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-Math prof quote: "Your washing machine starts to take a little walk across the garage floor." (referring to the phenomenon of resonance)-

Little memory of dreams last night. Clearly I need to tell myself to get up when I first wake up from a dream (and remember more of it), then wait to possibly fall back asleep and certainly not get anymore dreams.

I wonder if it has ever occurred to hapless, unsuccessful shoppers that the clothes they're trying on (this is especially evident with shoes) look much better from another person's physical point of view than theirs. I'm not talking about being overly critical of ourselves or anything like that. I mean that most clothes are not flattering when viewed from above!

Take shoes. Ever notice that it seems like your feet are a little longer than everyone else's? How everyone else seems to have a rounder foot and more pleasant contours of shoes than you? Maybe it's because you see their shoes from the front and the side, where they are either foreshortened or have designs that shorten the visual length of the foot, making it look more "footlike". Whereas, when you look down at your own shoes, you are viewing them from above, where they are not primarily designed to be viewed from. They look long and clownish because if designers were to make shoes that looked properly proportioned from above, people in front of you (seeing the foreshortened front view) would see squatty, grossly short feet (since the shortening aspects of the design would be exaggerated and concentrated).

Reality check. I spend altogether too much time observing.