Re: ::scr Re: Cognitive Friction

[".clive.murray." <clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "jo walsh" <jo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> > These things get programmed into what is sometimes referred to as
"muscle
> > memory", although I'm not sure how accurate that term is in a strictly
> > scientific definition.  Anyway, we do these things fast, as if on
auto-pilot.
>
> a few months ago i found my old clarinet in my granny's garage. i hadn't
> picked the thing up for five years, or played it seriously for eight.
> being able to plug it together and play a perfect chromatic scale
> straight off was an amazing sensation. i found myself playing snatches of
> pieces mostly that i'd learnt for examinations.


<aol> exactly all that. I just spent fifteen minutes or so typing against
drunken typos about exactly this (referring to giutar rather than calrinet)
only to bin the mail due to a fcuking abysmal typo-to-word ratio. alcohol is
to balme.


I should now bin this entire mail because <aol> mails don't blong on ::scr,
but I have another point - why does muscle memory (guitar p[laying, typing,
etc) fuck off *entirely* as soon as one has a glass or two of beer?


sue me, it's christmas.
--c.
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