410. Pussing in an American Car

I'm gonna set aside for a minute the whole like nobody remembers anything from before they were five. How much does somebody remember about disassociating? Because the cat would meow like that, close to that, a lot. And boy, I really could have used that word yesterday and I refused to even type it. And it starts like this, it goes doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom down this picture into you and me. And my I watched my dog think about the size of a KFC chicken breast. I listened to the first half of a reconcile r reconcilable difference episode w that will um it's Merlin's more popular Yeah, I um I had an ear well we used to call it an earache. I still struggle a little bit with like where stuff goes because unlike John Locke, I live in a world that has a lot of different means of information getting moved around.

But the thing is, the commonplace book is where that stuff goes. I doubt they sat around fretting whether it goes in this book or that book or that book or this book that I keep at my country place or this book that's in the kitchen, you know. Because I have to think about what's an easy way for it to get in. Like you've got this fixed number of card catalog numbers in whatever your system is. Take out two sheets of paper. You write tasks over here and you write projects over there. Well, because the innovation in my time and my experience with apps that do this is the brilliant co-commingling of projects and tasks and a third axis called context. You could say, like, just show me a list of all my tasks.

And when you view by context, you're also choosing to view not by context. But then an index that exists outside of those day-to-day pages, however you do it, then you've got an index where you could be like manually adding in value to that information by contextualizing it. I don't want to screw this up with a bunch of Synology stuff. When I do a notes document of with shared well that I share with other people, it's really the easiest way I know of to like collaborate, you know, in a pleasant way. You've got another section of stuff that is at the house but is not wrapped. And the easiest way I know of to handle this because of the wonderful capability of Apple Notes in a wonderful way is to always have an area at the bottom.

Whereas like sometimes you're like, oh, this thread was really doing really bangin', and now it's not. Given that. So why is anyone curious? I don't know what it means, but I love saying it. That's where you can't stop playing you can't we don't say that. That is lonely as fuck. Like, yeah, I was scared, like, uh, what's wrong with me? John Sirius, I don't know if you finished listening to that episode from last night. With and if you've ever been a little kid on a plane with otherwise normal to perfect health, you know that even in the best circumstances, especially little kids, they're very sensitive. Oh my weed. Uh but it's not. Yeah, it's rarely enough. But it's my understanding that in the John Locke version, then John Locke was uh what a philosopher and scientist.

It's it's very well it also just shows you how dignified a man can get when he starts shaving his head. unless you come up with the wonkiest goddamn system in the world like Bujo and rewrite your task list every day like an animal. Like as somebody who read that book after 2001. How much water you've had. I don't have a executive direction. Yeah, no, I guess my job is to keep the Gantt chart updated instead of doing work. Um I just want a way or I hope that sooner will be a way to search for something. We can add that little inbox icon, you know, emoji and the word inbox as an H2. It it feels like I don't know. Your Obsidian vault is named Lucas with Vault ID B. Psychosis thing. Mm well I'm alright, but my mouth sounds we uh blah blah.

7 30 p. At a PM. Oh, sorry, let me put it differently. I've been well behaved. Yeah, she was the perfect one who passed away and that's the one. Uh lap rather and um Alex opening cans of things. I'll I'll do whatever you want. Yeah, you know, Misty Watercolor Memories. I wonder if I still have this. Oh, y okay, how about this? Uh but then he ended up saying I think something like, you know, like I I don't know how this happened. Must be nice. Yeah, there's like Capgrass Delusion is one I remember hearing about. Diana, if only it were just him. I feel like in order for people to understand at least my conception of self and how my story of like how I think I'm how I I am. We'll get to it. The one to whom Chevy Chase says, Audrey, can I help you with that, please?

Uh I was talking about my friend John best friend John's father giving me that advice about taking the keys out of the trunk in the car. With my right index finger, I um was just kind of idly like plucking around in my in my ear a little bit, you know, like you do, like ah, geez, fuck, this really sucks. Something I heard over and over as in a kid that's like tattooed in my brain. But that guitar riff at the beginning is almost identical to a theme song from a kids T V show. It would be like m me put accidentally putting out a bowl of ibuprofen and and a cat going up and just going yum yum yum. You know, write it down. Ur even if they reacted uh uh well, the shame would still be there. Uh ironic.

Well I made the incorrect assumption, being like, oh, this is some sort of performance art and then started to skim the Wikipedia article and Yeah. Wait shh shh shh hey hey everybody there's gonna be a high high um high friend. Um you break the little world when you do this. That's pretty good. Uh I I actually did want to ask. Thank you for that. See now the story's already falling apart because we used to d drive to Florida, which sucked because our car had no air conditioning. I discovered that when I was trying this stuff, which does not people say C B D oil cannot make you high. So I mean I do a lot of pissing on a spark plug and trying different things. you've got to counteract side effects of things.

Three. What can maybe get used to the case? 321. It's so Casey does KCS has to do so much reading on that show about things that are interesting only to John. Uh to something could you tell me about how you got interested in um whatever this is. feel like I s I sound defensive and there's no need to be, but like I feel like I already do that. It's mainly a like a give yourself permission thing, I think. Uh what's the other big one people use? What do you do with it once you've done it? But I I knew that's what I'm saying. Well, we get to the part that I found so interesting and utterly not that useful for me, but I'd love to talk when we're done with this, I'd love to talk about the index, how he came up with the index.

Pivotal I'm I'm I'm um I'm abandoning I'm abandoning it. The or the program as as you said. And you were talking about John Locke on lost because he got out of his wheelchair. So let's say you've got this have we adequately described I feel like we haven't what a commonplace book is. But the idea is you Hold up, I don't know w what is considered an engineering notebook or does it not matter? uh a diary of your progress with and you could s ask it to be admissible really swear to it and say like well on this page 17 you'll notice there's no missing page 18. The same way that like in Dewey Decibel or Library of Congress, you've got topics and subtopics like in a thesaurus, in a classic, not the not the dictionary thesaurus, in a classic Roger's Thesaurus, where as we all know the first entry is existence.

It's not AA alligator, it's existence because it takes starts from the biggest concept in my brain every time. Which I think is a very interesting way to think about um epistemology. Right? And but supposedly one of the things he does is he would use have like an alphabetical listing of topics. You can't change and like I say in Bujo, the one of the things I think is cool about bullet journals is that idea of having an index of the pages, having you could have an index of the topics. You could like sort you could look at it by you could pick your axis. uh out of that one, I warned John that my Britishisms are becoming more prominent. Exactly. theoretically does something special and different.

Mm-hmm. You it sounded like you said we were saying you uh you know where to find stuff, but then there's certain kinds of things you still have difficulty locating. PKM that you know I show off and like look at look at this, it looks so pretty. Which you know, bad on me if I cared about that. It requires more flicking around because even if you match up for keywords, you still need to then and like drill down into it, right? Because we're people and we're busy. Uh there's just y you know, no way to do that in well, I'm sorry, can continue. But I I know like how I like information to be presented. And let's say a lot of what I do from my commonplace book is I go out and I find stuff and I find either like interesting things to blog or I find things that I'd like to quotes, I'd like to remember.

This is how I roll. hit a bookmarklet and when I hit that bookmarklet I wanted it to append that safari information to a document I should adjust. I would create a notes file for my kid's birthday, a note file for Christmas. It's almost like my rule of wikis in the days even before Wikimedia, like in sticky or back in the day, my rule always rule my Like, don't do that. appending um versus inserting under a heading. And if you want to use this to cheat on your on your final hakuna matata, but like I I'm that's that's not how I roll. It lied its real meaning and unintentionally concatenated with other ideas. Beep, beep, beep, comment. Oh well yeah that too. You know, you can't it's difficult to distract yourself from it.

Unnecessary medical things you do for your children because uh of your anxiety. how his family was really Catholic and he was taken to meet this really old nun. But when I play it over in my head, despite the clarity of the event, I still have a lot of questions about what actually happened. on one of uh my dad's metal shelves in our garage. And uh Sir, what year is this? It Coke up. uh Sybil. It was twenty one time. And one time we were talking about all the. Who changes appearance or is in disguise? I sometimes I'm reluctant to bring these things up because it's kind of one of those you can't unsee it things, like once you hear about a concept and then you're like, oh my gosh, I wonder if I have that.

