This morning, this name of a song, which just bubbled up out of nowhere. (No, this is not a bright and sunny day.)
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Morning: The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
December 26, 2015You must remember this
October 12, 2015The Dilbert from 10/10, on the fragility of memory:
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Memory is fragile in the here and now, as for the pointy-haired boss and Dilbert (above), but even more so in the longer term, as in this Zach Kanin cartoon from the October 12th New Yorker:
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As I’ve posted about many times, this sort of memory is a construction, often in flux, showing the effects of selective attention, expectations, and later experience (including things you’ve heard about). The white whale loomed big in (this) Captain Ahab’s mind, and so in his memory.
Now the title of this posting, the first line of the song “As Time Goes By”.