Light On Dark Water

I wonder…

…how many people think (fantasize) like this? And how much of that reflects the success of advertising strategies?

(I do, sometimes, though I don't usually act on it. I also have a weird mental habit, a result of reading too many murder mysteries, of imagining myself  describing to a cop or a lawyer something that just happened: "I think it was somewhere between 10 and 11. She said she was going to lunch early, but I didn't think anything about it, because she does that sometimes. It must have been before noon, otherwise she wouldn't have said 'early'….")

And while we're at it: by now I guess everybody has heard of "the cloud," the bajillions of computers that support services like Gmail and Facebook. Here is a nice non-technical explanation of it.

Maclin Horton

8 responses to “I wonder…”

  1. Janet

    I don’t think about talking to the police like that, but I am always thinking little murder mysteries around the things I see. Many of them have to do with poison. For instance, when we were walking down one side of the Parthenon (in Nashville) Sunday in 100 degree heat, I saw that someone had left his water bottle on the ledge that runs along the side. Of course, this could be very tempting to someone who had been waiting outside in the heat for 45 minutes, but what if that was what the murderer was thinking?
    AMDG

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  2. Mac

    Sort of the same thing: if I see something a bit unusual–e.g. an unopened can of beer lying on the ground–I think “clue” and start constructing a scenario around it.

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  3. Louise

    That’s hilarious! I’m always processing my thoughts by imagining myself giving a talk to a (smallish) group of Catholics – people I know are in the audience.
    How vain is that?!
    But lately the audience is entirely made up of women, since St Paul says he will not tolerate women teaching men! 😮
    Naturally, the audience always laughs at my jokes.

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  4. Mac

    Not surprisingly, I mentally compose essays (or blog posts) when I’m in that mode. I don’t think I would ever imagine giving a talk as a good or desirable thing.:-/

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  5. Louise

    At least I’m just imagining it! When I was blogging I often (always?) processed my thoughts by mental blog posts.

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  6. Mac

    Well, nothing wrong with doing it if you have something to say–and can get people to listen. My wife occasionally laughs at bloggers for “thinking the whole world needs to know what you think.” It’s kind of a funny contrast–she has absolutely no impulse to do that.

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  7. Louise

    If it weren’t for the fact that I like talking to y’all, I wouldn’t say anything much here any more either. I think this is now the only blog I regularly read.
    Bloggers… we have… opinions. 🙂
    The best thing about blogs (IMO!) are the discussions they generate, but only a few have really good comboxes. Internet debating is not normally a good way for worthwhile discussion to take place.

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  8. Mac

    Well, that’s quite a compliment. Thank you.
    For some time now I’ve been making it a habit to resist the urge to get into discussions/arguments on other sites. Occasionally I still do, but not nearly as much as I used to. Usually now if I just have to say something, I confine it to one comment.

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