September 27, 2007
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I don't understand why, but people always seem to be amazed
by the way I can read a book and be doing something completely different at the
same time. Most often it's when I'm walking and reading. It seems that most
people lack the coordination to walk and read, or even chew gum, at the same
time. The same goes for eating. I can eat an entire meal without once putting
my book down. I was recently asked how I do it after downing half of a
rotisserie chicken without once averting my eyes from my book. I don't really
know how to explain it either. It's just something I'm good at. I'm very
fidgety, and I don't like doing one thing at a time. I can often be seen
reading while eating, listening to music while doing classwork, singing in the
shower, playing video games while burping the worm, etcetera. I guess I've just
gotten good at partitioning my brain function. Maybe that's not what they mean
though, so let me go ahead and explain an easy way to read with just one hand.
To begin, put the spine of the book flat onto your middle finger, while your
index and ring finger balance the sides. Open to the pages that you are on and
hold them open using your pinky on one side and your thumb on another. To turn
the page, use your thumb to maneuver around until you can flip the page, as
shown in my little video here:I know, it has a terrible ending, but it was
meant to be instructional, not entertaining. For those of you interested, the
book I was "reading" was Tim Allen's Don't Stand too Close to a Naked Man and the song was DragonForce's
Fury of the Storm. Also, for those of
you who did not realize, the hand was mine.
Comments (4)
I do a similar thing while reading and eating, but if the table is clean I will rest the book on the table while reading; it cuts back on those horrible endings, as shown in your video.
Burping the worm? Do I even want to know?
Damn and all this time i thought it wasnt you in the video, but am the same way i can do a milliion things at a time and it amazes people.
In one of my Buddhist books, a monk says(not direct quote), "Often we see a man who reads while he eats, when in actuality he neither reads nor eats."