Just wondering.......

[montsnmags]

Age: 38 in a fortnight
Mental visual of self: A whole paragraph of self-loathing (or between 13 and 19 if you just mean age)
cpap: What the hell? I have no idea what this is. I've got a headache-to-migraine. Damned noisy kids. Get the hell off my lawn.
overhead fan: semi-tropical-to-tropical here in summer, so, near every room in the house
childhood reading: I remember LotR, but also the Thomas Covenant Chronicles and that Julian May series....one of the books was The Golden Torc. They would have been just pre-teen. Before that, I remember "reading" stuff like nature books (eg. Life On Earth) and encyclopedias.

Weight: Mate, I need to lose it. The Loved One has been gone for a day-and-a-half, and the first thing I do is buy Fruit Loops (to get my year's supply of artificial colourings) and icecream.

What's this thread about again?

Cheers,
Marc (headache...migraine...brain hurts...not working properly....)

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Age: 38 in a fortnight
Mental visual of self: A whole paragraph of self-loathing (or between 13 and 19 if you just mean age)
cpap: What the hell? I have no idea what this is. I've got a headache-to-migraine. Damned noisy kids. Get the hell off my lawn.
overhead fan: semi-tropical-to-tropical here in summer, so, near every room in the house
childhood reading: I remember LotR, but also the Thomas Covenant Chronicles and that Julian May series....one of the books was The Golden Torc. They would have been just pre-teen. Before that, I remember "reading" stuff like nature books (eg. Life On Earth) and encyclopedias.

Weight: Mate, I need to lose it. The Loved One has been gone for a day-and-a-half, and the first thing I do is buy Fruit Loops (to get my year's supply of artificial colourings) and icecream.

What's this thread about again?

Cheers,
Marc (headache...migraine...brain hurts...not working properly....)

Oh man ..... ice cream with Fruit Loops on it is sounding really good about now. Not certain that's how you meant to have it .... but it just sounds soooo good!!

[slayda]

Wish I had a twin. Unfortunately I think I was a foundling, left by some extraterrestrial humanoids. I look enough like humans to seem to fit but inside my mind, nothing seems to work in a human reference frame.

Didn't read much as a child because I read so slowly. So I would read a chapter then go outside to run off energy or clime a tree real high to be alone with myself.

Ricky, my game was different. I too went somewhere in my mind but never to a place I had been before, even in my mind. I would populate it with all the details you remembered but they would be whatever I wanted them to be. I listen to other peoples fantasies and wonder, "Are you just giving me the summary or is that all your imagination can create?"

[Taylor514ce]

"The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci" by Jonathan Spence is an interesting non-fiction account of the science of mnemonics, specifically as practiced by Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit missionary to China.

Very similar to your Game, Ricky.

This also leads to the book, "In the Palaces of Memory: How We Build the Worlds Inside Our Heads", by George Johnson, which I alluded to in another thread, about investigations on several fronts about how memories are formed.

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

You are all (let's see, DixieGal, Nekokami, pshwynk, Patricia, basschick, Zelda, RickyMaveety, Dennis, bbusybookworm, Elsi - probably more that I've missed from this thread) a bunch of strange, distorted types - all this reading, reading, reading. Didn't you, like, play when you were little kids?

No . I remember the 'Go away! I'm reading!'-bit all too well from from own childhood. And the being on first name basis with the staff of the local library and being allowed to borrow books from the 'adult' section (no, not 'adult' *that* way )

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

that Julian May series....one of the books was The Golden Torc.

The 'Saga of Pliocene Exile': The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Torc, The Non-Born King and The Adversary.

Good stuff.

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by mbovenka

The 'Saga of Pliocene Exile': The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Torc, The Non-Born King and The Adversary.

Good stuff.

Yes, it was a long time ago (20-something years), but I remember enjoying them. There was another epic series I enjoyed sometime around then, now that I think about it: The Helliconia Trilogy by Brian Aldiss. They were pretty good - true "world-creating".

Cheers,
Marc

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Mental visual of self: A whole paragraph of self-loathing (or between 13 and 19 if you just mean age)
Hey -- watch who you are loathing. We LIKE this guy.

cpap: What the hell? I have no idea what this is. I've got a headache-to-migraine.
RickyMaveety described it as a hairdryer blowing up your nose, to force you to breathe. That's pretty close.

I've got a headache-to-migraine.
Have heard the suggestion of 4 Excedrins and a whole Mountain Dew, chugged rapidly. Then again, I've not had to suffer a real migraine, so maybe that's way off base. Care for a temple rub?

Weight: Mate, I need to lose it. The Loved One has been gone for a day-and-a-half, and the first thing I do is buy Fruit Loops (to get my year's supply of artificial colourings) and icecream.
I've got the Count Chocula -- love those marshmallow bits! And several decadent Ben n Jerry's flavors. Plus a just discovered really fudgy browny at a store I pass on the way home from work. Which makes this a very dangerous discovery.

