I'd love to have a machine that could record thoughts. I've blogged a little about this before, but I'm really curious how similar or different our thought patterns are. What really goes on inside your head? I'll never know because I only get the filtered view that you choose to present to me and the translation gets mixed up when you speak it (at least it does for me.)
For example, every morning I drive down 202 past the Redmond-Fall City Animal Hospital. That inevitably forks this thought process "I wonder how much that place looks like where Jay and Juliet live. It's cool that her dad let's them live in the apartment above his practice. I always think about this when I drive past. I should blog about how I always think this. I always think about how I think about this. I always think about how I think bout how I think about this. I always think about how I always think about how I think bout how I think about this. I'm going to have a stack overflow in my brain from all this recursion if I don't stop. I wonder how early you can automatically detect an impending stack overflow in software. What would that algorithm look like? ... I'm a nerd."
And when I was writing this post I thought, "It's weird that I remembered that post from 2005. I wonder if I've ever had an unintentional duplicate post. You'd think someone would have called me out on it. Why do I remember every stupid post I've made on this site but forget useful information? That post still cracks me up though."
On second thought, it's probably better to keep the majority of my thoughts to myself. I'm pretty sure I'm not normal.