Mind over (gray?) matter
For a couple of days every month, plus one full week every quarter, I take off my editing cap and become a number-cruncher. But between the SQL and the spreadsheets and the problem-solving ... well, my brain feels like mush at the end of the day. And it's only Tuesday morning! :-)
No, I'm kidding. It is hard work, but it's hard work I love to do. And I enjoy the analysis. In fact, I'm schedule to attend a seminar on deciphering corporate financial statements -- yet another way to flex the non-wordy half of my brain.
Speaking of brain, Paul and I bought Big Brain Academy, one of the $20 games in Nintendo's Touch Generations line. It's like a more advanced version of Brain Age, the "train your brain" adult game that's been all over the news lately. The game measures your smarts in grams -- the heavier your brain, the smarter you are. My brain is ~1275 grams, particularly strong in computation and memorization and rather weak in identification. Overall, I received a B+ with my brain categorized as "museum curator." Paul's brain was ~950g, strong in computation and analysis and weak in thinking (ha ha). He got a C and was "investor."
Weak in thinking. I'm not going to let him live that down.
posted by Kate at 7:31 AM
Copyright 2001-2009, L.K.C.S. It's MINE, all MINE. If you wanna use it, gimme credit and a link, okies? And don't run with scissors, because you're just going to poke somebody's eye out with that thing. No, really. 
3 Comments:
Ouch. If your brain is weak in thinking doiesn't that sort of hinder all activities in the brain? Maybe he has an especially developed lizard-like brain stem, and the non-thinking, inuitive part of his brain is great at playing SIMON or pinball.
sheeeeeeeit...
im just not the greatest at thinking about stuff in 60 secs, something i would like to point out that i never really have to do.
You see, i can get up and bullshit around for a min, while i try to come up with ONE answer, much less like, 20.
Hell, the question and answer session i did for my prospectus was like 45 min, with maybe 10 questions, certainly nothing rapid fire like brain age.
But i can think fast, but just on stuff i VERY familiar with.
also - my 950g sez that i get mah phd so nyah nyah nyah
oh and pbbbfffftt
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