Showing posts with label wetware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wetware. Show all posts

Monday, December 21, 2009

Dying since the day they were born

The human brain is an amazing piece of wetware, with a storage and bandwidth capacity that’s difficult to calculate even with current technology.

Something that concerns me about the status of my own bandwidth - earworms.

Songs get stuck in my head constantly – and all I have to do is read a list of titles for it to happen. I was researching songs that were popular in 1993 and 1994 for a flashback scene I was writing.

When I got up the next morning, I was humming ‘Stay’ by Lisa Loeb, even though I did not reference the song in my story – my eye simply skimmed across the title the day before.

Take a good look at these two links/song lists, and let me know if any related earwoms end up attacking you over the next couple of days.