New addition to family

Since Big 'O' broke my mandolin I have been 8 string-less.
Big fingers required a bigger fretboard-
MANDOLO !

the simplest explanation for the dangers of materialism that I have ever seen.

Sockification

I know that this is a sock balling device but I:
a) Love the twee 'Wall-E' way it pulls its arms back after each movement sequence.
b) Think that it will be bought up instantly by the Japanese sex toy industry.

Theo Jansen - Animaris Rhinoceros

This weighs 2 tons and is powered by wind alone. and moves hypnotically. and is creepy.

Ideomotor apraxia

Fascinating MSc lecture today on Ideomotor apraxia. Key feature is inability to mime an action. Inconclusive as to why this happens. Patients can commonly use a knife, for example, but can't mime using a knife without a knife in hand. I think that it might be a sensory recognition memory cue effect. We pick up and heft things to feel how to use them (like archaeologists do when they reconstruct tools from bits from a dig site and then play around with them to see how they fit in the hand and what they could have done).

I think that the brain does have a cloud of interconnections that are interacting like a 3D matrix and it is so complex that we are not able to map it simply yet. It may not be just memory or just postural memory or just automatic engrams of motor coordination. It is probably a great deal more complex.

CLIMBING TRAINING:from Cavezzo a tribute to Wolfgang Güllich

I wince every time he goes for a rung. I Don't know how to get there without getting injured

Mark Grist on Girls who read

Couldn't agree more.

As a test go to Jinsy:

This is Jinsy

David Tennant

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Daily Greet.

...and Tremadog trip in March. Turns out we are staying in traditional climbing barn. (Eric's of Tremadog). Eric of course is one of those people that is a world class hero and a really human being and cafe owner.

To be fair the attractions also include a barn that is so close to the crag that if you muff the crux on a route you could crash through the roof on the sleeping bodies of the late risers and a cafe opposite that sports a menu with a choice of "Climbers breakfast A, B or if you can manage it, C
...and the man who was the first Brit to SOLO THE NORTH FACE OF THE EIGER who will ask you how you want your breakfast. Go on, just try and do a measly VS climb after that.

Need to get fit enough to at least on sight some E1's. Love to do Neb Direct (look at the right hand side of the background).


Void

Eric's

Time to train: Msc In Neuro. Fontainebleau. Entertainingly brilliant sons -5 & 7. Balance.

Targets:
Msc in Neuropsychology:

2 modules done, four to do, one distinction, one exam result pending.

Fontainebleau bouldering in France:

Did Bossu 6b and Blue circuits last year and near miss 7a. Need to get solid on red circuits.

Entertainingly different and brilliant sons:
"Build self esteem first and the house later" - Diane Loomans. Praxia skills and self esteem 2012.

Also be a lover, earner, diagnostician, therapist, son, brother, brevans absinthe fiend and accepted failure.