Talking to Ctein

Oh, here's the one thing I meant to include in "Bits and Pieces" on Friday and forgot. (A glitch of my brain is that I always remember lists with one thing missing. It's some kind of neurological misfire—when I was teaching, I learned never to go around the room saying all the kids' names, because invariably just one name would escape me when I needed it—even if I knew that kid and her name perfectly well in any other situation. And I almost always forget one thing at the supermarket, no matter how many items I'm trying to remember. But I digress.)

Anyway, Ctein and I have been talking about this year's print sale. We have four possibilities, and need to settle on one. (A consideration about the print sales: before we can decide, we need to see the prints. The idea can be great, but we're not selling ideas, we're selling prints.) But, whatever it will end up being, a print sale is coming up. Just thought you might like to know.

Mike

Book o' the Week

Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Photograph by Jason Fulford. Although I would never actually let anyone tell me not to photograph, this is a fun book for getting "the lay of the land" as what subjects and treatments are common. There are some nice insights, and it's a pleasant read, although I think it will be more fun if you already know a lot about photography and can relate to the subjects he discusses.

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MikeR: "Re forgetting an item on lists: Always? No exceptions? Never, ever?

"I often do that, but I just say that I forgot, and shrug. No neurological drama."

Mike replies: If it's not a brain glitch, then why only just one thing the great majority of the time? And why are they so often things that I know well and should be able to remember easily? There are a great many mysteries about the brain, which I know from being a big fan of—name will come to me—I'll get it—give me a moment—starts with S—Sacks—Oliver Sacks.  :-)

ASW: "Hi Mike. I have my own glitch which sometimes frustrates but is always funny (to observe). If I put on a T-shirt without checking for the tag, I always put it on backwards. This has happened for as long as I can remember, so we're talking about multiple decades of t-shirts at this point. Sometimes I even fake myself out. I'll pick up a T-shirt, remember that I'm sure to put it on backwards and therefore swap it around (without checking), and then put it on backwards. I can only assume that it is some kind of voodoo curse."

Mike replies: That's a great one! You and I don't quite rise to the level of Oliver's great book on the subject—a favorite of mine—but I think we're in that neighborhood.

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[SteveH]

"And I almost always forget one thing at the supermarket, no matter how many items I'm trying to remember."

Have you considered the possibly of writing your list down? Or, if you must be high tech, having it as a text (or even audio) file on your phone?

Works for me. Well, apart from the occasions when I forget to take the list with me...

[ASW]

Hi again Mike. I haven't read that Oliver Sacks book, but in the weird way that the world works I am only one degree of separation from him. Part of his book "The Island of the Colorblind" details his studies of a mysterious neurological disease on Guam. Decades later I spent a few years on Guam doing research for the USGS. For most of my time there I lived in the home of a retired middle school teacher who spent most of the year in Montana and came back to Guam from January to March to visit friends and escape winter (free housing in exchange for basic maintenance and security when she was away). Anyway, when she was around one of her favorite topics was wild stories about her youth spent hanging out with interesting folks who came to the island, back when it actually was an adventure to be there... folks like Oliver Sacks.

[David Dyer-Bennet]

T-shirts are MUCH easier to keep track of if there's something printed on the front!