6492 Images, missed calls, made an offer on a condo.

[scottobear]

I missed 3 calls from my brother in jail last night... I hope he tries calling again, when I'm home. I was out looking at condos, and at dinner with my mother. The upside is that I put in an offer on the one I saw a few weeks back on Harrison, in Hollywood. I know that Newt'd really dig the layout, and only a little work is needed. tile the bedroom, a little grout in the bathroom, and that's about it. I hope that the seller is ready to let it go.

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I think that actually captures my brother pretty well. soften the edges and adjust the colors a bit. You can see a lot of feeling there.



Revised nuke-zombie pic... trying for a Svengali sort of thing, rather than undead.

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GP sent me the following -

"Someone sent this link the writers list I belong to. I found it to be pretty interesting. It deals with perception and some experiments people have done.

http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/media/sciam.html

Basically there's a one-minute video of two teams, each with 3 players. One team has white shirts and one team has black shirts. They're tossing around 2 basketballs. The subject's task is to count the number of passes made by the white team. About 35 seconds into the video, a guy dressed in a gorilla outfit enters the mix, beats his chest for about 9 seconds and then leaves.

When people do this test, the results are that 50% never see the gorilla guy. Yep, 50%. Doesn't mater who you test. Out of any group of people, 50% will concentrate so hard on watching the basketballs that they don't see anything else in the film.

The effect is called inattentional-blindness. It probably happens because (1) visual perception does not work like a camera. We "see" what our brains process, not what our eyes see. (2) heavy concentration on
one thing requires enough brain resources that there's not much left over for other tasks. (3) we tend to see what we expect to see, not what's really there.

None of this is a problem when you have lots of time, it's only a problem when you have no more than a few seconds to perceive and interpret some unusual event."

Pretty Nifty... I know that I can get tunnel vision at times.

Comments

[missv.livejournal.com]

Hey...congrats on making the first step towards homeownership! Kinda scary, but fun isn't it? Hope you get it. *crosses digits*

That color-adjusted Scotto looks like he's trying to get inside my head...fortunately, there's nothing in there of any value.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

One woman's valueless stuff is anothe man's insight!

I hope I get it too.. it'd be nice to have a place that's really mine.

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

The photos are not showing for me for some reason. :/

YOu put in an offer!! Wow, Scott. Good for you & Congrats/ :))))

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

hmm.. maybe the server was down. hopefully it'll be back up by the time you check your messages again. :)

Thanks for the congrats!

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

oo, I see now! Yes, that photo looks nice, I think. Did it feel a bit cathartic when you were playing around with it? He looks so lost in the actual mug photo of him earlier. :/

Maybe this time there is hope of a change - wouldn't that beat all if this turns out to be something that changes everything around for you both.

And how soon dod you find out on the offer - this weekend? How soon would you have to wait to move in?

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Thanks.. fiddling with the image was a way for me to try and focus on him in a positive light.

I won't hold my breath re:him changing, but there's always hope.

Well, I made the offer Thursday, but the seller had a baby Thursday night! I may know as soon as today, depending her comfort level.


Upside? New baby may make them want to sell quicker for lovely piles of money!