Today on the bus home, during a mild and otherwise unremarkable vertigo episode, I experienced grapheme to colour synæsthesia for the first time.

Letters, numbers, words having colour is a whole different level than mere sense switching. This isn't seeing sound or smelling touch, where sensory data can be dumped raw from one data stream to another. Graphemes must be processed from the raw sensory data before the colour can be attached to them and then the graphemes along with the attached colours must be dumped into the display process.

Audio to visual synæsthesia is easier to understand, with harmonies creating the geometric patters and colours commonly associated with it. There need be no pre-storage of data. However, for graphemes to have specific colours associated with them, there must be some sort of data structure storing the associations. The existence of that data structure seems odd to me.

I'd like to explore it more, as a more detailed knowledge of the connections involved could prove useful in mindware programming. Unfortunately, the experience was transitory and only lasted a few minutes. While for me it only affected one letter out of the alphabet, it was significant and stable for the brief time I experienced it.

I like pi, but didn't think the mood theme fit my journal. So now, crows.

I've had my Buttercup mood theme for almost 6 years now. I feel it's time for a change. My new pi mood theme is only temporary until I come up with something better. Since I'm no longer using my old mood theme, I'm putting it up for grabs.

Buttercup Mood Theme

excited

curious

hot

( intrustions for use )

I tend to use 0-10 in my polls, instead of the more popular 1-10 model. I do this because I like having a middle option, and while 5 might feel like the middle option in 1-10, the middle is actually between 5 and 6. There is no middle option in a 1-10 scale. The middle option actually is 5 on the 0-10 scale; thus perception is more in tune with reality, which in my opinion makes for more accurate poll results. (Of course the obviously skewed sample of my polls completely destroys that accuracy, but that's another story).

Tomorrow I be turning 100,000 years old.

And yet, I often feel as if I've never really existed.

brontosproximo's journal gave me the idea of making pi icons for pi day!

        

stolen from definatalie and existentialista

Look at your LJ "interests" list. If you have fewer than 50 interests, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five interests, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five interests, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly what it is about these things that interests you so much.

bad jokes – I tell them all the time, just ask the many tortured people around me.
chaos magick – Chaos is something I'm very in tune with. It is madness, but not without reason. What better way for me to work magick?
cut-ups – I use cut-ups regularly for inspiration in writing poetry. I've even written several cut-up engines.
etymology – The evolution of language is interesting and ongoing. The way words move through time is very telling of how people think.
healing – I'm trying to get better on many fronts. It's slow, but I've been making progress.
kissing – Kissing is wonderfully versatile. It can be a subtle peck or a passionate oral dance and anything inbetween. It can lead to other things or be wonderful on it's own. Many of my most memorable nights have been largely spent participating in this activity.
masala tea – My favorite hot caffeinated beverage. Coffee is stronger, but masala tea tastes better.
mp3s – I finally have my music back. I have many thousands of these files, and yet I still feel as if I need more.
pastels – While I've been doing more of my art electronically lately, pastels are still my physical medium of choice.
prime numbers – The basic elements of the numbers and thus of mathematics and thus of physics and thus of the universe. How could one not be interested in them?
sandman – I love the Sandman comics, though have unfortunately not had the opportunity to read the entire series. I want more.
spironolactone – Keeps me from producing lots of testosterone.
tabby cats – mazzycat is a tabby. She's fabulous.
trees – Starflower likes to hug them. I think they're beautiful and amazing.
∞ – Infinity and its symbol played a very important role in purpleglitter's and my trips together in the mid nineties.

153 is the lowest positive integer that isn't listed as LiveJournal interest.

Wishing everyone a happy 01/02/03