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From: lauf-s
Subject: a well designed mnemonic
Happy Birthday, Pat.
thank you (Merci beaucoup)
Today is not an automatic unhappy day for me. A day for strong and significant memories, yes.
memory of the past must support confidence in the future, and action now.
[Calendrical] coincidence is not an automatic 'magical' thing for me. A strong and sometimes significant mnemonic, yes.
would we agree a calendar, anyways, is a mnemonic tool or at least a manisfestation of some instinctive need to locate / ubicate (latin Ubicare) our selves (in time, and therefore life?) by a simple comparison of datation (like comparing isohumans - aka equal humans- with isotopes of Carbon 14...)
about the magical, it's inexistant. magical tour are visually mysterious, but if you know the knowhow from behind the scene it's plain trickky stuff.
a technically well designed stuff
but coincidence seems sometimes magical...
and a calendar or a dating reference can be used as a magical mystery tour around our co-existence ( relation between diferent people).
do you remember?
http://lists1.cac.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0309&L=design-l&P=R24667&I=-3
http://lists1.cac.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0309&L=design-l&D=0&I=-3&P=11120
http://lists1.cac.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0309&L=design-l&P=R24994&I=-3
[Maybe it's like a Trumbauer/Abele designed palace with life and death in each of its 366 rooms.]
life and death is around us each daily hour, roaming around.
I sometimes wonder when will my heart stop suddenly, if so,,,
I'll probably never forget your birthday now.
for a plain mnemonic reason, like a trick of some well told tale....
take care... good week end.
( and don´t forget to register for 2004..if not yet)
P.
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