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Grapheme to Colour Synæsthesia

Date and Time  - Aug. 5th, 2008, 03:33 am

Current Mood  - tired tired
Current Music  - air purifier

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.

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Green

Date and Time  - Jul. 26th, 2008, 12:44 pm

Current Mood  - busy busy
Current Music  - Cindytalk - Landing

Many Americans are now buying greener cars, carpooling, and finding ways to save energy (and by doing so help the environment). There is renewed interest in expanding public transportation and utilizing gas free modes of transport such as walking or biking. Going green is no longer just for left wing crunchies. A quote generally attributed to Winston Churchill sums up the situation perfectly.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.


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Voice Post: Punctuality and buses

Date and Time  - Dec. 18th, 2007, 02:38 pm


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“If I'm running ahead of schedule, I seem to have great luck with the buses. However, if I'm already late, they seem to just conspire to make me later.”

Transcribed by: [info]electricube


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At the Bus Stop

Date and Time  - Sep. 25th, 2007, 05:49 pm

Current Mood  - happy happy
Current Music  - prince henry's siren

Today, I met a nuclear physicist who talked of the spiritual truths that can be found in the dance of protons and neutrons.

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Morning Walk in Menotomy

Date and Time  - Mar. 30th, 2007, 11:26 pm

Current Mood  - awake awake
Current Music  - silence

mourning dove
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Morning Walk in Menotomy

Date and Time  - Mar. 29th, 2007, 09:48 am

Current Mood  - awake awake
Current Music  - budgies in conference

sparrow
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Voice Post: Bus Stop Babble

Date and Time  - Mar. 26th, 2007, 02:04 pm


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“Greetings, LiveJournalland. I'm waiting the bus at the Burlington Mall. I met Lake at her work for a late lunch and this is the closest bus stop. So I'm waiting here. It's swell. Not really. Oh, well.

Anyway, I am getting used to being Jesus old. Yes. That's how old I am. My birthday as some of you may know was a few days ago on the 22nd and now I am 33.

And this post, this voice post that is, is rather boring compared to most of my voice posts. But, I guess ya'all will just deal. It does have a recursive element to it, though, as I'm talking about the voice post in the post. Self referential. Whatever. That's not very interesting either.

Oh, well. Lots of people walking in and out, as this is the mall entrance. I guess I should cut this voice post short, or cut it long because it's really gone on longer than it should have and if you are still listening I feel sorry for you.

Are you still listening

*laughs*

Okay.

Well, Goodbye.”

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Room Needed

Date and Time  - Mar. 2nd, 2007, 12:16 pm

Current Mood  - depressed depressed
Current Music  - rain

As we'll be down two roommates, I don't foresee the [info]house_of_clocks surviving. Hence, I'm looking for a room in or within public transit of any of the following cities: Boston, MA; Lowell, MA; Northampton, MA; Brattleboro, VT; Providence, RI; Portland, OR; Portland ME; San Francisco, CA; Boulder, CO; Seattle, WA; or Minneapolis, MN. I can pay up to $400/month and have two cats. Let me know if you know of any openings. Thank you.

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Berv Love Lake

Date and Time  - Dec. 9th, 2006, 11:07 am

Current Mood  - happy happy
Current Music  - budgies in conference in next room

Yesterday was wonderful. I couldn't wait until evening, so I took the bus out to Burlington to meet up with [info]purpleglitter for lunch during her break. If it weren't for the infrequentness of the buses, I would meet her for lunch more regularly.

When she arrived home after work, [info]purpleglitter brought me a dozen roses, one for each year we've been together. She took me out to Vinny T's for dinner, which was the perfect choice. Back at her house, we had champagne and chatted away the night. We had planned to watch Tipping the Velvet, but never got around to playing the movie.

Quiet, romantic, happy. I couldn't have asked for a better anniversary.

roses and champagne


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Voice Post: Waiting for the bus in Burlington

Date and Time  - Nov. 21st, 2006, 01:58 pm


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“*excitedly* Good afternoon, Livejournal Land! Assuming good luck and no delays, this time tomorrow I'll be flying! Flying, not quite like a bird, but flying nonetheless - in an airplane! I'll be spending Thanksgiving in Arlington, not the Arlington I live in, but a different Arlington - Arlington, Virginia! I'll be spending Thanksgiving with my niece, and my sister! And my brother-in-law! And I'll be eating lots of cheese! Mmmmm... cheese! Anyway, I'm just getting back, I'm waiting for the bus, in fact, in Burlington. I just saw Lake, we had lunch together. I've been doing that a couple times, lately, it's good! I can come down here, it's not a bad bus. It's a bad bus ride home, because I can't plan it as well. But the bus there, easy to plan, easy to catch it. It's only an hourly bus, so, without catching it right, it's a good long wait. But, that's what I'm doing, and I'm voice-posting... while I do it! Check out that pause! It wasn't verbal! Anyway, I'll be talking later. Bye!”

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Fare Hikes

Date and Time  - Nov. 9th, 2006, 02:34 pm

Current Mood  - pissed off pissed off
Current Music  - traffic

With the new MBTA fare hikes, it seems there is a desire make it more economically advantageous to buy a cheap used smog-belching car that otherwise would be heading to the junkyard than take public transit. This is because liberal Massachusetts is so concerned about fossil fuel use and air pollution.

