The beer garden

[greenmark]

It's funny how a login password you've typed in every morning for six months can suddenly exit your brain!

many years ago at the start of my *music* career, I played in a covers band. we'd play 4-5 nights a week, playing basic chart style stuff. it was all pretty formulaic and mostly autopilot stuff. one week however, for some unknown reason, i'd get to a particular guitar break in a particular song and it would just fly out of my mind, leaving me there stranded trying to BUSK the guitar break. rather than sort it out after the 2nd night, i just expected it to represent itself as it had done the previous 40-50 times we'd played it. eventually, it just slotted back in. who knows what the brain does, but certainly that raw exposure to memory loss in front of a few 100 people is an *interesting* experience

Once was locked out of the office because I couldn't remember the 4 digit pass code I'd been using for years. When I buzzed reception to let me in she said it's ok it happens a lot. I have the reverse situation too. I do crosswords and sometimes my subconcious memory chucks up the answer and I don't know why. Yesterday the solution to a clue was iridium. I know sod all about that stuff. But up it popped and I have no idea why I know that word.

[jimibt]

It's funny how a login password you've typed in every morning for six months can suddenly exit your brain!

many years ago at the start of my *music* career, I played in a covers band. we'd play 4-5 nights a week, playing basic chart style stuff. it was all pretty formulaic and mostly autopilot stuff. one week however, for some unknown reason, i'd get to a particular guitar break in a particular song and it would just fly out of my mind, leaving me there stranded trying to BUSK the guitar break. rather than sort it out after the 2nd night, i just expected it to represent itself as it had done the previous 40-50 times we'd played it. eventually, it just slotted back in. who knows what the brain does, but certainly that raw exposure to memory loss in front of a few 100 people is an *interesting* experience

Once was locked out of the office because I couldn't remember the 4 digit pass code I'd been using for years. When I buzzed reception to let me in she said it's ok it happens a lot. I have the reverse situation too. I do crosswords and sometimes my subconcious memory chucks up the answer and I don't know why. Yesterday the solution to a clue was iridium. I know sod all about that stuff. But up it popped and I have no idea why I know that word.

my wife lured me into wordle a while back and there have been 2 occasions where i've entered the opening gambit word with maybe just 1-2 letters being correct but then from nowhere, manage to get the word on the 2nd attempt thro somehow imagining the word from the few scant letters matching. don't ask how that works as the majority of the time i'm not getting it until at least 4th try, with 3-4 letters covered . the mysteries of the neural network...

[greenmark]

many years ago at the start of my *music* career, I played in a covers band. we'd play 4-5 nights a week, playing basic chart style stuff. it was all pretty formulaic and mostly autopilot stuff. one week however, for some unknown reason, i'd get to a particular guitar break in a particular song and it would just fly out of my mind, leaving me there stranded trying to BUSK the guitar break. rather than sort it out after the 2nd night, i just expected it to represent itself as it had done the previous 40-50 times we'd played it. eventually, it just slotted back in. who knows what the brain does, but certainly that raw exposure to memory loss in front of a few 100 people is an *interesting* experience

Once was locked out of the office because I couldn't remember the 4 digit pass code I'd been using for years. When I buzzed reception to let me in she said it's ok it happens a lot. I have the reverse situation too. I do crosswords and sometimes my subconcious memory chucks up the answer and I don't know why. Yesterday the solution to a clue was iridium. I know sod all about that stuff. But up it popped and I have no idea why I know that word.

my wife lured me into wordle a while back and there have been 2 occasions where i've entered the opening gambit word with maybe just 1-2 letters being correct but then from nowhere, manage to get the word on the 2nd attempt thro somehow imagining the word from the few scant letters matching. don't ask how that works as the majority of the time i'm not getting it until at least 4th try, with 3-4 letters covered . the mysteries of the neural network...

I once had a drunken debate with a mate. My view was the brain is a fantastic computer and thats were our consciousness resides. His view was that the mind is different. So, same brain, 2 different humans with different experiences and you will get 2 different people.

[Derek27]

Out of curiosity, I looked up how much Deliveroo charges restaurants for food delivered. To my surprise, it's between 25 and 35% of the order value. A third of your delivery takings is a whopping slice of the cake, plus they charge for joining and the electronic equipment to connect to their network.

Then I looked up Just Eat. No joining charge or charge for equipment, only 16% + VAT for delivery!