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No, but I do sometimes wave goodbye to people when I'm done talking to them on the phone.

Hahaha, I have done that.

I often talk about how I need to defragment my brain.

And say "lol."

And try to photoshop real life.

Yes to all.

I often talk about how I need to defragment my brain.
Oh God that would be AMAZING.

Wow I thought I was the only one who talked about that! I always say I need to defrag my brain, back up my memory, get a faster connection, get a virus scan... I swear I take better care of my computer than myself.

Heh, I figured someone would post that here! * grins *

I don't try to click things so much as get frustrated when looking for things and want a quick CTRL+F fix.

Oh and to ctrl-z or apple-z in real life would be awesome.

Heartily agreed. And a scroll button. =P

My cognitive-science professor from last semester tells a story about a time when he was at a conference and was struck by a really great idea for an experiment. He found a pencil quickly, but the paper took him a little longer to locate, and after he frantically wrote down this inspiration, he noticed that his left arm wanted to do something instinctively. At first he was planning to ignore it since there didn't seem to be any need for his left arm to make any movements, but he changed his mind and decided to explore it since it was a pretty strong impulse that he was receiving and he was intrigued by it. So he thought about it and realised it was localised to two fingers, and when he let them move in the way they'd wanted to, my professor realised that his left hand was automatically going for the CTRL+S.

Bottom line: these sorts of moments (I've also tried to hit CTRL+Z while handwriting) can make you feel pretty idiotic, but then they also provide interesting insights into muscle-memory and motor-patterns.

After spending all day in my online class and my online journal and maybe dabbling in second life, I find myself trying to do a lot of the same "moves" in first life.....so, um, yeah!

The other day, I put some papers down on my laptop keyboard and then tipped it backwards so they fell on the screen. Then I wanted to open an audio file and I was like WHY WON'T THIS SHIT MINIMIZE ALREADY?

Yeah, and I've driven to work, come across a hill and noticed the brilliant red clouds due to sunrise and thought, FUCK there's a gate in Sandnes now, oh-well will need to pop-over and fix that after work then.

Which will make no sense to you whatsoever unless you've played Oblivion.