I've always...

A few days ago I had this idea in my mind, a part of a dream, some pieces of memory or whatever...

Some physicists were trying to do something. Somehting? Yes, just something.
I do not know what they really wanted to do but let me first give you the details I remember:
This something they were plotting had something to do with the sun and another planet. Again it is just another planet. I do not know if it was Jupiter or Neptune or Mercury.
It was an experiment and therefore they needed a planet and the sun.
And they feared the outcome. At least one of them. So he prepared a place, or better a hiding place (maybe even a bunker). This bunker was located in what looked like a regular super market if you leave out the fact that they were stocking up certain food. And this place had something to do with Snarland. Maybe it was Snarland or maybe it was just the name of the experiment...
I don't even know if I got the spelling right- maybe it was Snarkland or whatever
Sound pretty crazy to me but I found it somehow interesting and tried to remember all of this.

And shortly after this I wondered about our physical world. About time and space and such things.
And I remembered that time is influenced by movement. And a thing like that huge masses bend space. And what it would be like to travel faster than light.
Maybe it would be like flying at super-sonic speed. And maybe it is not the air but the time or the space (very abstract...) you need to, well pierce through. I was really amused by that thought. Time beeing something material as air. Time beeing compressed in front of a moving object and when you go faster and faster....something like a boom - well what exactly would happen (it would be funny to able to hear the time-barrier).

Well I certainly got carried away by crazy ideas, but it was amusing and somehow reassuring that at least in my mind there are no clearly defined boundaries to what is possible

Something sad, something beautiful?!
I don't know but after watching some truly interesting movies I just wondered wether something really sad can be really beautiful..
I think sadness as an emotion or feeling is something very beautiful - just listen to the soundtrack of Babel or 21 Gramm.

Enough of sadness and back to the facts:

Since my last entry many things have happened. I have learned about the trash isles here in Braunschweig, was overturned and fell into the water (three times!) during a boat tour with my colleagues and went to the Magni festival...

Its just bits and pieces but at least I feel it was a good decision to go to Braunschweig.
I have met a lot of nice people around here and it is really fun (although I miss my other friends and would like to share those things happening here with them...)

Well at last something to think about (or better to say - i'm in the "thinking mood")

Eine Melodie aus dem was niemand kennt
Ein Lied für die, die man verkennt
Eine Komposition für die Gedanken
Die in Stille einst versanken

Seems like my english got a bit rusty again
Since I've not used it (except für reading - which is a little easier than active production..)
So if you have trouble reading (because of some sort of misspelling or sentences wihtout any senese)
please let me know and I'l try to fix this up.

Why it is concerning me? Well yesterday a student from Darmstadt came by(he is applying for an internship) and was introduced to me.
So far there seems to be no problem about that but the student is actually from india and speaks only a little bit german - so I had to talk in english and I can't remember having such problems speaking...

That is also the reason why I continue to write in english - just a little exercise to get the hang of it (again).
Oh and I should not forget that I wanted to do an analyses of fixation sequences - well I wanted to but actually I do not think I did it right.
Actually there are 17 areas of interest - unfortunately not equal in size. And I wanted to analyse the frequency of different sequences (from a sequence of two to a sequence of 12 areas of interest).

If you set up the rule that the sequence is no direct repetition you get the rule that after the selection of the first Area of interest there are 16 Areas left to select from.
I'd like to know the possibility of a given sequence to be created by chance.
Let us simplify the calculation and assume that the possibility for every area to be selected is equal:
So by a sequence of two the possibility for the first area to be selected is 1/17 for the second 1/16.
(because we ignore the direct repetition...)
For every possible length of the sequence this is the same -> the first possibility is 1/17 every following has the possibility of 1/16.
So every specific sequence (length 2) has the possibility of 1/17*1/16 = 0,003676471
to occur...

Well actually I'm no sure if this is the right way - but I think if a certain specific sequence occurs with a certain frequency you can say it did occur by chance - or if it occurs more often than expected you could say the sequence you found is used for a certain strategy.

Might be interesting to look at - but I'm still puzzled if it is the right way to figur this out.
(Actually I'd need to know how much trials were used - and I do not know how to operationalize the number of trials when the data I get is made of fixations ^^)