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I don't know if anyone else has this problem, but I often find that I don't trip the electric eye sensors on automatic doors. What's creepy is that sometimes, I'm completely unable to trip the sensor, even by backing up and walking back forward again, jumping up and down, even waving my hand in front of the sensor... and then someone else comes up ( Read more... ) -
random earworms
Randomly, suddenly, I find myself singing/humming "Que Sera Sera". Randomly, suddenly, I feel like I should compile a list of what earworms1 affect me, because I do wonder if earworms are universal, or if different people are more sensitive to different musical characteristics. It has definitely shifted over time for me, because I used to get Yuko ( Read more... ) -
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My prescription insurance is run by a company that also has a mail-order pharmacy, and they periodically trying to convince you to change from 30-day prescriptions at local retail to 90-day prescriptions through their mail order. Anyway, while reviewing my prescriptions, they said, "see how much you can save by changing to mail order" except they ( Read more... ) -
Moon; The Hurt Locker; and Departures (Okuribito)
Moon (official website): Moon is a rather hard SF movie, the feature-length writing and directing debut of Duncan Jones. In the future, Helium-3 mined from the moon is the source of abundant and cheap energy for the world. Sam Bell is the lone occupant of one such mining base, two weeks from the end of his three-year contract, with only the ( Read more... ) -
observation about Michael Jackson
When I go to the store and see the Michael Jackson hagiographic commemorative issues of magazines, I can't tell how much he's been modified in Photoshop, and how much of that is just his cosmetic surgery. -
less dysfunction!
National Journal reports on The Six Most Dysfunctional State Governments, ranked by:- The quality of leadership -- by the state's legislature, its current governor and, where applicable, its ousted governor.
- The whiff of criminality in the state's top political leadership.
- The severity of the state's policy challenges.
- The intensity of the media ( Read more... )
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I love the 4th of July
Fireworks just never cease to be awesome. -
impulse
I am struck by the impulse to take tomorrow off and go to Atlantic City. -
JUDGMENT
humanplacebo ponders whether it is fair to judge society based on Google search suggestions for "how to use a":- condom
- tampon
- compass1
- protractor
- multimeter
- curling iron
- french press
- flash drive
- bidet
1 Influenced by the immediate proximity of "protractor" next in the list, I initially though this referred to the circle-drawing tool2, but the entire ( Read more... )