Pattern Recognition
December 9, 2004
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Posted by Aubrey Turner
Humans tend to be good at quick pattern recognition. I suppose this could be advantageous in determining whether something is a threat (or perhaps food) quickly. We can scan an area, recognize a pattern, and immediately associate that pattern with some set of memories, whether they are good or bad. Corporate marketers take advantage of this by trying to associate the pattern of their corporate logo with good things in our heads.
But our quick recognition capability sometimes causes us to miss subtle differences. At least it does at first. We often feel that something isn’t quite right and decide to take a closer look. I say all this in way of getting to the point of something that happened yesterday in Southlake. As I was driving into a parking lot I noticed a young woman with a T-shirt that had what I at first took to be a familiar logo. As I was getting out of my truck, she was getting into a Mustang across from me and I finally noticed what her shirt said. She probably thought I was staring at her breasts, but those were just incidental, serving as the background for the message on her shirt. I think if you’re going to wear an obscene bastardization of a logo that most of us associate with high-carb surgary goodness then you shouldn’t be surprised if you get a few looks. Further, it’s probably a bad idea to wear a shirt like that in the general public where small children might encounter it.
Here’s the shirt for those that are curious:
Categories: Random Ramblings
There’s no link! Still, it does leave a lot to the imagination that way.
On another subject, have you done any posts on loads for your carry gun? Either as a mix of ammo types, brands, or same in a magazine but different loads in different magazines? How about ammo mix in rifle magazines?
The picture is a link to the item on an online store that I found.
I don’t recall that I’ve ever addressed the issue of carry loads. I’m pretty boring in that regards. I tend to carry Federal HydraShocks in all my handguns (at least those used for self-defense purposes).
My shotgun is loaded with two or three rounds of #8 birdshot, followed by double-ought slugs. It’s a pretty tight gun, so the #8 stays well grouped and would ruin a goblin’s day. Should one not be convinced by that, the slugs would follow to put a definitive end to the problem.
I’m pretty boring with rifles, but then I tend to only shoot them at the range on a fairly infrequent basis. I don’t tend to rely on rifles for defense (living in town makes them problematic at best, given the close proximity of the neighbors).
I still haven’t found this ultimate shirt. So sad…
The picture takes you to their store. Unfortunately, they only appear to have it in Medium.
Here’s the link: http://www.rapidteachers.com/tshirt.html
Googling on the phrase on the front gave me several other hits, but it appeared that those stores no longer had it.