My father-in-law changed careers from being a USAF pilot to a human factors engineer. This stuff is at the core of his work in the field. He designed control systems for nuclear reactors where huge amounts of information have to be monitored. Conversation drift is pretty cool when he talks about things no longer confidential or otherwise covered by secrecy like facial recognition (circa 1970s). Same part of the brain is used to recognize various bike models and brands as well as models of motor vehicles.
Sometimes physiology can provide exceptions that produce out of the ordinary performance. Chuck Yeager was an individual with strong visual attributes that benefitted his vocations. "Blessed with exceptional 20/10 vision, Yeager had eyes that could “see forever.” wrote Dr. James Young, Chief Historian of the Air Force Flight Test Center History Office. The rest of us just have to work with what we've got and expect the same of others as we ply our ways in hopes of meriting recognition as something not to hit. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 1:13:00 PM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: > > I'm not recommending, just posting: > > > https://www.portsmouthctc.org.uk/a-fighter-pilots-guide-to-surviving-on-the-roads/ > > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.portsmouthctc.org.uk%2Fa-fighter-pilots-guide-to-surviving-on-the-roads%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNF_7vgrf6bvQ5WClBAjrSfpzV8gbQ> > > Fighter pilot! Must know what he's talking about. OTOH, he's with the > British air force. > > It all reminds me of a G K Chesterton Father Brown story where an American > millionaire (Chesterton despised capitalists*) in an isolated office on a > high floor in a multistory building, with only one door in access to the > corridor, disappears from the room and is found hanging, murdered, from a > tree across the street while the corridor is thronged with various support > staff, visitors, and hangers-on. The story turns on the psychological > "blind spots" of the various men in the corridor fronting the office. Come > to think of it, the story about the other (British) millionaire who > disappears from his flat even though the doorman swears he has been there > all along and seen no one, is similar in theme if not setting. > > Yes, the fat A pillars of modern cars are very annoying. > > And, one reason for cycling caps is that they help when the sun is just > above the horizon or, as I did on Thursday night, one finds oneself riding > on a bike path on the left side of a major auto traffic artery. In both > cases, you can pull the bill down to block much of the glare. > > * A good instance of the utter silliness of conventional ideological > categories. Chesterton was a traditional Catholic who once (I've many times > read the text) said that a man wholly dedicated to capitalism is probably a > Satanist; who granted reserved praise for pre-Leninist Communists -- in > effect saying that they were honorable for their hatred of capital > concentration and their concern for the poor working class; but who > basically approved of Aristotle's common sense conviction that small > proprietorship -- land, business, building -- is the best for economic and > moral welfare. > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, New Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique > ************************************************************************** > ************** > *Auditis an me ludit amabilis insania?* > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
