Sherlock was a hipster

I shattered my own world thinking about this.  I almost cried.

So, in the late 19th century, Sherlock was playing the romantic German violin pieces--roughly a few decades behinid the times, really.  That means that if you were to update Sherlock to the modern era, Sherlock would be this middle-aged guy who was really interested in the music of a few decades ago--that is, the 80's. 

Sherlock would play electric guitar and bust out with a gnarly solo in the modern equivalent of his parlor--a garage.  He'd look down on everyone and enjoy his esoteric taste, and say that he was doing the detective work before CSI ever picked it up.

This image is one step away from birth control glasses and skinny jeans on a fixed-gear bike. 

"Lately, I've been working on the Juliana Weber case.  You probably haven't heard of it."

OMG, I need this for everything.

This is ridiculously useful.  I'm a genius, so most of my time is spent being a genius, which means that I don't have time to remember things like where I dropped my keys, or where I put my wallet.  So, being able to whip out my phone (assuming that with my vast intellect, I have managed to hold onto the only tether to the real world) and find all of my other non-electronic devices (as long as they aren't shrouded in the appropriately sized Faraday cage) is a miracle that I, of course, thought of long ago.  Thankfully, someone else actually put in the time and effort to put together a very cool little device that does this; I'm glad my idea totally came to fruition.

http://www.indiegogo.com/sticknfind

Active and Passive Posture

So, there's the theory that your posture is one of the main indicators of your mental engagement in a situation.  In an active posture, one is leaned forward with the head pushed forward of the shoulders, and generally looking forward or down.  This is indicative of engagement in something that requires interaction: a game, a conversation, a piece of work, whatever.  And then there's the passive leaned back posture, where your shoulders are generally above or behind your hips, your head most likely leaned back.  This is indicative of a spectator role in the situation, and is generally the posture adopted by movie-goers, spectators at speaking events, and the less important people at meetings the world over.

Generally, the active posture is associated with work and activity.  Not necessarily the employment kind of work, but something that's definitely an outpouring of effort and energy in the cognitive sense.  Passive posture is associated with leisure, rest, and relaxation, i.e. the absence of work and activity. 

Now, let's think about this for a moment.  "Good" posture is generally upright, and balanced between these two extremes of being leaned forward, propped on your elbows, ready to howl your solution to the problem across the table, and the relaxed, head-back posture of "go ahead, you can have it".  Consider then, the lifestyle in which one or the other of these two things is engaged in with more vigor and force than the other.  Whereas one is engaging muscles to support the head up and back (passive posture), the other engages the mirrored posterior muscles to support the head forward and down (active posture). 

Given the proclivity to one or the other, a person's posture can be said to be the representation of the cognitive proclivities of a person.  I.e., people who are more upright and relaxed are often less engaged and focused on cognitive tasks, while people who tend to hunch forward have a tendency to focus their energies on specific tasks with great concentration.

All of that was to explain that my neck hurts.  I should watch a movie or something.

And we begin anew

As life has continued to throw curve balls, I have started to learn how curve balls are thrown.  With experience and analysis of a dilemma, a solution often presents itself to the observant and active thinker.  In this case, I am the thinker, and as my thinking and observation are of moderate aptitude to begin with, it has taken me a while to recall that I even have a blog that is already present and accounted for.  Thus, here we are.

Beginning anew.

It's been over six years since the last post I made to this blog, and after looking at the drivel and self-centered word-flatulence that I had left as my mark on the internet, I decided to scrap it and try again.  Perhaps this time there will be a little bit more thought involved; if we're lucky, there may even be some thoughtfulness.  So here's to new beginnings.  Cheers.