Chatty Kathy's

My name is Vince
I don't know how tall I am but it is about 5 foot 4 inches
I'm 15
I have short straight auburn hair that goes curly if I let it grow to long
I like to read, play video games, play guitar, listen to music and relax.

Off the top of my head, my favourite bands/artists are:
The Cars, The Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Green Day, Elemeno P, Split Enz, Eminem, The Exponents (sometimes called The Dance Exponents), Pearl Jam, Shihad (called Pacifier during the war on terrorism because of the way their name is pronounced), Goodnight Nurse, Goldenhorse, Breaks Co-op, Minuit, Steriogram, Bon Jovi, The Who, Scribe, Eric Clapton, Johnny Cash, The Offspring, Nickleback, My Chemical Romance, and Queen (9 of thoseare NZ bands)

The list of my favourite songs can cover at least 1 1/2 pages in Word.
My favourite pizza is Hawaiian or Meat Lover's
My favourite fast food is Fish and Chips
My favourite dessert is Pavlova
I have many meals that I like
I'm average weight for my age and area and in the lower levels of average for my height.
My eyes are brown.

Is that enough :P ?

My name is Logan.
I am 5 foot 6 inches.
I am 14.
I have medium Black hair with Blood red streaks.
I am very pale.
i have cold blue eyes that can scare the crap out of people when i glare at them.
I am always wearing a chain with a small dagger on the end.
I am never seen not wearing black.
Yes, if you may have not noticed, i am a goth.
I also have some abilitys. I have an uncanny ability to have premonitions of what is about to happen. I can know if people are lying, most of the time. At school, i often make rather dark comments such as gory and well explained threats towards people i hate.
In a fight, i am cold, almost methodical in carrying out my attacks. Sometimes the opponents simply run when i start to slowly walk towards them, other times i am forced to strike them directly in throat-causing them to fall over struggling for breath.
Death is an element that i seem to channel, as many people who are my friends say.
I am good underneath my thick carapace of darkness, but i rarely show it, thinking that it is a sign of weakness. siegetheday is one of the few places were my good side is exposed.

I have superior intelligence over my peers, with an IQ score of 141. They hate me for it as i look down upon my lesser beings within my school.

Okay, is that enough information? :roll:

Well, nobody has posted here for a while. I am to assume that my comments scared everyone off? :?

No, it's less than a day after you posted....I don't think people were 'scared off'.

Name's Connor, as most of you know.
22 years old, ya noobs.
I'm 6 feet 1 inch
Short cut, dirty blonde hair, though it gets light blonde in the summer
I am a writer, director, modder, and starting up a company. I will also begin writing a book this summer. I have a girlfriend, whom I've been seeing for over two years. I play hockey in college. I also play paintball.

Favorite pizza? I'd have to say....cheese.

To get back at Templarian, my IQ is in the high 130's. I believe 137.

Ok, I feel like I know a litte bit more about you guys Now, don't feel like you have to post only information of that type, post about whatever you like. I thought this could be a good general chat thread too. In that vein here is a weird picture of a search I did on Google the other night. I had to take a screenshot of it because...well. Just look at it.

oh yeah. Since *somebody* brought it up... I have taken a number of IQ tests and mine ranges from 148 to 162. Just a bit of kathy trivia. So although I may seem like a complete doofus, underneath that exterior lives the heart and soul of a smartass.

Kevin
Mid 30's
6'3"
200-205 lbs.
Brown semi-short hair
Blue-grey eyes (hidden behind glasses most of the time).

I enjoy reading, PC games, watching TV / movies, following Canadian politics (more interesting than reading fiction at times! :P ), fishing, going to a family cabin / cottage in the middle of a forest (on a small lake) during the summer / fall, and I used to play ball hockey a lot... (now I work out with free weights and do stationary cycling for cardio.). I rarely pass up an opportunity to discuss certain philosophy topics too...

I'm not much of a "chat room" person... I prefer forums.