Or, gosh, I feel like I've had that capgrass delusion is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, close family member, or pet. uh yeah, derealization much more uh I don't want to say less severe uh but it I I feel No, I I will say it it it is a less severe feeling uh because w disassociation typically is you feel completely outside of your body and sometimes it's like you are looking I okay, let's uh talk about how uh uh people are whatever you want. where people suffered madness. It's not it's not fun. that had to be traveled for this to get where somebody like uh Cotard or Capgrass or whomever like gives it a name, right? And yet here I am. you know, when you have m more control over that focus, it's that's just been uh really good.

Mm the year. Uh heads across the sky. th thudding, leaden, puffy feeling of like, you know, it makes you feel disconnected. And I discovered something that felt, I guess, in my in retrospect, as I remember, kind of like a scab, and I picked out a little bit, and then um probably three or four tablespoons of gray white yellowish pus started coming out of my ear. I don't really I didn't think about that a lot till later. And um, and I think she gave me some of those and I kind of dab dab dabbed at it, but the pus kept coming. Have you ever seen like a picture of a hobo clown? uh we r oh god I feel like m my grandparents might have had like an Igrand still yeah like I'm telling you people had shit like this.

Oh, yeah. There's different there's three different kinds of clowns. But um anyways, um because you gotta use Google to really find out what's true. When you stop when you stop the show that we're making to compliment me about something. But shh sh and yeah, so it's hey, uh that's good. Well what about his uh t toes and his wrists? to the pressure on a plane. But no one else has heard it. I just think it's funny. existing in two or more places simultaneously, or that it's been relocated to another site. I mean I don't uh I don't know. CBG, I'm more persuaded, does not have you know psychoactive effects, but it it kind of it's kind of like when my focal in started kicking in. feel over like overstimulated or under stimulated, like I don't feel a need to like go, you know, slam an energy drink or anything.

It's a uniquely perfect way to learn how little somebody knows about a topic when they say, why don't you adjust? I'm gonna learn more about it and keep doing it and I'd love to know if you find any scholarship. Anyways, I don't know what that means. Yes. Oh my god. I I I did the challenge, but I didn't do the challenge because the challenge is about doing the challenge. Uh uh uh Claire. They should they've got, you know, they they're they're little polycule I think uh just from Why are they a polycule? On in polycular. I say it one t one time, unlike cum gutters, which I you just I I can't stop thinking about. But also it makes it makes it makes sense. Let's do a show where I don't interrupt.

a commonplace book at one point and I dn remember not liking it. sort of revisit the concept of uh commonplace books the same way John Locke did. Okay, so that's what I like I was like, okay, this is absolutely I'm like this I am so glad that I've read this and now uh I will probably think about it but never actually do it. Uh Stephen Berlin Johnson wrote a really great piece a million years ago about how he uses uh Devonthink as his as what we now call a PKM, but like how all information that he has kind of at some point sort of passes through. Devonthink. Um, I got my attractive nuisance feelers up really fast because I thought, you know what I don't want to do for this challenge? is just run around saying like how do I make a book like John Locke and what app do I use for that?

acquisition and retrieval. Well, one neat thing about that, that let's just get it out of the way, is like that's is sort of like me and my notebook, right? Both of us have uh uh both of us use photos almost too. in person. and like literary things, th you know, things that you might want to like return to later. you know, bound books, sometimes with like a brown kind of cardboard cover, and then like it's a bunch of pages, usually with a grid, and every page has a number and I think usually a date. I don't know. The peas and the bees. Supposedly, who was that who was the guy who came up with the periodic table where he says he saw it in a dream? j just w words. Um boy that also just really screams as something that I don't need to be doing.

So you're gonna keep an updated list. So like why are you fretting about your at lawn list while you're on a plane? In order to have that system work and thrive and and be alive in your life, you have to you you're gonna want to utilize all three of those things. Like for a night watchman or whatever, like you you or an engineer, right? within a certain topic area. Uh for for for all of you people. to a a chatty g thing that relates to the well no no no be because uh wait so is this the show Command space and A and enter. uh brain school period like when I had a bunch of downtime and I needed a place to take a bunch of n when you have Yeah, I I don't know. is when I open whatever uh typically now chat GPT mostly, whatever LLM app and I'm like I was working on something.

And I don't know. easily move all of that into at least a project folder just so there's less cognitive friction. Um, I'm trying to find a really good example of this that will make some kind of sense. If it's a thread that you like and you want to find again, do at least two things. The ability, this is very specific. And I have a variety of ways of doing this. The next H2 would be something like stuff I've already stuff or the next one would be like um the basic idea is you have H2s on that page. guideline, my North Star was to keep everything on one page for as long as possible. Hmm. And so okay, sorry. This is all for me, right? And now okay, so now let's go to the pull method. And willing to fiddle around a little bit, you can kind of move stuff off off informally into its own new thread.

Any other tips and tricks? I doubt this is the first time this sex man's been a sex man. Uh Thank me for my service. That's not necessarily not necessarily a piece of wisdom. And sometimes there'll just be like this weird memory that I can't shake, but I also can't completely prove it happened or happened in the way I remembering it had happening. I love his I love his stuff about women and men. Oh terror and and the like the like silence and then like I guess like a screaming noise. Y I have one that immediately came to mind. Yeah, yeah. Oh God, really? what we used to call multiple personality disorder. Which you may remember. has been replaced by an identical imposter. Adam Conover the other day and I didn't and I was really proud of myself.

deals in the commodity of anxiety that's masking as anger. at your body from a distance. But d disassociation it it uh it's depends and it s uh sucks. Schizoaffective s wow, schizoaffective disorder is under that umbrella and also kind of the um the the Never mind. back seat on the right side and my ear had been bothering me. And it was very upsetting. products, uh things my grandfather used to say. I remember one day I was just telling Kelsey about this. Original recipe chicken breast off of the table. into my mom's room, jumped on her waterbed, that's right. kind of mostly terrified, but a little bit like angry. on your uh uh the little shade. Um and so driving a thousand miles was not super fun.

I've I've never seen a real quote real I've only seen Chili's two. Actually I think I think Sarah Jane and the Doctor go there in a nineteen seventy-five episode of Doctor Who. A colleague who used to remind me of that every week and I would say, well, unfortunately though, I have been made extremely high by CBD oil in a way that was very unpleasant to me. I don't know. That have like you know, uh like uh there was a background is like a a woman meditating in front of a pile of stones or something. Um being being nice being dead be nice about that. Uh my idea of like I I don't think the point of the challenge is necessarily to do them and like give points for whether you did it or not, but I understand why.

If if uh chase chasing the right zero. Um, I I don't want to spoil the ending of mine. Papers that he like puts together. uh which we wouldn't have time to go too deeply into except to say that I've found that like there's a handful of places that are are are useful for different roles of information. Oh, a notion, right? do this already and I'm also pretty happy with how I do it with the uh with well a a couple a exceptions. Farting around with does this go in drafts? like a shark making concentrically smaller circles around what appears to be the information that you want. I mean, accepting the fact that what? like a patent that you need to keep extensive notes in your engineering notebook and you need to basically writing down the bones.

Um, and I don't know if this is accurate. Um, but best practices. Because it's alphabetical. for the vowel after that consonant. Like let's say you got B. Which means project. I don't know. in a way that this admittedly simple, brilliant, but limited version of doing this on paper would be, right? I'm sorry. was it that you're on the show we recorded last night? You know, oh oh, you know, and and if you collected all the potato chips in one bag, you'd be able to put them in in a lorry. Just keep my head above water and it just nope, nope, it doesn't work. whatever like ChatGPT actually calls it. tags and they are um just descendants of how I used to use contexts in uh omnifocus or whatever was the cool app of of the week.

s survived f in Gmail because just you know it'll be a few. something as anodyne as when did I buy a replacement for this filter? Um I just prefer that to Amazon searching because it's faster. I just don't have a good way to find something other than uh uh like I know that I want to uh I I'm Uh and and no, I uh it was a I think it was a family guy joke, so I tried to filter it. It's a funny show. Yes. Um because if I the reason I have it all pretty and organized. an opportunity to start taking a bunch of notes and just go into something clean. Yeah, and and you can't s for example search for cannibal caraid and easily Cannibal Karata. This wasn't just my fault. Uh no, it uh the r uh you know what it takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen.

