Beauty Quotient

Now that I’ve been thinking about beauty, it’s got me thinking (ahh…you think!?). My classification of beauty in my last post was pretty harsh and unrealistic. I was using beauty in the sense of looks and ‘supermodel’ looks. But beauty is much more than that. Sure most models are good looking, but in my book good looking isn’t beauty. A person’s beauty is made up of lots of things, their looks, their personality, their intelligence (shock! Horror!)…
Maybe as well as intelligence quotient (IQ), which is made up of logical intelligence, physical intelligence, visual intelligence, linguistic intelligence… and probably some others.
There should be a beauty quotient made up of all the things I’d mentioned previously and can’t be bothered mentioning again.
The most beautiful people I’ve met, they aren’t flawless, but instead their ‘visual flaws’ make them unique and it’s that which I associate with their beauty.

Beauty vs. Intelligence

It’s strange how the stereotype of a nerd, a geek or an intellectual is an ugly one. Or if not ugly then so absorbed as to not care about appearance. Is this because beautiful people aren’t smart? I don’t think so. I don’t think there is a scale which must be balanced, one side beauty the other intelligence. So why does this stereotype exist? The stereotype is of course not entirely true, but stereotypes have to come from somewhere…

Is it maybe that beauty attracts friends and so better looking people have more of a social life and hence don’t dedicate as much time to study? If this is true then it certainly doesn’t limit good looking people from being intelligent, which is how it is, and so this might have some truth.

This would then also imply that lack of looks or grooming, or even shyness, cause a more solitary personality that can dedicate time to study and intellectual improvement.

If the stereotype is true, and that beauty is a balance against intelligence then wouldn’t it be a loss to society? The beautiful would be the lowest educated and (if the beauty stereotype is also true) too shallow to marry anyone not good looking and this would cause two classes of people, the beautiful but low socioeconomic and the ugly but intelligent leaders and rulers. Then the beautiful would begin to die off, or be cut away.

Good thing stereotypes hardly ever work then.

And anyway, I’m doing a science degree. If that’s not where nerds dwell I don’t know where it is (okay so I’m ignoring com sci… :P). And so I know that beauty is incompatible with intelligence.

last day. first year.

Hooray! it's last day of semester. That is if you don't count exams and swotvac. And that means I can relax tonight, cause all I've got is study for exams to do. I found a really good shop on poultney street the other day. It's called Ikeguchi (creative life) and it was amazing I'd never looked in the shop before. Every morning I've walked past it from the bus stop to uni and it was from across the road from rundle mall that I saw the shop sign and thought it looked interesting. The shop was amazing! It has the coolest Japanese stuff in it. This morning when I walked past it even though it was closed the displays in the windows had piles of the cool stuf they sold.
It just shows how blind to the 'normal' I am when I don't care (or am still half asleep).

josh has just come into the room so farewell for now my faithful readers.... heh.

These three

Those three words are not enough,
is so cliché, it means less than
the three words themselves;
so I’ll just say it,
at least it’s part of the way there.

I love you.

When We're Young

It is amazing what you can remember of when you are young. I’m not sure if it is just me or if it is like this for everyone but it seems totally random what we remember of when we were very little. It seems like major events should be what we remember most, and that is true for me to an extent. But my earliest memories or at least my earliest memory is not major. My first memory is fragmented. It is of my first home in Clare. It consists of me sitting under a walnut tree and then a little later being helped wash my hands in the laundry sink.
My next memory was of a major time, and is probably my clearest early memory. That memory is of being carried out of the women’s and children’s hospital by my mum after recovering from meningitis. I remember bawling my eyes out, the reason for which I can’t remember, but I can remember the bleary view of our car across the road, and my dad coming to meet us.
My next clear memory is the one which got me thinking about the triviality of our earliest memories. The memory is of one of my days at kindy. It’s probably the earliest memory which is as clear as later happenings. That is, it is as clear as my high school memories, or any event which occurred a year or more ago. This memory is less corrupted by my mature brain filling in details which I couldn’t remember than the two I’ve previously mentioned.
And the memory is of being highly sceptical of someone I met telling me that they knew how to perform karate. I remember clearly the demonstration, and though I didn’t tell them, I knew they were just swinging their arms around, and that Karate took years of practice.
That’s it. That is my earliest total memory. How trivial is that! I’ve been told about any number of major events that happened about that time in my life and the one I remember is some kid lying to me about his karate skills?!
The human brain is a perplexing thing.

the comic is up....

our comic is up!!!!
woo hooo!
we put it up over the holidays and so now we have three comics up.
we have a DA page: http://comedia-del-dentro.deviantart.com
as well as a blog: http://comediadeldentro.blogspot.com
so look it up.
I'm back at uni now so all the stuff I said I was going to do in the holidays are now not going to happen...
until next holidays!

so,anyhoo

leadership conference

I'm back from leadership conference... it wasn't quite what I was expecting but I think that was good. 'Cause I really enjoyed it and think I got as much out of it as the other ES camps (that is in proportionality to the length of the camp).
I met a couple of new ESers, which I wasn't expecting, and there were some great talks/sessiony things.
I enjoyed the personality one Tamie ran. we did the meyer briggs type indicator test.
it turns out I'm a INTP (or according to the 'brutally honest personality test' a LOSER)
the description it gave was so close to my personality even though I wouldn't have said I was an introvert...
now I'd beter get some real work done in the holidays.

Holidays=yay!

My lovely parents are in melbourne as of today visiting my brother.
so it's just me and liz home for the first few days of mid semester break.

I'm really looking forward to these holidays. I'll get some of the Cdd comics done, I'll study japanese... and I'll have fun on the leadership conference.
I'm hoping it'll be fun...

I really need to do some serious japanese study these holidays though.

oh and I have a physics poster to do.
I have heard so many stories of how painful the first year physics poster is. And so far I haven't seen anything to disprove the fact that their stories are the norm.
At least I know the two people in my group well.
oh well.
And apart from that the holidays should pass quickly and relaxingly and hopefully efficiently.

"I am true and I am living
We will walk through the valley of the shadow of the boring and burn it all
No we will not go quietly"
The Classic Crime
Closer Than We Think

first blog...

okay...
I thought I'd make my own one of these after setting up the Comedia del dentro one... http://comediadeldentro.blogspot.com
umm yeah...
so I don't have that much to write.
xkcd was funny today...
http://xkcd.com/476/
and toothpastefordinner wasn't...
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com
My japanese tute was cancelled today so I have a three hour break to... do... nothing much.

well this was a great entry wasn't it...