the shower meme

as suggested by anoisblue, but brought to my attention by androkles:

1. Life grants you 50 years more than your current entitlement. What new concrete thing would you set out to learn?

Certainly learning a language....my fancy lately is Portuguese, which is the 6th most commonly spoken language in the world. But the sound of it's always grabbed my ear.

2. Tell me in a paragraph what is the most gorgeous photograph that the camera just wouldn’t capture?

Drive up the logging road just south of Whistler (BC), the road winds along precipitous drop-offs. Trees grow of sheer slopes, reaching towards an azure sky, becoming spindlier, then shorter, then they disappear. Where the scree begins, a blanket of green lies below; across the lunar barrens Black Tusk juts out, massive and dark. Deceptive in both distance and terrain, a brief walk is really an hour's scamper--fatiguingly so. But as you come to the edge of the scree, it appears: a crystalline field of sapphire, sparkles in the sun, wrapped in pristine verdant alpine meadows. Garibaldi Lake, an idyll that covers a sleeping giant: the volcano Garibaldi.

3. You have been appointed Sir Knight, to fight for the Saxons against the Normans in a jousting tournament. What emblem do you bear on your shield, and what color is the ribbon on your horse?
No “non-violent” easy ways out permitted :).

The emblem is of an Irish wolfhound: passionate, loyal, tenacious, gentle with kin. My ribbon is green, of nature, gawd and Eire.

4. You may return to one cafe for one moment of your life, for ten minutes. What cafe are you in, and what friends join you there?

Delany's on Denman, and everyone I've ever loved is there. Hundreds!

5. Your job in Heaven, it appears, is to instruct beginners in art. You have divine skills, needless to say. But what would you teach them so that they might really see what beauty means?

To see that which is perfect in every person: their true and pure selves

quel interessant

Auditory : 38%
Visual : 61%
Left : 36%
Right : 63%


Jawn, you possess an interesting balance of hemispheric and sensory characteristics, with a slight right-brain dominance and a slight preference for visual processing.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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Make me wanna ha-ha, make me wanna ha-ha-ha

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