Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
The hardest thing about time is doing it. — Lord Corwin of Amber This is a ridiculously low-tech solution to the high-tech problem of keeping your computer from going to sleep while it’s working on something for you. The incongruity somehow appeals to me.
I wish I could believe this sort of thing. I have no doubt that extraterrestrial life exists — merely from a mathematical perspective, it seems all but certain, just from what we know about life and the universe already. But that technologically advanced beings have visited Earth? I know far too well how easily humans …
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You’re joking, right?
I suspect that this is only good when the suspected person doesn’t know to expect it, and how it’s judged. When he does, he’ll have worked out how to draw the visual details along with the rest of his story. Of course, I could be wrong, he might still give himself away.
To think that for my entire life, I thought “weird” was an actual word. Now I find out that it’s an acronym for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. 😉 All joking aside, this is some really interesting psychology stuff.
I certainly hope that these were intended as a gag gift. Most guys go out of their way not to walk around with that kind of silhouette, outside of a bedroom. The only person that I can remotely imagine that a guy might want to impress that way is a potential sex partner. And in …
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Just in case you didn’t have enough to worry about already. 😉 For the record, I sometimes use my Apple MacBook Pro on my lap, occasionally for extended periods, and have never suffered from Toasted Skin Syndrome. But then, like almost everyone, I’m smart enough to move it when it gets uncomfortably hot, even if …
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I find this amusing, from the perspective of a modern, logical, Internet-connected Westerner who knows that vampires are myths. But I have to wonder just how many mistaken beliefs I have, that could be used against me in the same way by a more advanced enemy… (Fortunately, any “more advanced enemy” would almost have to …
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You’ve got to wonder what your average comic book super-villain was like as a child… (I think picture number six is my favorite. But ask me on another day and you may get a different answer.)
So take that and blow it out your saddle-bags, reactionary eighties parents! 😉