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Speaking of crazy, novel skateboarding shit, check out Matt Tomasello, if you haven't already https://youtu.be/tnFPQ57l0Dg

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LOVED THIS!

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WhachutalkinboutBrendan - interesting blog w good interesting fodder but to quickly digress on a tangentially related point, there was a review of your song "pigeons & spies" on YouTube and the reviewer said you'd have to be "420 shades of stoned "to understand what the lyrics were about. (I really like the lyrics by the way but also always 420 shades of stoned).

Similarly this mindfuck of an article seems to have to do more w/ semantics, etymology and linguistics than perception & memory.

The color blue didn't have to be invented or thought of - as opposed to Einstein's theory of relativity - while relativity may have always been there, the theory behind it was not yet created, known or disseminated. Not the case w/ Blue. As you mention w your use of the Odyssey People have long described blue. It was there and known. The fact they may not called it "blue" seems of little consequence. As to your challenge I would point to Crayola Co. Who comes up with new colors all the time ( how else do you get a Cran pack with 164 colors!)

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Languages acquire “new colors” in a seemingly fixed order. Blue is the fourth color that languages develop, after red and yellow/green:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term#Basic_color_terms

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I don't know much of anything about juggling, but I remember hearing about AI coming up with crazy new tricks. So I just googled and found this as first result.

https://www.diffblue.com/blog/ai/can-you-perform-a-juggling-trick-created-by-ai/

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