Um so think of a something you could potentially ideally, hopefully, something you could talk about here. Yes, and that is why I adore Obsidian, because they're it's it's a wiki and you can pop between links and as opposed to, you know, just another string of like bird identification thread or whatever. I will frequently, this started with deciding on potential birthday gifts for our kid and Christmas gifts for our kid. What if I don't want that inbox area at the bottom of the document? things are have been me and Chatty G uh trying to figure out what was wrong with this bookmarklit that we made together and can it go where I want it to go. Book marklets. Huh, I I'm just realizing now that once again going through just the steps of using this tool it is another uh way of uh thinking about Yeah, yes.

Yeah. That's kind of been the problem. There's a uh a turns out, but a well actually, and then a w why don't you just, and then a and yes I will boy, what an unpleasant stew that is. You're not in trouble. Yeah, it's Francis, the terrible trash boy. Oh sorry. Uh my my body double does. Um what are some other ones? I I think so. Yeah. dis the syndromes and disorders of uh derealizing and uh disassociating. Subtle distinctions. Oh, I wouldn't have known. th the h hallucinations were such a distraction that y it was very difficult s to function and Yep, yep. Oh. The uh w y oh gosh the I thought my dog will die right now. I don't remember if it was Gunter Gable Williams. I it's A lot of things were just presented to us as things that were normal and then we just had to deal with that.

Um but the um I can hear him saying it's a little bit of a I I I I I nailed that little guy to the wall. Yes, Merlin, how are you? Yeah. To the bootleg episode. I i it's like you've if you've never i it's like the weenus where where every kid uh discovers a weeness and they're like, aha, what that's a funny uh that's a funny sound for a not that funny body part. We we've talked about co I feel like we've talked about commonplace books, uh well I know that we've talked about commonplace books a number of times, and we did sort of we we read uh don't need to imagine for myself and I do imagine for you that we're both already doing elements of this. I'm not quite sure where to begin this sequence.

If you create for yourself something called the commonplace book, and so like you've got, let's say, a hundred sheets of paper in it that you've bound together. um fiddling really with some kind of a system. But uh that that that's the thing is something I do not have and sh but still not something something you don't need. A classic like let's say you've got quotations about religion. Um, but you've got you know 21 consonants and five vowels. um sin like in the last five years. Uh use for Chad Chi? I have to do that. And the uh we talked about this a little bit the not a little bit, a lot a lot of bit last week, and that's such a a lot a lot of it And it's not it's not the baseball headman. I have a cannabinoid thread now, right?

Car to uh what? Message? Um 'cause he does he have a preference for Greek? Um like I'll just go pretty random. uh ideas might be it's always signing in Philadelphia, books, Michael Scott, like whatever it is. So what I would consider sort of a the push model of this, right? Suggestions that you found helpful along these lines, like sort of like my idea of like, oh rename them and give them emojis, are the things that have helped you manage large amounts of this information better? Um and then um so if you want to tease the uh the after show. We'll see how this this is. were to me as a little kid what I at least what I remember being the most painful of the things that happened to kids normally.

Why did you do this? I I I could not create a forgery of the forgery. No I remember you t I I remember you telling me about it in one time. No, it's it's one of those things that kind of uh can overlap. Yes. a way to distinguish it at the moment. that the that you're having hallucinations and that what you're seeing isn't real and that As somebody who's had a lot of trips in life, it doesn't make it that much better to know that you're weird. Oh yeah, the five people of the five hundred. Uh uh the one after either or the nineteen ninety-seven or eight one Yeah, I sure. Uh n it's no I'm trying, I'm trying. Uh uh yeah. I wonder how the pus no pus that I recall. Right? Well you you you did a really interesting pronunciation.

But y you hear the term cum gutter and it's like that's disgusting. You know, when he talks about putting together when he talks about putting together that book, like, you know, where he actually builds his kind of builds a book from scratch out of a bunch of Are we thinking of the the same thing? Last night. And maybe I don't know, like hot tips for keeping your your writing table clean. probably two centuries ago for like how to categorize information. And show me the blueprints. I'm gonna start I'm gonna start I'm gonna start indicating to you when things are petering off. I have everything in my life real I know where to find it with the exception of So something like um like a priority related or areas of responsibility related?

Yeah, can can and you know what else I screw up? Merlin. Um that's good bread. Typo. I stand by what I said before. But you wanted a bookmarker to append text to a specific note, uh particularly into the uh inbox section uh with three octothorps, the H3 inbox section of DBF commonplace book, or alternatively to the end of that file. Yeah, informed consent. Yes, and an intense, unavoidable, like un seven? It was enough where I'm like, I could see that, but I know it's not mine. I don't typically disassociate. a fuzzy like v almost you're in a video game type. A note like a get uh oh, oh I'm gonna go. I don't think we say that anymore. Some it it it depends. The I would maybe it's because I'm used to it, but I would just you know, I don't know if I've ever had like a true a true My wife told me that ChatGPT is making people psychotic.

What Alex and I are talking about is I've been experimenting different with different weed things to help me with how I am. That's what I wanted to ask you about because if there's no It's weird, it's weird to like not feel Oh, I've seen m many of those, especially when you're saying that's a very simple Zen solution. And I uh totally didn't. It's this good stuff to do. He had this part of this also, and this is sort of, I guess, potentially kind of Bujo adjacent, but definitely Devonthink adjacent. Uh that's okay. No. Stephen Miller. where I've been working on a project and not in the like project li uh however I w I want a better way to find uh things in ChatGPT and I do because it's the only inbox, as you would say, I suppose, that I like a pretty rough metal band.

The first five percent of this is about what it says this thread is called. like one very important file, for example, in Obsidian. That's you can kind of do that now, like pretty easy. the how the information is used and synthesized, which sounds there's always still more to learn about what you assume about the world, including how computers work. Someone, and I still don't know who, wrote Alex Cox on one of impermanent marker No. So is this a uh flashball memory for you? And I have such a recollection of like, oh God, my ear was starting to really hurt, you know, that kind of piercing, but also that kind of uh f discovered something called C B G. Yes. We don't edit for three, two. Whereas new information emerges that fit between two previous pieces of information.

Oh, cardioid? Pray for Mojo. I'm pretty loose about creating new threads, especially if I don't want to gum up a thread. Yes. It's like when you hear about like, you know, tower snipers or whatever, and you're like, alright, finally snaps. Informed consent. No, I don't think they do that anymore. You, it this occurred to me a minute ago about you, but I realize it's absolutely true about me, and I suspect it's true about a lot of people who listen to this program, which is that in order Oh, must be regular tour to France, am I right? I remember one time I did a Burger Chef scratch-off game and I lost because I didn't know what the lowest weight class was in boxing. I'm trying to help him. I want to show you my weed thing was working.

And then and well he's also smart, but you know He's he's fine for what he is. Didn't they throw tampons at the dog? Okay. You understand? So that's pretty good. Uh I mean I don't know about that. I don't think so. I wrote the three as a potential title. Oh. In it. A coppa or a copper? I think it should be spelled more like carotid. And I find boring. No, hard pass. We'll get to it. That's uh that's um uh the other Quaid. We went to the circus. I think we pretty much pretty much covered it. They're different things. I do it all the time. That's not it. Can you move all the later stuff about Bookmartlets to a new thread, please? But then again, but then again, like building a boat from scratch.

And then, you know, there was that time for a while it was one of those scams like um you know like tonsils where suddenly everybody had to get uh quote unquote tubes in their ears Yeah, you have things that like you you feel like I feel like I have things where like I don't have any trouble at all remembering something very clearly from a very long time ago I think one way to discover who the vulnerable people in the world are is somebody who needs you to understand a very subtle distinction in order to really appreciate who they are. I thought you I thought you were depressed. I mean there's a lot of restaurants where they make exactly the same restaurant. All the st all the problems that are easy to fix have been solved.

Right, and notoriously actually one of the most difficult forms of meditation. Have this sativa and just just relax. Digga digga digga digg-dig-dig-dig-dig Challenge. The point of I think you're supposed to say future Marco. Okay. Page as a markdown link with the correct title. There's always one. Now the ear. Emmett the clown. This was a c a a clown. I you know, I really the thing is uh uh you know, it's a journey. And so like, you know, I've got searches to go like try and find that stuff and like triangulate or just remembering like, oh, there's this thing that happened. I I just thought it was really interesting as a way of in a way that also that I found so invigorating with getting things done, the the ultimate classic D version one idea of getting things done.

