I'm in the middle of reading Prisoner in Trebekistan, a book that purports to be about one contestant's decade-long journey as a Jeopardy contestant. But he manages to insert all kinds of other ruminations that I'm enjoying even more than the behind-the-scenes look at Jeopardy. Among the topics he covers are
- how our brains create memories and when they switch from "record" to "access data" mode
- why changing ingrained habits is so hard (think big strong concrete-encased neural pipelines that resist alteration)
- love and loss
- the connections between cement, bank checks, sex and baseball
Yes, I've also got Brainiac on my bedside table for when I'm ready for hardcore Jeopardy action, but I'm enjoying Trebekistan right now.
Hello Mary Ellen,
you and I met a while back at a conference of some sort - I had you autograph a book as we were standing around at a booksigning . . . anyhow, I was hired back a bit ago when I signed with a signature "Librarian of Fortune" after a career in Special Forces... my new boss was tickled at my signature and used to tease me about it - but now, I have a real Librarian of Fortune website to send him. Our network guys recently upgraded his computer and lost his emails and research from the last four years ... so maybe I'll hold off on the LoF link for a while. Well, the good news over it all is that he's sending me to school to get me smart enough not to let those rascally network guys pull another stunt like that on us in the future...
Great blog... I'll come back more often.
Until that time... Earl J.
Posted by: Earl J. Moniz | February 08, 2007 at 06:10 PM