My Age of Reason
I’m not a superstitious person. But I do believe your brain can
come to associate particular objects with particular feelings, and
this can affect you in ways you don’t consciously notice. So today as
I prepared my morning coffee, I thought:
Did I have a good writing day yesterday? Because I used my
Richmond Football Club cup: they won on the weekend and thus I was
feeling good about them. It was a logical choice. But today: would there
be a carry-over effect, or would the cup have absorbed too many
new vibes from the day before, and if so, were they good vibes or bad?
At this point I realized that I was standing frozen in the kitchen with half a teaspoon of sugar hovering above the cup. I’m glad no-one saw this, because it might have been difficult to explain how I’m not a superstitious person.
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Robert (#413)
Location: Los Angeles
Quote: "A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
Posted: 6166 days ago
thewylddream (#1191)
Location: Montana USA
Quote: ""Always forgive your enemies -- Nothing annoys them so much." ~Oscar Wilde~"
Posted: 6166 days ago
Bawh!~
Digital Robot (#1519)
Location: New York City
Posted: 6166 days ago
Location: 127.0.0.1
Quote: "That's not change! That's more of the same!"
Posted: 6166 days ago
Yenzo (#829)
Location: Secret underwater pyramid base in the Pacific
Quote: "In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe (Carl Sagan)"
Posted: 6166 days ago
Posted: 6166 days ago
Location: Morristown, Indiana
Quote: "Why do I blog? Simple, because Max Barry blogs."
Posted: 6166 days ago
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eDw_0jA1Mmg
-adam speicher
Jamie (#111)
Location: Auckland
Quote: "Anyone still spelling "internet" with a capital "I" is probably struggling with the complexities of their new-fangled electric typewriter."
Posted: 6165 days ago
That had better not be decaf you're making, or you'll never get your writer's jittery hype going properly.
Yenzo (#829)
Location: Secret underwater pyramid base in the Pacific
Quote: "In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe (Carl Sagan)"
Posted: 6164 days ago
Have you ever heard of Ray Kurzweil? If not, check him out. He might be smart and slightly crazed at the same time, but he could give you cool ideas about future developments, including the hypothesis you mentioned that this generation might be the last to have finite livespans. He also co-authored a book about just this topic:
http://www.amazon.com/Fantastic-Voyage-Live-Enough-Forever/dp/0452286670/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214474960&sr=8-2
(What's up with those endless amazon links, anyway?)
Rebecca (#3616)
Location: Australia
Quote: "The shop is the way it is because it is the way it is. If it wasn't the way it is, it wouldn't be the way it is. Bernard Black."
Posted: 6164 days ago
Go Eagles!
But then Richmond is going better than Eagles.
I don't know. I am writing about nothing basically but then that's me.
The only thing I can write about is not having anything to write about.
Rebecca
You just wasted 30 seconds of your life reading this, and it wasn't even remotely entertaining. There I go again...
Linnea1928 (#2654)
Location: Rosemount, MN
Posted: 6160 days ago
Celeste (#2590)
Location: St.L. MO, USA
Quote: "You can't child-proof the world, so world-proof the child."
Posted: 6158 days ago
And then I noticed, I've been saving your blogs for nearly a year now, till I could get the time to read them which I didnt have just right now because, well, I'm busy deleting all of the ads from the companies I actually buy from and want to know about their products and super-awesome promotions, but I dont have time to read that after all.
So I just read your last years worth of blogs, and now I remember that I havent read Company or Syrup yet, and it was like 5 years after NationStates came out that I read Jennifer Government, but I have been a faithful fan of your blogs since my son introduced me to NationStates when he was like, 11, when we first got the Internet.
Oh, I just forwarded a bunch of your blogs to my friends, too, one to my friend who writes murder mysteries, one to my friend that I discuss politics with, and one to my son- I forget which one, but I was sure he would be amused.
I was going to post a comment on the potato thing about moods and circumstances and PMS, but that comment section is closed.
Your daughter is just adorable, and I wish we had rent-a-chiken here. I have contemplated keeping chickens as pets, but then I got interested in spiders and started keeping tarantulas. Not as cuddly as chickens, but I find them interesting, none the less!
Chris McBride (#1977)
Location: Belfast, N.Ireland
Quote: "Plagiarism saves thinking time"
Posted: 6154 days ago
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/a104677/ikea-furniture-offered-to-sims-2-users.html
Let's just see how realistic it is, will they be able to put up the furniture despite 3 screws missing and tools that you'll never need?
dezmo (#3630)
Location: Olympus
Posted: 6144 days ago
But you can't push it too far or it loses it's gravity, and then the gods will simply fuck with you.
Joe Sherrod (#947)
Location: Rockville, Maryland, USA
Posted: 6139 days ago
Out of the University of Oxford: Corporate Assassins
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/07/corporate-assas.html
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