Yay! It's almost time to go fill the loaner car up with gas, go to the dealership, do paperwork, get my car back, go to Cost plus, go home, pack, neaten and watch TV.
If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock.
Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Nov 22, 2005 3:59:57 pm PST #6532 of 10006
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
sumi - Nov 22, 2005 4:05:48 pm PST #6533 of 10006
Art Crawl!!!
Ah - on GG - did you think that Luke thinks he can just not tell Lorelai ?
Rick - Nov 22, 2005 4:13:39 pm PST #6534 of 10006
When I was a kid I always wondered if people really saw the same colors as everyone else. (I've mentioned that here before). I didn't think there was any way to prove that the color we call red looks the same to everyone else.
You people are all nuts. Except askye, because I still don't believe that everyone sees colors the same way. How could we know??
there is no way to know about the color thing! drives me nuts.
Coming to this late, because I’m not allowed on the board during the day anymore, but this question has perplexed sensory psychologists for generations. They actually spend time working on this. After years of controversy, recent experiments involving people’s perceptions after adding or subtracting or multiplying aspects of the visual spectrum, and looking at brain scans when people see colors, have convinced most psychologists that we all see the same colors.
I’d tell you more, but this sensory psychology stuff is so boring that I fell asleep the last time I tried to read about it. I do remember that all of the old enemies decided to be friends and believe that we see the same colors.
Cass - Nov 22, 2005 4:19:06 pm PST #6535 of 10006
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
So, wait? We *do* all see the same colors. My paranoia-filled childhood musings seem so pointless now.
Connie Neil - Nov 22, 2005 4:24:35 pm PST #6536 of 10006
brillig
My paranoia-filled childhood musings seem so pointless now.
But think how many millions of dollars went towards that end.
Trudy Booth - Nov 22, 2005 4:26:24 pm PST #6537 of 10006
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
So, wait? We *do* all see the same colors. My paranoia-filled childhood musings seem so pointless now.
At least our brains look the same when we do. I'm still not convinced.
tommyrot - Nov 22, 2005 4:32:24 pm PST #6538 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
"world's first bra designed to mimic the appearance of cosmetic breast implants."
So... fake fake boobs?
Rick - Nov 22, 2005 4:35:17 pm PST #6539 of 10006
Well, they do this adding and subtracting aspects of the colors, and try to find combinations that only make sense if all people are perceiving the same color at the same point of the spectrum. They can't really prove that we all see the same colors. Only that the hypothesis that we all see the same colors is the only existing hypothesis that seems to be consistent with the data. Someday someone could think of a new "different colors" theory that can explain the data, and then we will be back where we started. That is how science works.
Emily - Nov 22, 2005 4:38:28 pm PST #6540 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I got my first real lesson on non-Euclidean geometry today.
Dude. Freaky, man. So, like, parallel lines can meet if that's the most convenient system for us? Whoa.
Yes, that is totally related to the seeing-the-same-color question. You all see it, right?
...right?
Cass - Nov 22, 2005 4:40:54 pm PST #6541 of 10006
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
So is this pretty to everyone?
Because I like it.
Also, I'd like a lipstick in this shade.
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Yes, that is totally related to the seeing-the-same-color question.Actually, yeah. Oh, and I was watching something on rational numbers and Eygptian math. I want to send you a copy so you can explain it to me.