A child of the Southwest and of the 50s -- a woman who knew me well once said, 'Yeah, the 1850s.' Generally culturally conservative and distrustful of new and improved innovative change. Very seldom overtly serious, but many a truth is spoke in jest and all of my truths are. Worked my way through UT when I was up in my 30s. If I'd, by some horrible miscalculation ended up in Bryan, I would've worked my way through that school over there. Have worked all over in printing and publishing. I've held a bunch of jobs and quit all of them but one. I am a journeyman printer and followed the trade and heard its dying gasps as it was throttled by technological change. I had a sponsored blog on a newspaper but quit the job.
Cool, indeed! I especially enjoyed the scientific explanation of how it works. Even knowing how it works, and looking at it again, you would swear that you still see what you thought you saw in the first place. The only way I believed it was by removing those outer "rings". Do you suppose we are really not "seeing" things the way they really are, or are presented to us? I have often wondered about that skewed perspective present in our dreams - you know, how things are at once familiar, but somehow changed, or not quite right? What if that dream version of our surroundings is how the world REALLY looks, but not how we consciously see it?
Wow. I MUST stop drinking that "special" coffee.....
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Cool, indeed! I especially enjoyed the scientific explanation of how it works. Even knowing how it works, and looking at it again, you would swear that you still see what you thought you saw in the first place. The only way I believed it was by removing those outer "rings". Do you suppose we are really not "seeing" things the way they really are, or are presented to us? I have often wondered about that skewed perspective present in our dreams - you know, how things are at once familiar, but somehow changed, or not quite right? What if that dream version of our surroundings is how the world REALLY looks, but not how we consciously see it?
Wow. I MUST stop drinking that "special" coffee.....
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