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This is your brain on digital...

A weird thing has just occurred to me, which is, in and of itself, not weird or even unusual. I was looking at this clip of colour footage of London from, like, a gajillion years ago - well, okay, 1927. To give you a sense of what that means:

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• Eartha Kitt and Gabriel García Márquez were born;


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In other words, 1927 - despite being less than a century ago - is still a very, very long way back in time in terms of things we take to be normal now, buy Alprazolam without prescription.

All of which is an interesting digression from my main point, Wyoming WY Wyo. , which was, um...

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I read somewhere a while back that we use different parts of our brains using different tools. Cheap Alprazolam pills, Keyboards do not excite the brain in the same way as pencils or pens. I can't find the original reference for this - if you have a line to it, please let me know, φτηνές φαρμακείο Alprazolam, because all I can find right not is useless people like me repeating the statement as a given. Alprazolam pedido en línea, Tcha. Ordering Alprazolam online cheap, Bad science. However, taking it as a given for the moment:

I'm prepared to bet that the same applies to using an AVID and a flatbed editing table, Pennsylvania PA Penn. .

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So what I'm curious about is: how will the change from analogue to digital affect our creative brains. And what will that mean for the stories we tell, ordering Alprazolam online cheap. I ain't saying we're going to make bad stories, cheap Alprazolam online legally. I'm just wondering what will be different about how we do stuff and make stuff and feel about the whole thing. Alprazolam pills, In terms of writing...

My Dad writes everything longhand. He actually sits with a pen and scribes it all, and my mother types it, order Alprazolam pills. Ordering Alprazolam online cheap, Aside from being a frankly awe-inspiring gestalt, it's a very traditional process.

I, on the other hand, am typing this on the keyboard of a moderately up-to-date MacBook. Upstairs, there's a somewhat decrepit iMac with an ergonomic keyboard. On the other hand, next to the iMac, there's a teetering pile of paper notebooks filled with scribblecharts and flowcharts and uncharted waters of my brain, so I'm kinda in the middle, maybe.

I can absolutely see how it would be possible to write something without ever using a pen. And indeed, for some of my short pieces, I've done exactly that. On the other hand, I thought I might get an old typewriter for some future quasi-pulp project, and then scan the finished document into my computer later.

Thoughts, anyone. Or (please) references for the brain stuff.

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Cryonics is many things, but 'totally stupid' isn't one of them. I'll go with 'very optimistic'. I had hoped that the archpriest of bitchy was going to open the door to some serious discussion. I also thought maybe he'd found a proper cryonics setup here in the UK, which would have been interesting.

Alas, he was making with the easy funny. Probably telling Gordon to have the economy frozen until someone can figure out how to fix it.

Could be a while...

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