Fingernail on 16/2/2007 at 12:46
well, by the same reasoning, you're probably not actually any more creative but perhaps you think you are, which really just makes you pretentious. Placebo effect?
Lost Soul on 16/2/2007 at 22:55
Here's the thing, I am right handed. I can do things like paint, modelling, sculpting and mechanics. Generally things with my hands (wahey). Alternatively I am crap at things like spelling, grammar (thonk fick for spill choke), am very slow at reading, and can't program bugger-all on a comuter. So were does that leave me. I think I am basically a dim twat who is a bit creative, possibly.:erg:
Gray on 16/2/2007 at 23:17
My dad is left handed, and an engineer. Way technical, but knows nothing about art, emotions or expressions. Logical. Technical. Humour like a brick wall. Terrible at languages. Can't appreciate music at all. If it's not a picture of his tiny little home village, it's not art, and not worth paying any attention to. Well, technically, he's partly ambidextrous, with a dominant left.
Me, I'm, right handed. Computer engineer, and a very crappy musician and/or graphical artist. Terrible sense of humour, and think I'm funnier than I am. Love to gawk at artsy stuff or neat architecture without really knowing anything about it. Studied several languages just for the fun of it, but suck at all of them. A large big puddle of emotional goo, with a solid basis in logic and tech. Also, very vaguely lefty in limited fields (use left-hand mouse), but not nearly ambidextrous.
Scots Taffer on 17/2/2007 at 00:59
Oh right, were we supposed to answer this pseudo-science question seriously?
I'm a right handed mathematician with creative aspirations, I write, appreciate many forms of art, and am generally a very inspired person (in that, many things inspire me). People tend to find me quite amusing too, so I guess I have that creative flair for humour and I have a very broad sense of humour.
However, I am terrible with languages and instruments, but the root cause is impatience as opposed to lack of talent. Teachers of languages and music believe that I demonstrated exceptional early learning, but for me unless I was playing Mozart and speaking fluent Spanish within a couple of weeks, I'm not interested. Fuck scales and grammar.
I can't even pick my nose accurately with my left hand.
Gray on 17/2/2007 at 01:01
Not really. But I was bored.
Scots Taffer on 17/2/2007 at 01:32
Fair enough, so was I. Oh yeah, I'm also a big faggy salsa dancer. Very good at it, too.
Tocky on 17/2/2007 at 05:29
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
unless I was playing Mozart and speaking fluent Spanish within a couple of weeks, I'm not interested. Fuck scales and grammar.
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Well there is your problem. Simple tunes don't interest you. If they did you could learn a new one every few days and have fun embelishing them. Canon in D may take dedication worthy of attracting an angel to come live in your instrument but Shortnin Bread (not remotely similar to the childhood tune) attracts a devil right away.
If I believed for a moment that I could ever play Mozart then it would ruin my learning anything. That is why I haven't written that perfect novel yet. Blue had it exactly right. Have fun with it. You can't swallow the humility to go on otherwise.
BTW listen to what Blue Octobers fiddler does with scales and a few simple tricks strung together in PRN on Argue With a Tree. It manages to be both simple and brilliant. Also the only good thing about that emo band.
Oh yeah, I'm a righty and enjoy long walks and candlelit genocide.
Scots Taffer on 17/2/2007 at 07:54
I fully accept and embrace my impatience, in other areas of learning it proves to be a virtue - I am an insanely fast learner with any number of logical or creative things, cooking, dancing, statistical analysis for insurance (my newish job), and that largely comes from a veracious appetite to assimilate information and reproduce the activity to my own standards.
I watch my wife play Moonlight Sonata with skill and emotion, and despite appreciating the beauty of the sound and how much hard work it took learning scales and perfecting things to reach that level, I know that I am not built that way. I just don't learn like that.
Andarthiel on 18/2/2007 at 00:52
I don't know really. I wirte with my left and eat with my right.
But I usually think of myself as left handed.
harley on 18/2/2007 at 07:27
Do lefties use the mouse on the left side of the keyboard?
