Day 62

'Baseball', Pen and Marker on Paper

I remember hearing once that a curve-ball in Baseball was technically against the laws of physics/gravity and not just once either it's something that I heard repeatedly and from various sources, although as far as I can understand this is not true. It's strange how we pick up little bits of information from everyday conversations and experiences and without verifying them we for the most part believe them to be fact. It's then something that we recall at a later time normally as a way of generating a conversation, seeming more knowledgeable about something than we actually are and sometimes it's merely that the fact we are recalling is mildly amusing enough to have a good old laugh at. I find that I tend to absorb this ultimately trivial information at an alarming rate as well like my brain is one gigantic, porous amorphous blob enveloping all it comes in contact with. I sometimes worry that the more useless and insignificant things that I cram into my brain, that the more it causes the important things that I've learned to be hidden or smothered by the vacuous tripe that now occupies the space that it previously inhabited. Throughout our lives we learn a lot of things, we process an almost unfathomable amount of information and unless it's information that we use on a daily basis we also forget quite a lot of it as well. The mind is a wonderfully complex and confounding thing capable of aiding us in either achieving brilliance or suffering at the hands of our own stupidity. However one thing is for certain our penchant for curiosity means that we will be constantly overloading our minds with as mush stimuli and new information as we can possible consume... otherwise who's going to be able to regale you with such gems as the Roman Emperor Caligula was said to have once tried to make his horse Incitatus a consul, the highest elected office of the Roman Republic, when I read that for the first time I almost laughed myself hoarse, apologies but I couldn't resist.