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Post 47 – Bad Cut of Meat
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When my wife and I were dating, she discovered I couldn’t cook. It was still early in our relationship, but far enough along that I had invited her over to dinner. As she tells it, I served rice, bread, and mashed potatoes without any veggies or protein. I don’t think that is true and based…
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Post 46 – Mulch Barrier
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It happened! I watched an idea arrive. But, it wasn’t smooth or automatic like I described in post 20, Thinking With Muscles. Ok Ok, to be honest, I only noticed it arrived after I had looked away for a fraction of a second after constantly wondering why it hadn’t shown up yet. For those who…
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Post 45 – Sleeping Jerk
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Given the title, you’d be surprised to hear that I am not talking about myself. Sorry, obligatory self-deprecating joke to self-handicap and inoculate myself against possible future negative feedback. Wow, that was a lot of self-disclosure. Really, we’re gonna talk about sleeping. Sleeping is a difficult thing to study. Kind of like whales. Both sleep…
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Post 44 – Telescope or Microscope
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In an earlier post titled ‘Thinking with Muscles’, I mentioned that sometimes I get ideas when I’m working out. Not when I am actively trying to lift a heavy weight(or what is heavy for me), because that strain and focus inhibits the mind. If all of mind is working on something, then there is nothing…
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Post 43 – Confession and Preaching
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I was raised Catholic so I am steeped in the art and cathartic experience of admitting and confessing things. It often feels good to get something off your chest. Note, there is a debate in psychology about having a cathartic experience of an emotional release and the idea that if you think and act a…
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Post 42 – Where is My D^&M Power Cord
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Though I don’t know much about poetry, let me try to be poetic. GhoughtL good ideas are like flowers that bloom when they are ready. But you can only have flowers from the seeds you plant. And you can’t plant seeds that you don’t have which is why I write about what I know. I…
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Post 40 – Control Room
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I was going to start this blog with a reference to how weird I am. Something like, “We’ll if you’ve been reading this, you know I have some weird thoughts.” But, that doesn’t work for a couple of reasons. Weirdness is relative. Weird compared to what? My second objection is the mind-positive idea that different…
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Post 39 – Musical Norm
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“Music is what feelings sound like.” That is a quote by Georgia Cate. Great quote, though in truth, I don’t know who Georgia Cate is. Like most people, my musical taste has evolved over the years. That, of course, doesn’t mean I don’t still like the awesomeness that was the ‘80s. There was a piano…
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Post 38 – Filling out Forms
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My grandfather owned a document company that specialized in business forms. My mom told me stories of seeing him sitting at the dining room table with paper, a ruler, and other drafting tools. She said that he painstakingly measured how long each line and box of the form should be. Like a lot of people,…