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Saturday, much to the surprise of family, I did not use my laptop for 24 hrs.

In fact, I didn’t use laptop, computer, cell phone, etc.

Personally, I felt I’d been spending too much time locked and loaded in.

Granted, Saturday was an easy day to try this because a good part of the day involved OLO.

Unfortunately, OLO gave way to me getting hit by the cosmic junk currently going around this week. (Less than fun).. To the point of missing princekermit‘s debut as a Deacon in the Mass. (Of which I reallllly wanted to attend)

Today, I’m recovering as best I can. I’m popping cough drops and corporate-pill-box multi-symptom cold tablets.
I am experiementing with another self-discipline test. I have managed to not put on my glasses today.

I have 20-35 vision. Which makes me highly functional, albeit blurred slightly at range. I can’t clearly read my name plate on the door about 15 feet away. However, I can read the spines of the reference books about 2-3 feet away with practically no blurring.

So, why am I doing this.

I have been noticing that I’ve been acting more impulsively of late. I don’t mind being in a schedule or having a rigid daily practice. However, I do mind when I do things automatically without thinking. A good example of this is loosing my glasses when in fact they are in the pocket of my shirt. Another example is forgetting where I’ve put a half drunk can of soda.

I want to have better control of the things I do. Why I do them. When I should and shouldn’t be doing things. And most importantly, keeping track of the things I do. (Yay to ADHD absent mindedness)

So… We’ll see how this little experiment goes.

Translation: Do I ever post on the topic again or is this just the “Distraction du jour”

hrmn

(Opens brain case and pokes at his own brain)

“No, no. Don’t tug on that. You never know what it’s attached to” – Buckaroo Banzai to Sydney “New Jersey” Zweibel while doing Brain Surgery.

So, money is still tight and the job search continues (slowly. Much like molasses dripping from a spoon)

Obviously, I’ve stopped playing games that cost money. Poker I only play for free now. And well, stock market… that’s always been a play game for me.

So… last week I returned to HSX. Hollywood Stock Exchange. An interesting wrinkle on the analysis of Hollywood films. The basic rules are quite simple. No one can have more than 50K shares of a film. (Either owning or owing). The value of a share depends on how much demand there is for the shares. Over opening weekend there is an adjustment. (Much like a quarterly report)

The adjustment goes: Share value = H$2.8 for every $1(M) the film makes during opening weekend. If a film makes, oh…$10 Million for the weekend. (which a certain film that you must see did), the stock is adjusted to H$28(ish) / share. Those that ran up the price to $45 (Expecting a $16(M) opening are thus disappointed and lose money in their portfolios.)

It’s interesting if these things amuse you. And if they do, here’s where I put in my referrer link. Check it out for a week or two. Kinda nifty. Yeah, sure, I get little bonuses if you use my referrer link, but in truth… I think it’s … well for lack of a better word… “Shiny”

Give it a whirl… and if you’re on… I’d love to hear your reaction.
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It’s interesting. Part of the reason I left L.A. was to get away from the fabricated world. How ever, any big city art scene is going to have fabricated people. By fabricated, I mean that people make themselves up to be what they think will be noticeable and appreciable rather than an extension of themselves.

We walked through several artists showings. The people in attendance at these things all looked like they were trying to put on the aire of the perfect artiste. I saw one young guy who had his hair styled in a half-pompodore on top with edge lines cut out horizontally along the sides of his head. His outfit defies any description beyond, “You spent at least 5 hours in the thrift store picking each piece that you felt would make a statement.” I evesdropped a conversation he was having with a pixie that I could not gender to save my own life. Sie was tiny and blonde and had a biiig pink handkerchief hanging out of her right pocket. (And you know what that means, girlfriends!) Sadly upon listining to the conversation I realized that pompodope was about as deep as your 4 year old’s Sesame Street plastic, summer pool.

The artwork showed promise. only two pieces really leaped out at me and said, “This is really good” Many of the artists also displayed pieces that felt more like they were trying to capture a statement that would be well received rather than digging into their inner soul to produce something from them. shimmeringjemmy and I had long conversations about artwork we saw. I was glad to be able to draw back on my Theatrical training and a wonderful course in articulating artistic opinion (called, ‘contemporary drama’) to give fairly deep and intelligent commentary about the art we saw. Translation: yup, I too can be an art critic.

The highlight (or lowlight if you will) of the evening was the arrival of the angry clown posse.Picture 1, Picture 2. While standing at the entrance of one building of gallery like offices in an alley on the ArtWalk, we heard a demonstration. Several people dressed as clowns were picketing. The signs and the yells were along the idea of, “Art is Theory”, “Down with Art” “Art is a myth!”, “Down with Dali!”, “Kiss my picAsso.” The lead clown had a megaphone. They all had the requisite bike horn. This was amusing for about 10 seconds. For me the amusement ceased when some irate art snot decided to throw a cup of either water or white wine down on the demonstrators below. My amusement ended because the dumping missed the clowns entirely and landed on shimmeringjemmy and I instead.

The clowns proceeded to go into galleries with their rigamarole (Thank the Gods for spell checkers, I always wondered how that was spelt) The demonstration became less and less humourous to me. Especially when they’d boisterously crowd into a gallery, spout their message, and make it utterly impossible for any other patron to actually look at the art on display. There was a lot of shoving (not the “intentionally aggressive” kind, more of the “big city, I just don’t care what I do” kind). I contemplated (for about a minute) analyzing the demonstration as art. Perhaps how I’d appeal to one of them about the frivolity of calling anything in our world “theory”. I contemplated how a true clown would act the fool and not even acknowledge debate or argument, and decided to do my best to avoid them.

They stayed in acoustically unfortunate areas so their clambouring and honking was overtly noticeable. One of the people I met during the evening fashioned herself a writer (and I am also told a kink model.) We talked about the flurry of art-smush-speak I could come up with expressing the “abstract dichotomy of a clown’s lack of inhibition to rebel against an inner conflict over the definition… blah blah blah.”

Then the director kicked in. I was annoyed by the clowns… I went to the happy place in my brain and took out my toys, and started cutting the scene.

This didn’t happen, but it would have been sooooo sweet.

Your brain: 140% interpersonal, 100% visual, 60% verbal, and 100% mathematical!
Congratulations on being 400% smart! Actually, on my test, everyone is. The above score breaks down what kind of thinking you most enjoy doing. A score above 100% means you use that kind of thinking more than average, and a score below 100% means you use it less. It says nothing about how good you are at any one, just how interested you are in each, relatively. A substantial difference in scores between two people means, conclusively, that they are different kinds of thinkers.

Matching Summary: Each of us has different tastes. Still, I offer the following advice, which I think is obvious:

  1. Don’t date someone if your interpersonal percentages differ by more than 80%.
  2. Don’t be friends with someone if your verbal percentages differ by more than 100%.
  3. Don’t have sex with someone if their math percentage is over 200%.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

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You scored higher than 57% on verbal
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You scored higher than 60% on mathematical

Link: The 4-Variable IQ Test written by chriscoyne on Ok Cupid

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