February 2012
6 posts
The Alignment Test
Chaotic-Good
66% Good, 64% Chaotic
Plane of Existence: Arborea, “Arvandor, Olympus, Olympian Glades”. Notable Inhabitants: Titans & gods of Greek mythology; Eladrin. Examples of Chaotic-Goods (Ethically Chaotic, Morally Good) Tifa Lockheart (FFVII) Captain Kirk Robin Hood Thomas Jefferson Oscar Wilde Peregrin Took Jim Hawkins Austin Powers Walt Whitman Zorro Han...
The new science of our cross-wired senses →
By COURTNEY HUMPHRIES l The Boston Globe Dec. 11, 2011
Yes, your ears can change what you taste. What discoveries about cross-sensory perception are revealing about the brain.
The senses have always been our portals into the outer world. We have the classic five that Aristotle talked about — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch — plus more recently recognized senses of balance, ...
Kuala Lumpur, your eardrums are not safe
(first published on flightplansg.wordpress.com - my new vehicle for happy nonsense)
It’s like being swallowed by a whale, motorcycling down the throbbing morass that is Kuala Lumpur’s highways, byways and no-bloody-ways. Maniacal scooters that make our taxi drivers look like road-safety poster boys, the city heat that liquidates your eyeballs, that distinct chance of you being shat...