Professionally I've had a varied career (studying Actuarial Science at University in the early-90's), lately (in the last 5-10 years) focusing on technical stuff. Picked up a college diploma in Networking and DB Admin a few years ago, and passed the MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) exams too (passed one Oracle exam before I gave up on that track). Worked using the tech. support skill set for a few years (shift work sucks!!!), and then I was laid off (company was sold... new owners outsourced my department) so I started to re-evaluate my career goals / path. I'm currently working on adding programming skills to my resumé (self-study, starting with Java...).

Never taken an IQ test... but I'm quite sure I'd do very well on anything logical.

Favorite pizza? Deluxe deep-dish of course (pepperoni, sweet green / red peppers, italian sausage, onions, mushrooms, extra cheese... maybe throw in some ham / bacon, and pineapple). My only real pizza rules are: no hot peppers and no seafood... otherwise, almost anything goes.

Of course pizza is not my favorite meal. I love to sink my teeth into a properly grilled thick chunk of Top Sirloin, done medium well (still pink in the center). Throw in sautéed onions, and a baked potato with butter, sour cream, chives and bacon bits...
*/me drools all over keyboard*

My name is Ryan

My age is 24

I am 5 foot 6 inches

I am 130 pounds

I have bluish-green eyes

I have Brown hair

I have around a 3.8 gpa but dunno my IQ. IQs mean nothing to me. I suck at school and self-teach. The only reason I go is because it's requred to get a half decent job. I dropped out of high school and got my GED(scored high never studied). I still don't study for school and never have, it is a waste of time to me. I am a hands on visual learner(visual/spatial intelligence). I often skip the lectures for classes due to boredom.

I don't have a favorite food.

I like martial arts and game development/modding

Edit/ps: Hope you admire Howard Gardner kathy . I sure do and his theory of multiple intelligences.

The results for the I.Q. tests I've taken range from 114 to 160 :P

My name is Patrick
I am 14 years old
I am 5 foot 10 inches
I weight 115 pounds
I have bownish/blackish hair
I have brown eyes (covered with my pimp glasses)jk
As an I.Q. it is 153

Like to kick but at tennis, and paintball. I like bacon chesse brugers the best. Dont like anything spicy except chinese food. I am a chef at home when my parents are not around cooking with a Wok. My dream to work for Nintendo of America then get promoted to Japan. Dont play many video games any more accept Halo and Super Smash Brother for GameCube. (its fun to watch them squirm.)
That is all really....

Actually, yes. Gardner also puts forth different ideas and ways of looking at cognitive development (challenging those of Piaget) that coincide with his "multiple intelligence" theory. Intelligence has always seemed to me to be a very unique quality that would be difficult to quantify merely by a number. I think we can all recognize the differences between someone of low intelligence vs a genius, but in between those 2 poles exists a lot of room for variety. For example I am not very good at all with spatial reasoning ( I can't drive my way out of a paperbag) but I excell at expressing ideas and concepts with verbally. (That is why I always get an A on papers and then get lost driving home... :P)

I guess the important thing to remember is that these are theories. Theories in psychology attempt to explain the human mind and behavior, and I don't think any one theory is intrinsically wrong or right. I think there is a lot to be learned from all sorts of different ideas, even conflicting ones.

I tend to think a lot of classical Freudian thought is a bunch of hogwash (to my modern mind) yet in his time, his theories were cutting edge (ideas about the id, sexuality, ect...) Now that I have bored everyone, I will stop blabbing.

I would like to add that my IQ test was taken in 4th grade. That is when the 141 takes place.

I would also like to note that intelligent people play the RPG games more than the shooters, (just something i have noticed). (though i will play an occational shooter if i am in a violent mood) :twisted:

a number of folks have said they wear glasses. I do too. So, who here thinks bad vision rules?!?

