anamnesis

not to let bright-eyes tie stuff in my hair the major supplier of oil to the US is NOT a middle eastern country Source amnesia , a curious neurological separation between storage of facts and their source, may cause one to re-process a false statement from a non-credible source as true as time passes weekends are NOT good times for catching up on stuff when making guacamole, too little lime is better than too much... a good recipe is 2 avocados, half a lime (squeezed), chopped red onion, chopped tomato, chopped cilantro, garlic salt Average number of vials for snake bite treatment is 12. At a *wholesale* cost of $1,572 per vial, this makes the average treatment: $18,864 . Squirrels can hold a lot sticks in their mouth at once. But why? You only need the first and last letter of a word to be in the right place to read it, the rest can be a random jumble. i yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod a...

I've seen a fair amount of resumes, but the one from last night's dream made a lasting impression. A friend (dream friend, never met her in "waking" life) was updating her resume. I was amazed to discover it was made out of cheese. Little slabs of cheese, a little smaller than an index card, each slab was about 1/3" thick. They were threaded together with twine in an accordion type fold and on the top of each slab was a concise description of one of her previous jobs. Given the ingenuity of how she got the print on the cheese, and depending on how fresh the resume was, I think she'd probably get an interview for sure. People would just be too curious to see what kind of person would have created this ---and had the nerve to apply for a job with it. Might work better for some types of jobs than others, though.

Remember the old Monte Hall show where you could choose your prize behind one of three doors? Say there was a Caribbean cruise behind one. Behind the other two were a can of sardines or a goat or something. So you'd choose your door, then Monte would open one of the other doors showing a dud gift and give you a chance to switch your original choice with the last unopened door. You with me so far? Should you switch doors, or stick with your original choice? Does it make a difference? Common intuition tells us we have a 50/50 chance with the remaining doors, so it doesn't make a difference, right? But this article claims that mathematically you should switch. Why? Because in this scenario your original choice would only be right 1 out of 3 times. If you switch you are betting on it being wrong, which happens 2 out of 3 times. Yet, I'm not convinced. What's the difference between letting Monte open one of the dud doors and *then* choosing? Does it somehow magically affect ...

The archetypes of the wise old man and eternal youth. The building of the ego in the first phase of life ---a solid sense of self to navigate the requirements of tribal living and to engage in effective transactions with the physical world ---the ability to choose--- Responsibility for one's choices. Then the turning. The consideration of choices not made. Potentials unlived. Coming to terms with the finite. Reconciling. Re-uniting parts of self. All those parts that were put on hold, diverted, rejected, ignored and misplaced ---coming back home at midlife like rowdy relatives. Or staying ex-communicated. No longer in touch. Sometimes the most basic needs and desires; wanting expression. Not necessarily in physical ways ---that page has turned--- no red sports cars. Diamond rings. Plastic surgery. In symbolic importance. In the rituals of life. In the ways their presence is recognized. And they still burn. Unsmothered. The wise old man and his procedures: life experiences process...

Here's one for Marbella's research... wanna get rid of those dust mites under the covers? Don't Make Your Bed ! Just another one of those findings that seem to keep coming up about what some of us do naturally. :-) We had a German neighbor once. She used to mow her lawn with one of those cool little mowers that power their blades totally from the motion of the wheels. She mowed about 3 times a week. And it used to drive her batty that whenever I mowed the lawn, I would always leave a patch of it wild. At first she thought maybe there were rocks or something there, but what really set her off was when she noticed the location of the wild patch would change with each mowing. I finally had to explain it to her: "You're German, I'm Irish; you see, the Irish believe that you should always leave areas for the wild things in your life." I don't know if she bought it or not, but she didn't bug me about it after that. Of course, the Irish are also known for...

. . . except for the "could recall memories learned at other times" bit... Cockroaches: Morons in the Morning, Geniuses in the Evening "They found that the individuals trained during the evening retained the memory for several days. Those trained at night also had good retention. During the morning, however, when the cockroaches are least active, they were totally incapable of forming a new memory, although they could recall memories learned at other times." Been reading some interesting bug studies lately. Like about fireflies, and how that "bling" in their bellies is more than a pretty light show for attracting mates; it's actually a high-wire act between death and sex , played out in the lazy theaters of warm summer nights. Perhaps little kids running around trapping them in jars was the least of their worries?

See, sometimes those ads in the back of comic books actually pay off! Now I can pwnz me some of that pontoon booty. Yarr! Hey, leggo of my boat! I got to hide it in the garage before bright eyes gets back!

Less than 5 minutes; put together by a cultural anthropologist and builds to some very interesting insights. Link

Watched that movie last night (in the title.) It's about a poor Air Force sap that gets volunteered for a top secret experiment in hibernation. Through a mishap, they forget about his pod and he wakes up 500 years in the future. Instead of what we think might happen ---with humanity getting smarter and technology advancing--- people get dumber. With an IQ of 100, he's the smartest person on the planet. It's a fun, silly movie, but it's also a strange idea. And thought experiment. It got me thinking about aspects of humanity where we've regressed or haven't developed much at all. Aspects like emotional intelligence and spirituality. Now and then a person comes along like the Buddha or Christ or Mohammad and blinds the masses with a level of spiritual understanding that should be the norm. Scribes try to capture it with their limited faculties and rituals and religions spring up like apes mimicking human actions they don't understand. The rituals devolve into ...

Have you ever noticed that our brain comes up with "answers" for whatever we put to it? It's curious that many otherwise intelligent and creative people abuse this natural tendency of their minds to hobble themselves. If we ask ourselves why we are so screwed up, our brains will shift into gear coming up with all sorts of reasons that it thinks we are asking for. If we ask, instead, how best to deal with situation "x", or how easily we can resolve "y", it will go to work on that thread instead. To be careful what we ask for, may strike a chord much closer to home than we typically realize. And there seems to be an art to asking questions skillfully, to both ourselves and others, in a way that brings out resources and capabilities rather than judgments and indictments; the way we frame our questions in life seems fundamentally linked to the type of answers we are receiving; and yet, how quickly the question fades from our awareness, leaving us only wit...

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F Kennedy was elected President in 1960. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both wives lost their husbands while living in the White House. Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Both Presidents were shot in the head. Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy. Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln. Both were assassinated by Southerners. Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908. John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939. Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names are composed of fifteen letters. Lincoln was shot in a theatre named "FORD". Kennedy was shot in a car called "LINCOLN¨ mad...