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andrel wrote:
> They do that with patients that they operate on for brain tumors. Apart
> from scientific reasons they do that because they don't want to damage
> functional brain tissue. Basically what they do is stimulate a point and
> if the patient says he feels his feet or his thumb starts to move or he
> suddenly remembers his mother, you know you should keep that part.
> (depending of course on his relation with his mother).
...that last sentence is so full of win! :-D
>> (Perhaps it was the same person who volunveered for the study into the
>> common cold. They took a control group, and a group who had their feet
>> submerged in cold water for 4 hours a day. The latter group suffered
>> from more colds than the control group. WHY WOULD YOU VOLUNTEER FOR
>> THIS?!?!)
>
> money?
Hot Sales Girl asserted that "that's because they're all students". And
she used to be a nurse, so I guess she'd know.
[Hmm... Hot Sales Girl as a nurse... yum!]
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> ....that last sentence is so full of win! :-D
"Did anyone give you anything unknown to carry aboard the plane?"
"My mother-in-law gave me a wrapped present."
".... Does she like you?"
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> (Perhaps it was the same person who volunveered for the study into
>>> the common cold. They took a control group, and a group who had their
>>> feet submerged in cold water for 4 hours a day. The latter group
>>> suffered from more colds than the control group. WHY WOULD YOU
>>> VOLUNTEER FOR THIS?!?!)
>>
>> money?
>
> Hot Sales Girl asserted that "that's because they're all students". And
> she used to be a nurse, so I guess she'd know.
>
> [Hmm... Hot Sales Girl as a nurse... yum!]
>
Yeah, sure, I'll take the hundred grand, just crack my cranium open and
prod around a bit, please!
No. Not only no, but ...
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Darren New wrote:
> "Did anyone give you anything unknown to carry aboard the plane?"
> "My mother-in-law gave me a wrapped present."
> ".... Does she like you?"
>
"I can't remember ... By the way, does this airport smell blue, to you?"
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Jim Henderson wrote:
>
> On the one hand, that makes some sense to me, but on the other hand,
> surely they would have recognized that they were moving away from the
> cows....
>
> Jim
I'm wondering if the same thing is why someone like me (who lives in an
area where there are basically no hills) sees mountains as so surreal
when I actually see them.
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On Mon, 05 May 2008 07:25:38 -0500, Mike Raiford wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>
>
>> On the one hand, that makes some sense to me, but on the other hand,
>> surely they would have recognized that they were moving away from the
>> cows....
>>
>> Jim
>
> I'm wondering if the same thing is why someone like me (who lives in an
> area where there are basically no hills) sees mountains as so surreal
> when I actually see them.
It might be. I have the opposite trouble, I lose any ability to tell long
distances in flat open areas. I grew up in an area where there were lots
of hills and mountains, and the only flat spots where the valleys in
between. A wide view of flat scenery just seems so vast, things past
about 100 meters just blend together.
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On 5 May 2008 10:20:59 -0400, Sabrina Kilian <ykg### [at] SUCKSvt edu>
wrote:
>>
>> I'm wondering if the same thing is why someone like me (who lives in an
>> area where there are basically no hills) sees mountains as so surreal
>> when I actually see them.
>
>It might be. I have the opposite trouble, I lose any ability to tell long
>distances in flat open areas. I grew up in an area where there were lots
>of hills and mountains, and the only flat spots where the valleys in
>between. A wide view of flat scenery just seems so vast, things past
>about 100 meters just blend together.
Me too, the city that I was born in is in a valley with the Campsie
Fells blocking the horizon. And I am only really comfortable if I can
see a mountain in the distance.
Living in Southern England the scenery seems so flat that I find it
hard to believe people like it.
When I lived in Jamaica, short time, it reminded me of home with the
Blue Mountains above the city. Except for the people being dark, the
weather good and the plants exotic :)
--
Regards
Stephen
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>> Hot Sales Girl asserted that "that's because they're all students".
>> And she used to be a nurse, so I guess she'd know.
>>
>> [Hmm... Hot Sales Girl as a nurse... yum!]
>>
>
> Yeah, sure, I'll take the hundred grand, just crack my cranium open and
> prod around a bit, please!
>
> No. Not only no, but ...
Maybe, as a student, it's a good way of confirming that there *is* a
brain there? Not just an alcohol appreciation unit? ;-)
--
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Mon, 05 May 2008 07:25:38 -0500, Mike Raiford wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>
>
>> On the one hand, that makes some sense to me, but on the other hand,
>> surely they would have recognized that they were moving away from the
>> cows....
>>
>> Jim
>
> I'm wondering if the same thing is why someone like me (who lives in an
> area where there are basically no hills) sees mountains as so surreal
> when I actually see them.
Well, I've lived in Salt Lake City now for about 13 years (hard to
believe) - kinda the opposite effect for me. When I moved here, the
mountains were fairly surreal, but now when I travel to places without
mountains, I get my directions all mixed up and the plains look extremely
unnatural.
It's actually a bit disorienting, but I think that's more about having
lost a landmark that I'm used to seeing. Except that when the cloud
cover is so bad (or the inversion's in place) that I can't see the
mountains here - that's not a problem for me. *That's* weird, though.
Jim
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And lo on Fri, 02 May 2008 17:46:05 +0100, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
did spake, saying:
> Phil Cook wrote:
>> An enhanced EM sense would be nice,
>
> http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/news/2006/06/71087
>
> You can also add absolute direction sense in a similar way.
Cool From the descriptions they give it sounds similar to what I
experience next to some CRT televisions and powered speakers, only in my
head and not my fingertip.
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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