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Friday, 11 April 2008

  • So the memory project failed. I tried but never had the time to just sit down and think for a day. I still think its possible and would like to see someone else try it, but I just don't have the time for it.

    I have discovered something strange about myself though. This is just a self observation over the past month. I have multiple personalities. Well maybe not straight up multiple personalities. I have an underlying set of core traits, or "features" as I'll call them. This set of core traits encompasses a unique-ness to me. When I socialize with another human certain of these features are more prominent depending on the human BUT I also sprout new traits to satisfy communication between myself and the other human. I notice this most when a non-shy trait appears. For instance, a few of my friends have very "offensive" personalities in that they are always on the attack with their communication and actions. It took me a while to "tune" myself to this personality but I now respond with witty or aggressive comments. I wouldn't use that same "tuning" with a different friend.

    Now this leads me to another train of thought, and that is that I find people I do not like or do not get along with show only one personality and don't cater their actions to any single person. These people annoy me because they disregard everyone else in favor of their own satisfaction.

    And now I can't think/type anymore because I just watched the episode of south park where everyone on earth craps their pants at the same time because of the "brown note"

Tuesday, 11 March 2008

  • Memory 2

    So I've started a project, in my mind, where I make an attempt to organize memory into an organized room in my mind. So far I'm thinking of just ways to organize it. I constantly am already visiting my short term shelf. Its the one just to the left of the entrance with usually no more than 4 labeled boxes (the cardboard boxes that people use to move stuff out of offices with lids). The short term shelf has helped me a lot already with my mid-term project and two tests this week. Making this mind-space isn't really the hard part, its the going back and finding memories and then categorizing them.

    A problem that I am already running into in logic is that if I am to categorize memories, do I give the room boundaries? By giving the room boundaries I am limiting myself to a certain amount of storage, but could always add extra rooms. If I don't give it boundaries then I have this room that goes and goes until I reach just a fuzzy undefined area. I'll figure it out.

    I am trying to avoiding writing down locations and layouts so that I keep this strictly in my mind and don't "cheat" by using the, what some may call, real world. In coming days/weeks I hope to use this to just publish progress by stating what I have categorized and if I find anything interesting.

Monday, 10 March 2008

  • Memory

    So I watched this scary movie the other day and as a child a mentally challenged kid gave the other kids who saved his life special powers. One of the kids got the power of having complete control over his memory. It was cool. He basically could go into his own mind where there would be this huge room basically like a library but all of the stuff in the room were his memories. Then he had a small locked room for secrets. I was wondering if it would be possible to organize all of one's memories into something like this. Create a room in your mind and place memories in specific locations, locations in the "room" would have to be unique or you would basically be doing what you do now to recall memories; that is, you would be pulling from a random space of random connections. But if you had control over the connections you made, you could make unique spots in the 'room' that can be used as an indexing service for a memory or collection of memories. These connections wouldn't need to be complex, and would probably need to be simple. If you gave the wood character by scars or knots in a shelf you could just remember something by thinking "oh its on the first floor in the first shelf by the knot in the bottom shelf". This could get really complex but if everything is organized correctly you could possibly memorize everything. Just a thought...

Monday, 03 March 2008

  • So I just went to a Cardinals Spring training game and I have to say it was pretty fun. From a guy lying to someone he was on the phone with telling them he was watching Pujols bat with his eyes right now to a foul ball coming directly to me. Woo for baseball season
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