First, the meme: Your brain: 100% interpersonal, 80% visual, 120% verbal, and 100% mathematical! Congratulations on being 400% smart! Actually, on my test, everyone is. The above score breaks down what kind of thinking you most enjoy doing. A score above 100% means you use that kind of thinking more than average, and a score below 100% means you use it less. It says nothing about how good you are at any one, just how interested you are in each, relatively. A substantial difference in scores between two people means, conclusively, that they are different kinds of thinkers. My test …

I am: John Brunner His best known works are dystopias — vivid realizations of the futures we want to avoid. Which science fiction writer are you? And here I thought I was Gord Sellar. (But then again, the quiz asks which science-fiction writer you are, not which would-be science-fiction writer you are.) Ah well, if I have to be any other SF writer, Brunner’s a good choice. But the cravat has got to go.

I hate these things but I couldn’t resist. Via Verba Vita Est: 1) My uncle: I’ve lost count. 2) Never in my life: will I read all the books I own. 3) When I was five: I was very small for my age. Really. 4) High school was: a nightmarish experience that taught me that while the idea of all people being equal is nice, it’s not really true. 5) I will never forget: the first poem I ever wrote. 6) I once met: Dewey Redman. He sat with me during breaks at a gig he played with Jane Bunnett …