May 2009
“I think it’s very dangerous to focus on doing things right. I think it’s much...”
– Randy Pausch
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McDougall- Call my name
I wish the place that I...
“…and finally, while many clouds are shaped like animals, the sheep is the...”
– Tonight’s Letterman. I don’t watch latenight TV ever; this is the only funny thing I’ve heard this evening.
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Looking glass- Brandy, you’re a fine girl
“Did you see your brother?”
“No, I’m looking for him.”
A recent brain scanning experiment by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that jazz musicians in the midst of improvisation - they were playing a specially designed keyboard in a brain scanner - showed dramatically reduced activity in the prefrontal cortex. It was only by “deactivating” this brain area that the musicians were able to spontaneously invent new melodies. The scientists...
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“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Bop around doing your thing and you’ll bop into someone just like you.”
– (I don’t recall where I found this…)
