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This is a good lecture on the study of the effect of internet-based activity on the human brain. It’s 26 mins long so not the usual “funny kitty’ video, but well worth the time investment 🙂

My only issue is that the lecturer is using a single company name to represent the term “internet search engine” – many folks do this and it’s as silly as calling every car on the road a “Ford”.

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These crazy UK-based hours are driving me kind of nuts.  Well more nuts than usual.  Ready for bed at 5 pm these days, now that 5 pm is the new 11 pm, haha.

Only until end of August though.  And working six hours ahead of the rest of my local world is a LOT less costly than making another trip over yonder, lovely tho that was.

 

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I notice the care in which he speeds through the bit where he actually says “we” (he and his close staff) have a “better vision” for our country than what was originally set up by the original founders of the country.

Better than ‘divided government’? I thought the whole point of dividing up our government into three parts was to prevent absolute power from corrupting absolutely. Checks and balances and all that.

Anyone who even suggests this is not the best form of government is clearly not fit to be in such a position of power.

…someone please tell me this was taken out of context, and help me see in what context these words are appropriate for our President to be saying.

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If you’re like me, and do “thought multi-tasking”, then you’re familiar with the concept of setting a thought aside when something else comes to focus.

This happens sometimes hundreds of times a day, depending upon how busy things are and what’s got priority at the moment.

So here I am, in a typical day, just puttering along doing stuff, with the usual background noise of thoughts buzzing along and shifting for attention.

Then some random song comes on my last.fm playlist and BAM!  I’m completing a thought I had set aside…

…set aside from sometime back in 1974.

I know it was from back then, because I also recalled where I was, and what I was doing at the moment.  Apparently I was listening to the same song back then because that was the trigger for me to pick this thought back up and finish it.

Funny thing is, I can’t remember what that thought is now.  I was so surprised by this realization that I dropped the thought as soon as I completed it to ponder on how strange this was.

O the irony.

 

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Heh ok so this is where baby smurfs come from – the magical land of flat-pack.

Note the tantalizingly dangerous notice posted near the bottom of the box, practically begging us to get into trouble tonight…

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Ok i’ve been on a bus that wouldn’t release the parking brake until the bus’s onboard computer was rebooted.

Now tonight I witnessed a movie house reboot.

Toto I’m afraid we’re not in Kansas anymore

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150244236836249

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Back when I was sixteen years old I jotted down a note, the gist being this:

“For whatever reason you’ve found this note – this isn’t fate.

It’s a message to you, letting you know things are going to be all right.”

Then I carefully folded up the note and placed it in a spot outside where someone passing by would see it and pick it up.

I have no idea who would pick it up.

Or even if anyone would ever see it, before the weather broke down the paper and message on it.

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Well, the message – if only figuratively – has indeed some back to its author this morning…

The note is a bit crumpled round the edges from harsh treatment;

the paper streaked somewhat from random encounters with unfamiliar environments.

Parts of it are missing,

and in some places the tape piecing it together is itself

seeing the passage of time.

But the words are still bold and clear, the handwriting still youthful with hope and encouragement for some unknown person deeply in need of it.

The message penned some three decades ago has come back in a waking dream.

And – happy to say – i really think it will be all right.

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You know how sometimes something can be so off the chart that it becomes something completely different?

Like, take for example, butterflies.

For most folks, a single butterfly is not scary; rather, a butterfly is considered to be pretty and delicate and all that.  If a butterfly happened to land on one’s arm, that would be pretty neat.

But let’s say for example that 3,000 butterflies landed on the same arm, all at once.

Then the pretty and delicate thing becomes something quite different really quickly…!

The same goes for nerd memes in this post.

Archie

+1 nerd

Josie and the Pussycats

+1 nerd

Sabrina The Teenage Witch

+1 nerd

That Wilkin Boy

+3 nerd

Comic Book Convention

+5 nerd

Alone, they ooze multiplusnerdiness.

Together however, they are the ultimate collectors’ item… (click to see why)