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azurelunatic) wrote2003-05-06 10:34 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-05-06 10:34 pm
Clearances
I went off on this one some time ago.
When I was young, I discovered a particular esoteric talent of mine: I could "record" two seconds or so of information, save it, and recall it, by the mnemonic device of snapping my fingers twice to begin recording, twice to save, and twice to recall all messages in the queue (I could store a few, up to seven, I think).
To keep a message in memory, I would re-save it each time.
After a while, as I discovered writing on my hand and no longer used it as heavily, the device became less reliable, but I still used it on occasion.
While at DeVry, though, I had occasion to use it to store the message, "Get bus pass." I was walking down the south end of the east hallway with Darkside, past the bookstore, and I saved the message.
Darkside looked at me, snapped his fingers twice, said something brief, then snapped twice again. I was about to tell him that it didn't work...
...then I checked storage.
It had saved.
I freaked out, mildly, because no one else is really supposed to be able to save to that...
But hey. What's a little mind-tampering between best friends, when I had to have given consent or it wouldn't have happened? He does more to influence my mind by just talking to me and giving gentle advice than he does by directly going in and saving things to my message system.
When I was young, I discovered a particular esoteric talent of mine: I could "record" two seconds or so of information, save it, and recall it, by the mnemonic device of snapping my fingers twice to begin recording, twice to save, and twice to recall all messages in the queue (I could store a few, up to seven, I think).
To keep a message in memory, I would re-save it each time.
After a while, as I discovered writing on my hand and no longer used it as heavily, the device became less reliable, but I still used it on occasion.
While at DeVry, though, I had occasion to use it to store the message, "Get bus pass." I was walking down the south end of the east hallway with Darkside, past the bookstore, and I saved the message.
Darkside looked at me, snapped his fingers twice, said something brief, then snapped twice again. I was about to tell him that it didn't work...
...then I checked storage.
It had saved.
I freaked out, mildly, because no one else is really supposed to be able to save to that...
But hey. What's a little mind-tampering between best friends, when I had to have given consent or it wouldn't have happened? He does more to influence my mind by just talking to me and giving gentle advice than he does by directly going in and saving things to my message system.
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Just a really weird mnemonic.