Story - Hartwig Distler

very long.
13.04.2008
Name images
Here is again an exercise from Cogpack. The task of the user is to give names to 14 pictures. The user is allowed to take characters and
numbers. As said the first part of the exercise is to provide a name for each picture. You have to provide names for pictures that make sense,
e.g. a mountain range is shown. Or another picture shows a desert which you then name as “desert". In the first moment you think that this is
not difficult at all. But normally the 14 images of a series are very similar, thus e.g. 14 mountain ranges and to each you have to give a unique
name. You must provide a connection between a picture and its names. Now all pre-work is done. In the actual exercise you get an image and
14 names to select the correct one. You then must select with image you have seen. At the beginning I thought that the thing is completely
simple. But due to the fact that all images of a category are relatively similar, it became - at least for me - very, very difficult.
15.04.2008
Counting both directions
The following is again an exercise which I try to make in parallel. If I e.g. go walking with the dog, then I let my thoughts to different things and
at the same time I count in parallel. I count between -100 and 100 in both directions. I make sizes of different steps. A row I always make with
a certain step size e.g. -100, -93, -86, -79, -72, -65, -58, -51, -44, -37, -30, -23, -16, -9, -2, 5, 12, 19, 26, 33, 40, 47, 54, 61, 68, 75, 82, 89, 96,
103. And then starting at 100 e.g. with a step size of “5”. Thus 100, 95, 90, 85, 80, 75, 70, 65, 60 etc.. At some point I will take bigger step
sizes and larger ranges.
18.04.2008
Parallel
At the moment I try to make more things in parallel. I began e.g. to write characters and at the same time to count. For a line I always do the
some character and at the some time I count form zero to nine. Counting is done in both directions. That is a simple task doing two things at
the some time.