Are video games going the TV show route? Will we have game mega serials? Is this the next wave?
Personally it would be a welcome relief. I don’t often have the time to complete a full session of Age of Kings these days. Chunks of half-hour scenarios would be great.
In the long run, people tend to regret having missed out on opportunities for pleasure — and they wish they hadn’t been so diligent about working. Based on research at Columbia University. Clive has a nice article about it titled In the long run, we regret virtue more than vice.
Last night you stole my phone on Holloway Road, you also stole my heart.
I was the tall brunette in dungarees and psychedelic t-shirt, you were the hooded man on the bike. I was captivated by your white teeth and hypnotic eyes.
My home number is stored on my contacts under “me”. (Please don’t call me at “me work”, or my boyfriend, “Josh”.)
I await your call or reply x
Hi thought I’d give this a shot. You never know! I’m desperately seeking the most gorgeous of all Desperate Housewives (sorry Eva, Marcia and Felicity) – Teri Hatcher. I don’t know Teri Hatcher nor am I a Norman Bates psycho (maybe on Sundays…is today Sunday?) but hey come on, Teri’s great. Or Ms Hatcher as I should call her right?
So if anyone out there knows her or has a connection with her (a REAL connection not those psychic ones. I have one with Tom Jones – doesn’t work that way) by all means – help me out! I’ll be a good date! I’m cute, funny, and intelligent (I’m actually hideous, blonde brained (sorry all blondes – no offense) and ….yeah intelligent. I’m a nerd!). But not ego centric, Hey wait – if I talk about myself – is that ego centric? Hmm…
So remember ladies and gents – think me, think Teri Hatcher….great now THAT sounds Norman Bates stalker like…. Yikes!
After a very big night out on Saturday, i found myself waking up on someone’s sofa on Sunday morning. I didn’t hang around to find out who was so kind to take me in.
If it was you, please let me know.
Would like to know how I got there?
Fred Gratzon’s advice on work
I just do what I want to do and learn what I want to learn and enjoy what I want to enjoy and sometimes I get so wonderfully and powerfully caught up in some project and I start dreaming expansive daydreams and I go for it with every ounce of energy and enthusiasm and love that I can muster.
And the money . . . it just takes care of itself.
Microsoft adCenter Labs has a demographics prediction engine. Based on a person’s search queries and web sites visited, it can predict their gender and age.
So I tried that on parts of the body, to see what men were interested in vs women.
| topic | male | female |
|---|---|---|
| hair | 25% | 75% |
| eyes | 33% | 67% |
| cheek | 33% | 67% |
| hands | 33% | 67% |
| lips | 36% | 64% |
| ears | 39% | 61% |
| fingers | 40% | 60% |
| forehead | 42% | 58% |
| nose | 43% | 57% |
| neck | 46% | 54% |
| beard | 55% | 45% |
| moustache | 58% | 42% |
| leg | 60% | 40% |
| palm | 61% | 39% |
| toe | 64% | 36% |
While I can understand men being more interested in beards and moustaches (perhaps even legs), why are they far more interested in toes than women?
How to remove carpet impressions. Just steam iron the carpet.
Cut and paste has become easier. So we make less effort to understand. We don’t need to. Like when we pay less attention if we’re recording a lecture.
Solution? I suggest the Tunnel in the Sky strategy. Rod Walker is going for survival training on an alien planet, and asks his sister, Captain Walker…
“Uh, Sis, what sort of gun should I carry?”
“Huh? Why the deuce do you want a gun?”
“Why, for things I might run into of course.”
“Your only purpose is to stay alive. Not to be brave, not to fight. One time in a hundred a gun might save your life; the other ninety-nine it will tempt you into folly.”
“Did you take a gun on your solo test?”
“I did. And I lost it the first day. Which saved my life. I know how good a gun makes you feel. You’re ready for anything and hoping you’ll find it. Which is exactly what is dangerous about it – because you aren’t anything of that sort.”
So, don’t take a gun.
Don’t record lectures. Don’t give yourself the illusion of perfect memory.
Don’t bookmark for future reading. You won’t read it later.
Don’t cut and paste. You don’t understand it now. You won’t understand it later.
According to the hygiene hypothesis, exposure early in life to infections from household dust, germy siblings or surfaces may reduce the risk of developing disease in adulthood.
Mathematics, marriage and finding somewhere to eat has a simple solution to all these problems. Whether you’re hiring someone, or picking a partner, or finding a house — or any problem that requires you to pick the best among N choices — here’s the rule.
Scan the first 37% of choices. Then pick the first one that’s better than anything you’ve seen so far.