Schierer Space

Thanks Robert.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDA9NbPAK8o

I’ve seen a similar application in the past, this one is interesting because it appears to be European in origin.

As seen on digg:
Electoral Compass

Take a look.

My results:

Based on the responses you provided, you are the closest to
John Edwards and you are the furthest away from Fred Thompson

Here you find an overview of all issues. You can click on an issue to see your repsonses and responses from John Edwards as well as the sources on which they are based.

The results are pretty consistent with other surveys I’ve taken and my own analysis.

Obviously the risk of taking an online quiz is that the quiz is bupkis, which is sort-of what I’m wondering after this Right Brain vs Left Brain Quiz.

I rather surprisingly resulted in the following result:

Thank you for taking the Creativity Test. The results show your brain dominance as being:

Left Brain 40%
Right Brain 60%

You are more right-brained than left-brained. The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body. In addition to being known as right-brained, you are also known as a creative thinker who uses feeling and intuition to gather information. You retain this information through the use of images and patterns. You are able to visualize the “whole” picture first, and then work backwards to put the pieces together to create the “whole” picture. Your thought process can appear quite illogical and meandering. The problem-solving techniques that you use involve free association, which is often very innovative and creative. The routes taken to arrive at your conclusions are completely opposite to what a left-brained person would be accustomed. You probably find it easy to express yourself using art, dance, or music. Some occupations usually held by a right-brained person are forest ranger, athlete, beautician, actor/actress, craftsman, and artist.

Yes, that’s right: “forest ranger, athlete, beautician, actor/actress, craftsman, and artist“. This is a test from the Art Institute of Vancouver, perhaps they have a bias towards encouraging people to become artistic forest rangers.

Reading on, this becomes a bit easier for me to match up with my own self awareness:

Your Left Brain Percentages
53% Linear (Your most dominant characteristic)
40% Reality-based
18% Sequential
17% Symbolic
17% Logical
7% Verbal (Your least dominant characteristic)

Your Right Brain Percentages
57% Fantasy-oriented (Your most dominant characteristic)
45% Random
42% Holistic
37% Concrete
24% Intuitive
13% Nonverbal (Your least dominant characteristic)

The bold line items (emphasis mine) would seem to be the dominant terms, with “Linear and Realty Based” being somewhat contradictory to “Fantasy-oriented, Random & Holistic”. Wow. I’m messed up.

I do like to organize things carefully and research the facts and then pick instinctively amongst the results based on a sort-of intuition. I admit that I often make decisions this way, and yet, I’ve learned to trust this answer as the result of some instinctive “reality based” decision process.

Is this a rationalization? Probably…. at least that’s my gut reaction.

Toss of the tea cup to Luke for this quiz:

Not that this comes as a shocker, but apparently I belong on the Heart of Gold.

Which crew do you belong on? I’m somewhat pleased that something I’d never read or watched didn’t end up on top. I guess I’ll have to look into Farscape.

Which sci-fi crew would you best fit in with? (pics) created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) You are a light and humorous person. No one can help but to smile to your wit. Now if only the improbability drive would stop turning you into weird stuff. Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) 88% Moya (Farscape) 81% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 81% Serenity (Firefly) 75% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 63% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 56% SG-1 (Stargate) 50% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 44% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 44% Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 44% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 38% FBI’s X-Files Division (The X-Files) 31% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 25%

Toss of the bit bucket to Sis.

I agree. This is the weirdest (yet strangely compelling) online quiz ever. (I got 6 out of 10, I was 5 for 5 then went quickly downhill.) Can you tell the difference between computer language inventors and serial killers? Try it.

Apparently Bill & I will be going out pretty much the same way. (Hopefully not at the same time.) I would not have predicted this.

As seen on The Evil Eyebrow:

The Death Quiz results below…
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Got this from a good friend in my email this morning. Instead of keeping the email chain going, I decided I’d post the answers here on my blog. So now everyone will know some really random facts about me. Hope you enjoy!

Welcome to the 2006 edition of Getting to Know Your Friends. Copy this to your blog, change the answers and leave me a comment with the link so that I can get to know you too!

