Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Deep Thoughts from Deep in the Night

It's amazing how our brains work...

For instance, I can look at Chinese characters or some foreign alphabet and be utterly unable to make sense of them. However, I can look at words in English and be utterly unable to make nonsense out of them. Try it. Look at this page, or a page in a book, or a box of cereal, and try to trick your brain into not reading the words but just seeing gibberish shapes. So I guess that means we are trainable but not untrainable? I don't know what it means, but I just thought I'd share.

On another unrelated note, I have become aware recently of a band that I think I love. They're called O.A.R. Very well-done website also, at which you can listen to any and all of their albums all the way through. It is when I make discoveries like this that I really have to thank Sirius satellite radio for being infinitely more hip than the old-school radio. I would be lost in a world of bad music without it.

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