She closes the lid, and unplugs a device no bigger than her thumb from the computer ( Read more... )

I have always thought that depression, social anxiety disorder, ADD and similar 'mental illnesses' that have cropped up mostly in the 20th century are not old diseases that have only recently been formally diagnosed, but natural, healthy, human reactions to a world which is completely at odds with the environment in which we evolved to exist ( Read more... )

I'm home and Simba has never been this sweet to me before. Seriously, he's kneading on my chest. I've never seen him knead before.

Well, the cat's officially mine now, which is good because I've grown very attached to him. He's my buddy-cat.

And so now I get to worry about him for the week I'm in Florida. 6AM flight. Envy me.

Be back for the New Year.

Solitaire is broken. It lets me undo when I flip a card in a stack over. Old solitaire made that two moves: one to move the top card off the face-down card, a second to flip over the face-down card. If you undo, it will only turn the now exposed card back over. Now it's only one move and if I have multiple kings, I can cheat and see which one ( Read more... )

Windows 7.

Never a smooth transition. That would be un-American.

From http://www.metafilter.com/84838/Capitalism-Is-Evil#2729857, discussing Michael Moore's upcoming movie ( Read more... )

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http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/06/goldman-sachs-engineering-every-major.html

The Great American Bubble Machine: From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great ( Read more... )