Maybe something like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
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Jul 4, 2010
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Tricklev wrote:
Maybe something like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
"People who play Tetris for a prolonged amount of time may then find themselves thinking about ways different shapes in the real world can fit together, such as the boxes on a supermarket shelf or the buildings on a street."
Oh man...this does not sound good. I see mating patterns at the supermarket.
Jul 4, 2010
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I haven't played Tetris in more than a decade, but it is on my mind when the Costco employees struggle to put my groceries in a box the way I think efficient. As for chess, the dreams of combination became so common years ago that I no longer notice them. My mother said something to the owner of my local fly shop about chess affecting my brain, and he claims to have defended me as we share the obsession (he has a more advanced case) of putting fraudulent insects in front of small brained trout. Compared to that hobby, matching wits with chess players is child's play.
Jul 4, 2010
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Ziryab wrote:
I haven't played Tetris in more than a decade, but it is on my mind when the Costco employees struggle to put my groceries in a box the way I think efficient. As for chess, the dreams of combination became so common years ago that I no longer notice them. My mother said something to the owner of my local fly shop about chess affecting my brain, and he claims to have defended me as we share the obsession (he has a more advanced case) of putting fraudulent insects in front of small brained trout. Compared to that hobby, matching wits with chess players is child's play.
Moms always know! 
Musikamole wrote:
Tricklev wrote:
Maybe something like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
"People who play Tetris for a prolonged amount of time may then find themselves thinking about ways different shapes in the real world can fit together, such as the boxes on a supermarket shelf or the buildings on a street."
Oh man...this does not sound good. I see mating patterns at the supermarket.
Jul 4, 2010
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goldendog wrote:
Musikamole wrote:
Tricklev wrote:
Maybe something like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
"People who play Tetris for a prolonged amount of time may then find themselves thinking about ways different shapes in the real world can fit together, such as the boxes on a supermarket shelf or the buildings on a street."
Oh man...this does not sound good. I see mating patterns at the supermarket.
Great find goldendog!
Jul 5, 2010
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Estragon wrote
But thinking about chess? Why stop? What else is there to think about? If you think about sex too much you'll get frustrated, if you think about the world situation you will get depressed, if you think about your "to do" list you have to start doing that stuff . . .
Amen!
Estragon wrote:
Ziryab wrote:
The grocery baggers all went to public schools. Education has so declined that all the fast food restaurants now just put a key on the register for each item instead of relying upon the abilities of today's graduates to push numbers correctly. I still occasionally run into the cashier when my bill is $9.36 and I give her $10.11, and she tries to give my change back saying, "The 10 is enough" and looking at ME like I don't know how to count. "Just punch in what I gave, it'll be all right" is my stock reply . . .
Usually the people would give me the 11 cent back then punch in 10 bucks.
lol
I've been thinking more about chess since I began playing again at the start of the year. I catch myself asking people if they know how to play chess, I've had chess dreams (nightmare?) so I hoped to take a break once I finished all of my current games, I hope when I get a chance to finish them my brain can take a break from chess, but I have a feeling I have a chess bug. It is still a lot of fun for me, but I think it would be more fun if I won more often :) one day
Jul 5, 2010
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Estragon wrote:
Ziryab wrote:
I haven't played Tetris in more than a decade, but it is on my mind when the Costco employees struggle to put my groceries in a box the way I think efficient. As for chess, the dreams of combination became so common years ago that I no longer notice them. My mother said something to the owner of my local fly shop about chess affecting my brain, and he claims to have defended me as we share the obsession (he has a more advanced case) of putting fraudulent insects in front of small brained trout. Compared to that hobby, matching wits with chess players is child's play.
In fairness, the aquatic fish have far greater skills than the landlubbers.
The grocery baggers all went to public schools. Education has so declined that all the fast food restaurants now just put a key on the register for each item instead of relying upon the abilities of today's graduates to push numbers correctly. I still occasionally run into the cashier when my bill is $9.36 and I give her $10.11, and she tries to give my change back saying, "The 10 is enough" and looking at ME like I don't know how to count. "Just punch in what I gave, it'll be all right" is my stock reply . . .
Tetris effect on me used to be the sudden hearing of the doggone music in my head in strange situations during the day . . . "everything here is time and space . . ."
But thinking about chess? Why stop? What else is there to think about? If you think about sex too much you'll get frustrated, if you think about the world situation you will get depressed, if you think about your "to do" list you have to start doing that stuff . . .
"...if you think about your 'to do' list you have to start doing that stuff..."
Excellent point!
heh
Just wondering if anyone else has this problem.