A Cat and Girl just for bon bon:

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Anyone see THE RICHES last night? I really liked it, more so than the pilot, I think. Love the Gregg Henry character ( pretty much a reprise of his character from EYES ) especially when he's shooting at targets with his neighbors' pictures .

Fascinating article about color, sensation, and symbols (The Guardian): [link]

Artists are forever trying to uncover universal meanings behind their colours. It is easy to scorn their efforts, not least because this kind of thinking dates very quickly. Kandinsky's experiments in colour symbolism may as well have been conducted in the 14th century for all their relevance now. There is, none the less, a growing body of evidence that colours, shapes, sounds and smells do have meanings. Wolfgang Köhler's delightfully simple 1929 experiment asked volunteers to match a pair of abstract figures to one of two nonsense words, "maluma" and "takete". Immediately, and virtually without exception, people matched maluma to the soft round figure and takete to the sharply angular one. Some sort of shared symbolism related the sounds to the shapes.

Now Dr Jamie Ward, at University College London, might have uncovered an underlying symbolism to colour. Ward's interest is synaesthesia - the experience of a handful of individuals who perceive information through an unexpected sense. Some hear colours, others smell shapes. The vast majority see sounds. The experiences of individual synaesthetes are notoriously idiosyncratic. But there are unexpected regularities, and Ward's bulging address book - he knows 450 synaesthetes by name - allows him to spot trends that were formerly invisible. For example, among synaesthetes who see coloured letters, A is often red, B is often blue, and C is often yellow. "This is likely to hold true for other types of synaesthesia," Ward says, "assuming that we are able to make a large enough number of observations. For instance, certain musical instruments may tend to produce particular colours, shapes and movements."

For instance, certain musical instruments may tend to produce particular colours, shapes and movements."

Yeah. Especially with the right drugs.

What?

I have weird associations in my brain - not quite synaesthesia, but still weird. For example, if I'm looking at an Access form in design view and I happen to check a certain property of a field, I quite often get a mental image of a certain intersection in my home town, one that I mostly only drove through when delivering bundles of newspapers to the post office. It's weird - only that one image.

I briefly thought that posting this might give you all the idea I'm crazy, but then you already know that....

So this morning I was behind a cop car with one of those BELIEVE stickers (I think they must be standard issue.) Except it had been defaced to read DECIEVE. My first thought was that isn't spelled right. Nevermind a defaced bumper sticker on a cop car.

What the heck does shagging mean? I mean, in this context, spoken by a Chicago official (referring to the arrival of the Airbus A380 in Chicago today.):

"People should not be pulling over on the roads trying to take a look at the plane. The Police Department will be shagging people away," said Jim Szczesniak, deputy commissioner for operations at the Chicago Department of Aviation.

I really hope he's not using this in the same sense as the British slang term.

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Shagging golf balls means to scoop them up (think of the poor kid on the driving range). So maybe that's what e meant.

Yeah, I think he means it in the sense of "shagging" a ball in baseball.

I doubt the Chicago PD speaks British English.

I think he means it in the sense of "shagging" a ball in baseball.

Oh. I've never heard it used in that sense. Shows you how much baseball I watch....

Gronk.

I may possibly-probably-not-but-you-never-know have a tiiiny shard of glass stuck in the bottom of my foot.

I'm not sure what to do about that.