trans christian, any pronouns. artist at heart, programmer by trade. this is my journal of sketches, project notes, and assorted thoughts – spanning games, technology, creativity, neurodiversity, and more!
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More Thought Processeses
More thought processeses
*Setting: small dorm room with a sink*
Me: I should brush my hair now.
*gets out hairbrush, looks out window*
Me: Wow, it's a pretty day outside! I should open the window.
*leaves hairbrush on side of sink, opens window*
Me: Ahh, fresh air.
*glances back toward sink*
Me: That's right, I was doing my hair.
*walks back, glances at computer*
Me: I should probably turn that music up a little.
*taps volume once, notices water bottle*
Me: I'm thirsty.
*drinks water*
Me: That's better. What was I doing--
*glances at sink*
Me: Drat, I forgot again!
*walks back, glances at other toiletries*
Me: I should probably shave as well. After I brush my hair, of course.
*picks up brush, train passes by*
Me: Can't hear my music very well at all... maybe I should turn it up again?
*walks over to computer, notices stuff lying on shelf*
Me: Hold on, I should put that in my pockets.
*walks over to shelf, puts stuff in pockets*
Me: There. Now what was I doing again--
*noise stops, train has already passed*
Me: Oh yeah... guess I don't need to turn the music up anymore.
*glances back at toiletries*
Me: That's right, I should shave.
*walks over to sink*
*notices hairbrush*
Me: NOT AGAIN WHAT THE HECK
~This has been Thought Processes with WillWare. Tune in next time to hear WillWare say...~
Me: I should write a blogpost!
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To clear up some common misconceptions:
Weird is good. Strange is bad.
Smart is how much you know, intelligent is what you do with it.
Sympathy is having been there; empathy is feeling it without having been there; apathy is not feeling at all.
Bravery is choosing not to be afraid, courage is being afraid and doing it anyway.
This Monday is the upcoming Monday; next Monday is the one after that.
Hearing is sound passing into your ear. Listening is thinking about what the sound means.
Took fourth place in this week's GameXplain tournament. I had first at one point! Then the other players beat me out. Oh well, I'll take it. Congrats to everyone involved!
I have a tendency to find patterns in two steps. This is both a good thing and a bad thing; it means I'm generally quicker to catch on to things than most people, but it also means that I often find patterns where they don't exist.
Let's use a mathematical example, shall we? I love math! Say I'm given two numbers:
1, 8
Here's the order in which I think of what patterns this might fit in:
Sequential cubes - 1³, 2³ (3³, 4³, n³) Add seven to previous number - 1, 1+7 (8+7, 15+7, 1+7n) Multiples of eight - 8⁰, 8¹ (8², 8³, 8ⁿ)
What tends to happen when I point out the first pattern that comes to mind is that I'm often wrong. Even if I go through all the patterns that come to mind, it could still be a different pattern, or it could just not be a pattern at all!
So what I've trained myself to do is wait for a third term to see if I have it right. I've been wrong on the third term before, but far less often. Most of the time my suspicion is correct at that point - except with things like human behavior, which I'm usually more careful about.
...no, I don't treat human behavior like numbers... I look for patterns in different ways...
Public service announcement: A dictionary is not an authoritative source on the set meanings of words, but rather a report on how words are used by people. No, seriously. Words change meaning over time, and definitions aren't set in stone; dictionaries adapt to reflect this.
I really don't know what to say about this other than listen to it right now.