pleeze. It's a Microsoft thing, jeez. I'm doing it because I promised The Fortune Telling Lady that I would... But. But but but but - ! Here's my line of reasoning which common sense keeps surpressing (common sense is very rude. Common sense is an opressor. My Line Of Reasoning (hence known as MLOR(D?)) is considering taking Common Sense (hence known as CS) to court before the League of Nations (in my little imaginary world, they exist. Nyah-nyah.), the UN (for no particular reason), Amnesty International, and an orang-utang eating a tangeloaf*. I bet CS will be able to afford a better lawyer. People pay CS for counseling sesions because, CS really isn't that common - but then they do whatever it was that they were going to do in the first place... but, CS still has the money. Their suits may be chronicled later. Along with the wardrobe, I might even catalog the proceedings**). Okay, MLOR with commentary from (sarcastic as always) CS.
DOS is a Microsoft thing?
Yes. Some of us knew that.

Saw-reee... I didn't!
For someone with a supposedly 130 IQ, you sure act like an idiot. You also act your age.

You know IQ isn't really a judgement of inteligence-
Whatever.

Wait - if it's a Microsoft thing (or at least I think it's a Microsoft thing... er... one of the sites said MS DOS, didn't it....?), why did Michael Moscovitz have some manuals on it? I thought he was an iMac/Linux person...
That's the ONLY REASON?!

No, it is NOT the only reason. But mention of it made me think about it.
You're just doing this because you want to be like Michael Moscovitz in the Princess Diaries books which you happen to be re-reading, nyah nyah...

In the SMART, songwriting, guitar-playing, program-writing, website-designing, iMac-and-Linux-using -
And here we get to the crux of the matter!

Shuddup. ANYWAY. In the... where was I? Oh yes... iMac-and-Linux-using sense... but do I want to be a boy?.... nah. Not on your life.
Get to the d'arvitting point...

It's a Microsoft thing. An Evil Empire related thing. Something related to The Nerd Who Makes Thousands Of Dollars While Sleeping.
You're not sure if it really IS a Microsoft thing OR if Bill Gates really makes a couple million dollars per day -

Now who's extrapoleating?!
Your. Point?

I want to be a Mac person.
Well, I once wanted a pony.

Now do you get it?
Unrealistic little dreamer. As if you'll ever be able to afford one?

Aw, c'mon, extrapoleate how cheap technology gets -
Ouch. The extrapoleation we were all afraid of bites.

Okay, that's about it, because CS and MLOR went off fistfighting. For something called common sense, CS doesn't display a lot of it (MLOR is bigger than her)...

*type of citrus fruit. Sorta sour.

**Suit! Aren't I funny!! Did you spot the S? You get 196184682756873817638165981637846 bonus XPert points on your quizes in the Unauthorized X Files!!

Post with much white space... er, blue space.

Today when dad and I got to the office, I got a bit of a scare.

My hard drive was out of memory!!

But I ran a thingie and everything was all right.

Or was it?

I'm going to try to put stuff on cds now...

...and ask for external hard drives for my birthday.

Just in case.

Since my goal is to be able to download Audacity.

(Which will take space)

to be able to record songs and podcasts.

(which will take more space)

So I need space!

Maybe if I put AdSense on a blog or two I'd get enough money to buy some more space?

That's certainly a possiblity worth looking into...

Who I'm jealous of.

Look, I'm speaking my mind in these two lines, without even trying to be polite.
So I don't know if you really want to read this.
Now that you've been warned, read if you want to.
But don't get mad at me.
There's free speech in Mexico, right?

I envy people who don't have to carefully tiptoe between their parents.
I also envy people who can speak their minds.

There is a fine line between Bhuddism and me, and a fine line between iPhones and insanity

1. Interviewer: Find a globe.
Me: There is no globe.
Interviewer: Spin it.
Me: There is no globe.
Interviewer: What does it say?
Me: There is no globe!
2. Interviewer: Find a book.
Me: There is no book.
Interviewer: Turn to page 53, line 3, word, 6. What is it?
Me: There is no word!
3. Interviewer: What can you hear right now?
Me: I cannot truly hear anything now, as I have not achived nirvana. My ears are only figments of my imagination, a demonstration of the stubborness of human nature. There are no sounds.
4. Interviewer: Have a conversaition with the closest living thing besides yourself.
Me: There are no living things.
5. Interviewer: Turn the TV on. What show is it?
Me: There is no TV.
6. Interviewer: Type your name with your elbow.
Me: I have no name.
7. Interviewer: Stand up. Close your eyes. Spin around three times. Open your eyes. What do you see?
Me: I cannot truly see anything now, as I have not achived nirvana. My eyes are only figments of my imagination, a demonstration of the stubborness of human nature. There are no sights.
8. Interviewer: If you could be anyone from Warriors who would you be?
Me: There are no warriors. Warriors cannot achive nirvana.
9. Interviewer: Find the third letter of all your answers. Underline them. What do they spell?
Me: There are no answers.
10. Interviewer: Apologize to your readers.
Me: There are no readers!
11. Interviewer: Indeed, I doubt most could put up with you. Still, you should thank them -
Me: There is no them!
12. Interviewer: You are being difficult!
Me: There is no difficult; there is only your perception of difficult, which is relative from infinite but fleeting moment to infinite but fleeting moment. There is no clear line between you and me. There is no interviewer. Go away.
13. Interviewer: No! You can't make me dissolve and scatter to the four winds! You can't do this! I'm the head wizard of the society of wizards! You're not allowed to melt me! What's in this?
Me: Soapsuds.
14. Interviewer: Soapsuds! That's demeaning! You can't do this to me! You'll see! You can't melt a wizard foreve...