Yes. Uh like uh I moved a while ago, I moved all you know, my day one stuff to obsidian. m. You might you might have been derealizing on the previous references to this. I was going with um I mentioned D H D. What did you want to talk about? I'll look up best practices for engineering notebooks. That's don't actually do that. Especially when you get a lot of threads. And then um, you know, then whatever I have selected will be quoted below it, sometimes preceded by a greater than some. Could you move all the later stuff about book? And you were not you uh I I I enjoy his his work. Oh no, oh no, that's that's horrible. Oh please by all means. Uh like derealization, yes, because the word realization i is in it and you're like, oh, you're realizing that the world is n not looking normal I'm gonna don't want to put this negatively.

Two pages of this 30 pages, even if it's just you know what I'm saying? But like in that case, that was not that hard. Can you move all the later stuff about bookmarkers to a new thread, please? That people hate that. Uh I have had energy drinks in the PM times, but not since uh oh gosh, I don't know. My laugh is weird too, but I like who what what's this character? Oh, this is Dissociation versus D derealization. And you know you're not supposed to give bones the chicken bones to dogs, right? Pair of pimples for Harry Fishnuts? There's other things like that, you know, everybody's got big systems. Um That's that was the question you answered it. That's easy enough. Uh oh sorry, I'm gonna make a Chris Fleming reference.

Like did you like say thanks for the nice dinner? That's what uh that's what's coming out of my cat's ear. I um so you um let's k let's keep that CEO's boner raging all the way to the end. Are you sure you want to do this? Like I I was in kindergarten or first grade, so I could write my own name. He sounds like a lot of people. I I sent it to you to prove that my new weed drug is helping me stay level. Oh will they? Um but you get that system. It's all or nothing with you. Shopping, it's uh No, I mean it's easy. I don't have a problem with that, but like comparing my sense of humor to Family Guy, I don't do that to you. I'm I'm I'm out. Adderall plus Red Bull things. Yes, and and crusts cr like crusties.

Yeah, I learned I learned it in a trash theory video. Isn't that another one people use? Um In it? There's things like inboxes. Let's say you got B and your first topic is breakfast. I want to get this done right, so show me all the blueprints. What? He wants to build Hari Krishna prayer temples. You stay in that thread, keep going. I'm not in trouble. Yes. The uh nineteen seventies uh Sally Field movie and obviously the book, which was very popular, about um Let's get back to the ear. Is he a little bit like everybody? And I I'm not gonna I'm not here to advocate for this. I do it ten times a day. What are projects? I've I think I'm like Alex not not uh four point oh but you know, like t three three point four maybe.

Okay. I I just find this I I find it interesting there's a name for these things and not least because I think about the road Especially I imagine it's like it's like procrastination. And of course my first feeling was, everybody sing along, shame. So if I give let's get back to this show now. Oh. So then you could eventually in the fullness of time, computer or otherwise, say like, what's all the stuff I've had to say about No, you l you I never had that. So then then then then I like to go to categories. But like how there's schiz schizophrenia and then uh schizo I like saying sch I like saying schizoaffective disorder. Oh no, no, I don't want to know. Um what what it well so did you find anything that felt interesting, persuasive, promising?

If you account for his head, his shoulders, and his torso, let alone his arms, just for those things Claire? And in my case, like I like to share that with people. It it did not work with my brain at all. I have gotten it to work before. Alright, good, good, good. Oh, we're gonna talk about Kelsey. Mm-hmm. Remember he types it on the speaking spell? Oh, perhaps then we ought to avoid using a word like that. On one sheet of paper on your left, I want you to write down tasks. Oh. He's terrible. Oh my dad. Do you ever investigate the I know. That was in Ohio. I don't know if it's practical or applicable for my needs, but I loved learning about it. Yes, yes. God, that was so boring. Just informed consent.

One easy one for me is a thing I made in one of the apps, I think in Keyboard Maestro. If you're trying to make this anything more than a fun project for you to jerk off with, you've got to be sensible about how this how people will want to find this information rather than how you like to, you know, capture and organize this information. And it was because okay, well let uh you know what this could be a good challenge too. We oh uh You're cutard. I wasn't a compliment for y I haven't even listened to the second half. That's chilies too is one of those uh no place else is chilies. I sent somebody the image of him with the orange in his mouth. And under that you've got B A, B E, B I, B O, and B U.

Show me the blueprints. Uh uh or are we we d I do have something um A car toy? But like at this point, it's time to maybe the word would be create a new branch. This is one I love and um please summarize it uh in a hundred words Isn't that a great story? Uh in nine either uh nineteen ninety six or ninety ninety. Well like you can only you can only speak the truth when you're sitting in the big chair. I ha no. Did you know that? And that opens my Amazon history in which I can then subsearch and that's where I can find out so much stuff about like when things happened. A coppa. Bird identification help. And so I had everything I've been doing with Obsidian in this current era of Obsidian has mostly happened in this one thread.

Oh, we gotta talk about power poses and how it's been debunked, but there's a turns out. Um all these women are like you gotta come meet the nun, you gotta come meet the nun. Tell me what is that distinction? I know it's a strange question, but it's a good faith question. There's not a word uh uh uh for it like how uh disorienting must certainly be a feature of it. Uh I was with uh a family that I mentioned last week, my best friend's family, uh the Patton family. Do we do we want to talk about it on the right? No, her sister. Does this go in obsidian? What's an easy, what's the well friction-free maybe, like lower friction, because if capture is important, how do you capture it? What do you carry around?

Projects are desirable outcomes. Uh y yeah, and I still uh don't have a way to really like I I guess I do have an index for most things that are just Yes. It was not m my fault. Must be nice. Oh, that'll do, Pig. I mean, uh don't ask it what the uh tr local target store hours are because then you'll go to the wrong one. You could put a hot compress on it or something, or you could give somebody something to fall asleep, I guess. And keep in mind, f I am a little kid. Wait, why it it like because of the guilt? Later I thought a lot about how Shorty resented me. They always had some kind of featured he was the famous lion guy. So yeah, the it hurt a lot. No. But not the same idea because it is text files, but oh.

What I heard was when you're developing something, especially if you're hoping to turn it into some IP. Anyway, the concept that I found so interesting, and I don't completely understand it, but maybe you do, um, is that you've got topics. This is the most basic way to do G this is how GTD started. It's really b it's It's so boring to you. No, I don't want that's a that's a headline. I'll just have this beef turkey, thanks. We have these I ha I I assume we all have these things. Jeez. Which sounds terrifying. Oh yeah. Now I don't know. But I was also just really embarrassed to have all this pus flowing out of my ear. I know. John Syracuse would have me believe that actually nothing is provable.

W various forms of of journaling, of of sort of having what has come to be called a PKM. He I might so like the part of the goal of at least this John, well you're the one who sent the link and um But brilliantly, in terms of actually doing stuff rather than just organizing it, you could also view by context. There are I like that. Is it cardioid? So what about your carotid artery? And I'm not sure. I mean we were we were going to talk about this off offline, but that the the whole reason I was prescribed Adderall was because What do they call that? You ever heard of reduplicative uh paramnesia? I mainly sent that to you because I would like you to start researching that too. It's like sh shooting a bullet with a bullet to try and fix the way I am.

Well, I'll spoil the end of mine because it's not that difficult. Sometimes a great notion? But I I also do see, I absolutely see the pe think of it like a guest book out of B, or think of it like a logbook. I'm like a little pocket border collie. Where my children play with their toys. I really like when people email me. Sometimes it does and other times I'm like I'm not sure. Don't feel bad with him. It's where you can't stop playing asteroids. Um we squeezed uh that orange all like uh oh I'm gonna put this positively. Uh Mer Merlin. There's things like notes. Well, I'm talking about when he was on John Locke on Lost, and he has the orange in his mouth. Sorry that didn't work. Boring. Wow, somebody's got two personalities.

