Random Random Chat Thread XL

[Pweter]

"You know you've got no beer in the fridge, how are you going to cook the bbq?"

It's times like these that confirm the right woman was married. Beers were promptly put in freezer, soon to be migrated to fridge.

 

[Doss]

That's a woman that knows her man.

 

[Doss]

Happy 100,000th birthday and waffles and stuff.

 

[Harlequin]

I appreciate that medical students have to learn BUT 3 tries putting in a cannula

Ouch!

My hands hurt

 

[EnolaGay]

I appreciate that medical students have to learn BUT 3 tries putting in a cannula

Ouch!

My hands hurt

You're taking margarita consumption to the extreme now Harlequin!

 

[Harlequin]

You're taking margarita consumption to the extreme now Harlequin!

I needed 1 after the infusion

 

[Mercuri Rising]

Harlequin be like

 

[Beerfish]

Lucky televisions are so cheap these days Harlequin

 

[Doss]

If a video on YouTube is 'blocked in your country on copyright grounds', how does one get around that?



Was trying to watch that.

 

[Beerfish]

I'm not sure but it's probably illegal.

 

[Harlequin]

Lucky televisions are so cheap these days Harlequin

Lucky I have accidental damage cover on my contents

 

[Lore]

If a video on YouTube is 'blocked in your country on copyright grounds', how does one get around that?



Was trying to watch that.

I would assume that the method would be similar to that of streaming American Netflix. I don't have Netflix though, so I couldn't tell you.

 

[Doss]

Probably masking IPs or something.

All good, I found a version I could watch here in the end anyway.

 

[Andronicus]

I'm the moon. The best moon. The three-quarter moon, he is useless.

I love you a little bit.......

"You know you've got no beer in the fridge, how are you going to cook the bbq?"

It's times like these that confirm the right woman was married. Beers were promptly put in freezer, soon to be migrated to fridge.

I love her a little bit too.

 

[Howard Moon]

i love this story - shows how much of our brains potential remain untapped?

A Blow To The Head Turned This Ordinary Guy Into A Math Genius

12 years ago, Jason Padgett was a simple 30 year old man from Anchorage, Alaska when he left the university to work in the furniture shop of his father. However, a fight in a bar changed his life forever. When he recovered from a heavy hit on the head he discovered that he was seeing the world from a completely different perspective: that of mathematics and physics. Padgett is one of the 40 people around the world who was diagnosed with the syndrome of acquired savant, in which erstwhile ‘ordinary’ people become geniuses in mathematics, arts or music after a brain injury.
Padgett, who today is 43 year old, wrote about the experience that changed his life in the autobiographical book “Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel“, which has just released in the U.S. and Britain. As he writes, it all started on September 13, 2002, when two men attacked him from behind in a bar. Paget was taken to hospital with a head injury and then returned home. However, the next morning he woke up and found that his vision had changed and he could see the details in the objects around him which did not exist before.
In the bathroom faucet, for example, he could observe “vertical lines coming out of the running water.”“At first I was surprised and worried for myself, but the lines were so beautiful that I remained still and watched,” he writes. He soon discovered that there were repeated geometric shapes everywhere, different for each object he looked at. He then started frantically reading mathematics and physics, focusing on fractals. This term describes a geometric pattern that is repeated unchanged in infinite magnification.

“I watch the cream stirred into the brew. The perfect spiral is an important shape to me. It’s a fractal. Suddenly, it’s not just my morning cup of joe, it’s geometry speaking to me.” He said.
Although Padgett had never previously been inclined to painting, he began designing fractals with excellent details, devoting weeks to complete each fractal. Despite that before the injury he was an outgoing person and a great lover of partying, he now spends his days at home, drawing and reading endlessly.
At that time he believed he had gone insane, but a BBC documentary about Daniel Tammet, an “autistic poet of numbers” who’s known worldwide changed his mind. Thus Padgett decided to contact Dr. Darold Treffert, a psychiatrist who specializes in the epidemiology of autistic disorders and savant syndrome.

