And they shall form a Single Nostril and The Land of Noses

(reading time 5 minutes)

If you are jewish, or even if you study the psalms in translation, you are probably familliar with a verse that goes something like this “And they shall form a single band to do Your Will with a whole heart” They being the people of the world, and the will being talked about being God‘s will. Those of a more mystic bent will probably know the 13 attributes of God, one being Slowness to Anger.

In the origional it is possible to mis-pronounce “a single band” and (especially if you are singing or praying in chorus) say “fellowship of the number one”. Not that bad, but in our second example you can go from saying “slow to anger” to “land of noses”. These both involuve one letter in an entire sentence. So what has this got to do with the price of Bacon ?It is a cause close to the hearts of many, dyslexia. They are the sort of well-meaning blooper that, when pointed out, can alienate a dyslexic from their own culture for a very long time.

If I worked Systematicaly

reading time about 5 minutes

If I worked systematicaly, not just motivated by a spirit of scientific enquirey from time to time. I would be eating my own home-made low-fat pancakes for breakfast everyday, not just when I wake up on time and have eggs to cook with.

Not a happy happenstance you my think, but in my opinion, there is a certian olde-worlde charm to a spirit of scientific enquirey that more modern and conventional psycho-technology lacks. For one thing it is not always a defective, so it does not preclude me from being rational and cautious when I encounter something new. It is not always a rechercheral, so I do not always get tramiled into convention when I am in an experiment. This often leads to that rare phenomenon that the other reseachers are looking for.

What has motivated me to write this ? I am in the process of joining a medical research organisation, sponsered by a local university. I am trying to work out how to approach my first experiment with them and why they are keen on me joining them. I am not totally “the new boy”; I have been in medical experiments before. I think I will be more of “the man from outer-place”. I hope that I will not be dumped in the deep end first. It is also a long time since I wrote a letter to myself and this page is my way of getting back into writing.

It is, as I write this, less than half an hour to midnight. Therefore, pancakes for breakfast ? probably not. But pancakes for lunch and a surpise for modern science? I hope so.