Scribblings - Page 17

Taylor514ce · 06-10-2008, 05:25 PM

If we continue to phase in and out of our avatar personas, well... that would be business as usual. Never mind, carry on. And thanks, pshrynk, for the karma. I was very, very proud of that post (#232 - scroll up).

RickyMaveety · 06-10-2008, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

Ricky: wild. I too suffered aphasia, and still do, as a result of a head injury.

VR: forget the shirt, go slam your head forcefully into something very, very hard.

[Gentle Reader: no, don't really slam your head into anything. That would be stupid.]

See now, Taylor, that is just getting scary. I think we might be non-twins not separated at birth ... or something. I'm going to have such a great time getting to know you.

Taylor514ce · 06-10-2008, 06:10 PM

No particular reason for the crumples. I just felt like it needed the texture.

GeoffC · 06-11-2008, 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

Actually, with drawing it was seeing the notebooks of DaVinci and others, with text and sketches all combined. The physical act of writing and drawing seems linked with invention and inspiration. I thought if I could learn to draw reasonably well, I could improve my note-taking, which is tantamount, with me, to my thought processes. I aspire to being able to sit and record my thoughts, my ideas, in prose, poetry, and sketch work with enough skill and clarity to spur more and better thoughts. A feedback loop, if you will, a conversation with my own mind through the physicality of putting a pencil to paper.

A picture paints a thousand words...

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

No, no, no. Dogs go on walks. They don't walk into things. You're thinking about cats again, apparently.

pffft...

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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

No particular reason for the crumples. I just felt like it needed the texture.

The crumples add drama to the lines. Not quite getting the hand of perspective yet, then.
btw "Drawing with the Right Side of the Brain" is a marvellous book - well recommended...(doubt there is an e-version)

vivaldirules · 06-11-2008, 08:29 AM

PH, are there things that you've tried to pick up that you've felt came particularly slowly for you? What's the thing you had the most difficult time learning or changing about yourself and why do you think it was? Sorry to hit you with this again today but it's too interesting for me.

Taylor514ce · 06-11-2008, 08:37 AM

I never could get the trick of juggling with more than three balls. I can read French, and write it with effort and help from dictionaries and so forth, and know a lot of French words, but cannot hold a conversation in French. I keep telling myself that all I need is immersion, but maybe that's not true and fluency is beyond me. I don't know, yet.

There are things I learned but hate so didn't learn well. Mainframe COBOL. I learned just enough to re-write everything in C# and then never looked at COBOL again.

That's all that strikes me at the top of my head. I'll think about it some more.

Oh - I suppose learning to talk. Supposedly I was one of those who never spoke a word until I was about two, then started speaking in complete sentences.

zelda_pinwheel · 06-11-2008, 09:04 AM

i find it quite interesting that you seem to be very comfortable with languages (english, french, programming) in their written forms, but less so verbally. i wonder whether it is linked to the parts of the brain used for visual comprehension rather than aural ; perhaps your neurons are more efficient there, or have more connections. however the guitar would seem to bely this, since learning guitar must be at least partially aural.

i think generally there tend to be specific areas in which a person may feel particularly comfortable or proficient, depending on the way they tend to apprehend the world and with what form of interaction with information / sensory stimuli they are most comfortable. i am generally quite comfortable with language for example. i am more or less equally comfortable in english and french (verbally and in writing) and things like html and css code come relatively easily to me and are easy for me to understand in a significant way. when i travel i can easily learn a few words simply by seeing or hearing them, and it is easy for me to detect similar words between languages, or words which might have the same root or origin as another word i know.

on the other hand, while letters and words "make sense" to me and seem to arrange themselves into comprehensible patterns without much of an effort, numbers remain more abstract. so for example, while i can do sudoku, i find it less appealing than a crossword or even a letter sudoku puzzle ("moji doku" : they have some of those online at this site : http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/cruci/mojidoku22.php), and whereas the letters in the moji doku will immediately form evident patterns for me, when i do a sudoku grill i have to verify the numbers i have used already individually.

it's very interesting also to notice the connections between apparently unrelated fields ; for example the first time someone told me that math and music are apprehended by the same part of the brain, i was very surprised.

Taylor514ce · 06-11-2008, 06:33 PM

For Uncle Duke, in small payment for the many and varied doughnuts, from a photo in his album. 10 minutes with a pencil and a smudge stick.

And after giving her some hair and cheekbones:

RickyMaveety · 06-11-2008, 07:49 PM

Wow!! Nicely done!

GeoffC · 06-12-2008, 01:06 AM

Very Good. I like the crop - and those eyes...wowo

tirsales · 06-13-2008, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

"leadholder", that's what they're called in french (porte-mine).

In German it's "Druckbleistift" ("Press(ure)-pencil")

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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

@Geoff: Oh, I AM a genius, if you want to go by completely flawed, out-of-date, Anglo- and Western-centric "standards" of measure. I bet most of us here are as well.

Quite probably.

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Oh, man alive ... we are sooooo very alike. I have quite literally gone several days at a time so absorbed in something that I forgot to eat and barely slept. I still get that way.

I know what you mean.
The problem is: As soon as I reach a certain stage and a problem gets boring I tend to focus on the next project. This really can lead to problems - e.g. when the actual project has absolutely nothing to do with anything work or study-related...

