I've been having writers block the last week or so. Its weird because Sue has had the last five posts in a row; an previously unheard of string of posts for her. So I'm just going to throw out a bunch of little things and hope that, like us, the whole is more than sum of its parts (did I just blow your mind?).
- NASA launched their "Deep Impact" probe on Wednesday (he he...probe). Does anyone but me see that name and think "porn movie title"?
- Sue and I are now officially addicted to Dance Dance Revolution (DDR). It is quite the aerobic workout (or I am really in horrible shape...its hard to differentiate between those two states). I have no idea what happened, but yesterday my feet and brain finally hooked it all up and I am now able to at least get through the light level on all the songs (although I will get a D on most of the hard songs). Still, that makes it a lot more enjoyable! Its easy to do that for an hour or two without even thinking about. My buddy Paul told me to remember that, "pain is just weakness leaving the body". That's a very good motivator, especially after the first day when I could not straighten my legs without a lot of pain. Sue and I are already looking for a deal on another pad so that we can both play together.
- Work has been better this last week. For about two weeks there I was in this sort of fog where I could not make heads or tails of the new system I was working with. Then just like DDR, it all just sort of clicked in my head. Its weird. One minute I cannot tell you anything about how it works, and the next it all just sort of makes perfect sense. Its weird. It's hard to imagine that the neural connections in my brain just went from a random set of connections to something that can sort out the stream of events out of the system I am working on. What is weirder is that somehow the neurons connect correctly without an outside teacher telling them when they have correctly fired. I don't understand it.
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Re: "Deep Impact"
Or, as was heard on "Whaddaya Know" this weekend on NPR, it was described as a probe that would "generate enough thrust to penetrate deep within a heavenly body."
When public radio shows have to resort to sexual innuendo, you know they're hurting for money.
Re: "Understanding new system"
And what's sad is that when you get a different system to understand, all those neural connections are going to be undone and reconfigured for this new one so you'll forget about how the current one works.
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