Thursday, April 9, 2009

The toohbrush

Hey, I actually thought about this one before: Toothbrush I don't think it worked... but it was interesting.

Some other fun ideas: walk backwards or close your eyes and try to walk around blind (of course do it on a safe and well know area). Interesting how the sounds can tell you so many details. Also write backwards, write something backwards but... a sentence at a time, hard, hard to do.

I have been playing by trying to see in how many different motions, I can make a part of my body move... E.g, I put my hand, flat, straight up in front of me. I can move it forward, a little backwards, side ways, a little bit side ways in an angle, many different angles, sideways, in a continuous motion, in a stop and go motion, etc...

At the beginning, I had very few ideas but, little by little, I realized that the number combinations are amazing.

Just fun games to make your brain think a little different.

Talking about the last one, it is a cool way for analysing how a sentence is built. I actually have been trying it lately and it does help. But I have sooo much to improve.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Starting

Well, I am finally writing a blog.... Actually, is mostly just a memory bank for the stuff that every so often I think about. Mostly boring stuff, for most people, but sort of cool for me. My intent is to write about politics, mind, history and computers.... Yeah.... I know... boring boring boring.... but what the Heck.

Today I was thinking on using the "100 items" technique on the current economic scenarios. So basically write at least 100 possible outcomes in the near future of this economical mess... The fun thing about it, is that I am soooooo sure that the real outcome wouldn't fall in any of the 100.

This morning when I was buying my egg McMuffin in MacDonalds, I realized that we are all just figuring out what happened and what is to happening. Nobody really knows the whole story!!! Just couple days ago I read about the unbalance in the world trade and economy, as the cause of the current economic problems. (Yesterday )I read that argument just pushed a little bit farther, with the idea that the unbalance of distribution of wealth in Asia had a lot to do with it. So in just a matter of few months we have gone from bad mortgages loans to trade unbalances.....

I don't know.... I am still wondering if there is a much deeper structural reason to all this troubles. Spengler in the Asia Times puts forward the idea that many of this troubles are based on demographics, and further more, that they are based on cultural wars. In a way, a little bit like Memes, where cultures die and live according to systems of believed.

I really give him a point, but I think things are better than that.... I think so far we have been very civilized much more than in any other time in history... I just hope that the economies don't crush so bad that bad things happens. When the rulers of countries find themselves having war as the only option to stay in power...
Weird... Hitler himself used that rationalisation.