What are You doing right now?

[odeon]

Because you aren't playing with the same part of your brain. One is just about (word) patterns on a two-dimensional surface, the other is a spatial thing that just happens to have letters in it. The letters in themselves--and the problem they represent--are coincidental; the problem is in your ability to scan a surface. You get lost in the details.

[DirtDawg]

But the spatial thing is an illusion. It is also a flat piece of paper, with the letters arranged along vectors.

It's just buggin' the crap out of me. I know you are right, but I can't "see" it, for some reason.

[El]

Chewing gum like mad.

[duncvis]

Being vaguely pissed (Brit. Eng), and trying not to feel emo about being a spaz.

[ozymandias]

Yeah, I felt like that yesterday.  Sometimes it's hard not to be emo.

[Calandale]

Wasting time (as usual) and vaguely stimming.

[ozymandias]

posting and planning my day.

[McGiver]

tossing out all that is conventional wisdom, and throwing caution to the wind.

[DirtDawg]

tossing out all that is conventional wisdom, and throwing caution to the wind.

So it was you, motherfucker! I must be downwind from you. I have been gathering caution in a frenzied state lately, but I came across this half-ignored, unused virginal batch recently. It's fucked. I have to tell it everything. I would much rather have seasoned caution available.

[McGiver]

sorry about that.

oh, and i farted also.

[ozymandias]

Thought I smelled something..damn those prevailing winds!

[Silk]

Going for a third slice of pizza.

[odeon]

But the spatial thing is an illusion. It is also a flat piece of paper, with the letters arranged along vectors.

It's just buggin' the crap out of me. I know you are right, but I can't "see" it, for some reason.

It's all in your brain. I agree that it's weird, though, how the brain interprets the two images differently.

[Litigious]

Postwhoring and fighting the evil omnipotent Computer God and his hangman rope sneak Gangsterplayboy scum-on-top underlings!

[DirtDawg]

But the spatial thing is an illusion. It is also a flat piece of paper, with the letters arranged along vectors.

It's just buggin' the crap out of me. I know you are right, but I can't "see" it, for some reason.

It's all in your brain. I agree that it's weird, though, how the brain interprets the two images differently.

... even when a word continues "around the corner" it is still stable. It doesn't roam.  I may have to make some more Word Searches with some of HIS words and assemble them in Illustrator to print out, for him, so he can gain some confidence with these things.