Or learning to swim, for example. "Physiological learning" - is there a correct term for that? The thing is, before it was difficult, impossible even, and then you can do it for a few seconds, and then a bit longer, and then some moment arrives when it becomes forever easy, or effortless even.

Muscle memory. Useful stuff.

Excellent read.

The Truth Wears Off
Is there something wrong with the scientific method?

by Jonah Lehrer, The New Yorker


Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...#ixzz1xuSCwoc7

"No, there isn't" clarifies Jonah Lehrer in his followup article, after anti-science numpties seize on his article to validate their own agendas

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...decline-effect

My muscles have extremely poor memories.

Or memory.

They don't look back on life and have regrets or anything.

They do exhibit muscle memory though.

I was thinking about the most ridiculous, arbitrary forms of scale out there.
Kinsey scale strikes me as pretty high up there (not saying I disagree with the findings, just the method.)
Same with the scoville scale, and any of the personality test ones.
Any one know of any less scientific ones?

My new office:

The celcius scale is pretty bad.

Terror alert scale?

(http://www.popcrunch.com/14-weird-me...ts-and-scales/)

Needs a drink with an umbrella in it next to laptop. Just fyi...

I'm not one for foo-foo drinks, but will take this under consideration. I will resist for as long as I am able, which might not be long, considering my surroundings.

Using my midwestern know-how, I did build what I thought was a very sturdy and impenetrable beer can fort (to fortify the small wall that lets any passers-by know "this is my desk, not yours") on and around the desk, but it really didn't look right (as you implied with umbrella drinks) and my fiancee dismantled it while I was napping next to the pool which proved it quite penetrable.

I have notices certain difficulties with my new locale. Namely, when you ask about internet service or TV or phone, they just laugh. I actually had an AT&T salesperson say "I don't want to sell you any services because you will just come back here and yell at me." She/he (it is, on occasion, hard to make such fine distinctions here) added "don't tell my boss I said that, because I will get fired."

You need some motivational posters to brighten the place up, Brian.

Taken under advisement, but I really don't have anywhere I'd be willing to block the view of. Maybe I could attach them to the ground, but that seems a rather silly place to place posters.

I am wondering what true happiness is*, and will probably just enjoy the view and enjoy that I get to do what I do and they give me money to do it.

*as opposed to the fake happiness that is implied.

A man takes the lift up to his flat on the 11th floor. He normally takes the lift to 6th floor, and walks the rest of the way. (The lift works well, and is capable of going to the 11th floor.)

After entering his flat, he shoots himself. He dies soon after. However, if he had looked under his doormat before going into the house, he wouldn't have shot himself.

What's under the doormat?

I was curious about this saying myself and did a little research to learn its origin. The closest I've come...and the place I stopped because it made the most sense, is that it came from a phrase _spit or go blind_, meaning you can either have a spit fit _**** fit_ or turn a blind eye to a confounding problem.


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**** or go blind
Date: 2010-03-19 04:56 pm (UTC)


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I am 66 and have heard this phrase since I was a kid. I am reading REDEMPTION by Uris. A soldier at Gallipolli stated "Always in case of not knowing whether to **** or go blind, I opt for closing one eye and farting. I think IOREKBEAR has the best explanation for the phrase...

Didn't think this would be appreciated as much in laughs and links, although if better suited for there, my apologies.

Cypress Hill through a squid fin

http://io9.com/5937406/watch-what-ha...h-a-squids-fin

Picture captures a billion stars

1 Billion Stars: Click to open interactive viewer.

My aunt would never have the television on during a thunderstorm, because she thought it made the house more likely to be struck. Is there any substance to that view?

Not sure. But I once had a computer fried along with the keyboard during a thunderstorm. It went right through the cable.

This:

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Co...otoblog600.jpg

is pretty.

Granted, I feel a bit bad for the ants and lizards that might have lost their homes and lives. A bit less feelings for those who couldn't camp over the weekend, but they wanted something to remember the weekend by, and they at least got that.

**** Sapiens is always happiest when it has something to talk about.

Nonetheless, nature is beautiful in its extremes.

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just stumbled across this short paper, it's hilarious: http://arxiv.org/pdf/adap-org/9910002v1.pdf

Not the most convincing bit of work I've seen a bunch of academics come up with:

In today's Sun

I like the way they've given 3000AD poster-boy a huge double chin, a hunchback and some missing teeth. Presume this is to reflect how women are becoming less shallow, as liberation gathers pace.

The Sun is a trash tabloid. Pease never quote it again in SMP.

Looks like the typical lineup in my B&M games, tbh.