7:51

For some odd reason, these two numbers (especially when I see them on segment displays) remind me of aliens...

When I can't find something

When I can't find an object, a tool or something like that, I can't help but move my hands as if I was holding and using the object...   I read that when you think of performing an action or even you see somebody performing it, your brain activates similarly to when you actually do it.   My conclusion would be that perhaps my desire of using the object activates some motion areas of my brain, making my hands move.

Things that I like and hate, cont'd

Like

• Cracking bones, especially my knees. I do it in public too, people find it gross.


• When things finish even, e.g. I need two cups of flour and I have enough flour to fill two cups.


• In parkades, driving forward to the next stall when it's free. Canadian favorite, apparently.


• Combining chores, as a way to be efficient: while I go there to do A, on the way back I can also do B.


• When computers don't try to guess what I'm trying to do.

Hate

• Static electricity.


• People who listen to loud music in their headsets (and all I can hear is 'tsss... tsss... tsss...')


• When walkways with long steps line up in such a way that I always use the same foot to go up or go down.


• People who open glass doors by pushing with their flat hand on the glass instead of using the handle.


• When people write "seperate" instead of "separate".

Shopping!

People love shopping, and shopping loves people.

I'm back!

It has been a while. What happened to me? Something really good, I met a special somebody and she became the only receptacle of my various ramblings. Was that good? Not really, she is wonderful but she also needs a break every now and then :) So here I am. Writing random thoughts again for the random reader that may or may not exist. Oh, and I have picked a new template, a little less stylish, but definitely more orange. Hope you'll enjoy some of this going forward.

We are symmetrical beings

Just like pretty much any other living form... Isn't it funny, when you think of it?   We are mostly symmetrical, at least externally, is that to save on some DNA?   Just flip one sign?

Drums and rythm

There is something "universal" about drums.   Why 4/4 sounds so natural?   Who has decided that drums must have kick, snare and hi-hat?

If you can't see my mirrors...

The bumper sticker says: "If you can't see my mirrors, I can't see you."   I get the idea, but that's an over statement!   If you can't see my mirrors, the only thing I can say for sure is that I can't see your eyes.

Expectations

When I plan to go to a place a lot ahead of time, after a while in my mind the place starts taking a life of its own.   Then of course when it's finally time to go I find it completely different.   But the funny thing is that the made-up version doesn't immediately fade away, for a little while the two memories co-exist, and the real one isn't less fake than the imaginary one.

Let me introduce you...

Is it just me?   When they introduce me somebody, I never manage to memorize their name.   Then I always have to ask the embarrassing question "What is your name again?"   I remember everything else but the name... Bizarre.

Reading voice

Ok, another really weird consideration, buckle up!  I don't know about you, but I usually re-read all my writings (even all my emails), and I mentally read using my own voice, of course.  When I read emails from somebody that I know, I usually imagine his or her voice.  And when I'm reading stuff from somebody I don't know?  Well, I default back to my own voice.
My way of reading, I guess, implies that I have to go exactly at the same speed as if I was speaking... That's why for me reading a book takes forever!

Candid Camera

An entire afternoon spent at my mechanic's gave me an idea for a candid camera that has some potentials, I think.  It seems that the best way to describe a car problem is to reproduce the noise with the mouth!  "When I brake it makes a khrkhrkhr", "Is this graaang normal?", "I hear a strange cktik!"