Tangents

[Chemical]

Often when I'm talking I'll start off with a single idea and it will slowly progress into something completely unrelated. Well perhaps not completely unrelated... normally what happens is that I'll be on a subject and a 'keyword' will come up in the conversation and suddenly I'll find myself going on about that.

Which is really interesting because keywords are a good way to explain how the brains memory functions. What happens is that your brain stores information all over the cortex that's connected by axons and dendrites in a complicated web of neurons. If you think of a keyword as a single point in the memory; what happens is that there are several branches that lead off into objects related.

IE> Think of apple. Apple itself is a single keyword, but there are a million little branches that break off into things you relate apple to. Adam & Eve, green, McIntosh, sauce, computers...

and these brances work together to make whole ideas and concepts through cognitive selection.


[PS. Reply to above posts (seriously) but then go off on your own(somewhat related)tangent, don't turn this into spam fest. It's a serious yo >=o .]

[Resha]

I'm always going off on tangents. One thing leads to another to another to yet another and I hardly ever wind up finishing stories I'm telling and whatnot. I've improved of late, though. >=)

[Quindiana Jones]

Oh God, tangents. Reminds me that I've got maths homework. But trigonometry's easy so yey! Ah crap...I've also got loads of other homework and coursework to do before Monday

[Jowy]

Thankfully though, there's a two day relaxation period known commonly as the weekend! And then it's back to work for me.

[Quindiana Jones]

You lot suck at this game.

[Chemical]

You lot suck at this game.

I concur.

And speaking of concur, that sounds a lot like conquer. I'm sure I conquer too. Almost like the Romans conquered most of Europe during the height of their reign.

[PS: This is a game. You're supposed to reply to the post above your own. It's about tangents... you reply to their post but then take the subject and go off on a completely different tangent. Like I did to Quin 'n' Tonic... soooo for instance if someone were to reply to mine they might say something like. "Indeed Chemical! Though with the collapse and the dethroning of the caeser the Roman Empire was no more and speaking of Caeser's I had a most excellent one for lunch today accompanied by roma and spinach lasagna. Viva Italia!"]

[Jowy]

And speaking of the Romans and conquering, Little Caesar sure as hell seems be conquering the pizza empire, what with $5 for a large pizza and all.

[theundeadhero]

While I don't like spinich much, I like lasagna a lot. That's weird because when I was a kid I didn't like lasagna at all. I really liked garlic bread though and still do. I had some at lunch the other day. It's not something I get to eat very often anymore. Army mess halls don't really serve the best food. I guess I should say the one I currently eat at doesn't serve the best food. It's one of the worst ones I've ever eaten at. The best was in Iraq. Isn't that surprising? I would have never thought that in Iraq I would get the best food of my Army career. I can't really say that I will have a career in the Army though. I don't know if I want to spend twenty years doing this. Next week is my four year anniversiary though. Who would of thought that it would have come so fast. It's hard believing it was already four years ago when I left the home. I miss home. I'll be visiting soon though. In December. This will be the first Christmas I've been home for in four years. Last year I was in Iraq. The year before I was stuck all alone in Georgia. The year before that I was in Korea. I sure have lived in a lot of foreign countries, haven't I? I'm currently living in Germany. I wonder where I'll live next?

<b>EDIT:</b> Took a bit to write and Jowy beat me to it.

[The Devil Man]

Hmm, very interesting. Devil Man also wonders where he'd like to live next.

He is thinking of PM'ing Chemical and ask her if he can come and live with her, in her bedroom as she is hawt, hawt, hawt!

The Sun is also hawt!

[Shoeberto]

The tangent line to x=2 on the graph y=x³ is y=12x-16.

amirite

edit: fixed it I think? It's a friday, humor me.

[edczxcvbnm]

I never go off on tangents. I only go off on Sins :P

Awesomely retarded puns FTW!

[Shoeberto]

I never go off on tangents. I only go off on Sins :P

Awesomely retarded puns FTW!

It's okay, you just need to divide it by a cos.

[Alive-Cat]

I usually start talking about something completely unrelated and then it merges into one big ball of fluff and then I get kicked out.

[Jigsaw]

Oh yeah I go off on tangents all the time. Sometimes I won't even say more than one sentence on a subject. But that's just because I'm really busy these days, with school and all. I got a crapload of homework to do this weekend. My geology professor is kind of a nut and gives us all these crazy labs to do.

[Zeromus_X]

Guys, play the game correctly or don't play it at all.

And speaking of the Romans and conquering, Little Caesar sure as hell seems be conquering the pizza empire, what with $5 for a large pizza and all.

Yeah, it's amazing what you can buy with five dollars! Why...I could purchase a pack of batteries for that much money, with some left over (well, I'm trying)!