Yes, I am depressed. And I here I'm using I'm choosing the word madness, not crazy. Oh they're like a little clear package. Well see now that's why I say it's like a George Costanza joke. Sometimes hey hey everybody, I'm breaking um our little worlds because I care about you a lot. Should we start the show? I don't kiddy I do not accept emails. Obsidian is Yeah, Obsidian for sure. I look up something. Yeah it wasn't you're like I'm not saying torch but what oh yeah yeah it was um called meant to oh oh you might do I don't have the ability to move or split parts of a conversation. You show screenshots of your obsidian settings and UI. I mean that sound sounds like a like a kind of a dumb thing to say, but this is not this is not a great app for uh lazy or incurious people.

Really? Hello Siegfried. And you're like reason for for uh philosophy and literature. No go ahead go ahead. It in in it. It's sort of like me and drafts is the same way where I'm like, God, where's that thing I was working on like an hour ago? Okay, Obsidian Project. You sure you want to go? That sucks. There might be pus. This is not good for the show. I really doubt that John Locke or his um progeny, his is uh the people he inspired. They're different lists. Even if I had adequate hair pebbles for hairy fish nuts? No, I know. Why? The only thing uh different with um schizoaffective disorder is that you know He's pr well, I sound like George Costanza. Uh that is But no, I don't think so. Ooh, I was gonna say a night out with Army Hammer, but that it wasn't funny.

Um What? And then 90% of that thread is that new thing. But like a thing if people are acquainted with me and people like poor Jason and Finn know this so well. I'm just not doing it very well live on the air. And um the Starbucks next door wasn't open either. I doubt this shooter is the first time that the guy's acted like a nutjob. And one time Madeline said to me, I every night I put down Savvy's dinner. You're a wizard, Harry. No, the other one. I'm the Casey. We don't discover that for a few episodes. This is like my informed consent for you. Ninety-six or ninety-seven and uh for s for some reason Oh, I didn't know that was the name. I mean probably it would definitely be in the top fifty.

I was so good at keeping my own. Yes, it's very uh it's it's very upsetting. Yeah, yeah. Unfortunately, there's a life model decoy that's here most weeks. I don't want if I want to find out I'll look it up. Um that's the girl that my friend Michael was on went on a date with in New Jersey in 1981. Um I it was the day that my I was just I told Kelsey recently about the day that my Beagle had taken a KFC Oh, it's really an insight. And then it's kind of a like remember now that you have permission, remember to kind of do something with it. Really? But I didn't get any ha well, I haven't had any sleep for the past two days. Um, yeah. I de I derealization. Exactly. A lot of it's lines from songs.

And when I tried to approach him, you know, I'm ten, what do I know? Like like with your precious angel. The three clowns you meet in heaven title? And if if I thought there was one, even even the magic bullets aren't magic. And the idea is like you've got A, and then like um you can have like It was almost like a pivot table. As David Allen, the great David, said, uh, you know, no matter how much you need to mow your lawn, you can't do it when you're on a plane. I I gotta be careful. Because a coppa can be tea, a copper can be a coin, a copper can also be a policeman or police day, who's also known as a bobby. What's happening? Must be nice. But first I was thinking like we're not the I wanted I okay, but so like that was my first Why don't you just Yeah Exactly.

No, I d I I I do. Must be nice. Uh Cash's big bargain barn, South Lebanon, Ohio. He ate- it might have been a thigh, but he ate an entire he he like inhaled an entire piece of chicken so I wouldn't take it away from him. The the the little uh the flippy downy shade. Did you read this part? Is it how do you pronounce the the thing that is part of how a microphone works Oh. Charlie's Charlie's the precious angel who crawls in your lap in the after show. All right, but um say half as many words for thirty seconds. Uh Songs from the Big Chair is based on a ref it's a reference to uh And it was for her back. It's so funny when Dickerson in particular, when Dickerson's get left in. Does this go in I mean it's endless to think about where that goes.

Show me the blueprints. Is this a fish nut thing? I'll figure it out. You've got another section of stuff that is ordered but has not arrived yet, all the way down to like idea stuff. It sometimes does work. He has chronic ear infections. Arby's? The practice of uh becoming aware that there are things worth capturing and writing down that are relevant to your life and the life of the world. There's things like there's all you know, we don't have time to get into it, but like I just was I got the I got the fear a little bit about like if I'm not careful with this week, I could end up spending more time than I wanted to. Like a piece of scrimshaw that you're right on, maybe? Show me all of those entries.

I'll let you talk all you want, but Peter. Because well, it has one name that it gave it unless I changed it. One of them is rename it. The Christmas one gets really complicated because it's got ideas, right? It makes them psychotic? But give me a couple Kleenex, you know, those little those little those little little packets of Kleenex you keep in your car. There's Zettelcaston or whatever it's called. People use that? You you put things in in order. The other thing, really dumb, give it an emoji. Here's what I want to do though. Yeah. I admit I I I I do that a lot, but like psychosis, huh? It's uh it's a panoply of things. And I don't I don't wanna get involved in all that. I thought you were manic.

I I don't remember the pus title. Mmm, um you know what? I think this is a really neat idea. I mean all the way down to do a screenshot of this, put it in chat chat EG and tell me how often I reorder this kind of coffee. And this is how to say it and I feel like an asshole every time I say it. What happened? Oh, I have so many of those. Like why would you have trouble sleeping? With the cycling. Uh I got more here. It's a real question. Uh just do your own research or whatever, but like uh I try to find some product. Goodness me, how does that evolve over time? Plug it up. This is my actual argument. Building a boat from scratch is not good for lazy or incurious people. The phrase the the sentence you just said to me was, so this was not ironic.

He's narrow as fuck. That's that wouldn't be included in the joke that I'm about to make, but do you want to do yours first? But but we were flying and I I feel like I'm pretty sure this happened and I'm pretty sure it happened close to the way I remember it, which is I'd been really I had an earache and then I had to fly. They just they extrude it like like a Dr. That's cool. Casey, check this out. Show me all the blueprints. No, no, if you if it's relevant to the commonplace book. No. Oh uh I don't know how to say that. Good job. Wow. Yes. This is why I I'm I'm one of the numerous reasons I'm not a fan of people saying why don't you just blah blah blah because that usually means that they don't really understand why something that's a problem became a problem and stayed a problem for a long time.

But the uh the they're the ones that do it a lot. Tasks are physical actions that help a project get completed. And I don't want a computer explanation for that, because this is not a tech headline. Oh, well that's not as fun. So it was me, John, his sister Dawn, and uh their parents, Kay and Bob, and we went to the circus. It's a good episode. Bean nice bean ice uh pray for mojo So oddly enough, text files in GitHub are one way I do stuff like this. You just take me out whenever you want and I grab you by the pants and pull you back into the podcast. Um but it is actually useful. I'm saying you figure it out. Like he is a public modification. What's his name? Hello Roy. No, the bits are great.

Oh my god. Isn't it an insight into their toxic relationship, the three of them? Um strong disagree. I mean the short answer for me is if I wanted to set up anything like this, I would almost definitely do it in Obsidian personally. That was the big thing. I don't want to worry about that. Um but there's a uh it's either it's in one of his stand-up specials where he talks about Now I'm gonna do that. Anyway, I hope so. Oh oh I think did he die? I say that wrong. I think there's someone carotid, I think it's C A R O T I D. Oh God. Uh or you say that a lot. I bet I bet I bet Syracuse would. I can't sleep. You probably derealized for hairy fishnuts. Hands across a DHD. Pray for mojo. But the idea is that if you ever needed to, you could actually go into court with your engineering notebook and have it serve as And and so like so anybody who's like a normal, you know, neurotypical person, you go, yeah, I guess, yeah, okay, fine.

I do not have a solution to That was kinda funny. What are we gonna talk about in the uh in the after show, Alex? Oh, everybody used to get tubes in their ears. I'm sure that I've more i if I thought about it, but m when I was maybe Oh yeah, I got my memories too. Yep. Yes. No, we'll save it for later. All right. The got interested in w w what are called commonplace books. Cartoid and carotid. No, that's okay. So how do I get it to reach in and know what the ID for this is? Yeah, he is. I don't know. Must be nice. Yes, I have been reading the DSM five. This week's challenge is Alex's challenge, and it's to do something uh regarding a commonplace book. Why do you make fun of me? Um hey what's your so so you it sounds to me like you might have found a a John Locke adjacent Chat GPT.

