Several things happened today.
1. It is my "Friend's" birthday.
2. I have started my new book.
3. There is nothing to write here
Pertaining to #1--
Happy
birthday again! I would say "You know who you are!" but seeing as how
you have never seen the site, you probably don't care that it is here!
Pertaining to #2--
I
started reading "A Nomad of The Time Ssreams - A Scientific Romance" by
Michael Moorcock this afternoon. It is the first book in my 100 books
in a year goal. I am working on putting a page together that lists the
title, author, number of pages, date started, amd date completed so all
of you out there may track my progress. I will also put down my opinion
of the book in question as an added bonus. I might make the title a link
to another page that has reviews or something cool like that.
Pertaining to #3--
Why did you even bother looking here???
Also.
While I was cleaning at work tonight, I remembered the bit about a
"S.E.P. Field" from "Life, The Universe, And Everything" by Douglas
Adams (Yes, that trilogy will be up there on the list too! look for
it!). Basically the theory behind a S.E.P. (Someone Else's Problem)
Field is this:
You see something that clashes with your
comfortable view of reality, and your brain says "That is really odd and
wrong! I will pretend that it is not there and let someone else deal
with it!" The human brain then filters the object completely out.
Here
is the scene: about 4 feet inside the door, behind the counter at work.
placed in the approximate center of the aisle. Right in the way (We are
talking "knock it over or walk around it" in the way). Standing upright
on the bristles. Balancing perfectly.
My test was simple. I stood a broom up. Then I walked off. I kept an eye on the broom.
A
few minutes later, a co-worker came walking through. He walked right
around the broom. I waited a few minutes to make sure he was not going
to grab it or anything and then walked up to him. I said "Did you see
the broom or did your brain say "Hmm...That broom is standing up. That
is not supposed to happen. I will therefore pretend like it is not
there!" and then proceed to filter it out."
His response was "What broom?"
I pointed. He looked. Then said "Filtered it out." and went back to what he was doing as though the broom was not even there.
I
left it there. Another co-worker came by. Walked around it 4 times at
least in the course of 10 minutes. Shortly thereafter he was freaking
out because he could not find it, and I was laughing so hard that I
almost hurt myself.
Gads. One would think that you could invade a
country in a similar fashion. Give your army pink uniforms, then station
them strategically throughout the capitol city. What would you think if
you saw some random crumb-bum dressed in pink standing on a street
corner? You would probably pretend that he does not exist. Which is
perfect for the invaders! At the specified time come strolling into
wherever the government is and say "Oh, by the way. It would appear that
we have you surrounded. Feel free to surrender."
Wow. I almost feel like I would have a future in the Army. I actually happen to know that I WOULD if ever I wanted!