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Waxing the Fall

Date and Time  - Aug. 13th, 2006, 10:27 am

Current Mood  - groggy groggy
Current Music  - budgies in conference

I've been having falling/dizzy spells/seizure/whatever the fuck it is issues again. I've had felt a bit more wobbly over the last week, but it's really spiked the last couple days. According to [info]merryperseis, my eyes dilated at the beginning of the episode on the bus coming home from the North End on Friday. This does not surprise me, as one of the major symptoms of the episodes is muscle weakness and poor coordination which often makes eye focus difficult, so eye dilation would make sense. However, as this is only time eye dilation has been noted in conjunction with one of these episodes, and I would prefer it to be noted again to designate it as a symptom instead of as a coincidence.

Yesterday was much worse than Friday. My morning walk an with [info]taiaselene was without incident. I was fine until the afternoon, which went horribly. An incident that while waxing and waning lasted for well over an hour. There was in addition another significant episode in the evening, though shorter and less severe than the afternoon one.

Of course, there is no way of really knowing where this is going and when the cycle will wane again. I am using a cane/staff again when I go out and will until this bares itself out. I will not let these episodes keep me from going for my walks and other outdoor activities. I refuse to let this control my life. Sure, that increases the chance that I might be sent to the emergency room by the unduly worried — but that just means I'll have an opportunity for a cathartic release of anger at whatever asshole doctor I get. Works for me.

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Metros I've Been On

Date and Time  - Aug. 11th, 2006, 11:57 am

Current Mood  - mellow mellow
Current Music  - budgies in conference

ganked from [info]insaint:



Got at b3co.com!


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Voice Post: Setting Off

Date and Time  - Jul. 27th, 2006, 05:16 pm


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“Good hello, Livejournal Land! I'm making this post from my new cell phone which John got me -- yay, John! -- got me it for the trip. I'm heading off, we're just passing through Newton, which I guess is the first stop, and then a stop in Worcester, and then Albany, Syracuse, and Buffalo, where I'm going to be having a layover from 3:35AM 'til 4:45AM. Whoo! That does not sound fun. Then to Toronto, to London, and then Saint Thomas. And, I will be there! And I will get to see Amber. That will be great. *laughs* I will be very excited and probably very tired.

And then I will be heading back on the 4th and getting home on the 5th. But, on my way back, I have a five-and-a-half hour layover in the evening, in Buffalo. So, I have no idea what to do for five-and-a-half hours in Buffalo. If anyone is from Buffalo, or knows the Buffalo area, and can tell me if there is actually anything to do in Buffalo, which, I don't know if there actually is... or might even want to meet me, because that would be great, and I'm always interested in meeting new people. But, more likely, just tell me what I can do in Buffalo for five-and-a-half hours. That would be great, because I have no clue.

I will be heading home. We are stopping at Newton, and we are at the commuter rail stop in Newton where they pick up the bus passengers. And... I guess, that is this post! Hello, goodbye!”

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Morning Walk in Menotomy

Date and Time  - Jul. 21st, 2006, 11:35 am

Current Mood  - mellow mellow
Current Music  - budgies in conference

from yesterday's walk...      

great tree
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Al Qaeda vs. the World

Date and Time  - Jul. 11th, 2006, 01:57 pm

Current Mood  - angry angry
Current Music  - budgies in conference

I talk a lot about why United States foreign policy sucks, and why Bush is evil and just pissing everyone off around the globe. However, Bush isn't the only one pissing the world off. Al Qaeda and associated Islamic extremist groups are doing just as good a job at getting everyone to hate them as Bush is. Al Qaeda isn't just against the United States. Al Qaeda isn't just against the West. As today horrendous bombings in Mumbai reiterate, al Qaeda is against the world. Not only are all non-muslins their enemy, many muslins are as well. One of Bush's key failures has been not treating al Qaeda as a world problem that requires a world solution. Instead of concentrating on stopping terrorists, Bush and Company have turned the "war on terror" into an excuse to further U.S. imperialism. The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend; and no one, not Bush, not al Qaeda, can take on the world.

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Game Night

Date and Time  - Jun. 15th, 2006, 10:58 am

Current Mood  - blank blank
Current Music  - traffic

I had a good time at [info]dan4th's game night last night. I got there late, but not too late to play Apples to Apples and Chez Geek. I've played the former before, but the latter was a new game to me. I'm definitely going to try to make it semi-regularly to future game nights.

[info]porcelaingirl was there, and it was good to see her again. We had a good chat walking on my way to the bus stop home.

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The bus home was hellishly hot, and I had to get off half way into the trip and walk the rest of the way. I very much dislike the new buses the MBTA has be slowly replacing the old ones with. They have no openable windows, meaning that if it is too temperate for the air conditioner to be turned on, the body heat of the passengers turns the bus into an oven. Even when it is not temperate, the air conditioners can break down and there are bus drivers that believe air conditioning is not needed until the temperature exceeds 95 ºF (35 ºC, 308 K) . My hyperhidrosis ensures that I will become an grumpy and unhappy berv soaked in sweat in these circumstances.

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