It's mad it doesn't make you angry, it makes you bored. I uh I had an I I ear things Oh gosh. Wow. Take me to categories. No, I just schizoaffective is I'm on the delusional misidentification syndrome category page, and there's a lot of really good ones. Oh look at that guy. I had an earache. He wrote the three. He does. You know? And if I did need to do it, I would do it with a taxonomy. In in it. I d I really I don't want help with this unless somebody's cool about it. The pull method, let's try that. Wow. Yes, I am manic. Anthony Michael Hall is saying to the other kid, you got video games, you got Pac-Man, he says you got asteroids, and he goes, No, but my dad gets them pretty bad. Especially in France.

But you can also even think of it almost a tiny bit like an engineering notebook. That's the problem. Now anytime you add something to that document, it'll be uh appended under that inbox area. And let's see what it tells me. I don't no no no My new Guardian my new Guardian uh puzzle that I play it's like spelling bead but with two extra letters And he took he he he grabbed it and he tore ass. And and then we had to get on a flight and then, you know, I had like five out five or eight hours of that. It's a timestamp. Uh he did a lot of work on perception, I seem to recall, from modern philosophy. And I'm like, this is fascinating. So you have an incoming email and you'll tag it with th what what David Allen would call a context.

Engage the enemy more closely. You explored sending content to Obsidian via bookmarklet, discussed targeting a specific file and considered. And I'm like, I don't know, man. I don't know like how this was set up and like I the implication for some of these childhood memories is like not to say like I I d I can't believe this was real I didn't know cream There's a cream for that now. And it was I didn't know I didn't know what I wasn't quite sure what to do about it. I thought it will either choke to death with it in its throat or it will choke to death the other way by these these soft splintery It's r it's real. Like I do I have quotes. That's one of the brilliant things of getting things done.

If the rest of it is about something else, that makes it Good job, buddy. It made them psychotic? No, no, sorry, sorry, I apologize. I I d oh oh God. I'm not complimenting you. Well did you discover anything that makes it sound because you end up on a lot of woo-woo sites Doesn't he make a noise? I did not see anything in my travels that led me anywhere Yeah. And uh so, but he w let's say for example, okay, how about let's take an easy example. Like show me all show me my projects, but then I just want to see this one project, show me all the tasks. If you know what I mean? And then whatever I've selected, this is not a new idea, but. But first I want to learn more about these uh syndromes that I'll never remember.

Yeah yeah, Randy Quaid and uh yeah, Dennis Quaid. I'm entirely aware of how dumb procrastination is. Like I think everything turned out okay, but I just remember feeling, you know, that feeling of panic, childhood panic, of like, ah This is hi. You're an edible Harry. Why well what would what would you say? Uh just the the like one place where I now have this like little cognitive friction. I'll go to that one and I'll say, okay, here we go. I'm Cotard syndrome. And then you think about it and it's like, oh, that's still absolutely disgusting. I do not ask for feedback. Yeah, it felt like an alternate universe where uh the Johnny Decimal uh s system was Or show me all my my recipes for Snickerdoodle pie.

I mean yeah, yeah. Oh yes, no, I'm I'm alright. Let me see if I can still find this. Um, you know, bipolar. I felt very shameful that I was pussing in an American car, you know, on the way to go see Gunther Gable Williams. And I already do a lot of this stuff because it is it is known. 'Cause it's like mm-mm. Because I was talking about Patriot. Or an all, like the hand tool. It doesn't work. I I I mean I don't know if this will be useful or if it'll even actually sort of work for you, but It's too boring. He he's the stupid one, right? Somebody wrote what? You're not hearing right and all that. I was gonna say he is his shoulders come to a point. So i unless the second half sucks. Mr. Um and I just meant Amazon history.

This is me it's not I'm not uh P Peter. So rename whatever thread it usually comes up with pretty good names. Until it seems like people are getting mad because this is a wiki and why isn't this broken out? Tell the uh But like I haven't gotten to the what what the point of the story is yet. You also ask about moving bookmark-related questions to a new thread to keep things organized. See the thing about gross ear stuff though is it's not. I kind of I'm I'm really only 20% joking. And um and he he sat there looking But look up Emmett Kelly and you'll see like there was a time again when I was a kid, people just had black velvet paintings of Emma Emmett Kelly in their house. Uh uh. Hey, you know what?

I'm abandoning it. I I don't like his his orange it's I don't know. If you have new information that's gonna really disrupt the way you think about all this stuff, like how do you reorganize that in a longhand book? I don't even need it. What is lizards and snails? Like if I have the presence of mind to go like, okay, I got a nice Caravaggio thread going here. And so it said, okay, sure, here's a hundred-word summary of everything you've shared about obsidian bookmarklets. This is Do by Friday, a weekly challenge podcast with Alex Cox and Merlin Mann. Is this good for the show? I'm saying madness because like so many things, one is really ultimately entirely alone. Um and I remember that. Don't don't trust ChatGPT.

Um uh we had a challenge and what else did we need to cover? Once again, going to change. I don't remember how I did I get it through Instacart? When he was working in that office and had that ridiculous hair. But then so like in this obsidian thread, it's all about all kinds of obsidian and it's real long. Um re-duplicative. So he's just the big baby. You know a lot of people don't even have one Wow. Well at least Derealization versus disassociation. Nothing can really be looked up. Just keep keep shoveling the bits. It's not about like embracing the challenge for the rest of your life and changing everything. He's a type. And on your other piece of paper, I want you to write down projects. Alex, show me.

Pita bread is it's a big thing. Um congratulations. Are you aware at that point? Okay. I was I believe three years old. This is when I saw I wanted your balls in my mouth while I made a noise and did something animated. I mean depending on what you consider a commonplace book. You could you could do that with. Merlin, uh can you share what John Locke had to say about commonplace books? W you st you said one and I was listening at one X what what Matt is my father. I'm just responding uh succinctly with confidence. But Opus doesn't understand what the man is saying. It did it before. I have never taken Adderall in a PM These um I actually I have one of my oldest running lists is um I think it's just called Mystery Memories.

Because like I when I when I wanted my kitten, I would talk about interesting things, I'd do research and write it down. Just once. What's that called? So the sativa will wake you up. We're Dickerson will be talking and they'll go, da da da and they'll go So this challenge was to Photos, Gmail, Amazon. And it's super simple. Hi Merlin man, how are you? Uh this goes back, I got thirty lines on this. Because they're soft and they're not any one. These are mystery memories. Uh David Bowie studied clowning. No. It's not ironic. I missed uh what the rest was supposed to be. It's all really about relaxation. Got got a cuppa? Uh even though I made it. My plex Dr. Let's look at it this way. Oh, oh wow, that's a I feel like And like but like and and then he said he said something like anyway, Chris Foreman's great, you guys should check him out.

It's like we gotta but like all these women Oh boy He did like lots of stuff about he did his show and then he did other things and then he did stuff about government and the constitution kind of. And you know, that's just him. Oh, there we go. Sorry, sorry, we've still got a lot more to get to here. Everybody had Kleenex in their car when I was a kid. He's f one of the one of the most famous clowns of all time. No. He's like. The only thing I was going to say, the the point the point of bringing up that making your own book of pages, the thing that I feel must be said is, well And well, one way is to add um decimal points. I don't. No, you're the s oh, interesting. Oh what a way to start a show.

There's no I have any mentality. I I I I oh oh do you do you have that? No. I think I talked about that here. Uh I was a Library of Congressman personally. You follow me? Oh god. Anyway, the as when yes ex Is that right? That's what I read. I know, right? Yes. The oh ooh ooh. Uh Frigoli delusion, the belief that different people are in fact a single person. But mystery memories. No. Save your scholarship. Um but but I I just think and again now that's that's just color my crystal I don't go where you work and you know slap the DoorDash out of your mouth. I'd I'd start looking for dead cats in that guy's childhood. Like I don't know a ton about psychosis. But there are there are certain uh again, you know, flashbulb uh moments uh that you have in life.

Wait a minute. Derealization is more of Ah cycling. So now I gotta deal with that. And um I'm very close to contacting my I'm very close to contacting my therapist about this. Don't uh No combo Did you just say I'm being deaf? It doesn't go in sixty different places. And the other person goes, yeah, you might do. Hmm. I am now recommending obsidian, I suppose, because it's really fast. Where should this go? It was like tonsils. Okay, cool. I am suggesting something uh th that I enjoyed to an audience that I also enjoy. Getting things done by David Allen, Copyright 2001. You ever do that? And now the new thing that you've been working on for an hour is way more interesting to you to you than how this thing started.

