Jeff and I like to watch documentaries.
If you haven't seen documentaries in a while, you may be surprised. Quite recently, we've seen King of Kong and Wordplay (of course we've seen Spellbound and Murderball and Supersize me along the way, too)... and if you've seen any of these you can soon figure out the common theme:
these people are all obsessed.
like, crazy obsessed.
(but, who else would you make a movie about?)
I watch these, in awe at the crossword makers who drive down the street and can't help but anagram Dunkin' Donuts into "Unkind Donuts" - not like that's that hard, but I'd never think of it. These guys brains just work like this. They see puzzles and make puzzles everywhere.
I've read stories about mathematicians
(yes, that's right, I read stories about mathematicians)
who do the same thing with numbers. Where ever they look, they're doing number problems or finding the common relation among numbers - in phone numbers, license plates, etc.
They can't help it. Their brains do it automatically.
(this is how I also know that I'm not a mathematician.)
While I was out for a run this morning
(a "short," mildly painful, getting-back-into-long-runs post-vacation run)
I was thinking about these crazy people and wondering what it would be like for your brain to work like that, involuntary reacting, processing the world around you.
Then I stopped short, in the fog, and tried to find the best angle to photograph a beautiful dew-dropped spider web on a bush.
My camera was a mile and a half back at home.
Fortunately, I found my own little dew-dropped spider web, waiting for me at home an hour later.
If you haven't seen documentaries in a while, you may be surprised. Quite recently, we've seen King of Kong and Wordplay (of course we've seen Spellbound and Murderball and Supersize me along the way, too)... and if you've seen any of these you can soon figure out the common theme:
these people are all obsessed.
like, crazy obsessed.
(but, who else would you make a movie about?)
I watch these, in awe at the crossword makers who drive down the street and can't help but anagram Dunkin' Donuts into "Unkind Donuts" - not like that's that hard, but I'd never think of it. These guys brains just work like this. They see puzzles and make puzzles everywhere.
I've read stories about mathematicians
(yes, that's right, I read stories about mathematicians)
who do the same thing with numbers. Where ever they look, they're doing number problems or finding the common relation among numbers - in phone numbers, license plates, etc.
They can't help it. Their brains do it automatically.
(this is how I also know that I'm not a mathematician.)
While I was out for a run this morning
(a "short," mildly painful, getting-back-into-long-runs post-vacation run)
I was thinking about these crazy people and wondering what it would be like for your brain to work like that, involuntary reacting, processing the world around you.
Then I stopped short, in the fog, and tried to find the best angle to photograph a beautiful dew-dropped spider web on a bush.
My camera was a mile and a half back at home.
Fortunately, I found my own little dew-dropped spider web, waiting for me at home an hour later.
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