>We [probably] use non-syllabic symbols for our "buss" comminications. Thoughts are more like a pulse. Not words. The symbols you are witnessing could be a leak (but I doubt it:-).

I'd know if it was a leak... I'd wake up wet.

>Understand, all of us on this board are writers. We write software. And to do that requires an ability to muster a transcendental state, on queue.

I figure you meant "on cue"... because I do have trouble queueing my to-do lists. The order in which I eventually do them is unpredictable.

> Next time you turn on your computer, next time you settle down to some kick-a?? coding, check your breathing rate - check your state man!

Still Virginia :).

>Even today, when I open an instrument case - I dive right in - get meditational. Same with my `puter
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>The next time you "witness" your buss language - think about it - you have trained yourself, perhaps without a conscious "effort", to get transcendental at the drop of a dime.

That's called concentration, and I'm not as good at it as I once was, but I'm still quite resistant to outside distractions. Quite often I get airplanes flying not too high and not too far from here (but they must be ships, not airplanes, because they say it's a naval base), and I don't really hear them unless they get to be really loud. And most of the time I don't hear what anyone tells me while the tunnel between my eyes and the monitor is on.