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AI Probably Cannot Read Your Mind
I was fascinated by the news story about the study regarding the ability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to “read minds.” Different stories told slightly different versions, meaning they either did or did not include the authors’ caveats about the limitations of AI. Recently there has been a spate of news items warning about the dangers…
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Pineapple on Pizza Not a Problem
Today was the day for pineapple on pizza. It’s Freschetta and it was Sena’s idea. I want to make that perfectly clear. She said if George Dawson can put figs on pizza, I can at least try pizza desecrated by pineapple. This is the first time we’ve ever had a pineapple pizza. Sena decorated it…
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Gardening Works as Mindfulness Meditation
When I think of Sena learning to juggle and find her juggling balls on the floor where she drops them after a 2- or 3-minute practice, I now think of her gardening. I wondered if gardening could be a form of meditation and did a web search like I did yesterday for juggling. It turns…
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Can Juggling and Mindfulness Meditation Complement Each Other?
I read this article about mindfulness today and it got me thinking about how juggling might be two different aspects of the same activity. I think they both help focus the attention. There a number of articles on the web which essentially say that juggling can be a sort of meditation. I know hardly anything…
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Does This Shirt Make Me Look Retired?
Sena got me a new shirt that says: “Does This Shirt Make Me Look Retired?” It’s the greatest. No, she’s the greatest. So…does it? Think carefully about your answer.
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Introducing the Hula Shower Juggle!
Today, I spent a lot of time practicing the shower juggling pattern. I didn’t know it at the time, but I invented a new variation of the shower: the hula. I made a video of it and about a minute and a half into it, I noticed I was doing the pattern wrong. It looked…
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Beating My Head on The Shower Wall
I’ve been practicing the shower juggling pattern. I’m combining at least a couple of different methods, which may or may not be helping me improve. I’m using JuggleMan’s advice about trying to get some extra space in between the balls so I feel less rushed. I’m also trying to use Taylor Glenn’s method of combining…
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Where is Juggling and Foosball on the Homunculus?
I saw an interesting article published in Nature about the homunculus being outdated because of a new brain MRI study indicating that there’s a mind-body connection between the motor cortex and neural networks controlling planning and thought. There’s a mouthful for you. It makes me wonder about a few things. For example, can I improve…
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Practicing the Shower Juggle Inches Along
I’ve been practicing the shower juggling pattern and progress has been slow. Part of the problem is that it’s a difficult pattern and very fast. I have trouble getting elements of it solid. For example, I tend to make the horizontal transfer from my non-dominant hand more of a toss-up. That makes it look more…
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Earth Day 2023: Water What We Want to Grow
Happy Earth Day! Yesterday, Sena worked pretty hard out in the garden spaces. She has planted ten river birch trees. I did my usual spring lawn edging, which followed the first mow of the season a couple of days before by the lawn mowing service. The vinca is coming up in the garden circle in…
