0-10 Scale of Pain Severity ( Read more... )

I am blessed with a vast array of inciteful, intelligent, well-read, well-educated, open-minded, creative friends on my LJ, so I need to harness the collective genius of my friends list. Because if you live anywhere near a navy base (and, you know, are in the US) you will have seen this:

Navy 'work' Camouflage UniformLook at it. Look. Then come ( Read more... )

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/ppersons2_n2/oration.htmlRead more... )

A compliment does != hitting on you ( Read more... )

( I ain't saying she's a gold-digger... )

So girls don't really get hit. I don't mean their husbands/boyfriends/whatever don't hit them. I mean, as a little boy, violence is part of your life. If you're too bad, you'll get a spanking, or a slap, or an aggressive grab followed by being thrust into a chair or corner. If you're too good, you'll get called a teacher's pet or something and get ( Read more... )

So...in Computer Graphics/Computer Science/Entertainment/Video Games there's a lot of talk about 'The Uncanny Valley ( Read more... )

( So I want to build a house )

So often, history seems...distant. Like...there's no 'heros' or great people or...excitement. I mean, we can't go be pirates (except on South Park), there's no knights, there's no dragons to slay, it's rare to come across someone taking hostages with a knife when you have a gun in your pocket, it makes...history seem like...stories. Like adventure ( Read more... )

So I was listening to this Christian broadcast about marriage the other day [because preposterous, absurd reasons]. There's this concept I've heard before about 'cleaving and leaving', leaving the old life/attachments, to 'cut' [cleave] new ones. One of the things they cited was 'it takes 9-14 years for a couple to start thinking of themselves as ( Read more... )