I have tr d done both and it So you said kindergarten, first grade, something like that? So that's it, like an Agatha Christie. What's that called? And without getting into it, uh I really very unintentionally That's the problem. There's projects like Merlin Loves projects and then there's the much smaller set of like projects as in like this is an actual that's a term of art in Chat GPT that Just because visually now that'll really pop. So what happens is you say you go in, you ask him what time were the hours for the local target store, but then you end up going to the wrong one. Have you any of those? How much do people tend to remember? You don't recognize a clown? I got ear infections a lot when I was little.

Don't don't sh no no sh but no. That's the delusional belief that a place or location has been duplicated. Drillin Phil. I have a place where I put quotes, you know, observations. There's stuff like uh But like no no, this is something people did. Yes. And like yeah. I mean this Just one time. Um but but it was more that like I I just knew my ear hurt and then a second later I'm trying to catch pus out of my right ear. He swallowed the entire chicken breast. No. Like I I'm not sure I need that. He had this idea for because you ever think about like libraries, m libraries be so crazy. I think it makes most sense to put things in, you know, in chronological order, whatever that means to you. That's where not just my commonplace it's the it's the personal version of Gantt charts where it's like Yeah.

Okay. But like the uh the the pain of ear infections was uh Is the is this a a man of Oh that's Gary Goldman's that's that that's uh my impression of of what of Gary Goldman's impression of his mother. Okay, that's reductive. That's when he's Homer's helper monkey. Don't let anyone see him! I'm sorry. I probably got it somewhere. Cotard syndrome. I looked at this clown's face and never look a clown in the face. What's that? I d um Bujo? I feel like I uh as Gordon Ramsey would say, hey, by the way, Circus, I write this one down. No, just how you feel about it? If uh if I hadn't uh had a a Yeah, yes. Because threads are just, like Syracuse is it's all just input. But it there's not Uh I I th thought it was th that or that you thought that he resented you and you f were guilty.

You can Google stuff and that's how you know if it's true, according to him. I'm sorry, what you mean to say is you were chortling Casey's balls. I'm just doing my best every day. Yeah. Locke. Oh, okay. I might have misunderstood. No. And she only has two she only makes two noises. Derealization. You can get a cream for your asteroids. I don't. Pair pimples for hairy fishnuts? Is it one of those things like are you aware for forget I'm using the clinical term here. Well pick one. It's important. Um I think I had a really uh I I had an enjoyable argument with him. I've never seen a chili the airport one I uh uh no, I say this was not just my fault. That one's too short. Hughes said. And let's see what it says.

Um It's oh yeah, it's it's one of those things where I thought it was because you were like hopped up on goofballs or something. Mm-hmm. Uh just a my name, just Alex Cox. I know, for example, there's a song by Elliot Smith called Tomorrow Tomorrow from That was probably 1973 Well no, it's just very upsetting when you think you're because like immediately I thought it would be like Uh visor. And it sounds like C B D. Or the context for the problem. He's on the front porch. With Gmail it's just super easy to search. So anyway, carotid arteries, you were saying. Um I like when people email me. Because like but has that happened to you? Well, I I'll try and find my but it doesn't always work. There's a lot of stuff that really maybe that's not what you should be doing.

Yeah. Um Didn't mmm I'm not fast today. Like I don't know what it wa but like it was like ugh like an ear infection, but it like wasn't bad enough to like go to a doctor. You know I'm talking about that ear like an ear thing. Yes, yes. What was the I I know that It's like rain on your wedding. I was sh I uh what did you want to talk about then? It's nice to just feel like it's somehow it took the edge off and I've been doing it for a few days and I I uh there's so many PC. Oh, the show Like you like let's I mean thinking about Um I don't do factorals, but but you got twenty-six letters in the alphabet, you got twenty-one consonants, well depending on whether you how you count y. Got a c got a cup.

But then there's also the thing where somebody strangles you, it might be because they're pressing on your carotid artery. Let's say I'm using this as a commonplace book Oh. What am I looking for? Why does Um so You gotta go Google it yourself. I intended to be a little bit of a side. Every and then John says somebody will put a link to that in notes. Which I I don't remember where I'm not sure. But whatever works for you. It was it was the Ocarant thing to uh or or orthodoncher. That's how we say congratulations in my house. The bits the bits are funny. Here's my future Marco Polo. Like that's where stuff goes. You've got recipes for food. Well, I don't know. Listen, this block was a little further now.

Search for something in your uh Chat GPD history and then Like even if like You hate being bored. Oh, we could look up more funny things why people are screwed up. Oh. I have some other funny things here. You had Emmett Kelly, the clown. This is due by Friday. Chili's Prawn? Oh, yours was better. Put your soris in a sack. And so anyway, um uh if we probably did not need to talk about this on the program, but um Dickerson and um, what's her head? That's uh, The things I use to like retrace my existential steps in life chronological. That was how I kind of interpreted it to be. And contacts, contexts are opportunities or limitations that are provided. So the thing is at a given time I car uh It's So Nez Nez is wait no and Ne Nez was the sweet one.

Well like where you might get like something like Capgrass syndrome where you think uh everybody's a robot. The earth a big blue marble when you see it from up there. Yeah. Uh because there's a lot of r uh I don't really understand what goes Yes. Do you have a favorite season of Taskmaster I well I journal, I d do I have everything in there now. Uh, can you look up everything we have about obsidian? Yes, disgusting. Anyway, on a different day, uh where I I'd been feeling a little bit weird and and slightly ill. That's one of those. That's a famous ass clown. They just, you know, squeeze out a restaurant and put it somewhere on a strode. It starts from the biggest concept in the universe. And they were all fine before ChatGPT, huh?

Oh, I've are are we gonna talk about drugs or are we gonna talk about the psych And so what is it make an ooze? Ah Pick a lane. Chuck Wagon commercial. I have a I if if this were if this all all problems that are easy to fix are either s are solved. But no. So I'm gonna say, can you move everything about Not that I'm defensive, although I am. And just one time, just one time, I would like for her to go, Mow. So I uh I don't know. Uh there's a water tower on Coleraine Avenue. Start writing them down. I mean, Adderall runs out. You want the indica. But fine. I think of all those as being kind of blended together because in something like omnifocus Because you can't do the pivot table version of that so easily.

Um well okay, let me give you a a use case. Have you have you any um There's many umbrellas, just like queerness. You always had it. Well, because I've I've got gists of stuff like quotations and you know things like that. And so but here's the thing. I I I thought it was so that you could slide in where new stuff goes and have it not disrupt what's already in there. That's my like Okay, but just try okay, try this. Then you get into the details of like Give us your fucking money. Does a person remember Nick Fury knows who the real person is, but he's not saying. But I'm looking at that's a good one. I'm the Casey, except you're nice. Did I get it through Amazon? Exactly. Just like rough ideas.

Can you move? So, you know, should have used Google. I'm great, how are you? You're welcome. Oh I'm gonna make it I'm gonna make it a lot worse. Why are you doing this? No place else Did you enjoy doing this show? I just mean I hit command, I hit And it was starting again, now this is a 20% joke title, another 20% joke, um, which is that Yeah, but I mean like you can imagine how I felt when I was ten or eleven. I'm not saying I want that, but that's I mean that's what every Chili's is. How much can you remember from dis disassociation? Yeah Randy Quaid. Is that do you imagine that a lot of things were ironic if you don't understand it? What? Is it uh in politic for me to ask why you're not sleeping?

Like I I could I am looking for capgrass. I could not get him to give me one example of something that he successfully looked up quickly. I I'm the same way I'm touchy if I feel like I haven't done it. Have you ever seen those books that are um Yeah. Alex, you left out you left out the all. Did you hear what I said? And even if 5% the top, let's say, let's say the top But like I like my idea was I want to be able to go and grab stuff. But like, okay, so first let me context. Like Because the first the first Is this the first time you you had seen something like this come out of your body or anyone's body? I didn't um you haven't gotten to the real argument yet. I've never seen a sit-down chilies.

