July 2011 – Monkey infinitum

Yummmm red beans and rice with a side of salmon 🙂 Nom nom nom

What is the Internet Doing to our Brains?

24 Jul, 2011 by Der Monkey·0 Comments

This is a good lecture on the study of the effect of internet-based activity on the human brain. It’s 26 mins long so not the usual “funny kitty’ video, but well worth the time investment 🙂

My only issue is that the lecturer is using a single company name to represent the term “internet search engine” – many folks do this and it’s as silly as calling every car on the road a “Ford”.

Reveille at midnight leads to lights-out by sundown

23 Jul, 2011 by Der Monkey·0 Comments

These crazy UK-based hours are driving me kind of nuts. Well more nuts than usual. Ready for bed at 5 pm these days, now that 5 pm is the new 11 pm, haha.

Only until end of August though. And working six hours ahead of the rest of my local world is a LOT less costly than making another trip over yonder, lovely tho that was.

Combat jugglers are… combative

23 Jul, 2011 by Der Monkey·0 Comments

Ha I so when I was a kid I could have gotten away with throwing the plastic bowling pins at my brothers and sisters by saying we were practicing for ‘combat juggling’?

O man I sure missed out on that one 🙂

More from the World Juggling Federation here: http://thewjfstore.com/2007extreme.php

Scary video, fellow Americans

22 Jul, 2011 by Der Monkey·0 Comments

I notice the care in which he speeds through the bit where he actually says “we” (he and his close staff) have a “better vision” for our country than what was originally set up by the original founders of the country.

Better than ‘divided government’? I thought the whole point of dividing up our government into three parts was to prevent absolute power from corrupting absolutely. Checks and balances and all that.

Anyone who even suggests this is not the best form of government is clearly not fit to be in such a position of power.

…someone please tell me this was taken out of context, and help me see in what context these words are appropriate for our President to be saying.

I think, therefore I am… confused

22 Jul, 2011 by Der Monkey·0 Comments

If you’re like me, and do “thought multi-tasking”, then you’re familiar with the concept of setting a thought aside when something else comes to focus.

This happens sometimes hundreds of times a day, depending upon how busy things are and what’s got priority at the moment.

So here I am, in a typical day, just puttering along doing stuff, with the usual background noise of thoughts buzzing along and shifting for attention.

Then some random song comes on my last.fm playlist and BAM! I’m completing a thought I had set aside…

…set aside from sometime back in 1974.

I know it was from back then, because I also recalled where I was, and what I was doing at the moment. Apparently I was listening to the same song back then because that was the trigger for me to pick this thought back up and finish it.

Funny thing is, I can’t remember what that thought is now. I was so surprised by this realization that I dropped the thought as soon as I completed it to ponder on how strange this was.

O the irony.