Something more Worthy of Instilling Fear, or Spending Millions on...Perhaps?

My wrist is feeling better today but still not great - next week doctor's appt oughta clear up what's going on with it...

Here's a quote though:

"Take interest in these sacred dwellings which we call laboratories. There it is that humanity grows greater, stronger, better."  Louis Pasteur 1822-1895

Why does this make me think of Beast from X-Men? LOL :)

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Eek - I am afraid I might have it. But my symptoms are not classic so who knows....middle finger tingling/numbness yes - but not the thumb nor index finger.

Pain in the carpal tunnel region yes but....
but nothing - I just remembered and tried the flexion test* for the carpal tunnel and it hurt like....well like I got a problem. And I probably oughta quit typing now. Durnit.

Grr!

and OW.

*Thumb to 2nd digit and flex forward. Wow. Pain scale: 8.5

Cool Link

Thanks sis#1! :D

A relevant quote...

"You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna."
--Found on Brainyquote - attributed to Don Cheadle.

So be colorful...and proud of it. Whatever you look like.

Read fantasy - rather than living it. You are who you are - and that links you to others in very powerful ways - both positive and negative and all the complexities in between.

Rumination On (this blog's) Foundation

Ruminations on the mindful body...

Is it a problem? Or is it a state of being?

This brings to mind conjugations and verb forms...to be...to be or not to be...mindful.

Full of mind? Inverse of mind-less?

And where does the body fit in? Does it fit at all? Are you fit? Do you care? Do you seek greater fit-ness? Are you constantly "mindful" of your physical self? Is that mindfulness? Or is that just preoccupation? And what is your occupation? What occupies your world? Your thoughts...your _mind_. And your body.

What a concept - what occupies (y)our body?
Is it an invasion from Mars?
Or a sense of peace? Is such a thing possible anymore?
What about tranquility or oneness* with the universe?
Or something in between.
Or something that oscillates from one to the other...

*"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. --Black Elk (1863-1950) pulled from Wagingpeace.org"

Physics and Miscommunication - Ramble #1

The movement of sound waves and the subsequent impact on interpersonal dialogue in so-called face-to-face situations...

The problem is rarely do people actually sit face to face anymore - they are too busy doing other things at the same time as someone else is trying to communicate something to them, regardless of the seriousness of the content of that communcation. An example, two people in the kitchen. One (A) is cooking, the other (B) is passing through on their way to the porch. "What do you want for a side dish, B?" A says while still starting at the saucepan. Now let's stop right there. Sound waves travel ahead of a person usually yes? Created by the vibration of air along vocal cords and shaped by the positioning of the palette, the lips, the tongue and expelled forward ... into the sauce pan. B hears what A says, but realyl all this means is that B's eardrums pick up some of the vibrations, the sound waves generated by A and registers therefore that sound was made, and constituted some form of vocal communication. So technically B heard A. Right? Right. But did they? What did they hear? "Woh woh woh woh woh woh woh dish, B?" or some variation.

Ok - so then B stops, turns slightly toward A and says "Huh?" This communication may actually be successful as not only has B turned toward A, but A is waiting expectantly for an answer and therefore may have turned slightly toward B as well. Wow - we have a far better acoustic dynamic now only the content has now dropped off significantly.

And B of course is on a single-minded mission to do whatever - and so instead of really waiting for the repeat, turns back toward the porch, ruining the acoustic dynamics altogether so that when A says once again, "What do you want for a side dish?", B still doesn't get it.

Now we have ruined the dynamics even further as B is now on the porch, separated from A by a brick wall. "Still didn't hear you!" B shouts. A so now we have taken to elevating the volume of this conversation to compensate for the distance and dissonant acoustic angles.

"Side dish! What you want?" A shouts back. And indeed we have now resorted to primitive language structures, basic phrases and elevated volume all around.

"Oh." B stops what they are doing and thinks for a moment, "Sugar snap peas."

"What?!" Now A is the one who hears but does not comprehend.

"Peas!"

"Ah right. Ok."

And on they go their merry ways. Only peas is not the same as sugar snap peas is it? So despite the shouting and compensating for distance, and acoustic interference, there was still miscommunication and plenty of poor communication to go around.

All of which could be easily avoided if people accounted for the effect of gravity in their lives. Slow down. And align your sound waves.