Sunday, June 25, 2006

"Sleep paralysis and hypnopompic hallucinations..."

Greetings,

Well, this week, Thereminisation has taken toll! Been working on a few things, and gave a demonstration of the Theremin and magic at my old college - many new faces, many old, and all baffled, amazed and amused!

There was a great diversity of audience - and those who I would normally take to not get into magic really took to it - which is reassuring (Lucy, Rachel, Jack, Ellie & co. - hope you enjoyed it ;-) ). It was great to meet all of these people, and all whom I met were great people. To all those who were 'put under' - don't worry, I've been doing this a while ;-)

Well, looking to the magic/music concert next Sunday, I'm commencing preparation with the other player - hopefully will be a good show!

Ah well - off to carry on watching the Skeptics Society 2005 conference DVD (which is where the title of this post comes from ;-D ). I was reminded in this DVD (Michael Shermer didn't know who it was, suprisingly) of a quote from Sidney Morgenbesser:

During a lecture the Oxford linguistic philosopher J.L. Austin made the claim that although a double negative in English implies a positive meaning, there is no language in which a double positive implies a negative. To which Morgenbesser responded, "Yeah, yeah." (Some have it quoted as "Yeah, right." See litotes for the actual linguistic status of this hypothesis.)

Have fun.

MxC

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Welcome to...

...the Other place - my little corner of Blogspot.

The Place where Mind meets Brain meets Consciousness (believe that, and you'll believe anything...) This Place is reserved for my thoughts on the things that interest me - I could list them, but then I'd sound like more of a conceited tw@ than I actually am. I'd also sound New Age. Which is wrong.

More to come here - this is just a little test to see if things are working well.

Have fun.

MxC