This syndrome is usually congenital, i.e. present from birth. In such case, it describes a person with severe developmental or intellectual disabilities coupled with a great mental ability in a certain field. Intelligence of patients with congenital savant syndrome is usually lower than average, but in one or more very specific areas is too high. However, in the syndrome or acquired savant, the patient has no developmental or mental disabilities, but instead has great intelligence in a certain field after a blow to the head. In the case of Jason Padgett, the head injury led to a ‘flood’ of chemicals (neurotransmitters) in the left side of the brain, which ultimately changed forever the structure of his left parietal lobe, which is the ‘math center’ of the brain. Now, apart from selling his fractal artworks, Padgett has returned to university to study mathematics.



The drawing above is an example of sudden savant Jason Padgett’s genius at work, and his unique, mathematical vision of the world. The circle, —created out of 720 hand-drawn triangles, — shows his comprehension of pi.““I came to understand how pi is calculated by measuring the area of the circle,””he writes in his memoir.

up your alley un_eggs ?

 

[Pweter]

i love this story - shows how much of our brains potential remain untapped?

A Blow To The Head Turned This Ordinary Guy Into A Math Genius

12 years ago, Jason Padgett was a simple 30 year old man from Anchorage, Alaska when he left the university to work in the furniture shop of his father. However, a fight in a bar changed his life forever. When he recovered from a heavy hit on the head he discovered that he was seeing the world from a completely different perspective: that of mathematics and physics. Padgett is one of the 40 people around the world who was diagnosed with the syndrome of acquired savant, in which erstwhile ‘ordinary’ people become geniuses in mathematics, arts or music after a brain injury.
Padgett, who today is 43 year old, wrote about the experience that changed his life in the autobiographical book “Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel“, which has just released in the U.S. and Britain. As he writes, it all started on September 13, 2002, when two men attacked him from behind in a bar. Paget was taken to hospital with a head injury and then returned home. However, the next morning he woke up and found that his vision had changed and he could see the details in the objects around him which did not exist before.
In the bathroom faucet, for example, he could observe “vertical lines coming out of the running water.”“At first I was surprised and worried for myself, but the lines were so beautiful that I remained still and watched,” he writes. He soon discovered that there were repeated geometric shapes everywhere, different for each object he looked at. He then started frantically reading mathematics and physics, focusing on fractals. This term describes a geometric pattern that is repeated unchanged in infinite magnification.

“I watch the cream stirred into the brew. The perfect spiral is an important shape to me. It’s a fractal. Suddenly, it’s not just my morning cup of joe, it’s geometry speaking to me.” He said.
Although Padgett had never previously been inclined to painting, he began designing fractals with excellent details, devoting weeks to complete each fractal. Despite that before the injury he was an outgoing person and a great lover of partying, he now spends his days at home, drawing and reading endlessly.
At that time he believed he had gone insane, but a BBC documentary about Daniel Tammet, an “autistic poet of numbers” who’s known worldwide changed his mind. Thus Padgett decided to contact Dr. Darold Treffert, a psychiatrist who specializes in the epidemiology of autistic disorders and savant syndrome.

This syndrome is usually congenital, i.e. present from birth. In such case, it describes a person with severe developmental or intellectual disabilities coupled with a great mental ability in a certain field. Intelligence of patients with congenital savant syndrome is usually lower than average, but in one or more very specific areas is too high. However, in the syndrome or acquired savant, the patient has no developmental or mental disabilities, but instead has great intelligence in a certain field after a blow to the head. In the case of Jason Padgett, the head injury led to a ‘flood’ of chemicals (neurotransmitters) in the left side of the brain, which ultimately changed forever the structure of his left parietal lobe, which is the ‘math center’ of the brain. Now, apart from selling his fractal artworks, Padgett has returned to university to study mathematics.

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The drawing above is an example of sudden savant Jason Padgett’s genius at work, and his unique, mathematical vision of the world. The circle, —created out of 720 hand-drawn triangles, — shows his comprehension of pi.““I came to understand how pi is calculated by measuring the area of the circle,””he writes in his memoir.

up your alley un_eggs ?

So knocking some sense into someone is really a thing?

I've learnt something today.

