Why is it "A" cold and "THE" flu? Why does cold get such a "it's one of many" title?
There are all sorts of different flus! Fluse? Flues? ... Types of flu!
"THE" makes it sound like it's the one and only. Like: THE Batman. THE Mona Lisa.
Not: "A" Crime Fighter or "A" Painting.
The cold doesn't get enough respect. That's right. I called it THE cold. How often do you get a cold?
A LOT! It has EARNED your fear and respect!
RESPECT THE COLD!
That should be a t-shirt.
I don't think I'll give flu the title of "THE" anymore. It's just a flu. One of many. Every animal has one, so WHOOPIE DOO FLU! You're so UNspecial that you give a flu for every phylum!
I'm off to wash my hands.
Enjoy Everything.
-THE DJ
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Monday, March 7, 2011
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
no memory
I don't know if you've heard about this guy HM, but he had a pretty strange memory. He's been famous for years because he could not commit information into his long-term memory. He died recently and donated his brain to science. We now know his full name is Henry Molaison. Scientists love nicknames, so they called him HM instead. Scientists are weird like that. They usually call each other names like "quark" or "phylum" or "anterolateral temporal cortex."
Anyway, Henry had some brain surgery in 1953 and things didn't go exactly as planned. After the surgery, you could ask him to memorize a bunch of numbers and he would. Then, if you asked him about it later that day, he wouldn't even know that he was asked to look at numbers. He couldn't remember what he had for breakfast or lunch or anything.
I'd say that's a pretty scary way to live, but I'm sure there are some good things to go with the bad.
Good:
He forgot the 80's.
He doesn't think he saw Glitter.
He forgot every episode of Baywatch.
Bad:
He could never remember who won Dancing with the Stars.
He couldn't remember how great Spice World was.
He forgot that Darth Vader is Luke's father.
He did help with a lot of research about how our memory works and what we can and cannot do. He could learn new motor skills. So, I guess he could learn to juggle. Or maybe he learned how to play the Wii.
Oddly enough, he thought Eisenhower knew how to play the Wii. That would have been cool if my boy Dwight actually did play the Wii. I'd vote for him again if he was a Wii-man. I know you would too.
I'm off to...I forgot...
Enjoy!
-DJ
Anyway, Henry had some brain surgery in 1953 and things didn't go exactly as planned. After the surgery, you could ask him to memorize a bunch of numbers and he would. Then, if you asked him about it later that day, he wouldn't even know that he was asked to look at numbers. He couldn't remember what he had for breakfast or lunch or anything.
I'd say that's a pretty scary way to live, but I'm sure there are some good things to go with the bad.
Good:
He forgot the 80's.
He doesn't think he saw Glitter.
He forgot every episode of Baywatch.
Bad:
He could never remember who won Dancing with the Stars.
He couldn't remember how great Spice World was.
He forgot that Darth Vader is Luke's father.
He did help with a lot of research about how our memory works and what we can and cannot do. He could learn new motor skills. So, I guess he could learn to juggle. Or maybe he learned how to play the Wii.
Oddly enough, he thought Eisenhower knew how to play the Wii. That would have been cool if my boy Dwight actually did play the Wii. I'd vote for him again if he was a Wii-man. I know you would too.
I'm off to...I forgot...
Enjoy!
-DJ
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