Tonight, just for kicks, I typed my email address into google to see what would happen. What I found might startle you. Because it startled me. It's weird because I remember the words, so I must have written it, but for the life of me I don't know why. Apparently I read some article and I decided the guy was talking out of his ass. I'd normally never send a stranger an email just to call him an asshole, so I must have REALLY thought this guy was an asshole. And I was probably really drunk. Anyway, here it is:
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From: "insect 13"
To: Reinarto@Hadipriono.com
Subject: "Deceptive Memory" article
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 04:59:35 -0600

That was the most inane, ridiculous article I've ever read. I wish I could go into my "past" and gouge out my eyes, so that in my "future present condition" I may be spared from wasting 10 "minutes" of "being decieved" by my "concept of present" reading your "article". Thereby saving myself another 10 "minutes" of this "present", "right now", writing this response to your "rambling" and "poorly thought out" "article" which I may or may not have just read, depending on how long it took the light to reach my eyes, and when I actually percieved it, be it in my "past", "present" or "future".
I apologize if it seems like I'm poking fun at you, but I'm simply using the same dumbass made-up jargon to confusedly convey my thoughts on a subject that I, also, know absolutely nothing about. Have a nice "concept of present".

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Haha, wow. I looked up the article and I don't remember ever having read it. It was basically this idiot talking about how everything we look at is different from what we actually see because it takes time for the light to reach us. So whatever we're seeing when we see it is already different because it's actually .00000000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds old. Wow, what a master of the obvious. His main evidence to support this big load of "who-gives-a-shit" is that when we look at stars we see how they looked millions of years ago. Mind-numbing. Give this guy a grant! Oh, he also loves to put quotation marks around everything.

I recommend that each and every one of you get shitty drunk, find some asshole on the internet and send them some hate mail. Then post it here. It might be funny.

I've always been fascinated by the fact that when we look at stars, we're actually looking into the past because we're seeing the way they looked thousands, even millions of years ago. But somehow the same fascination doesn't extend to things that I'm looking at in my livingroom. So I'm actually seeing the way the cat looked a billionth of a second ago? Big fucking deal.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

It's not just the time it takes light to reach your eyes. That's nothing next to the time it takes for the nerve impulses to travel to the brain and get shunted around in there and made sense of.

The bizarre thing is that the brain compensates for this by anticipating slightly. So if you're tracking a moving object, your brain isn't showing you where it was when the light hit your retina. It's showing you where it is now, which is weird, because your eye hasn't seen that yet. In other words, we actually see a little bit into the future.

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What others say about boorite!

I always wondered about perceptions. If i say an object is green when I see it someone will agree. We could both be seeing totally different colours, but the name is green from what we are taught. Tastes too, what I know as Tuna could taste like Celery to someone though they assocaite that taste as Tuna.

Too hard to explian, but I think I got my point in somewhere (or someone).

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I dumb :D

Yeah, that's why I've never understood people who are colour blind.

Also: lactose intollerance is a myth.

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Dad was flammable

How is that a myth? Not that I am diagnosed with said problem. I drink about 2-4L a day.

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I dumb :D

I'm color blind. I couldn't see purple if someone wrote purple in purple. It's just a grayish blue. And I can easily mistake brown for red, and vice versa. Sometimes green decides to jump into the mix.

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all the wrong things for all the right reasons

that gave me an idea for a comic

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what if nigger meant kite

Surely when you were young, someone pointed at the colour brown and said "this is brown". No matter what colour your brain saw it'd learn that it is called brown?

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Dad was flammable

Yes, this is true, but they did the same for red, and sometimes my eyes see brown as red, or red as brown, depending usually on my first guess. I personally can't explain it very well. Labels don't help, it's the colors themselves that confuse me.

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all the wrong things for all the right reasons

http://www.echalk.co.uk/amusements/OpticalIllusions/colourPerception/colourPerception.html

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woof

Lets play snooker sometime :)

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Poo perhaps?

These are the only things I got off my email address. I prefer receiving hate mail. But I never do. And when I do, it's just a friend trying to cheer me up.

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My last boyfriend was colourblind, yet he was an interior designer. Go figure. I used to try to get him to explain what he saw and how he knew what went with what, but he'd say he couldn't define it in terms I'd understand.

The weird thing is when we'd go out shopping, he'd often ask me to tell him what colours were what, yet when he'd work on projects, he'd do it alone and the colour palettes were always great.

I don't think homosexuals can ever be unstylish, if he came up with some terrible colour scheme it'd be considered "in" this season. Rather ironic, I think.

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Dad was flammable

You never met the guy in my costuming class who had an unhealthy love of all shades orange.