 

[Howard Moon]

So knocking some sense into someone is really a thing?

I've learnt something today.

I asked my missus, say it's a perfect 50/50 chance, you cop the hit, 50% chance become a genius, 50 % chance you become ******ed, do you take the hit?

No instantly was the answer, not very adventurous

 

[Pweter]

Just respond with "I suppose I'm already way smarter than you, I can understand why you wouldn't want me any smarter".

I'm sure you'll then get your wish when she belts you without second thought.

 

[Howard Moon]

Just respond with "I suppose I'm already way smarter than you, I can understand why you wouldn't want me any smarter".

I'm sure you'll then get your wish when she belts you without second thought.

Then I become smart enough to understand her?

 

[Howard Moon]

http://www.betootaadvocate.com/head...onologue-through-belgian-flag-filter-tonight/


Satire from the top shelf.

 

[Blind Turn]

i love this story - shows how much of our brains potential remain untapped?

A Blow To The Head Turned This Ordinary Guy Into A Math Genius

12 years ago, Jason Padgett was a simple 30 year old man from Anchorage, Alaska when he left the university to work in the furniture shop of his father. However, a fight in a bar changed his life forever. When he recovered from a heavy hit on the head he discovered that he was seeing the world from a completely different perspective: that of mathematics and physics. Padgett is one of the 40 people around the world who was diagnosed with the syndrome of acquired savant, in which erstwhile ‘ordinary’ people become geniuses in mathematics, arts or music after a brain injury.
Padgett, who today is 43 year old, wrote about the experience that changed his life in the autobiographical book “Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel“, which has just released in the U.S. and Britain. As he writes, it all started on September 13, 2002, when two men attacked him from behind in a bar. Paget was taken to hospital with a head injury and then returned home. However, the next morning he woke up and found that his vision had changed and he could see the details in the objects around him which did not exist before.
In the bathroom faucet, for example, he could observe “vertical lines coming out of the running water.”“At first I was surprised and worried for myself, but the lines were so beautiful that I remained still and watched,” he writes. He soon discovered that there were repeated geometric shapes everywhere, different for each object he looked at. He then started frantically reading mathematics and physics, focusing on fractals. This term describes a geometric pattern that is repeated unchanged in infinite magnification.

“I watch the cream stirred into the brew. The perfect spiral is an important shape to me. It’s a fractal. Suddenly, it’s not just my morning cup of joe, it’s geometry speaking to me.” He said.
Although Padgett had never previously been inclined to painting, he began designing fractals with excellent details, devoting weeks to complete each fractal. Despite that before the injury he was an outgoing person and a great lover of partying, he now spends his days at home, drawing and reading endlessly.
At that time he believed he had gone insane, but a BBC documentary about Daniel Tammet, an “autistic poet of numbers” who’s known worldwide changed his mind. Thus Padgett decided to contact Dr. Darold Treffert, a psychiatrist who specializes in the epidemiology of autistic disorders and savant syndrome.

This syndrome is usually congenital, i.e. present from birth. In such case, it describes a person with severe developmental or intellectual disabilities coupled with a great mental ability in a certain field. Intelligence of patients with congenital savant syndrome is usually lower than average, but in one or more very specific areas is too high. However, in the syndrome or acquired savant, the patient has no developmental or mental disabilities, but instead has great intelligence in a certain field after a blow to the head. In the case of Jason Padgett, the head injury led to a ‘flood’ of chemicals (neurotransmitters) in the left side of the brain, which ultimately changed forever the structure of his left parietal lobe, which is the ‘math center’ of the brain. Now, apart from selling his fractal artworks, Padgett has returned to university to study mathematics.

View attachment 227495

The drawing above is an example of sudden savant Jason Padgett’s genius at work, and his unique, mathematical vision of the world. The circle, —created out of 720 hand-drawn triangles, — shows his comprehension of pi.““I came to understand how pi is calculated by measuring the area of the circle,””he writes in his memoir.

up your alley un_eggs ?

i love this story - shows how much of our brains potential remain untapped?

