Good graphic novel. Nice fast read. Cool use of black and white graphics and style of drawing. Interesting perspective on the Iranian revolution. Worth taking a couple hours out of your day for.
I'm now about halfway through "Blink," and I have once again proved I am a thuperbrain. By misunderstanding instructions, naturally. There was a test and I totally didn't pay attention on how to take it (explaining, perhaps, my academic career) and I thought to myself, "what's all this old-people stuff about? Bingo? Florida? What the heck?" and it turned out the subtle cues of agedness in the test (to those who take it correctly) make them walk slower on turning the test in.
This is not the first time I've foiled the discipline of psychology. Once I was taking a test (this was part of a research project) that was about unscrambling words and I was on fire, then I got back a "results sheet" that said I had scored in the bottom 10 percent of people who had been unscrambling words and would I please continue with unscrambling these other words?
Well, I was pretty taken aback for about thirty seconds before, duh, it dawned on me that there was no way they could have scored all the kids in class that fast. So I wrote a nanny-nanny boo boo type note on the test and declared I was too smart to fool, then felt kind of bad that I bunged their experiment. So I erased the note and tried to do the unscrambling but I had wasted too much time and didn't do nearly as good, so I probably completely validated the point they were trying to make.
I'm kind of a sucker, aren't I?
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