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I never drank coffee until I started to work on a summer during college…..we drank tea growing up, but at the bank where I worked they had “coffee breaks” with a coffee wagon, no tea, and so I became a coffee drinker. It is definately an acquired taste. But I really love it now..
JB, if you live in NJ work in NYC, you dont pay NYC taxes. they might withhold some on your paycheck but you get credit for it when you do your NJ taxes. that’s why when people move to NJ, they rationalize the ppty tax as saving from not having to pay NYC taxes
Rob, I am sorry I missed your post about your grandmother; that is too bad that she is not doing well.
It is a great convenience to have a car, but as Denton says, it requires money to maintain it — gas, insurance, and the random expenses you incur keeping it up. It is also work to make sure you are parked in the right place and sometimes you get tickets, as hard as you try not to.
What kind of car is it?
“I read somewhere that smell is the sense most closely linked to memory.”
this is true,
in fact it is an argument about the sense of smell that I once had, which led me to be so strongly opinionated about things ever since.
I was standing on line one summer day in Central Park to get into an evening of Shakespeare in the Park,
I believe it was The Tempest. Kevin Klein was in it.
And we were feeling good since we had just had a couple of drinks and the evening was nice. this was in the early 90’s.
Anyway, I was with two lovely young ladies, friends from college and we were discussing the sense of scent.
I was a medical student at the time.
and I stated just what you just said DH, that the olfactory sense is most strongly linked to memory.
I knew the 12 cranial nerves:
olfactory
optic
occulomotor
trochlear
trigeminal
abducens
facial
vestibulocochlear
glossopharyngeal
vagal
accessory
hypoglossal
anyhow, I understood that the first, the olfactory nerve, shoots right into the brain without making any stop-overs along waypoints like the substantia nigra that might transform that chemical/electrical signal.
so I said to my friends, something like
“yeah, the sense of smell shoots right into your brain,
that’s why it’s so powerful”.
not a second passed when, like out of a Woody Allen movie,
the two idiots standing behind me ( a man and a woman in their 30’s) chime in with:
“no, that’s not true, the sense of smell doesn’t
go right to your brain.”
I said, “excuse me?”
and they repeated “well, we’re neuroscientists, and the odors don’t just go right into the brain”.
In other words they were interpreting my words literally to mean that an odor like “poo mist” for instance just goes through your nose and sticks to your brain.”
well in my buzzed state and with the fact that I wasn’t so opinionated back then, I just said, “well, you must know better then” and left it at that.
I still had a good evening with my friends but I could not shake the feeling that I should have just told those two bone heads to STFU and that I’m not talking literally but figuratively in a scientific sense.
anyway,
I’ve never held back my opinions since.
because I realized that evening that people
often don’t know what hell they’re talking about.
expecially with advanced degrees.
I love the smell of peppermint and lavendar. I especially love using Dr. Bronner’s pepperming 18n1. That stuff wakes me up and makes my privates tingle.
I never drank coffee until I started to work on a summer during college…..we drank tea growing up, but at the bank where I worked they had “coffee breaks” with a coffee wagon, no tea, and so I became a coffee drinker. It is definately an acquired taste. But I really love it now..
JB, if you live in NJ work in NYC, you dont pay NYC taxes. they might withhold some on your paycheck but you get credit for it when you do your NJ taxes. that’s why when people move to NJ, they rationalize the ppty tax as saving from not having to pay NYC taxes
By denton on August 13, 2010 2:41 PM
how come coffee smells so good but tastes so bad?
denton
it’s like the opposite of papaya,
to me a papaya smells like a trucker’s ‘roid pad.
but has a great taste.
Legion, I see 2 new updated names for 2 of those nerves. The mneumonic device I used in college was
Old Ornery Oscar Tried To Abduct Fat Agnes’s Glossy Vagina Single Handedly
Rob, I am sorry I missed your post about your grandmother; that is too bad that she is not doing well.
It is a great convenience to have a car, but as Denton says, it requires money to maintain it — gas, insurance, and the random expenses you incur keeping it up. It is also work to make sure you are parked in the right place and sometimes you get tickets, as hard as you try not to.
What kind of car is it?
how come coffee smells so good but tastes so bad?
“”…what’s everyone’s favorite smell?”
you really wanna know?
dh, I was about to mention that myself 🙂
posted by DH
“I read somewhere that smell is the sense most closely linked to memory.”
this is true,
in fact it is an argument about the sense of smell that I once had, which led me to be so strongly opinionated about things ever since.
I was standing on line one summer day in Central Park to get into an evening of Shakespeare in the Park,
I believe it was The Tempest. Kevin Klein was in it.
And we were feeling good since we had just had a couple of drinks and the evening was nice. this was in the early 90’s.
Anyway, I was with two lovely young ladies, friends from college and we were discussing the sense of scent.
I was a medical student at the time.
and I stated just what you just said DH, that the olfactory sense is most strongly linked to memory.
I knew the 12 cranial nerves:
olfactory
optic
occulomotor
trochlear
trigeminal
abducens
facial
vestibulocochlear
glossopharyngeal
vagal
accessory
hypoglossal
anyhow, I understood that the first, the olfactory nerve, shoots right into the brain without making any stop-overs along waypoints like the substantia nigra that might transform that chemical/electrical signal.
so I said to my friends, something like
“yeah, the sense of smell shoots right into your brain,
that’s why it’s so powerful”.
not a second passed when, like out of a Woody Allen movie,
the two idiots standing behind me ( a man and a woman in their 30’s) chime in with:
“no, that’s not true, the sense of smell doesn’t
go right to your brain.”
I said, “excuse me?”
and they repeated “well, we’re neuroscientists, and the odors don’t just go right into the brain”.
In other words they were interpreting my words literally to mean that an odor like “poo mist” for instance just goes through your nose and sticks to your brain.”
well in my buzzed state and with the fact that I wasn’t so opinionated back then, I just said, “well, you must know better then” and left it at that.
I still had a good evening with my friends but I could not shake the feeling that I should have just told those two bone heads to STFU and that I’m not talking literally but figuratively in a scientific sense.
anyway,
I’ve never held back my opinions since.
because I realized that evening that people
often don’t know what hell they’re talking about.
expecially with advanced degrees.
I love the smell of peppermint and lavendar. I especially love using Dr. Bronner’s pepperming 18n1. That stuff wakes me up and makes my privates tingle.