A Blow To The Head Turned This Ordinary Guy Into A Math Genius

12 years ago, Jason Padgett was a simple 30 year old man from Anchorage, Alaska when he left the university to work in the furniture shop of his father. However, a fight in a bar changed his life forever. When he recovered from a heavy hit on the head he discovered that he was seeing the world from a completely different perspective: that of mathematics and physics. Padgett is one of the 40 people around the world who was diagnosed with the syndrome of acquired savant, in which erstwhile ‘ordinary’ people become geniuses in mathematics, arts or music after a brain injury.
Padgett, who today is 43 year old, wrote about the experience that changed his life in the autobiographical book “Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel“, which has just released in the U.S. and Britain. As he writes, it all started on September 13, 2002, when two men attacked him from behind in a bar. Paget was taken to hospital with a head injury and then returned home. However, the next morning he woke up and found that his vision had changed and he could see the details in the objects around him which did not exist before.
In the bathroom faucet, for example, he could observe “vertical lines coming out of the running water.”“At first I was surprised and worried for myself, but the lines were so beautiful that I remained still and watched,” he writes. He soon discovered that there were repeated geometric shapes everywhere, different for each object he looked at. He then started frantically reading mathematics and physics, focusing on fractals. This term describes a geometric pattern that is repeated unchanged in infinite magnification.

“I watch the cream stirred into the brew. The perfect spiral is an important shape to me. It’s a fractal. Suddenly, it’s not just my morning cup of joe, it’s geometry speaking to me.” He said.
Although Padgett had never previously been inclined to painting, he began designing fractals with excellent details, devoting weeks to complete each fractal. Despite that before the injury he was an outgoing person and a great lover of partying, he now spends his days at home, drawing and reading endlessly.
At that time he believed he had gone insane, but a BBC documentary about Daniel Tammet, an “autistic poet of numbers” who’s known worldwide changed his mind. Thus Padgett decided to contact Dr. Darold Treffert, a psychiatrist who specializes in the epidemiology of autistic disorders and savant syndrome.

This syndrome is usually congenital, i.e. present from birth. In such case, it describes a person with severe developmental or intellectual disabilities coupled with a great mental ability in a certain field. Intelligence of patients with congenital savant syndrome is usually lower than average, but in one or more very specific areas is too high. However, in the syndrome or acquired savant, the patient has no developmental or mental disabilities, but instead has great intelligence in a certain field after a blow to the head. In the case of Jason Padgett, the head injury led to a ‘flood’ of chemicals (neurotransmitters) in the left side of the brain, which ultimately changed forever the structure of his left parietal lobe, which is the ‘math center’ of the brain. Now, apart from selling his fractal artworks, Padgett has returned to university to study mathematics.

View attachment 227495

The drawing above is an example of sudden savant Jason Padgett’s genius at work, and his unique, mathematical vision of the world. The circle, —created out of 720 hand-drawn triangles, — shows his comprehension of pi.““I came to understand how pi is calculated by measuring the area of the circle,””he writes in his memoir.

up your alley un_eggs ?

Yep, I'm fascinated by this shit. The connective fabric behind the surface of perception that we are only ever given glimpses of through such doorways as psychedelics, somehow gets permanently opened by a simple blow to the head.

If we ever have contact with alien intelligence, we will need to be able to communicate through the universal language of mathematics. It will probably require a savant to relay those messages coherently.

 

[Howard Moon]

Yep, I'm fascinated by this shit. The connective fabric behind the surface of perception that we are only ever given glimpses of through such doorways as psychedelics, somehow gets permanently opened by a simple blow to the head.

If we ever have contact with alien intelligence, we will need to be able to communicate through the universal language of mathematics. It will probably require a savant to relay those messages coherently.

