1. 13:24 17th Jan 2012

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    Tags: HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL/BROKEN.human subjects

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    Example of a pheromone used for defense.  A whip scorpion is ejecting its spray toward an appendage pinched with forceps.  The pattern of the spray is visible on acid-sensitive indicator paper.  The secretion is 84% acetic acid (CH3CO2H), 5% octanoic acid (CH3(CH2)6CO2H), and 11% water.  (From Louden’s Organic Chemistry) C.  This picture reminded me of the Louis CK bit about similar such things.  B.  The memory of that Louis CK bit was near to another bit about Clifford The Big Red Dog, which I choke-laughed about in an airport, and is related to the incident of my perfect memory and broken perception. A. There’s this failure of faculties that I can remember has happened at least once before, that I noticed the other day.  I had been sitting next to Subject 45 and had noted how small his hands were.  Surprisingly small.  Not carnival worker small, but I was idly looking around the room during a meeting and noticed them with some degree of surprise—as opposed to not having noticed them at all. They didn’t seem incongruous with the rest of his person, which probably should have been a clue that something was wonky. BUT THEN, after a moment of semi-legitimate contact and visual recalibration, peripeteia:  his hands are enormous.  I realized that the primary way I could have gotten something so wrong was that I had thought he was sitting closer to me than he actually was.  FUN FACT!:  “Alice in Wonderland Syndrome” is also known as “Todd’s Syndrome”.  I probably don’t have a tumor (Obligatory: It’s naht a tumah), nor is there a high likelihood I have mono* (Equally obligatory: “Mono” means one…), I just have to not sit through meetings with only one eye open. (* I’m working on it, I really am.)

    Example of a pheromone used for defense.  A whip scorpion is ejecting its spray toward an appendage pinched with forceps.  The pattern of the spray is visible on acid-sensitive indicator paper.  The secretion is 84% acetic acid (CH3CO2H), 5% octanoic acid (CH3(CH2)6CO2H), and 11% water. 

    (From Louden’s Organic Chemistry)

    C.  This picture reminded me of the Louis CK bit about similar such things. 

    B.  The memory of that Louis CK bit was near to another bit about Clifford The Big Red Dog, which I choke-laughed about in an airport, and is related to the incident of my perfect memory and broken perception.

    A. There’s this failure of faculties that I can remember has happened at least once before, that I noticed the other day.  I had been sitting next to Subject 45 and had noted how small his hands were.  Surprisingly small.  Not carnival worker small, but I was idly looking around the room during a meeting and noticed them with some degree of surprise—as opposed to not having noticed them at all. They didn’t seem incongruous with the rest of his person, which probably should have been a clue that something was wonky.

    BUT THEN, after a moment of semi-legitimate contact and visual recalibration, peripeteia:  his hands are enormous.  I realized that the primary way I could have gotten something so wrong was that I had thought he was sitting closer to me than he actually was. 

    FUN FACT!:  “Alice in Wonderland Syndrome” is also known as “Todd’s Syndrome”.  I probably don’t have a tumor (Obligatory: It’s naht a tumah), nor is there a high likelihood I have mono* (Equally obligatory: “Mono” means one…), I just have to not sit through meetings with only one eye open.

    (* I’m working on it, I really am.)

     
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