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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 07:43 PM
Original article: Are men spoiled rotten?

computer dating parameters

How about divorced men? If you limit your computer search to divorced men, then you'd be more likely to find a guy who already had kids. Just a thought.

Thursday, August 30, 2007 08:40 PM
Original article: Why bathroom sex is hot

There's nothing like

an article about anonymous bathroom sex to bring out the judgmentalism!

Why so judgmental, people? If someone's not bothering you, then why care what they do?

Some of the posts sound like the comments that a bunch of anorexics would make if forced to watch a fat woman eat a moon pie.

Monday, November 5, 2007 04:06 AM
Original article: I feel your pain

where to look for their effects

Autism seems to be such a debilitating and profound disorder with such wide-reaching and severe effects - I doubt that it can be explained so simply as a problem or defect with mirror neurons.

I'd really be interested to see if sociopaths have problems with or differences in their mirror neurons!

Perhaps someone should send these scientists a copy of "the sociopath next door", reviewed on Salon.com in March, 2005 (it's an interesting interview with the author - I recommend looking it up.)

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 05:23 AM

the solution

Build a time machine, hop into it and go back and tell your former self, "What are you thinking? Don't you realize if you go to vet school here, you'll have to do ______ which you know you'll find repugnant?".

Convince your former self to go to vet school in another, bluer part of the country.

Otherwise, drop out or suck it up. You put yourself in this position. Stop whining and deal with it.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 05:52 AM

iPhone

I prefer the iPhone to any device I've owned, which admittedly, hasn't been many. So maybe I'm wearing a techie dunce cap (bear in mind there are different types of intelligence - but that's a rant for another day.)

For techies who can't understand why the iPhone is popular with the unwashed masses, here it is - a tech idiot will break it down for you.

I used to have a different device, that actually had more features and better features than an iPhone. But everytime I tried to use one of them, the thing would hit me up for more cash. Use the GPS? need to pay more. Want to read a PDF that was attached to an e-mail? need to subscribe - and pay. The iPhone may not have the best features out there, but I can use every single one of them without paying more than a flat rate. A flat rate that's $20 cheaper a month than the starting rate for the other device (same carrier, btw).

Second reason - ability to view web pages. There's a lot of information on the web that's not available in the "mobile device" format. Now that's probably common knowledge for the technophile, but it wasn't disclosed before I purchased the other device. I got the other device and then found out the internet capability was so limited as to be useless. It was kind of a bait-n-switch situation.

Saturday, September 13, 2008 10:19 AM
Original article: Born to runway

The problem is...

Maybe I haven't been watching closely enough, but have they announced on the show to the audience that additional contestants besides the three competing for the prize will be presenting at Fashion Week?

As I said, maybe I haven't been paying close enough attention, but I don't think they have announced this to the audience yet. So when you open up the Salon homepage, and there's a story about the Project R. finale and a picture of Kenley, what are people supposed to think, other than you just spilled the beans?

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