Re: Cool visual illusion


feedbackdroids wrote:
feedbackdroids wrote:
> Lester Zick wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:17:01 -0500, Wolf Kirchmeir
> > <wolfekir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
> >
> > >Curt Welch wrote:
> > >> "JGCASEY" <jgkjcasey@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>It seems to me that you have decided the magic
> > >>>ingredients are reinforcement, temporal pulses and
> > >>>normalization. Mix them together and Walla, you
> > >>>have it. Just how you mix them you are not sure.
> > >[...]
> > >
> > >Walla is in Washington. It's one half of Walla Walla.
> > > But we don't know which half.
> >
> > Viola! I've heard that Walla Walla is the only city
> > (in this country) with a double name.
> >
>
>
> Yeah, yeah.
>
> "Wallah", of course, is a common term used by fakirs
> [uhhh, mgicians], when executing their stunts. John
> is just a bad speller ;-)

Thanks to the spell checker I think I am improving :)

It interests me that some people would use the ability
to remember the unintuitive spelling of a word as a
measure of intelligence. Yet I always got high marks
for my story telling while others, with perfect spelling,
couldn't think up a story to tell. I even know someone
who suffers from Aspergers who could remember how to
spell words perfectly long before the age most of us
learn to read. Yet again has no imagination or the
ability for analytical thinking at all.

I remember an old English teacher who complained that
the editorial in his Christian group newsletter had
spelling mistakes and poor grammar. I asked him what
the editorial was about, he couldn't remember that,
only that it had mistakes that really annoyed him.

Just like people who suffer from dyslexia I just have
to learn to live with my memory defect I guess.

--
JC

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