Total Eclipse

“You are a total nutcase, completely deranged, delusional, paranoid. Your thought process is all fucked up. Your information train is jammed, man!” – the character of Jeffery Goines, in Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys. A disturbing thought has occurred to me, one which relates to a mess of other thoughts concerning our culture and it’s biases. [...]

Yesterday I attended a symposium by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics on the subject of Synaesthesia; Seeing the Voices: A multi-disciplinary view of Synaesthesia and Cross-modal Transfers. Speakers included Roland Posner (TU – Berlin), Daniel Algom (My psychophysics and cogpsy prof.), Gerald C Cupchik (University of Toronto), and others. It was particularly interesting [...]

(Originally posted on LJ Cyberpunk @ 2005-05-14 01:12:00) Last Word I went to visit my parents today. As I do, I checked out my old room for random stuff of mine. I found an issue of OMNI magazine, dated back July 1991. (BTW, does anybody know whatever happened to OMNI?) Anyway, this issue contained an [...]