Something weird happened to me recently. I have a messaging app on my phone which resets an identity after a period of disuse so the handle returns to rotation again. One morning I woke up, felt bored, reinstalled, logged in, and it nagged me that I had to choose a new identity ( Read more... )

Since the Cougar is in the shop, I've been bumming rides left and right to and from work ( Read more... )

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Ankoraŭ, fikanta rusanoj.

Anyway. I wrote about language's impact on personality based on Sapir-Whorf, my own experience, and spivak's razor.

I think The Buddha knew about this. Viz: "Right thought, right speech", et al..

If you don't know fuck, shit, damn, motherfucker, cocksucker, piss, and tits, you won't have obscene thoughts ( Read more... )

Worst thing about looking for work is being afraid my next telephone call is from a potenial employer ( Read more... )

Ever put something down, like keys, then forget where you put them ( Read more... )

I was at a resort and the dream implied the location was Florida. While frolicking in a pool with shadow people, I discovered we had a great, eye-level view of the ocean several yards away. The water was becoming rough and some people started to panic. I pulled myself out of the pool, pressed against the resort building and waited for the ( Read more... )

Watched the final episode of Rick and Morty's second season. As Rick was being put into outer space jail, NIИ's Hurt was playing in the background. After a nap, I woke with the earworm, found the acceptable studio version on Vimeo, and hope it's subsided ( Read more... )

I'm a Jaynesian when it comes to psychology. In The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind, Jaynes proposes the human mind once lacked volition as contemporary people apprehend the concept of "will ( Read more... )

Julian Jaynes proposed Bronze age and older humans were not conscious in the modern sense. Volition was unknown, but they received directives in the form of auditory and visual hallucinations. The latter are/were generated by the right hemisphere of the brain, and Jaynes suggests the right's analogues to Wernicke's area are Broca's area became ( Read more... )