I never posted any pictures from May's trip to Spain because I don't take pictures. I buy postcards! I present my shrine to Gaudi and the great artists of Spain:


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Thanks to VSL, I just discovered www.iNudge.net. Love it. They're hammered today because that's what happens when something goes out to the VSL list, but I'm sure it will speed up later. Here's how VSL described it ( Read more... )

I've slept with a fan on for over 20 years. While we were married, Don bought me a new fan and outfitted it with a remote control outlet. I hadn't ever minded turning the fan on manually, but over the last seven or so years I must have gotten used to it because the battery in the remote finally failed tonight... and I felt great sadness ( Read more... )

I found this yesterday on InformationIsBeautiful.net, and it's been my background music at work ever since. I can't entirely express or explain how happy this makes me ( Read more... )

This link is to an article about a study published in last month's issue of the Journal of Comparative Psychology, where researchers demonstrated that pigeons are better than humans at solving the famed "Monty Hall problem."

To quote the article, "The so-called Monty Hall problem is a well-known puzzle named after the original host of the game show ( Read more... )

A study of online daters published in a recent issue of Journal of Social and Personal Relationships found that the people who lie about themselves online would lie about themselves in real life dating situations, as well. Here's the summary on PsychCentral.While it's good to know that being online doesn't make people lie in situations where they ( Read more... )

Courtesy of Letterheady, check out their respective stationery. Tesla's is circa 1900; Edison's is from 1923:


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I've stumbled across a couple of references recently suggesting that one of the keys to maintaining a relationship successfully is the ability to extend the benefit of the doubt (I am a good person in a bad situation, so I did the wrong thing) to your partner--or your parents, or your good friend. I thought someone else might find these thought- ( Read more... )

There happens to be a very lucky 5 year old named Malachai out there whose big brother is a comic artist and writer.... and has turned Malachai's stories into a comic. A great comic, even!

Axe CopThe "Ask Axe Cop" section is almost as much fun as the episodes ( Read more... )

... or, why procrastination will never be good enough for me again.

I've been practicing this behavior my entire life, but didn't know there was a word for it until it came up on the A.Word.A.Day newsletter last year.

There's obviously no need to ask why I didn't post about it then. ;)