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I've acquired a new superpower

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Post by telchior »

warner25 wrote: post #413
telchior wrote: post #394

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Length of remembrance aside, the idea of fame as immortality has always confused me on different grounds. It's not how fame works: we remember factoids, not people. It's a bit different if the fame is a work of art, but then the thing with immortality (sort of) is the art, not the person that made it. I might remember 7 things about Teddy Roosevelt, which are admittedly very cool and impressive things, but those thin…

You make good points. When I looked up the word "immortality" in Merriam Webster while writing my first comment, I found it interesting that one of the definitions was actually "lasting fame." > we remember factoids... I might remember 7 things about Teddy Roosevelt... but those things do nothing to represent the complex individual he actually was. I've thought this before when looking at Wikipedia pages. Especially…

My grandfather wrote a short autobiography, just for his immediate family. It's a really nice thing to have.

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Post by armada651 »

Am I weird for almost immediately spotting the missing bean as soon as the image showed up? It certainly would've taken me longer to adjust my eyes for the cross-eyed trick.

Even the impossible one was harder when trying to use the cross-eyed trick than just visually comparing the two by quickly moving my eyes back and forth.

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Post by irjustin »

the__alchemist wrote: post #33

If you've done Magic Eyes, this is straightforward. Was able to get all 3 of the test images quickly. This is with focusing beyond the screen. Focusing in front of the screen is something I am unable to do, and not for want of effort. Also, your eyes might accidentally do this if looking at tiled patterns, e.g. wallpaper. Relative image size (e.g. view distance) is important.

How do you do this focusing beyond the screen!?

I'm trying so hard to make this happen. Stare really far in the distance and then move the image in front of my face on my phone. No matter the distance between my face and my phone i can't overlap the images.

Focus in front of the screen is the easy one. How do you get beyond....

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Post by Xerox9213 »

amingilani wrote: post #266

I'm frequently surprised by the amount of seemingly ordinary skills I picked up as a bored child that other people didn't. This was an obvious way to solve those "spot the difference" pictures in magazines. I wonder what skills other people picked up that I didn't. Some recent example of things I shared: + When your belt buckle hangs a little loosely on the front of your pants. You can hook the buckle's prong onto th…

My odd claim to fame which is hard to garner praise for is that when I was a kid I always followed a certain pattern when I did something on a left or right foot. I always tried to even it out. So if I pinched my left toes, then I would do my right. But then I would undo that by going right then left. And then I would undo that by undoing the entire thing: right left left right. And the pattern went on:

LRRLRLLRRLLRLRRL…

and so on. It seemed easy enough to remember because you would just undo what you did last.

A few decades later and I learn that’s the Thue Morse word (1) which has many interesting properties like being overlap free. Unfortunately it didn’t give me any kind of advantage when studying combinatorics on words. Just a weird “wait… where have I seen this before?” moment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thue%E2%80%93Morse_sequence

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Post by xanderlewis »

klondike_klive wrote: post #219
duxup wrote: post #125

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>Probably my peak fame right there. My son and I always make jokes about everyone's 5 minutes of fame. Some random person on the jumbotron at a sporting event "Yup, there's his moment, it's over now." At least yours got you something ;)

One of my dad's sayings when somebody in a film delivered a line and then disappeared was "6 months rehearsal for that."

That is a very Dad thing to say.

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Post by myself248 »

BenjiWiebe wrote: post #325
makeworld wrote: post #320

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Wow I feel like I've never seen anyone talk about this. Doing it with fences can feel pretty magical, like the object is more "real" than other things.

Or the side of a shopping cart.

The repeating punched hole pattern on the ceiling/headliner of a '77 Suburban...
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