The WelDuh!

A set of ‘inspirational posters’ on flickr featuring the evil leader Ben Linus from the popular TV Show “Lost”.

One of my friends did this, if you like it digg it up for him!

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This is the GIMP work I did for a contest for the 404 podcast. I forgot about it so I did some quick work before midnight.

So for a while I was looking into making like a online todo list for myself, just for quick notes and stuff. Really it was because I would think about things that I would want to post or look into more while I was at work and then by the time I got home I would forget. My first thoughts were to get a wiki going, but that seemed to much to meet my simple needs. I wanted to program it myself, but I never got around to it and there are more important things I need to program. This is where Google Notebook would fill the gap.

Originally when I first heard about Google Notebook, I thought there was no real purpose for it, but now I see it’s benefits. “With Google Notebook, you can browse, clip, and organize information from across the web in a single online location that’s accessible from any computer.” _[1] It does exactly that too. I can access it from work and home or any place that there is access to the internet. It also has nice features like a Firefox Addon and a mobile version I can access from my phone. It allows for multiple categories under one notebook to keep things organized. So really overall it’s much better then sticky notes.

I really do miss the 90s, I don’t think my taste of music has changed since then either. Anyway I got my hulu.com invite today and what did I do? Watch The Simpsons! Even though I have heard good things about hulu.com I am disappointed at the clip to episode ratio. Besides that it is a great player and I haven’t had any problems playing it on my windows or linux box. Further review to come… until then have fun watching The Simpsons

Muscle Memory, is it muscle or memory? A couple weeks ago while listening to “East Meets West” Tom Merritt showed a huge aversion to the term “muscle memory.” I twittered him and didn’t get a response, but someone did write in to the podcast to get clarification on Tom’s dislike of it. What it is really that Tom views “muscle memory” as inaccurate for really it is not your muscles that actually memorize anything. Then further explains that it is a body building term used to explain how after conditioning a muscle group that it is easier to regain that conditioning after a period. But I would just call that that conditioning.

I honestly haven’t heard “muscle memory” used that way before. The way that it has always been used in my circle is not from the weight lifting perspective, but from the fighters perspective. It was used to describe a programed response or reaction. To turn a sweep, a throw even a counter punch into something that happens without thinking, that is muscle memory. A reflex quick response to an action put against you.

Though I agree with the base of Tom’s argument, the term “muscle memory” can be confusing. For it implies that the muscles are doing the storage which is wrong. But it is a Pavlovic response that one does not have to think about and just does.