Am I the only person who's noticed this?

When I'm perusing posts or electronic articles, I'm prone to scanning through them to try and pick out the pertinant information, rather than chewing through it all thoroughly. With the net result being that I sometimes miss very important things because they get stopped by the unconscious filter as not being relevant to the specific topic in my mind

I've noticed that I've started doing the same thing while reading books too.... scanning through and spotting things that match my mental image of the scene, right up until I crash into something and wonder where it came from, how it got there... or when we changed locations. And then I go back to check and find it was mentioned a few paragraphs - or even a page ago and I have to jump back and start again.

It's becoming annoying.
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One of the more difficult songs to get the most out of in Doug's arsenal, and also one of the few with an effect that lasts while the song is not playing. He must keep the target in mind and inside his AoE while Three Strange Days plays from beginning to end, with the actual effect only beginning when the song ends. The target is locked into a "waking dream" fugue state for 72 hours, during which they will be largely apathetic if left to their own devices, and pliant to suggestions as long as they don't lead to immediate or obvious harm. It is an unquestionably powerful effect, but the difficulty of setting it up and the fact that as mental control it sometimes simply fails limits the overall utility.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

May the Fourth be with you! 8)
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin

A new Cat-tales has begun (can't figure out a direct link)http://catwoman-cattales.com/
Part 18 of Slayer by Gaslighthttp://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30186-18 ... slight.htm
More Terawatthttp://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28614-17 ... x+Mack.htm
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin

DOMEL: None shall pass.
OKITA: What?
DOMEL: None shall pass.
OKITA: I have no quarrel with you, good Sir, but I must cross this Rainbow colored star cluster.
DOMEL: Then you shall die.
OKITA: Stand aside!
DOMEL: I move for no man.
OKITA: So be it!
(Lots of animated space battle carnage as ships are battered on both sides until the drill missile reverses back into a carrier, which blows up)
OKITA: Now stand aside, worthy adversary.
DOMEL: 'Tis but a scratch.
OKITA: A scratch? You lost a carrier!
DOMEL: No, I didn't.
OKITA: Well, what's that, then? (points at fireball)
DOMEL: I've had worse.
OKITA: You liar!
DOMEL: Come on, you pansy!
(More animated space battles, fighters shooting each other out of the sky, then another 2 carriers blow up)
Okita: Victory is mine!
We thank Thee Lord, that in Thy mer--
DOMEL: Hah!
(Shots blow up secondary turret 1) 
Come on, then.
OKITA: What?
DOMEL: Have at you!
(Boom)
OKITA: You are indeed brave, General, but the fight is mine.
DOMEL: Oh, had enough, eh?
OKITA: Look, you stupid bastard. You've got no carriers left!
DOMEL: Yes, I have.
OKITA: Look!
OKITA: Just a flesh wound.
(BOOM)
OKITA: Look, stop that.
DOMEL: Chicken!
(shots go wide)
Chickennn!
OKITA: Look, I'll have your Command ship!
(observation dome blows out)
Right!
(Shock cannons tear into command ship, leaving naught but Domel's bridge module.)
DOMEL: Right. I'll do you for that!
OKITA: You'll what?
DOMEL: Come here!
OKITA: What are you going to do, explode on me?
DOMEL: Saaaaay... 
OKITA: Oh crap....

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27224995]BBC Obithttp://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/showbiz/o ... ?hpt=hp_t2]CNN Obit
Random Bob Hoskins trivia:  In the 80s, I hung out on CompuServe's Comic Books SIG ("special interest group" -- a forum).  One of the other habitues was Chris Claremont, who circa 1986 posted his "dream cast" for an X-Men movie.  Bob Hoskins was his choice for Wolverine.  (Diane Lane - then still a teen - was his choice for Kitty Pryde; I can't remember any of the others, sadly.)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

And the Big Three -- Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford -- are in.
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2014/04/29 ... announced/
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

  //www.youtube.com/v/G1pX97_0rxU?hl=en_US&version=3      
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

http://io9.com/japan-is-making-an-offic ... 1567281840]An official Evangelion-Transformers crossover.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.