1. What time did you get up this morning?7:10
2. Diamonds or pearls?Diamonds
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?I think it was The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. We don’t go to the movies very often
4. What is your favorite TV show?Currently Gilmore Girls, House, and CSI. Overall I’m not very impressed with current TV, which is a bummer, cause I love TV.
5. What did you have for breakfast?An apple and a cup of tea, which is an apple more than most days.
6. What is your middle name?Elizabeth
7. What is your favorite cuisine?Meat & Potatoes
8. What food do you dislike?Fish and Seafood
9. Your favorite Potato chip?Plain Lays
10. What is your favorite CD at the moment?Green Day American Idiot
11. What kind of car do you drive?Honda Accord
12. What characteristics do you despise?close-mindedness
13. Favorite item of clothing?my best fitting pair of jeans
14. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go?Well, that would currently be the Caribbean, which we happen to be going to next week. After that is Hawaii.
15. What color is your bathroom?The master bath is navy blue and an ugly shade of tan. Not my choice! The bathroom needs a major renovation which we can’t afford so I haven’t bothered to paint it.
16. Favorite brand of clothing?If I had to pick one, I’d say it’s the Gap
17. Where would you retire?Probably to where my children and grandchildren are, if we ever have any.
18. Favorite time of day?7pm when I’m done with everything and can just sit and relax for a while.
19. Where were you born?Portland, Maine
20. Favorite sport to watch?Hmm…I’m glued to the TV every Sunday watching NASCAR, but one could debate that it’s not really a sport, so other than that probably Hockey or baseball, both of which I prefer seeing in person rather than on TV.
21. What laundry detergent do you use?Tide
22. Coke or Pepsi?Coke (caffeine free)
23. Are you a morning person or night owl?definitely a morning person. After 9pm I become nearly impossible to communicate with.
24. What size shoe do you wear?7
25. Do you have pets?2 cats
26. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share with your friends?We’re going to St. Croix next week!
27. What (who) did you want to be when you were little?I wanted to fly fighter jets or design them.
28. Favorite Candy Bar?Snickers
29. What is your best childhood memory?Anytime that we were up at camp, particularly rides in the orange boat.
30. What are the different jobs you have had in your life?Ice Cream scooper, bank teller, manufacturing engineer, product development engineer
31. What color underwear are you wearing?blue
32. Nicknames?Keekee, given to me by my brother before he could say Kristin, and it stuck. It later got shortened to Keek.
33. Piercing:2 always infected holes in each ear.
34. Ever been to Asia?nope
35. Ever been toilet papering?nope
36. Greatest fear?not doing anything meaningful with my life
37. Love someone so much it made you cry?yes
38. Been in a car accident?yes
39. Croutons or bacon bits?Croutons
40. Favorite day of the week?Saturday
41. Favorite restaurant?Great Northern Pizza Kitchen
42. Favorite flower?Gladiola
43. Favorite ice cream?hmmm…anything chocolately. The ice cream shop I used to work at made awesome GrapeNut ice cream and Peanut butter Ice cream.
44. Disney or Warner Brothers?Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister Dot)
45. Favorite fast food restaurant?McDonald’s
46. What color is your bedroom carpet?Grey
47. How many times did you fail your driver’s test?none! thanks to my dad that worked for hours and hours with me to teach me to parallel park.
48. Before this one, from whom did you get your last e-mail?Spam Blocker! saying that this email was stuck in the spam filter.
49. What do you do most often when you are reading?Curl up in a blanket on the couch, listening to some light classical music.
50. Greatest achievement:Having a scrapbook page published in the Becky Higgins Sketch Book 2
51. Bedtime:~10pm
52. Last person you went to dinner with:Chris
53. Ford or Chevy?Well, I would buy a ford if I had to choose between the two, but as a NASCAR fan Chevy rules!
54. What are you listening to right now?Green Day Boulevard of Broken Dreams
55. What is your favorite color?Blue
56. Lake, Ocean or River?Growing up on the coast of Maine, I have to say the ocean.
57. How many tattoos do you have?none
58. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?Chicken
59. Favorite Cocktail?I don’t drink much, and when I do it’s wine with dinner.
60. Red or White?white
61. Where would you go for a girls weekend get-a-way?someplace on a warm beach.
62. What would you do if you had to select another career?Musician
63. Favorite Family Vacation?Disney World, the year we went with Grammie and Grampa, and we convinced them to ride space mountain.
64. All Time Favorite Concert?Billy Joel and Elton John
65. Words or phrase you overuse:I don’t know (I’m not saying that I don’t know the answer to this question, I’m saying I overuse the phrase “I don’t know”)

Merry Christmas everyone!

Here’s a Holiday meme from Amy…

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Definately Hot chocolate.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Well, since there are no children in our house, Santa doesn’t stop by. But when we were kids, large presents from Santa were not wrapped, they were assembled and ready to play with. The smaller presents from Santa were wrapped.
3.Colored lights on tree/house or white? I”m an all white gal.
4. Do you hang miseltoe? I didn’t this year, but I have in the past. I don’t really have a good place to hang it in our current house.
5. When do you put your decorations up? Usually the weekend after Thanksgiving if we are home.
6. What is your favorite Christmas dish? (not a dessert) Stuffing. I could eat nothing but stuffing for dinner.
7. Favorite Christmas memory as a child? hmmm..I think hanging the christmas ornaments on the tree. Every year as mom would put them on the tree, she would reminice about where they all came from and their special meaning to her.
8.When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? Well, I’m not quite sure. I do remember as a child asking why Santa had the same handwriting as my mother though.
9.Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Nope
10.What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him? as a kid it was Sugar cookies. Always sugar cookies.
11.Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving? Definately the giving. I like trying to find the perfect gift for people, and see their reaction when they open it.
12. What tops your tree? One of the first years that Chris and I were married, he bought me a beautiful white glass star that now tops our tree.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? No, not really. I don’t really remember having a favorite.
14. What’s the most important thing about Christmas for you? Being with family, and spending some quality quiet time with them.
15. What is your favorite Christmas Dessert? Pumpkin pie and fudge.
16. What is your favorite Christmas tradition? scratch and win lottery tickets that Santa leaves in the stockings. I won $1 this year!