How Fast is YOUR Brain?
Categories: Personality/PsychologyPosted on Wednesday, 28 February 2007 12:25 by pfitz
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What Color is Your Brain?
Categories: Personality/PsychologyPosted on Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:56 by pfitz
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Your Brain is Orange |
 Of all the brain types, yours is the quickest. You are usually thinking a mile a minute, and you could be thinking about anything at all. Your thoughts are often scattered and random - but they’re also a lot of fun! You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about esoteric subjects, the meaning of life, and pop culture. |
Stackopolis
Categories: Too Much Time, Personality/PsychologyPosted on Friday, 26 January 2007 8:47 by pfitz
Here’s a cool new game I found at CognitiveLabs. They specialize in games and tests to help you improve your brain functions and speed of thinking. I wrote about them back in December. Anyway, the game is called Stackopolis. You have to move the blocks around one at a time, redistributing them around the board to create the pictures they display. In principle it’s easy, but they also have a countdown clock running, which puts more pressure on you. As the puzzles progress, it gets harder and you have to be faster.
Can anybody get past the pyramid one? I haven’t yet!!
[tags]cognition, brain function, games, puzzles[/tags]
Yet More Blogthings
Categories: Personality/PsychologyPosted on Monday, 22 January 2007 16:08 by pfitz
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You Should Paint Your Room Purple |
 Sophisticated and exotic, purple can also be a deeply comforting color. Your purple room will inspire you to trust yourself more and go with your intuition. Purple has also been known to facilitate healing and a feeling of protection. |
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You Are a Seeker Soul |
 You are on a quest for knowledge and life challenges. You love to be curious and ask a ton of questions. Since you know so much, you make for an interesting conversationalist. Mentally alert, you can outwit almost anyone (and have fun doing it!). Very introspective, you can be silently critical of others. Souls you are most compatible with: Hunter Soul and Visionary Soul |
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Your Dominant Thinking Style: Exploring |
 You thrive on the unknown and unpredictable. Novelty is your middle name. You are a challenger. You tend to challenge common assumptions and beliefs. An expert inventor and problem solver, you approach everything from new angles. |
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Your Candy Heart Says “Get Real” |
 You’re a bit of a cynic when it comes to love. You don’t lose your head, and hardly anyone penetrates your heart. Your ideal Valentine’s Day date: is all about the person you’re seeing (with no mentions of v-day!) Your flirting style: honest and even slightly sarcastic What turns you off: romantic expectations and “greeting card” holidays Why you’re hot: you don’t just play hard to get - you are hard to get |
Time for another BlogThing.
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You Are More Yin |
 Devoted Forgiving Fall Winter Afternoon Moon Time Passive Metal Honey |
One question separated me from Yang. So I’m really borderline. If I were Yang, my results would be:
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You Are More Yang |
 Creative Angry Spring Summer Morning Sun Space Active Wood Chocolate |
And just for fun, here’s a bonus BlogThing:
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You are Ocean Blue |
 You’re both warm and practical. You’re very driven, but you’re also very well rounded. You tend to see both sides to every issue, and people consider you a natural diplomat. |
Christmas Blogthings
Categories: Holidays, Personality/PsychologyPosted on Thursday, 14 December 2006 8:54 by pfitz
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You Are a Tree |
 You love every part of the holidays, down to the candy canes and stockings. And you’re goofy enough to put a Christmas tree ornament on your tree! |
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You Are a Fruitcake! |
 You taste like nothing else in this world. And get ready, you’re about to get tossed! |
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You Are a Traditional Christmas Tree |
 For a good Christmas, you don’t have to re-invent the wheel. You already have traditions, foods, and special things you bring out every year. |
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Your Christmas is Most Like: A Christmas Story |
 Loving, fun, and totally crazy. Don’t shoot your eye out! |
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You Christmas Stocking Will Be Filled with Money |
 You’ve either been really really good this year… Or Santa is trying to pay you off! |
Current music: 
Songs from the Big Chair, by Tears for Fears
Cognitive Health
Categories: Personality/PsychologyPosted on Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:17 by pfitz
Did you know that your brain ages as you grow older? CognitiveLabs has put together some excellent tests and games to analyze (and improve) your memory, reaction time, and a variety of other facets of your brain activity. You can do most of them for free, or you can pay under $20 to have reports created, tracking done, and even have reminders sent out to you to take the tests again. More tests are because Stanford research studies have found that being mentally challenged (as opposed to “mentally challenged”) in a variety of ways helps keep your brain young. Yes, you can even “lower” your brain age! “Scientists believe building mental acuity through cognitive workouts acts like a buffer against decline.”
Cognitive Labs is now the world’s largest website dedicated to cognitive health. If you just want to read more about the research, they have links to reports, studies, etc., that can give you much more information. Visit http://cognitivelabs.com/ to get to all this information, as well as the tests, games, puzzles, etc.
[tags]cognition, brain, thinking, brain power, cognitive health[/tags]
This first quiz was a tough one. I really had to THINK about a few of them. Still… 
You Are 93% Genius!
You did very well on this quiz, and it seems that you are indeed a genius. Congratulations on achieving a great score. Well done!
You scored 84% which means you are
conservative.
You believe in personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, individual liberty, traditional American values and a strong national defense. Believe the role of government should be to provide people the freedom necessary to pursue their own goals.
Your score on this personality test was 63%
Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical, and always interesting; someone who’s constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate, and understanding; someone who’ll always cheer them up and help them out.
You Are 30% Michael Jackson!
Hey guess what, you are a bit like Michael Jackson! Just a little bit! You don’t dangle babies, but you probably know whether or not Annie is okay. And maybe, just maybe, you owned a red leather jacket at one point. … but probably not.
(That last one was funny!) 
[tags]personality quizzes, intelligence, michael jackson[/tags]
Seasonal Poll
Categories: Personality/Psychology, Miscellaneous ThoughtsPosted on Friday, 1 December 2006 11:58 by pfitz
Okay, so I went ahead and tried out that new quiz site I found. To start out and get familiar with the system, I created a poll (one question only) to see what everyone’s favorite time of year is. Not just seasons, but transitions as well. Here it is:
[tags]quiz, poll, seasons[/tags]
Which Animal Are You?
Categories: Personality/PsychologyPosted on Friday, 1 December 2006 11:20 by pfitz
I found a new site that offers quizzes besides BlogThings. And THIS one allows you to make your own! Beware, though, since you CAN make your own, many of these are loaded with grammatical and spelling errors.
Here are the results from a few I took today. (Looks like the percentage bars aren’t displaying right. Oh well.)
| Which Animal Are You?
Your Result: Bear
Great and powerful, bears are known for their strength as well as their curiosity. Bears also have a gentle side, though. You reflect the nature of the bear. | |
| Horse |
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| Dog |
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| Cat |
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| Hawk |
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| Snake |
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| Duck |
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| Mouse |
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| Which Animal Are You? | |
| Which Positive Quality Are You?
Your Result: Faith
You are Faith. Faith is the belief in better things, in spite of the cynicism and doubt that swirls around us. Faith gives us strength; it inpsires us to move forward and follow our hearts. “Faith tells us what the senses do not.” | |
| Friendship |
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| Love |
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| Peace |
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| Charity |
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| Courage |
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| Which Positive Quality Are You? | |
You paid attention during 100% of high school!
85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don’t get scores that high! Good show, old chap!
Your Language Arts Grade: 100%
Way to go! You know not to trust the MS Grammar Check and you know “no” from “know.” Now, go forth and spread the good word (or at least, the proper use of apostrophes).
Na
