Posted 6:33 PM

Quit leaving your headphones lying around. Headphone pads are to mice like catnip is to cats.
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Posted 4:45 PM

my tree micromanages my garden
every branch branches
every leaf has a 40 degree taper
skin covered with with holes from a woodpecker
who takes all the credit for his work
and who keeps getting fooled by my tree's manhattan address
into thinking
he's $weet and ta$ty
when actually he's just another anal-retentive tree
in a city of accountants


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Posted 4:39 PM

I dont' know how to say no, I just know how not to show up. I'm a raging, hemmorhoidal jerk. OK? I billow jerky fumes. Allright? I'm sorry, sorry, sorry. OK? Advice: Next time you make plans a week in advance, like, call to confirm.

P.S. That was directed at nobody in particular. You should know that more than one person posts here, and we're all anonymous. So it's definitely not you that was directed at. Please, don't think it is.
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Frozen Hookers
Posted 7:44 AM

Nothing like a blood/urine test to get you up in the morning and get your day started right! Don't expect to get a life insurance policy without one. According to Rick, the guy who came to my house, most insurance companies use independent contractors. He's his own boss, works from home, does lot of different clinical work, and has a cube in a shared laboratory when he needs it. I thought it was a cool setup. An expensive policy can also include an EKG, etc. Insurance policies are the best way to pay for cryogenics.

Also, next time you hire an escort service, make sure you have a nice bottle of wine in the house. They're all oenophiles. Yes, reverse dictionaries rule.

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Inflatable Laptop
Posted 3:54 PM

When you sleep on an air mattress at the office, make sure you buy yourself a big breakfast in the morning.

And no, despite what they may say in the magazines, laptops are not sexy. Not even the Vaio. Not even if you've been deprived of human contact for 48 hours. Strip clubs at 2:00AM don't count.
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Communist Technology
Posted 2:11 PM

Every day, jobs are lost to technology, and newer, harder jobs are created. Lives are overturned, but the overall quality of living can improve by leveraging the excess capacity into social programs. (Although "true" philosophy will never be lost to us.)

Karl Marx advocated some really radical communist ideas, railed against by the bourgeoisie: a graduated income tax, free public education, a minimum wage, subsidized agriculture, estate tax, a centralized national bank, liability to the rights of workers, abolition of child labor. What a crazy guy!

If everyone's jobs are replaced by computers, and everyone can get 3 square meals, and shelter for free, what will would do all day? Make movies? Read in the park? Listen to music? Make spaceships? What's worse, where would we get prostitutes and sycophants from, if nobody needed money that badly? I hope that doesn't happen in my lifetime. That would suck.

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Adult Entertainment
Posted 12:22 AM

Star Dart is a bad game populated by cussing 12-year old's. Don't go there. The guy with 400 planets.... not me.

DominateGame online Risk made addictive with a rating system and chat rooms. Tactical chat room taunts can turn a game, but you may need equip a translator.

Evernight even more addictive. The social strategies here are complex, and are the most compelling element of the game. Be warned, this one can be like heroin.

However, what games do "wise" people play?

Note: When you have a good idea, speak it, but only just loud enough for yourself to hear

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Synaptic Soul
Posted 8:53 PM

You can skip most of the bad philosophy espoused in Scientific American's "the hidden mind", a special issue dedicated to attempting to locate our soul using an electron microscope. Ambitious? Yes. Silly. Yes. There is one good article on adult neurogenesis in the issue. Yes, we can make new neurons - but sadly we're not very good at it. Nice newer articles here and at nature.com (sciam.com has good "see also" links).

Musings:

Neurogenesis happens when memories have become integrated, or understood. New neuron's don't "clear out" old memories, but they are simply needed for new ones, after the old memories have been integrated.

When old memories are recalled - it's not a "movie playing back". Our mind "rediscovers" what happened to us based on who we are. Recalling memories is a search algorithm, sort of rapidly "guessing what happened", and then checking if that would have created our current psyche, and then "guessing again". Which is why we often can clearly "remember" wholly false information.

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