Cheers,
Marc (headache...migraine...brain hurts...not working properly....)
Cheers back atcha .... and a prayer that your head improves soon .....

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[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

"The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci" by Jonathan Spence is an interesting non-fiction account of the science of mnemonics, specifically as practiced by Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit missionary to China.

Very similar to your Game, Ricky.

This also leads to the book, "In the Palaces of Memory: How We Build the Worlds Inside Our Heads", by George Johnson, which I alluded to in another thread, about investigations on several fronts about how memories are formed.

I'll have to find and read those. You know what's funny (to me) ... I didn't realize until I went for biofeedback therapy that not everybody played The Game.

Sort of like ... well, it wasn't until I was almost 30 that I realized that not everybody saw colors the way I did. (Looking at the same "color" I see it one way out of my right eye, another way out of my left, and yet a third way with both eyes open.) That was another "game" I used to play growing up ... making the world change colors .... my mother used to wonder why I would just sit there, staring at "nothing much" and winking and blinking my eyes. I found it highly entertaining to make a red stop sign turn orange, then purple, then red, and back to orange.

But, with me and The Game .... I always kept the memory as real as I could, because I felt safest with things I knew well around me ... I guess. And, I suppose if I had imagined certain things, then other bad things from my imagination (like T-Rex) would also get in there too ... and that would be no good at all.

[RWood]

In my childhood my Father would go to the local bookstore on Friday after work and buy a few paperbacks -- Matt Helm, Doc Savage, and the like -- and proceed to lie on the couch for the weekend and read them one after another. I got the Doc Savage and that type of book after he finished them and what was left went in paper shopping bags for my Uncle to read later. In an average weekend my Father would finish 3 to 5 books, watch (read or sleep) a baseball game or two, spend one night playing bridge with another couple, and (seasonally) tell me to go out and mow the lawn or shovel the sidewalk. (The last part was a bit of a problem when we lived in an apartment for a few years.)

I still have the Doc Savage books in a box in the basement.

[Taylor514ce]

Mow the lawn, shovel the sidewalk? Sounds like he wanted you out of the house for an hour or two. My grandfather's trick when he wanted "alone time" with grandma was to throw his pocket change into the front yard.

[Patricia]

My father used to send us to church vicariously: he never went near the place himself. And we did the bulk of the shopping and other chores.
I think that he just thought that girls did the domestic stuff and the praying. My little brother didn't have to do chores unless he felt like it. Fortunately he was (and is) a practically-minded person who did pull his weight.

[nekokami]

Migranes... I have found that mine are due to inflamed turbinates (in my sinuses) and nasal spray like Afrin does wonders. I suppose it would help if the rest of us (i.e. I) stopped encouraging you to eat chili chocolate, too. There is also a biofeedback computer game I've found quite helpful, called The Journey to Wild Divine. Helps with panic/anxiety attacks, too.

My version of The Game was to describe the world around me to an invisible alien or spirit or something which was riding around in my head with me and had my sensory input, but needed to have everything explained. I suppose it was my way of trying to make sense of the world. I don't recall ever being able to change red to orange while looking at something, but I can cause the image to go to monochrome....

pshrynk, are you getting all this? Shouldn't you be able to make money from our ramblings somehow?

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by nekokami

Migranes... I have found that mine are due to inflamed turbinates (in my sinuses) and nasal spray like Afrin does wonders. I suppose it would help if the rest of us (i.e. I) stopped encouraging you to eat chili chocolate, too. There is also a biofeedback computer game I've found quite helpful, called The Journey to Wild Divine. Helps with panic/anxiety attacks, too.

My version of The Game was to describe the world around me to an invisible alien or spirit or something which was riding around in my head with me and had my sensory input, but needed to have everything explained. I suppose it was my way of trying to make sense of the world. I don't recall ever being able to change red to orange while looking at something, but I can cause the image to go to monochrome....

pshrynk, are you getting all this? Shouldn't you be able to make money from our ramblings somehow?

My ability to do the color change thing is just because I am differently color blind in each eye.

[nekokami]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

My ability to do the color change thing is just because I am differently color blind in each eye.

Ah. Much is explained.

I had a coworker once who could see into the UV range, and saw other colors rather differently from most people. He had to abandon his intended career in computer engineering after his first visit to a fab plant where he was exposed to the kinds of UV lamps they use for photoetching the silicon. The lighting was very painful.

I see unusually well in the dark (enough to startle people who see me reading with insufficient lighting), but also have no problem with sunlight. But a few years back I discovered that I don't have as much contrast perception in medium light situations as other people. We were all looking at some boats crossing a lake, and others could see where the wake was, whereas I couldn't. I think this has a negative impact on my enjoyment of my eink screen, unfortunately. A higher-contrast screen is one of the few enhancements that could push me into an early device upgrade.