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ou812dot  ·  3976 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Twenty-First Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Kittens of the Internet, I like it. Thank you.

ou812dot  ·  4124 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Going to the post office tomorrow and I have some Hubski stickers left

Thanks

ou812dot  ·  4136 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Jerry seinfeld on joke design process

That video is great, thanks for posting the link.

ou812dot  ·  4143 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Porn-Induced Sexual Dysfunction: A Growing Problem

It's like eating the most delicious substance every single day that has the unfortunate side-effect of giving you no nutrients. You may realize that you need to eat something with nutrients, but everything looks like oatmeal (with no sugar added). I like the way you put this. I agree with you.

ou812dot  ·  4163 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Netherlands highways will glow in the dark by mid-2013...

wha-wha-wha-wha-wha

that is my impression of what it sounds like in your brain when you do a whip-it. Probably not the safest driving companion.

ou812dot  ·  4163 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: How do you define wealth? What is "rich" to you?

    Fortunately my experiences with this kind of living has always been transient. However, I will not forget it.
mine have been too but there was a time when I used a soup kitchen for a whole week, humbling.
ou812dot  ·  4163 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: How do you define wealth? What is "rich" to you?

Will you always work towards accumulating more? At some point, don't you get to enjoy the fruits of your labors? At what point would you feel "rich"?

ou812dot  ·  4170 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Netherlands highways will glow in the dark by mid-2013...

We used to drive around in college, tripping on LSD pretending the car was a video game. I freely admit it was very dangerous and stupid. It would have been way more fun with glow in the dark roads though.

ou812dot  ·  4175 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Super Volcanoes

Just what I needed, something new to be terrified of.

ou812dot  ·  4196 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Consequences of Machine Intelligence

    Second, I do not find the prospect of leisure-filled life appealing.
Whether I find this appealing or not will have a lot to do with what the definition of "leisure time" is.
ou812dot  ·  4263 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Paul Begala on the Swing Voters Who Will Pick the President

Perhaps it's intentionally "a bit silly" to emphasize just how "silly" the process is? I would take the $2,000, but as it is, nobody is offering it to me.

ou812dot  ·  4267 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Found this piece of incomprehensible racism today.

I meant Dave Chapelle is one of many comics creating this type of humor. I don't think Italian Americans have much to fear outside of the perpetual stereotypes: always cooking pasta, mafia, womanizing etc.

ou812dot  ·  4267 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Found this piece of incomprehensible racism today.

Sure, amongst many others.

ou812dot  ·  4267 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Found this piece of incomprehensible racism today.

Could such a thing exist? I can't see how.

There are times when racist humor makes me laugh, but only when it points out how ridiculous racism is.

ou812dot  ·  4267 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Found this piece of incomprehensible racism today.

While I'm not a fan of either of these people, I'm definitely not a fan of racism or bad humor. That was just dumb.

ou812dot  ·  4267 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ayn Rand: Why is she so popular?

Well put.

ou812dot  ·  4267 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cancer patients with high vitamin D levels live longer

Could it be that acquiring vitimin D the old fashioned way, sunlight, is what staves off cancer? Seems the more a person is outside, the more active or "healthy" they likely are. Could this be why?

ou812dot  ·  4288 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the best video game console ever?
Question is, how many of those lives did you have to use?
ou812dot  ·  4288 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the best video game console ever?
We had a similar gaming arc it appears.
ou812dot  ·  4307 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Gymkhana 5
Bad-Ass! I know its cool to see him go super fast and pull of big jumps but I actually prefer the intricate turns in tight spaces. That sort of control is impressive and boggles the mind.
ou812dot  ·  4307 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the best video game console ever?
up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right b-a-b start whose with me?
ou812dot  ·  4308 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Five years after the iPhone, carriers are the biggest threat to innovation
    It's hard to pin the blame on someone towards the end of the pipeline when in reality a major problem lurks at the beginning of the pipe.

You can't build a house on sand! Good point, I'd never thought of this regarding the dissfunctionality of the patent system/process.

ou812dot  ·  4308 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: BLITZSKI - a reminder about the social media blitz tomorrow.
Count me in.
ou812dot  ·  4311 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski at 10,000 feet
"snow themed", it never looked that way to me but now that you mention it...

Was it difficult reaching up there? where did you order the stickers?

ou812dot  ·  4311 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cisco locks users out of their routers, requires invasive cloud service
Actually, it turns out that the refrigerator of the future will largely be influenced by the "Robot Uprising": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHqkw-g5pSE
ou812dot  ·  4314 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Rachel Maddow's Quiet War
I find her to be refreshing, she is about the only person I'll watch on cable.
I like the Atlantic though. I feel like the community gets punished too. I dunno, seems pretty weak, without teeth and misdirected to me.
ou812dot  ·  4334 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Electronic albums of the decade 2000-2010
Admittedly, I don't know many of these albums but the LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver album is pretty incredible.
ou812dot  ·  4335 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Hubski gets a refresh.
What if each column could be used to tailor your own experience? You could have many columns all geared around the people and tags you follow, with only 3 being shown at a time. You could customize their names and you could scroll through them the way one scrolls through pages on an iPad. There are more possibilities now from a design standpoint.
ou812dot  ·  4335 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Shaker Is Your Friendly Neighborhood Bar--Online
Getting accosted is part of the fun.