Technical Update

In the end, I backed up everything (except for my email address book - doh!) blew away windows, and reinstalled it.

Which turned out to be exactly the right thing to do - as Windows now boots vastly faster. Well, it had been 4 years of me installing stupid levels of software, then uninstalling, then reinstalling it, then fucking about some more.

Also, Hugh got a new monitor for christmas (shiny 22") - so I bought his old 15" off of him to have a dual monitor setup. And then, this morning, my monitor stopped working. So now I have a single 15" monitor setup. Which isn't great, but is better than it would have been if I hadn't bought his old monitor off of him...

Anyone know about the insides of monitors? The problem seems to be a dodgy power connection - if I hold the cable at just the right angle it works...

My headmeats!

A few weeks ago Julie passed on an email that was making the rounds of the psychology department, from someone looking for volunteers to have an MRI scan of their brain, which would then be compared to schizophrenics.

Having always wanted a photo of my brain, I immediately volunteered.

Last Friday I finally made it along for the pre-scan testing, where they made sure I could see in colour (yes!) check my reflexes (ok, but not great) and check my IQ - where it turns out I have an IQ of 138. Or 99th percentile on the scale they're using. I feel rather good about that.

It did leave me wondering what the average IQ is like across both LJ and fandom - my friends list seems to be full of people who are pretty smart, and while fandom is chock full of annoyingly difficult people with odd opinions, this is hardly precluded by high intelligence (if anything, the opposite is true).

Does anyone have any pointers as to whether liking is correlated to _anything_ interesting?

(Yes, I know that IQ isn't the same as "intelligence", if there even is such a thing - but it is highly correlated with all sorts of things across that area.)

The war between HD DVD and Blue-Ray is over

Exclusive video of the meeting deciding it is here: