Headline heard on NPR this morning:

"Heading inexorably towards the sweet hereafter, director Atom Egoyan turns 45!"

Is it just me, or is that both bizarre and tacky??? "Atom Egoyan: One Year Closer To Death!"

Yeah, not everything has to be a "cutesy" reference.

Yeah, but consider who they're talking about. I doubt he'd be upset.

They've been awfully cutesy lately. I'm blaming it on Stamberg. I find it annoying.

I have a very strong - I'm not really sure what to call it. Sense, or muscle memory. I can remember where I put something by making the physical motion of putting it, for instance. Or if I can't remember if I've taken a pill or something, making the motion of doing so is enough to know whether I really did or not by how immediate the sensation feels.

I don't know who said this but it's kinesthetic memory

Atom Egoyan: One Year Closer To Death!

I don't think he'd mind.

I have a pretty strong kinaesthetic memory, but its failing is tying it into other things. I can't always remember if that pill was this morning, for instance. But if I can also remember what my clothes felt like when I swallowed the pill, or the angle of the light, it might help.

For teaching krav, I've had to make a number of shifts in how I process information -- I'm glad to find out I wasn't locked into kinaesthetics quite as hard as it had seemed. I still have a hard time just watching something done and then doing it -- but I'm much better at translating words into feeling, so if it's done slowly enough for me to narrate, it's not that bad.

The fascinating part is when I'm called upon to help people learn something I've not only never done, but was exposed to for the first time exactly when they did.

I doubt he'd be upset.

Heh. Good point.

Sue [ edit: and ita] beat me to it, but that kind of muscle memory is called kinesthetic memory. I have that sometimes too, and I'm surprised to find that it's not more common.

For example, if I'm looking for a particular line in a book, I know whether it's on the left, or right, or top/middle/bottom of a page. I can usually see it, and the line breaks in my head. Sometimes, I can see the whole page, although not all the words.

This is also me.

I blame the cute birthday things on losing Bob Edwards. He just said whoevers name and their age and trusted that if they were notable enough to have their birthdays mentioned on NPR, listeners would know who they were or figure it out.

It's been all downhill since then.

That was me, Sue, thanks!

And, me, I like the cutesy--or at least I like the pop references and whatnot which seem to bother you guys.