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20 Jan 2014, 8:17 pm

I just remembered that when I was a kid I used to catalog a lot. I cataloged my books and my stuffed animals and my clothes. I don't do it as much now. Sometimes I still do a little but not as much as before. Those of you who catalog, did you find that your intensity of frequency in cataloging changed as you got older?


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20 Jan 2014, 8:58 pm

I wish I had the time and energy to catalogue stuff.



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20 Jan 2014, 9:01 pm

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I wish I had the time and energy to catalogue stuff.
And as far as I recall I think you may have lots of stuff to catalogue! :D Did I spell catalogue incorrectly in my title and original post? I was not sure about the English spelling. I know that sometimes there is more than one way to spell things and I was too lazy to look it up. :D


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20 Jan 2014, 9:02 pm

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I wish I had the time and energy to catalogue stuff.
And as far as I recall I think you may have lots of stuff to catalogue! :D Did I spell catalogue incorrectly in my title and original post? I was not sure about the English spelling.

I am guessing it is "catalog" as a verb and "catalogue" as a noun. I am no expert grammarian, just an amateur. I have enough stuff that it would take the rest of my life and a good part of the next one to catalog it all.



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20 Jan 2014, 9:09 pm

I've been doing it all weekend, except it's information and notes. i'm transferring everything to my MacBook Air in the hope that if I have it all in one place i can do something productive with it, but it means gathering it and putting it all into two new programs. Woe is me! I keep interrupting myself to listen to music and come here, so not getting much done.



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20 Jan 2014, 9:10 pm

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I've been doing it all weekend, except it's information and notes. i'm transferring everything to my MacBook Air in the hope that if I have it all in one place i can do something productive with it, but it means gathering it and putting it all into two new programs. Woe is me! I keep interrupting myself to listen to music and come here, so not getting much done.

maybe it should be archived instead to a solid state outboard drive [no moving parts and so cannot wear to the point where info gets lost].



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20 Jan 2014, 9:11 pm

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skibum wrote:
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I wish I had the time and energy to catalogue stuff.
And as far as I recall I think you may have lots of stuff to catalogue! :D Did I spell catalogue incorrectly in my title and original post? I was not sure about the English spelling.

I am guessing it is "catalog" as a verb and "catalogue" as a noun. I am no expert grammarian, just an amateur. I have enough stuff that it would take the rest of my life and a good part of the next one to catalog it all.
LOL! I'll bet you have lots of really cool and fun stuff too.

I'll have to look up the word catalogue or it might start to bug me. LOL! :D


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20 Jan 2014, 9:13 pm

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I've been doing it all weekend, except it's information and notes. i'm transferring everything to my MacBook Air in the hope that if I have it all in one place i can do something productive with it, but it means gathering it and putting it all into two new programs. Woe is me! I keep interrupting myself to listen to music and come here, so not getting much done.

maybe it should be archived instead to a solid state outboard drive [no moving parts and so cannot wear to the point where info gets lost].


Once I get it all organized I will do that, but right now it's in about 5 different widows programs, some on napkins, stickies, torn sheets of papers, notebooks, I even have a lot of it in my music files because I make notes on my songs! It's everywhere!



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20 Jan 2014, 9:21 pm

let's see.... I have [a taste of my weird collection] a lump of fake skin that I got from a dermatology drug rep when I worked in a hospital. I have a cassette tape [anybody remember those?] with the "sounds of mental illness" on it. I have a blue paisley sports jacket. I have a paper suit. I have this device called a neurophone which purports to allow a person to "hear" sounds while bypassing the auditory nerves. too many others to list here.



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20 Jan 2014, 9:23 pm

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let's see.... I have [a taste of my weird collection] a lump of fake skin that I got from a dermatology drug rep when I worked in a hospital. I have a cassette tape [anybody remember those?] with the "sounds of mental illness" on it. I have a blue paisley sports jacket. I have a paper suit. I have this device called a neurophone which purports to allow a person to "hear" sounds while bypassing the auditory nerves. too many others to list here.
We could have loads of fun at your house! LOL!! !


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20 Jan 2014, 9:24 pm

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auntblabby wrote:
wozeree wrote:
I've been doing it all weekend, except it's information and notes. i'm transferring everything to my MacBook Air in the hope that if I have it all in one place i can do something productive with it, but it means gathering it and putting it all into two new programs. Woe is me! I keep interrupting myself to listen to music and come here, so not getting much done.

maybe it should be archived instead to a solid state outboard drive [no moving parts and so cannot wear to the point where info gets lost].


