On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 04:52:16PM -0500, Philip wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 18:57 -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote: > > I got used to people trying to kill me several > > times a day - that's what it looked like, anyway, with people swerving > > over into my lane, etc. When I honked, they looked shocked - it was > > obvious they hadn't realized I was there. > > I had a bike shop for years and did a bit of research in to why people > in cars run into bicycles, even when the rider is in plain sight. > > They didn't "see" you. Many people, probably all of us at one time or > another, look to see if there are any cars - No cars? Go! Woops! Perfect demonstration of case in point:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4 > The mind is the organ of perception , not the eye. If the (preoccupied?) > mind does not see what it is looking for, then all is clear. Yep. There's a large class of magic tricks based on exactly this. > HINT. Can't find what you are looking for? Call out its name and watch > it pop into sight. Oh, very nice. Even with all the stuff I've learned in this area, I'd never heard that. Excellent. "Keys, keys... where did I put those keys? Ah, here they are." -- OKOPNIK CONSULTING Custom Computing Solutions For Your Business Expert-led Training | Dynamic, vital websites | Custom programming 443-250-7895 http://okopnik.com http://twitter.com/okopnik _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
