From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-09-01T02:40:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Group visuals

In article <e5ed7b6904083017216efbc168@mail.gmail.com>,
Carl Youngblood  <carl.youngblood@gmail.com> wrote:
>Incidentally, and totally off-topic: has anyone else besides myself
>noticed how, after you've participated in an online group of some kind
>for a while, your brain starts to construct visual images of the
>people in the group in the absense of sensory input?  It's very
>strange how my mind will construct an image of what someone looks like
>without my ever having met them.  It's almost as if it can't deal with
>having no input, so false information is better than none.  Am I weird
>or does anybody else experience this too?


Yeah, before I met him I always pictured Matz as looking something like 
Toshiro Mifune in Hidden Fortress; a fierce code Samurai.  After meeting 
him at a RubyConf now Matz looks like Matz and that's a good bit friendlier 
than Mifune ;-)

Phil