Once I get it all organized I will do that, but right now it's in about 5 different widows programs, some on napkins, stickies, torn sheets of papers, notebooks, I even have a lot of it in my music files because I make notes on my songs! It's everywhere!

how do you make notes on songs unless it is sheet music?



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20 Jan 2014, 9:25 pm

auntblabby wrote:
let's see.... I have [a taste of my weird collection] a lump of fake skin that I got from a dermatology drug rep when I worked in a hospital. I have a cassette tape [anybody remember those?] with the "sounds of mental illness" on it. I have a blue paisley sports jacket. I have a paper suit. I have this device called a neurophone which purports to allow a person to "hear" sounds while bypassing the auditory nerves. too many others to list here.


What?
What?
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What?

What does mental illness sound like?
How do you hear sounds without using the auditory nerve? Does it work? What does it feel like?



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20 Jan 2014, 9:32 pm

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auntblabby wrote:
let's see.... I have [a taste of my weird collection] a lump of fake skin that I got from a dermatology drug rep when I worked in a hospital. I have a cassette tape [anybody remember those?] with the "sounds of mental illness" on it. I have a blue paisley sports jacket. I have a paper suit. I have this device called a neurophone which purports to allow a person to "hear" sounds while bypassing the auditory nerves. too many others to list here.


What?
What?
and
What?

What does mental illness sound like?
How do you hear sounds without using the auditory nerve? Does it work? What does it feel like?

for the neurophone, my results were suboptimal in that I "heard" [best way to describe the sensation] a scratchy sound of a CD I was playing through the device. it was originally marketed as a means to allow hearing-deficient people to hear music and tv. the lump of fake skin was a marketing gimmick, it was made out of rubber but it had a sorta icky texture about it. the sounds of mental illness [highly NOT recommended to people who are vulnerable in the least] is basically a cacophony of mean sounding voices saying nasty things about one's mentality. it was put out by a brain drug outfit that marketed antipsychotic drugs.



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20 Jan 2014, 9:36 pm

auntblabby wrote:
wozeree wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
let's see.... I have [a taste of my weird collection] a lump of fake skin that I got from a dermatology drug rep when I worked in a hospital. I have a cassette tape [anybody remember those?] with the "sounds of mental illness" on it. I have a blue paisley sports jacket. I have a paper suit. I have this device called a neurophone which purports to allow a person to "hear" sounds while bypassing the auditory nerves. too many others to list here.


What?
What?
and
What?

What does mental illness sound like?
How do you hear sounds without using the auditory nerve? Does it work? What does it feel like?

for the neurophone, my results were suboptimal in that I "heard" [best way to describe the sensation] a scratchy sound of a CD I was playing through the device. it was originally marketed as a means to allow hearing-deficient people to hear music and tv. the lump of fake skin was a marketing gimmick, it was made out of rubber but it had a sorta icky texture about it. the sounds of mental illness [highly NOT recommended to people who are vulnerable in the least] is basically a cacophony of mean sounding voices saying nasty things about one's mentality. it was put out by a brain drug outfit that marketed antipsychotic drugs.


You are a constant font of fascinating information.

I make notes on my music in the program I use to listen to it (Media Monkey) in the comments section - the notes are related to a novel I'm writing because I use songs to identify and develop the characters - sounds loopy I'm sure - but I have about 1,000 notes in there.



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20 Jan 2014, 9:52 pm

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You are a constant font of fascinating information. I make notes on my music in the program I use to listen to it (Media Monkey) in the comments section - the notes are related to a novel I'm writing because I use songs to identify and develop the characters - sounds loopy I'm sure - but I have about 1,000 notes in there.

do you use the music as a type of memory aide? I can't think of how to spell mnemonic.



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20 Jan 2014, 10:08 pm

auntblabby wrote:
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You are a constant font of fascinating information. I make notes on my music in the program I use to listen to it (Media Monkey) in the comments section - the notes are related to a novel I'm writing because I use songs to identify and develop the characters - sounds loopy I'm sure - but I have about 1,000 notes in there.

do you use the music as a type of memory aide? I can't think of how to spell mnemonic.


No, it's more like inspiration. I listen to music a lot and sometimes I'll hear a lyric that makes me think of a character and my mind starts spinning from that jumping off point and I end up coming up with all kinds of new ideas. I put the notes in the comments so I can remember because usually they end up being not any literal or obvious interpretation of the song, therefore I would probably never remember them just by listening to the song again.

I guess that is a kind of menomic device now that you mention it! (I can' spell it either.)