Oversized Squirrel: Phew. That got rid of the interviewer! Now for the witnesses...
Me: THERE IS NO SQUIRREL.
Oversized Squirrel: Huh?
Me: THERE IS NO SQUIRREL THERE IS NO SQUIRELL THERE IS NO SQUIRREL THERE IS NO SQUIRELL -
OS: *turns into OS X*
Me: There is no OS X there is no OS X there is an iPhone
OS X: *turns into iPhone*
Me: Cool!

Still raining

Here's some funnies for rainy days:

• Do not put this on your computer. It is, among other things, mauve.


• Why it is really hard to get some world leaders to talk to each other.


• What bosses should never do, but somehow always do. (also works for teachers, i. e. mine)


• I'm glad I don't use WordPerfect!


• But the question is, did the chicken even cross the road at all?


• What the motion pictures say


• Why you should think very hard if you're picking something to bring into solitary confinement.


• Some forwards worth forwarding.


• Bill Gates vrs. Michael Jordan


• Under these requirements, George W Bush is a terrorist, or at least has potential for being one.


• Why it's a good thing my teacher doesn't have internet access


• We're back where we started!: a brief history of medicine.

Check this out, oh ye conspiracy theorists

http://rejectedfromthexfiles.wordpress.com/

Broadcasted to you from the windowless, heat-less basement office.

Woke up, rolled out of bed/ dragged a comb across my head... and for what?

I woke up at five, rolled out of bed, showered, got dressed, etc... and it's raining and there's no school. ce la vie. No fair!!

And the clock face was a green blur.

So.

Yestarday I got an improptu eye-test. I do not have very good long distance vision. Since that was a held-together-with-tape-spit-and-prayers affair like most improptu things down here (or up here to people in South Africa *hint, hint... Get it? It's a reference to a reader...*) the verdict will not be sure until I make it down to LC and get to Cosco where there is an eye doctor who does glasses.

And the direct result of this is that I couldn't see the clock face in the morning, as it is digital and only about an inch high, and so when a rustling jarred me into full awareness I could not tell that it wasn't the six-fourty-five I thought it was, it was five fourty five.

Thus why I'm on the computer at six-twenty-five. There's still thirty-five minutes to go... *sigh*.


Read this part at your own risk. It's my uncensored thoughts carelessly allowed to escape by a groggy brain.
Since you probably can't see the following but bravely elected to explore ahead, I pity you. Press ctrl and + until it's large enough if you're on a dell or a toshiba or what. After you've read it and regret it press ctrl and - until it's the size it was before.
The crux of the matter, the irritating part, is that -person- said when -they- were telling -someone- about it "she thinks she needs glasses." Um, yeah, I think I need glasses! I couldn't see the d'arvitting board!! (which is, incidentally, how Daddy found out. He had a really mean math teacher and when he thought a five was a three or vice versa, I'm not quite sure, in a crucial equasion, the teacher marked the whole thing as wrong. So he came home unhappy and (surprise surprise) his parents asked him what was wrong and lo and behold, they took him to get an eye test and today he is my daddy who can only read without glasses. Read books. Er, kind of close to his face sometimes too.) I think that's PRETTY GOOD GROUNDS FOR THINKING I NEED GLASSES!!

New blogs

I now have three new blogs that will be podcasts someday - those of you with iTunes keep an eye out for

In the shadow of the dragon

What lurks in the shadow of that great big lizard? Among other things, an uber-opinionated adolescent.

The Dragon's Shadow

What's hiding in the shadow of the dragon? Well, this video podcast, for one thing.

Banana Smoothie

Add a couple nuts to the banana, and you might start to understand what resemblance a bag of mixed nuts bears to the entire west wing of the Galactic Mental Hospital. Better yet, perhaps you'll understand this podcast.

More Blogs Than God

More randomness? I expect so. The dustbin, the "misc." folder, of my existence; the name was dad's idea.