I think I had a similar phenomenon one night on lsd at a dock party, it was a very visual trip, I was walking through a crowd and looking toward the dj booth, as each beat hit a horizontal line formed across my vision, one after the other beat after beat they kept rising as the next one appeared. They grouped at the top in a pattern, was very pretty but in perfect alignment with the music, reckon it continued for maybe 2 hours wherever I went, different music created different patterns . But it never got to the patterns equating to math equations or anything like that, It was more rhythmic patterns like say Microsoft media player would throw up

 

[Blind Turn]

I think I had a similar phenomenon one night on lsd at a dock party, it was a very visual trip, I was walking through a crowd and looking toward the dj booth, as each beat hit a horizontal line formed across my vision, one after the other beat after beat they kept rising as the next one appeared. They grouped at the top in a pattern, was very pretty but in perfect alignment with the music, reckon it continued for maybe 2 hours wherever I went, different music created different patterns . But it never got to the patterns equating to math equations or anything like that, It was more rhythmic patterns like say Microsoft media player would throw up

You probably needed an heroic dose to get mathematic visuals induced by music. Sounds like a great experience though.

Fractals and geometry are a given for me when having had psychedelics in the past. In fact, given the right environment and clarity I get them without chemical assistance when closing my eyes and meditating on the terrain within. Just wish I had the discipline to practice my meditation more regularly as I believe it is the purest way of accessing the fabric unperceived (of course lama-level meditation resides in the realm beyond even the fabric of our existence where visuals are merely another distraction for the mind to attach to).

Eggs?

 

[Howard Moon]

You probably needed an heroic dose to get mathematic visuals induced by music. Sounds like a great experience though.

Fractals and geometry are a given for me when having had psychedelics in the past. In fact, given the right environment and clarity I get them without chemical assistance when closing my eyes and meditating on the terrain within. Just wish I had the discipline to practice my meditation more regularly as I believe it is the purest way of accessing the fabric unperceived (of course lama-level meditation resides in the realm beyond even the fabric of our existence where visuals are merely another distraction for the mind to attach to).

Eggs?

Could talk to you all day about this stuff!

Hey , the one time I reckon I merged these types of fractals and nature was out camping after lsd, was lying back in the canvas tent as the sun was rising, there was a patch of mould on the tent. The sun was shining through it and that thing went forever in a hexagonal vortex.. It was alive, actually alive (theoretically mould is alive I guess)

I suppose when I close my eyes and concentrate enough I can bring it on also, sometimes it's just the sun illuminating the blood vessels in my eylids that start the process, and it throbs with my heart beat, looks pretty cool but I by no means connect with my internal self , it's a pretty superficial act. My mind is too active to meditate heh

But it reminds me of a thing I read about a sensory deprivation room in the USA, it's basically a torture room, it's at 0 db, not a single sound.

People go in there and after 5 mins are freaking out needing to leave.... You can hear the sounds of the fluids pumping around your body, hear your own thought.... How long coujd you last? Would need some excellent discipline

 

[Blind Turn]

Could talk to you all day about this stuff!

Hey , the one time I reckon I merged these types of fractals and nature was out camping after lsd, was lying back in the canvas tent as the sun was rising, there was a patch of mould on the tent. The sun was shining through it and that thing went forever in a hexagonal vortex.. It was alive, actually alive (theoretically mould is alive I guess)

I suppose when I close my eyes and concentrate enough I can bring it on also, sometimes it's just the sun illuminating the blood vessels in my eylids that start the process, and it throbs with my heart beat, looks pretty cool but I by no means connect with my internal self , it's a pretty superficial act. My mind is too active to meditate heh

But it reminds me of a thing I read about a sensory deprivation room in the USA, it's basically a torture room, it's at 0 db, not a single sound.

People go in there and after 5 mins are freaking out needing to leave.... You can hear the sounds of the fluids pumping around your body, hear your own thought.... How long coujd you last? Would need some excellent discipline

I've explored the sensory deprivation thing in floatation tanks in Northcote. If you haven't done yet I highly recommend it. The first time I went I did 2 hrs straight up. Having meditated previously it probably made it a bit easier to relax into. I don't think there's any other way to remove your sense of body as well as floating does. It took about 10 minutes to find complete stillness and then it's just you confronted by your mind; the witness and its tormentor. Near the end I got a bit restless but instead of mucking it up and getting out I just gently pivoted from side to side and got this weird sense of moving in space. Strangely enough I had few visuals but felt at peace in a vast inner space. I recommend 1hr first up. I'd like one in my home... one day...