I have perfect eyesight, but sense I unintentionally hit myself in the eye with a green high-power laser, my eyesight seems to me slightly better. 8O

http://laserglow.com/handheld.html

I have very bad eye sight. I wore trifocals as a kid. I'm cannot see jack without my glasses and still have a hard time seeing road signs. I do most of my reading online. It is easier for me. I also like to highlight text with my mouse.

A lot of the freudian stuff goes against good psychology imo. I hate his view on humanity and the guy was daft imo. Freud had some things right though. I like Wrights radical ideas for social repression.

I am labeled with having a learning disability which is just not true. I personally blame schools for being linear in their teaching methods. They put me in dumb classes throughout my life and I was bored. I dropped out from bored to death /lol. College has treated me much better though. I had to go to a private school to get some decent education though. This school focuses on hands on practical stuff which is what my type of intelligence needs. The university I used to go to was all lecture based and bored the crap out of me. It doesn't matter now, since I have a good gpa. I like Gardner for identifying the types of intelligence the best he could in his thoery. I think it's a step forward for development.

I get lost all the time driving as well. I hate driving actually. My brain is very dumb at navigating a car . I have a fear of getting lost as well. I never got into an accident before(I'm very cautious). I read Einstein had issues with just operating a car /heh.

Wyvante wrote:

Interesting. I was also in the so called "slow classes" because I basically couldn't see anything properly and I had a lot of trouble with spatial reasoning, even something as basic as putting the correct shape into it's corresponding box. Then, lo and behold they tested me to see how "dumb" I really was (this was the school admin, btw. I was doing independent projects in all my classes because the work was too easy, esp. the reading classes. My teachers who bothered to take the time to get to know the girl who cowered in the back and said nothing realized that I was an intelligent kid. anyway, I digress...) So, yea, they tested me and when I scored in the 98 percentile it kinda knocked them for a loop. Heh, they whisked me away and gave me a promotion. lol, dopes. Of course, this was back in the mid to late 70's. But from what you write, Wyvante, it doesn't seem schools have fully addressed the needs of the kids who are bright, but have a different learning style from the "norm" whatever the heck that really means. Normal or average is just another label.

GGO/KMD once wrote in my blog that I was a smart dummy and I have to agree with that

I am so smart I forgot to log in and post my pithy remarks properly... :roll: :oops: :roll:

This is actually what IQ tests were designed for by psychologist I disagree with. They are to test how dumb somone is and place them in some dumb classes. I find them to be flawed. I don't think you can accurately measure somone's intelligence in one test with academic subjects as the focal point. I think a lot of people labeled dumb can develop their mind in an alternative way to achieve average to high intellect that can function. In your case your side projects in school. I bet you learned a lot more doing those. I don't learn as much from school compared to my self-teaching even with my 3.8ish gpa. Schools should be promoting self-teaching. They should teach/guide you to teach yourself imo. Just like the Jeet Kune Do Philosophy. My current school atempts this concept, and I have learned a lot more than any other school. I also think the grading system is out of wack, but that is another long thought.

A younger cousin of mine is going down the same path I did, except he did not say the heck with school like I did. I tought him how to mod diablo 1 at a very very young age(he was 7-8). I had a lot of influence over him(I was his role model) and he continued to mod games. The kid is not dumb at all. I moved and now my grandfather is surely his role model. He was my role model(I have no father) and is a brilliant philosophical sage . I think many smart people fall through the large cracks in the school systems.

I did not get glasses until the second grade(I can barely see without them). When I got my glasses, I was shocked with the detail of the world. Just seeing the detail of a leaf excited me. I was held back because my cursive was bad. I had trouble reading and sucked at math, so they put me in the dumby classes which bored me. I thought I was stupid(I was told so by my teachers) so played stupid. Teachers thought I had attention deficit disorder, because I would talk to other students and not do any work. I found out I'm borderline A.D.D though. I embrace my "disorder". It is a blessing in my perception. I use caffeine to stimulate my brain activity further.

