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bluegreen17) wrote2002-09-25 02:53 pm
bluegreen17) wrote2002-09-25 02:53 pm
only connect
omigod,i'm listening to my rattle and hum cd...specifically,'van dieman's land' which is sung by edge. and damn,does he sound good on my stereo system. i have that song on one of my favorite mix tapes that i play in the car,but it doesn't sound like it does at home!
back in the mid-80's i had a little bit of spending money and i put together a fairly decent stereo systems. i got these big powerful speakers at a close-out sale at radio shack and i think i did the same with a reciever. at one point i had to buy a pre-amp so i could connect two different tape decks to record from one to another. remember,this was the dark ages,sort of. i'm amazed that i figured out all that equipment and what i needed for this to do that etc,but i did! i'm not really very techie,but every once in a while i like to figure things out like that as long as i'm not under pressure.
heck,it took me fifteen minutes to figure out how to set mom's alarm clock when she forgot how to do it and we weren't going to go looking for a manual! finding the manual would have taken longer than trying to figure the clock radio thingie out.i'm looking at these buttons and the anti-intuitive ways things are labeled and i was getting pretty frustrated because mom was laughing hysterically at me (not because she's mean,but because of whatever her brain is doing these days). but finally i figured out that you had to hold two buttons down at the same time to set the damn alarm.
it's funny,when you're dealing with machines,including computers,which i use at work but don't have at home,you have to think like a machine and even though i'm a very mental person who thinks a lot,a lot of my thinking is actually intuitive and seemingly irrational. i appear to be very much in my head and sometimes i am too much,but when things connect i am actually tapping into something else and going by intuition/feel/inspiration/whatever you want to call it.
but when it comes to machines,even though they are invented and/or programmed by humans,they only have certain technical capacities. so i try to put myself in the mind of the machine to figure out what it will do. or is trying to do,and what it 'understands'. i don't know if that is the same thing as saying 'if i were my car keys where would i be?' but that seems to work too...(i think the writer tom robbins really understands this,as one of his character in -skinny legs and all- is a can of beans!) i don't know much about artificial intelligence,but i guess some machines do or will think intuitively and i have no idea how that is possible!
anyway,this all started because i was swooning over how edge sounded singing on 'van dieman's land.' god,i love that man's voice.
'midnight is where the day begins...'
back in the mid-80's i had a little bit of spending money and i put together a fairly decent stereo systems. i got these big powerful speakers at a close-out sale at radio shack and i think i did the same with a reciever. at one point i had to buy a pre-amp so i could connect two different tape decks to record from one to another. remember,this was the dark ages,sort of. i'm amazed that i figured out all that equipment and what i needed for this to do that etc,but i did! i'm not really very techie,but every once in a while i like to figure things out like that as long as i'm not under pressure.
heck,it took me fifteen minutes to figure out how to set mom's alarm clock when she forgot how to do it and we weren't going to go looking for a manual! finding the manual would have taken longer than trying to figure the clock radio thingie out.i'm looking at these buttons and the anti-intuitive ways things are labeled and i was getting pretty frustrated because mom was laughing hysterically at me (not because she's mean,but because of whatever her brain is doing these days). but finally i figured out that you had to hold two buttons down at the same time to set the damn alarm.
it's funny,when you're dealing with machines,including computers,which i use at work but don't have at home,you have to think like a machine and even though i'm a very mental person who thinks a lot,a lot of my thinking is actually intuitive and seemingly irrational. i appear to be very much in my head and sometimes i am too much,but when things connect i am actually tapping into something else and going by intuition/feel/inspiration/whatever you want to call it.
but when it comes to machines,even though they are invented and/or programmed by humans,they only have certain technical capacities. so i try to put myself in the mind of the machine to figure out what it will do. or is trying to do,and what it 'understands'. i don't know if that is the same thing as saying 'if i were my car keys where would i be?' but that seems to work too...(i think the writer tom robbins really understands this,as one of his character in -skinny legs and all- is a can of beans!) i don't know much about artificial intelligence,but i guess some machines do or will think intuitively and i have no idea how that is possible!
anyway,this all started because i was swooning over how edge sounded singing on 'van dieman's land.' god,i love that man's voice.
'midnight is where the day begins...'
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