AKA Mental Entrenching 2 Since the second season of the BBC show Sherlock, which is a show that I highly suggest to those who have not seen it, there has been a lot of talk about "Mind Palaces". A mind palace comes from an ancient Greek and Roman memory technique called the Method of Loci, with loci being the plural of Latin locus, meaning location. The idea, for those unfamiliar, is to imagine a place in your mind, preferably a place you know well, like your house, and to imagine a path from one point - or location - to the next that you follow whenever you need to remember a list of information. If you need to remember to buy corn, milk and eggs, imagine a stalk of corn sleeping in your bed, a jug of milk on the stairs and eggs on the kitchen counter and then walk the path from your bedroom to the kitchen. This method of memorization is tried and true as a form of image association, but what we really |
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To those of you who are seeing this site now for the first time through the new Facebook page, and to you who have been here many times before, Welcome!
This blog is a project of mine that I have been using to update people about the goings on up in Rochester, NY. We're coming off of a period of inactivity, but now that phase 2 has begun, (More on that in the upcoming return of an old tradition here...) I have renewed excitement and much to say here. Though I still cannot fit a consistent weekly feature into my schedule, Heinz Evolution now has an e-mail notification system! If you want to be notified of new posts instead of having to check, just click the link at the top of the blog sidebar. As a side note, if you have any problems with the e-mailing service, make sure to e-mail me at [email protected] so I can try to fix it. The Facebook page will also be active, though not annoyingly so, performing surveys and things like that to help with development and other things of that nature. If you are new to the site, make sure to check through some of the old posts, especially the TSaT's, and I'll see you all soon! Over the last few weeks I have been trying to sort out the feelings that I have about the two realms that I inhabit. One, the more obvious and straight-forward of the two, is my life in college. It is inhabited by friends, professors, and responsibilities that have taken up downright amazing amounts of time and effort each. The other realm, however, is the one that I left to come here. I expected to be somehow detached from the investment that I left there, but I was very much mistaken. I may not see the day to day activity of where I used to live, but my presence is still there, the relationships still very much intact. Though I do not see the people that I love I feel them in their effect on me, as I'm sure they feel me. I have been reminded already quite a few times of my obligations to those connections by my family, but it didn't really sink in to me for some reason until I thought about it in relation to this blog. To that environment this is not just some side repository of excess musings; this blog is what is left of me if I do not respond to calls. I now know that, whatever it becomes, this site will be for those of you that know me more than just Jonathan from Rochester. I will not forget my duties to the people who have helped me mentally and physically in hard times and supported me wholeheartedly when I wanted to leave that world to come up to this wonderfully tiring corner of the country. I love the life that I get to live in day by day here, but I dearly miss the one that I left behind as well, especially where the amazing people that I have the honor of knowing are concerned. I want to stay connected and grounded, (which is something I never realized that a person could do in college without treating the dorms like some sort of long-term hotel,) and when I don't have time to call and catch up I promise that I will still be here, if not every week as close as I can come to it. I know for a fact that I need this much more than most of you. Where before this was something to make me feel like I had meaningful things to say, it has become a place where I feel like I can talk to an entire world away at once, and that means more to me than I can say.
I know that I'm a day late, but hey, it's my first week here in beautiful Rochester New York! This week has been extremely busy, but I am still here so that you guys can keep up with the times. The University is perfect for what I was after, and I am happy to say that the next for years could be the best yet for Heinz. All procrastination and laziness aside, this year's schedule has many good things in store, including the possibility of adding German to the languages Heinz has available. I have met a few different people so far, and there are many more that I do not know, but what people can have in common is somewhat astounding. A TV show or hobby can break the ice between two people, and an hour's time can make friends of them. An afternoon can see them sharing stories and pains of the past.
What I have realized in the last couple of days is that you cannot take those pains into such a new phase of life. They are not only in the past but separated by an expanse of new information and a new you. No matter how hard you hold on to an old break up or scar of similar kind - and we all do, no matter how much we tell ourselves that we really want to let go, you cannot help but be faced with the world that sees that as a long forgotten moment - inconsequential to the present that is so full of rich possibilities. Things can remind us of what came before but it cannot strike again, not in this world that is so different and rife with its own dangers. We cannot survive such pain as is to come if we bear it alongside that that has passed. We feel like both are one in the same, however, when they are not. Every new person holds a whole world, and no matter how similar their story could be to one that you have heard before it is different in just as many ways. A person doesn't ever have faith in relationships, love, or anything of the kind, they have faith in each person that they let into their life. If someone hurts you when you let them get that close, that is something that they alone decided. Broken trust - or broken faith - is something beautiful truly lost, but it is broken only for that person. Sometimes the only way to love again is to find the one you can trust in and believe in when you feel like you can't anymore. As a quick foreward, the picture I have in my mind as I write these posts is a dark expanse, where I throw ideas and hope that they find somewhere to be heard. Again I ask you to comment if you can, so that I can see your face in that darkness. Plus, I'm not going to stop mentioning it until you do, so there. Hop to it. On to the good stuff!
After a hop across the pond, some scary driving, and a hundred failed chess matches, I am finally on my way home. To one home, at least. Week number three! Exciting! Do you believe me now? Looks like we’ll be here on Thursdays now. Tell your friends, tell your family; tell every single person you know!
This week’s TSaT will be somewhat short and late (I’m not sure whether I will be losing a day or not), as I am writing it in the air above the American south, headed to Atlanta, Georgia before flying to a wondrous land: Ireland. This does not mean, however, that I will be breaking off or limiting my posts, however; I will be writing a full post out of the Land of Ire and Song. I wouldn’t forget you guys, those of you actually out there. For today, however, I wanted to talk fairly quickly about Twitch. Heinz Evolution will be officially be launching its base version to select customers starting August 26! Starting that day I will begin working with our partner the U of R to judge reaction to the new Heinz and see what we can improve. See you all soon!
It's the middle of the night and I can't get to sleep, so rather than skulking on Facebook I thought I would post some housekeeping items and one thing that has been on my mind. Oh, and if you are looking back at this post while looking through the archives you might find this especially interesting.
Hey! Hello there! Here we are again, on Thursday, just like I promised. (Well, technically Friday morning, but let's just call it a late Thursday night.)
"Ooh, it looks like this is a weekly thing! Or at least he said it would be; it will take more than just two weeks to get me to believe that this is going to be a thing. After all, you can't just say it will be and have people accept it right away." Well, one step at a time, as they say. This week I want to talk about minds. |
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