Some geniuses like my cousin Brian(I love this guy with the doofy hair)cannot function in society. Ironically they cannot use their great intellectual power to achieve in life. Knowing this, I like to measure people by their work/achivements rather than said intellect. That's really important to me.

To me it's not about being smart/stupid. It's about using the tools your mind has to achieve desired goals. Everyone is stupid at something and that is what makes us human imo. Admitting you're stupid at some things shows me humility which is a powerful recognition. Saying you are just plain stupid shows me you lack confidence. Saying you are just plain smart shows me you're egotistical and ignorant.

Edit: Btw sharkull impressive achievements .

Wyvante wrote:

I tend to agree with that as well, but I think character is also a good measurement of an individual. How kind is someone? How caring and giving are they? Do they try to make the world better (even in the smallest of ways)? These are important also.

On a different note, I have decided, once again, to change my avatar. :roll:

My new avatar is from the painting "Juliet" by J.W. Waterhouse, one of my favorite artists. Many of his works are inspired by Mythology and Arthurian legend. I flatter myself to think I look a little like this.

Another of Waterhouse's: "Hylas and the Nymphs"

http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/

But remember, I will always have my eyes on you! (yes, that's me)

I use the D&D scale to rate intelligence. The average IQ is 100 or 10.0 in D&D. My iq is 141, so my intelligence is 14.1 . Its simple, athough i may adjust the rating of a person a bit, because IQ is not a rating of everything.

How D&D intelligent are you?

Xaa used Waterhouse's "The Lady Of Shallot" in Mageworld...

That's it. I'm making an Inn in Derelict called "Chatty Kathy's".

I measure character to determine if I like them or not. Evil achievements impress me as well. Does not mean I agree or think that person is good. Example: Hitler's achievements to be the most blunt. I'm also impressed with England, Russia, and American achievements in that war. Franklin D Roosevelt is probably the only president I like for character. I don't like Hitler's, Stalin's, and /gasp Churchill's character but all of them had impressive achievements. That's from my view love/hate is subjective.

Hooray! I feel like a celebrity.

Wyvante wrote:

I was not speaking of ethics. More so said intelligence vs achievements .

Yup, very impressive to me. I guess I'm not moral to you guys.

True. I think that you can get a feel for a person based on their values, and also their interests and even hobbies. Why DO we value the things we do? Are some traits innate, or are they soley formed through experience? I tend to think a little of both.

IQ test results only tell you if you're good at taking IQ tests... Intellegence can mean so many things. Is it memory? Knowledge? Ability to use knowledge? Ability to learn new skills? How can you measure such things in a truly meaningful and universal way? The answer: you can't. Everyone has their own aptitudes (whether nurtured / innate or both) and we constantly develop new abilities during our lives. A "genius" at math and physics might not be capable of learning a second language, or being a military officer. Does that mean that the scientist, poet and leader are different? Yes... but how can a simple IQ number quantify such a complex attribute? Impossible.

All this talk about intelligence makes me think that there are many people here who value it... interesting... Think about what that shows about your character.

Edit:

Umm, I measure character and achievements separately. I did not bring this character talk in here. Yes, I value a group highly since more can be achieved. Sadly I have failed to create a group to work on a total conversion of ds2.

I sort of agree with both Sharkull's and Wyvante's statements. Why someone did something is always a good measure, for example, someone donating a huge some of money just for recognition or fame, as opposed to someone donating any amount because they believe in the cause, but the deed itself can sometimes outweigh why someone did something- the scientests behind the A-bomb, for example, may have had the best intentions in the world (and some even withdrew from the project after the first test, as they didn't want a part in anything so terrible), but that does not change how many innocent people were killed in the Hiroshima and Nagaski bombings. Although situations like that become complicated, as Japan may have been developing nuclear bombs as well, and done the same thing in America's place. Kathycf certainly was right in saying that humans can be extremely stupid when it comes to being peacefull.