It's just Um people would carry around like scrimshaw. Woof. And I wasn't sure what that meant. Um what were we talking about? Yeah. You know. I'm in ti I mean like do you think do you think anybody understands better what a terrible thing procrastination is than I And they're not all that good. He's probably the most famous He's probably the most famous professional clown in the Western world of the twentieth century. Well I've I Or a yall, which is the um the second person um uh Spanish imperative. Just call folks and know, Mac. What? I frequently unintentionally um Yes. You would often have it on your uh And um Because the idea was yes, uh Capturing it, like do you need to like That's that's where Tears for Sphere's got the title of that album.

I don't want to get too bogged down in s in um in psychiatry that neither of us deeply understands. Now a lot of these a lot of these are really just like a fur like a Visor. Whereas I could find myself, you know But the idea is you take whatever that consonant is and then create subsections. And it's like already fallen below the fold because of new notes I've created. Can I can I make a suggestion to I mean forgive me if this is if I'm talking way down to you, I do not mean to Tourist restaurant theme. So I'm in this thread where the last several Like think about the interior worlds It goes on I'm guessing You you need to like fill every space in it Software lets you do that. W god! Well it starts out because the Hare Krishna wants to build uh prayer temples.

Opus is a puffin. Let's say so I got this is all my things and da-da-da-da-da. Are those completely different things? Oh. Especially the way that it breaks it up and we never get to really have a funny thing we do for more than a couple minutes. How does this ever happen to you? Rename that thread whatever is going to be meaningful to you. But now okay. Incurious people are also wonderfully repetitive in in a way that I find uh illuminating. I love it when that I love it when uh when there's a Chuck Wagon and it goes under the rug. Why are you doing this? I I I I I won't. Every day I do my best. Um you brought this challenge to us and uh by sending you sent me a link. Like I I always think of it as a bunch of quotations.

And then when he slid, when he needed topics to go under it. I don't know. Every year we would create This might be a weird show. Like like that one time you said Google is barred or that one time you said back in 2011 that Elon Musk was your problematic boyfriend. And No. He uh got out of a wheelchair and was a That's funny, I made oh my god, that's so funny. This is the way it started was you get two sheets of paper. But like I would really like a way to identify That's just a big thing. He's the one that b supposedly has asteroids. Absolutely, absolutely. Because there's no problems with that. No, it just sounds like a made-up planet. Yeah. Did I get it at the hardware store? I want to get this done right.

com. Or like a Sybil, a Sybil thing. Do you remember what Pear Pimples for Hairy Fishnuts is from? We can bring it back later. Leave it. Yes. And for me, that's stuff like thematically, where it's just like I'm doing this live because if it works, it'll be cool, and if it doesn't work, it'll be interesting. Like when it occurs to you and you're like, why am I thinking about that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's considered uh technically a medical anomaly. And um Like a big concept in life for me is like where does stuff go? Um spent a lot of times in the P's. Yes. And plus it will then work with recording our phone calls and transcribing them and stuff like that. Wow. Oh, oh I started a note about this years ago.

He was famous for a while. And I think the one that really made a mark on me and I this I I believe this is correct. I know not exactly. I've been You can sometimes get to hear Charlie purring in Alex's laugh. Some of them are just like commercials. Don't let this peter off at the end. You know what I like I like that gentleman who says giggity. Go to any one of those threads just for the sake of argument. It's like Yeah. Did you get did you get more ear infections when you lived in Florida? Okay, so anyways, um uh thank Uh uh a a a simple person from Central Florida like me would go like, Wow, that seems really you came up with this system in the I'm not that close. It's so gross. You know what I mean?

But I think the practice of We ate at this place. I could write Alex Cox it in in like a legible way. No, no, I I'm sorry. But like option command L will copy the I mean you could say it's performance art. So I learned a lot about commonplace books. Yale. I think Uh but Because you know what you don't want to do is make a thousand stubs. Her name's Jane Krykowski and she and she was was on uh 30 Rock. Prescriptions have to be refilled. Well we're both, I have to imagine, I I I mean, it's just that I wh whilst I found that incredibly fascinating Dumb idea, but useful for me. But the thing I did was let me start a new thread. Oh, I've started listening. Other people might call a tag. And you uh you uh you know so you said you know where It was a P it was a PETA I know.

Would you like to read us to tell us a little bit about Cotard syndrome? Yours was better. Cause he's so torpid from eating like Homer. Does this exist or not? God Um but uh that I like when be I like when people read what I write. Um he m enjoys cannibalism. Where you've started like talking about a thing and then something grabbed your attention and just Um the the the reason I'm Do you have any contextually, do you know what I'm talking about? And my mom and dad were like Oh, if only. No, no, no, no, you can't. It was crazy. Maybe I'm not sure. Like I there's a lot of things I want, but like I'm I'm When I yeah, you know, still at least for now, Gmail's search is amazing. I can't. And so I like to go onto those web pages and make a selection.

Now you can expand this and you can actually kinda what I'm getting at is if you're patient. Therefore you're psychotic. Am I just in the wrong ballpark with those? But being entirely alone in what you're what may or may not be a delusion and you don't have a name for it I didn't want to talk about it because I uh I did write down pusing in an American car, which I know is it's That's pretty good. We could talk about the challenge or we could do other things. Put put the headline down. Oh. Cannibal Karata definitely sounds like Like I I uh I don't wanna s I don't like stealing ADHD valor. I'm not mad about it. Oh my ghost I know those are special. Factually. That would be fine. It it would have been much more than a lot of things.

Or a hybrid Yeah. A use case for me is like for certain kinds of things, like like I say, I'm pretty Um what I've been trying to work on, long story short, one of the one of the things is um In my in my head looks like a baseball mitt. Yes. I thought it'd be funny to say. Uh is Okay, cool. I'm not sure if they were real or not that I remember Oh, I feel like he looks kinda sad. I'm pretty sure it was in New Zealand. Well, why are you telling me this? Uh we were we were you said something funny and we were No no no no we gotta we gotta finish this threat. I'll be damned. Um The three The three clowns you meet in heaven. We had an ending, so don't let this peter off. That was unkind and I didn't mean it that way.

Yes. It took What's that do with brain school? I like oysters and snails. Oh there was other things. It was kind of like the original hipster PDA in some ways, but like there's there's And they work for the Met, which is not the museum. To me to spelling. So we'll Either like silence while she has erectus. That's a j I think I stole that joke from the movie National Lampoons Vacation. That's a writer's room. See the thing is, the thing is every night. But Yep. One says projects and the other says tasks. You've got stuff that's wrapped and under the tree. I am And the the girl in that who's growing marijuana at the house. Well I got to the I made a I made a John Locke joke just Um I made a dog's dinner.

Um let me see what else is in my document here Um Oh In the moment are you aware that you're crazy? I love the little guy. No, this is your project. I don't know. I had This week's challenge, learn more about commonplace books. And I'm not sure. And congratulations, this will be here for almost two years. You never tear out a page from an engineering notebook. Huh. I don't know what that would be for you. People are so wise. Atari syndrome. Yes. I mean it is performance and it's probably a kind of art. Really? I've heard him say it with his mouth. Because that's fascinating to me Um maybe And then everything is a subset under that. So show me all the blueprints. It's a really good song. Wasn't there something something else you needed to ask about?

Ew, ew. Yes. Yeah, yeah. He's unusual It's probably not the best way. Really makes you think We're just having fun with it Like I think that's kind of a cool thing. America's roast beef, yes, sir. How do you feel about that? Let me find a Who will hold my hand Oh this guy so this was not Rename the thread. Hey, you wanna know how to do getting things done? Which is spelled more like that than I would like. Yes, to you. No, that's that's literally. Oh I think it's making a big difference. I was sitting in the Oh, with such a good Is it is that kind of And those tags have You know, those kinds of things where you have to No, I'm I'm not interested in that part. Uh but I mean, you know, uh I I I mean Um oh yeah, okay You ever have things where you're like But anyway we went to the circ we're going to the circus.

And that just goes through my head. I am saying that's good. You want to talk about the challenge? You can't change the order of your pages. And is your cat okay? Not that that makes it better. Uh-huh. I remember that. Yes. I I don't care. It's funny how that works. Could you look him up? I would like to talk about how people are funny. Atari syndrome. Thank you. That's what I heard. Every every every Yeah. But uh We all have the same ADHD. Was that his thing? Well, cannabinoid. Yay. Well What I'm trying to say is if I don't know what to do with that. Uh email With pita? Um raw transcript