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Originally, I was tested as having an IQ of 169

Pff, my test couldnt tell more than 150 - never bothered to do the next one. Because - you are right. The IQ says absolutely nothing about the person or about your capabilities to solve "everydays problems".

zelda_pinwheel · 06-13-2008, 07:17 PM

holy skewed demographics, batman, does anyone around here *not* have a genius IQ ?

tirsales · 06-13-2008, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

http://strangeplaces.net/weirdthings...udent bloopers
http://www.algebra.com/fun/Essays

Okay. You did it. I sprayed coke all over my notebook because I laughed so hard. I hope you are lucky now.
*grml*

montsnmags · 06-13-2008, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

holy skewed demographics, batman, does anyone around here *not* have a genius IQ ?

I've got an IQ of 748, but it's made up of 10 personalities, so...well, you work out the average (I'm no good at maths either).

Cheers,
Marc (moron than off)

RWood · 06-13-2008, 09:31 PM

After passing the exams and being invited to join, my wife and I declined membership. We decided to form our own club -- DENSA. All of you are invited to join.

BTW: I speak fluent COBOL and FORTRAN as well as JCL.

06-11-2008, 09:04 AM	#247
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	i find it quite interesting that you seem to be very comfortable with languages (english, french, programming) in their written forms, but less so verbally. i wonder whether it is linked to the parts of the brain used for visual comprehension rather than aural ; perhaps your neurons are more efficient there, or have more connections. however the guitar would seem to bely this, since learning guitar must be at least partially aural. i think generally there tend to be specific areas in which a person may feel particularly comfortable or proficient, depending on the way they tend to apprehend the world and with what form of interaction with information / sensory stimuli they are most comfortable. i am generally quite comfortable with language for example. i am more or less equally comfortable in english and french (verbally and in writing) and things like html and css code come relatively easily to me and are easy for me to understand in a significant way. when i travel i can easily learn a few words simply by seeing or hearing them, and it is easy for me to detect similar words between languages, or words which might have the same root or origin as another word i know. on the other hand, while letters and words "make sense" to me and seem to arrange themselves into comprehensible patterns without much of an effort, numbers remain more abstract. so for example, while i can do sudoku, i find it less appealing than a crossword or even a letter sudoku puzzle ("moji doku" : they have some of those online at this site : http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/cruci/mojidoku22.php), and whereas the letters in the moji doku will immediately form evident patterns for me, when i do a sudoku grill i have to verify the numbers i have used already individually. it's very interesting also to notice the connections between apparently unrelated fields ; for example the first time someone told me that math and music are apprehended by the same part of the brain, i was very surprised. Last edited by zelda_pinwheel; 06-11-2008 at 09:06 AM.

06-11-2008, 06:33 PM	#248
Taylor514ce Actively passive. Posts: 2,042 Karma: 478376 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: US Device: Sony PRS-505/LC	Smokey the Bare For Uncle Duke, in small payment for the many and varied doughnuts, from a photo in his album. 10 minutes with a pencil and a smudge stick. And after giving her some hair and cheekbones: Last edited by Taylor514ce; 06-11-2008 at 08:08 PM.

06-10-2008, 05:25 PM	#241
Taylor514ce Actively passive. Posts: 2,042 Karma: 478376 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: US Device: Sony PRS-505/LC	If we continue to phase in and out of our avatar personas, well... that would be business as usual. Never mind, carry on. And thanks, pshrynk, for the karma. I was very, very proud of that post (#232 - scroll up).

06-10-2008, 06:10 PM	#243
Taylor514ce Actively passive. Posts: 2,042 Karma: 478376 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: US Device: Sony PRS-505/LC	No particular reason for the crumples. I just felt like it needed the texture.

06-11-2008, 08:29 AM	#245
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad	PH, are there things that you've tried to pick up that you've felt came particularly slowly for you? What's the thing you had the most difficult time learning or changing about yourself and why do you think it was? Sorry to hit you with this again today but it's too interesting for me.

06-11-2008, 08:37 AM	#246
Taylor514ce Actively passive. Posts: 2,042 Karma: 478376 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: US Device: Sony PRS-505/LC	I never could get the trick of juggling with more than three balls. I can read French, and write it with effort and help from dictionaries and so forth, and know a lot of French words, but cannot hold a conversation in French. I keep telling myself that all I need is immersion, but maybe that's not true and fluency is beyond me. I don't know, yet. There are things I learned but hate so didn't learn well. Mainframe COBOL. I learned just enough to re-write everything in C# and then never looked at COBOL again. That's all that strikes me at the top of my head. I'll think about it some more. Oh - I suppose learning to talk. Supposedly I was one of those who never spoke a word until I was about two, then started speaking in complete sentences.

06-11-2008, 07:49 PM	#249
RickyMaveety Holy S**T!!! Posts: 5,213 Karma: 108401 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: San Diego, California!! Device: Kindle and iPad	Wow!! Nicely done!

06-12-2008, 01:06 AM	#250
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Very Good. I like the crop - and those eyes...wowo

06-13-2008, 07:17 PM	#252
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	holy skewed demographics, batman, does anyone around here not have a genius IQ ?

06-13-2008, 09:31 PM	#255
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	After passing the exams and being invited to join, my wife and I declined membership. We decided to form our own club -- DENSA. All of you are invited to join. BTW: I speak fluent COBOL and FORTRAN as well as JCL.

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