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spiritual experiences: watching the knicks game in a new york airport with strangers at 11:30pm 10 minutes before your second flight cancellation of the day
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spiritual experiences: watching the knicks game in a new york airport with strangers at 11:30pm 10 minutes before your second flight cancellation of the day
Unexpected light
©Raymond P Sussmann
This Morning’s Bright Spot:
While on a call with the property team, the GM decided she was going to drill 3 new assholes into the Director of Construction (the guy I’m assisting) about other projects that Corporate hasn’t approved to start moving.
Damn it feels good to be just a vendor of services and not hold any sway over what Corporate wants to start or not. Hint: there’s always some ticky-tack bullshit problem these casinos want corporate to spend money on.
I spent many a years being the Architect that was always at fault, or to blame…because I could fix the situation. Now, I just listen and convey the problem uphill.
Little do they know that corporate is evaluating how much more they want to spend on band-aids before they decide to just build something new that’s land based. Another Hint: this company is doing this right now in other locations. Right now this project is hovering into the $6.9M range, and started at $700K.
So yeah, I’m not going to get yelled at, and even if I did - I can’t solve that problem, only escalate it. Plus I can be one charming bastard so maybe, hopefully, she won’t ever want to yell at me. Let alone drill me 3 new assholes.
Going to Mind & Brain be like:
Because truly, you never know what to expect. From questioning qualia to questioning how the Eliza chatbot passes the Turing test, each class is an adventure. Oh right, and not-really-incorrect-quotes:
"Are we dying in this lab, or the next?" -Ell
"Can I phone a friend?"
"Yup, you're pretty phlogiston" - JAT (professor)
"See? Stress is good yo! ... In small doses"- JAT
Me when oddball:
6 Hallmarks of attention:
Suggestion
Repitition
ODDBALL
Primacy
Recency
Personally, I'd like to think Oddball is out favorite.
We Love Our Fathering Founder:
William James <3
Us fr:
Social psychology tried to claim him but we shall stand strong! 🤺 🤺
Welcome to Our Class
Do you like thoughts that make you question existence and reality? Like neuroscience and memes? Do you think college students/classes are unhinged? Well, then you're right: and this may be the place for you.
. : : **L**ittle Perceivers ! ★
. . : : collective: they/them ☆ . : : A neuroscience class having way too much fun while trying to map mind onto brain. Thus, we'd like the share the cool, funny, interesting and often outta-pocket takeaways from class. ★ !
| | That one M&B class
| | College aged
| | Fall 2024 Sem 1
| | NSC 201 Mind&Brain; Dr. T; Muhlenberg College
Sometimes when I'm feeling bad about the world, I think about this picture I took in April of 2020
I was living near Boston, and this was peak panic, after everything shut down; we were still figuring out masking and bleaching our groceries.
And the grocery shelves were basically bare from people panic-hoarding. I had wanted to try making bread (like everybody else), but there was no flour left on the shelves at all.
But you know where there was flour? In this hastily converted Little Free Pantry. I felt so overwhelmed with pride in my community, who would share for free what you couldn't even buy at that time, in recognition that there were people in need.
This is the type of community I want to live in.