This journal is 99% friends only. I've gotten spooked about lurking assholes on the internet, and so I've started to make pretty much all my posts friends only. If you know me or want to friend me you should comment here and I'll add you back. Otherwise it's all memes and weather updates for you ( Read more... )

Dateline April 1, 2010, a bulletin from the Asoociation for Psychological Science to its members ( Read more... )

I wondered if someone here would know-- have there been any major improvements in technology for playing music off your ipod in your car without an audio plug? About four years ago I had an fm transmitter that was constantly getting screwed up by local radio stations so it really only worked when we were driving in the middle of nowhere. Please ( Read more... )

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/13/tina-fey-as-sarah-palin-o_n_126249.html

Interesting story ( Read more... )

But here's a very brief review of a movie I just watched:

Last night I watched "The Lives of Others," a movie about artists/writers in 1984 East Berlin. I really enjoyed this movie. Ever since my summer in Leipzig in 2000 I have been fascinated by life under the DDR, and the weird mixed feelings that east Germans seem to have about its collapse ( ( Read more... )

In general, customers seem to matter less and less in our world. Of that I am aware. But airlines really seem to be taking it to an extreme. Things that routinely happen in the airline business would probably not be as accepted in the context of other business transactions, at least I think. Imagine the following scenario ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/28flavor.html?em&ex=1212120000&en=274b68f15762bf52&ei=5087%0A

Donate some money to Oxfam to help in China earthquake relief efforts:
http://www.oxfam.org/en/news/2008/pr080513_china_earthquake_relief

from FG's blog

My Personality

Neuroticism

75
Extraversion

53
Openness to Experience

86
Agreeableness

74
Conscientiousness

56
You are not generally self conscious about yourself, however you feel strong cravings and urges that you have difficulty resisting. You tend to prefer short-term pleasures and rewards over long-term consequences. People generally ( Read more... )