Don't think I haven't considered making a Grunter.com, for all those early morning grunt needs.
Harrow: You didn't have to wound that man. Mal: Yeah, I know, it was just funny.
'Shindig'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Apr 20, 2009 8:38:02 am PDT #16006 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Jessica - Apr 20, 2009 8:40:05 am PDT #16007 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Don't think I haven't considered making a Grunter.com, for all those early morning grunt needs.
If you do, CNN wants you to be aware of the dangers of social media:
Rapid-fire TV news bulletins or getting updates via social-networking tools such as Twitter could numb our sense of morality and make us indifferent to human suffering, scientists say.
New findings show that the streams of information provided by social networking sites are too fast for the brain's "moral compass" to process and could harm young people's emotional development.
Before the brain can fully digest the anguish and suffering of a story, it is being bombarded by the next news bulletin or the latest Twitter update, according to a University of Southern California study.
"If things are happening too fast, you may not ever fully experience emotions about other people's psychological states and that would have implications for your morality," said researcher Mary Helen Immordino-Yang.
I'm not sure about my sense of morality, but I'm pretty sure I sprained something rolling my eyes at this news report...
tommyrot - Apr 20, 2009 8:42:15 am PDT #16008 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm pretty sure I sprained something rolling my eyes at this news report...
I am indifferent to your suffering.
Jessica - Apr 20, 2009 8:43:13 am PDT #16009 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I am indifferent to your suffering.
Noooooooooooo! Curse you, rapid-fire social networking software! Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurse youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
Ginger - Apr 20, 2009 8:47:06 am PDT #16010 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Breakfast is our easiest meal out as everyone is pleasant at 7:00 AM.
I am only pleasant at 7 a.m. if I'm asleep.
Gudanov - Apr 20, 2009 8:47:52 am PDT #16011 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
We have survived rock and roll, tv, dungeons & dragons, video games, big hair, legalized abortion, and Internet porn without turning into a country of amoral psychopaths. I don't think social networking is going to do it either.
Laga - Apr 20, 2009 9:07:06 am PDT #16012 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I love eating brunch but working it is a pain.
Burrell - Apr 20, 2009 9:39:18 am PDT #16013 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I love breakfast food any time of day, so brunch is made of win in my book.
Rapid-fire TV news bulletins or getting updates via social-networking tools such as Twitter could numb our sense of morality and make us indifferent to human suffering, scientists say.
NSM with the Twitter but the argument that overstimulation and too much information too fast numbs our sense of empathy resurfaces on a fairly regular basis. And while I agree it sounds inane to level it WRT Twitter, I have to admit that I was surprised to find myself agreeing with the basic premise when one of my classes was discussing the use of torture in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and most of the class felt that stress positions, sleep deprivation, the undressing and humiliation of prisoners, even waterboarding, weren't really torture because they can see worse things depicted in any number of main stream movies, like the Saw series.
erikaj - Apr 20, 2009 9:53:43 am PDT #16014 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I would get on swearing.com and let my inner homicide detective run free...David Simon wrote that homicide detectives will one day have a new language composed of two profanities. Brunch: Haven't really done this since I was a kid. buffets: Awkward for me due to the chair thing.
msbelle - Apr 20, 2009 9:56:34 am PDT #16015 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
omg Bloomberg inc, I hate you and your million and one half bills. Also? do not email one day about a late bill, send a new copy of the late bill AND THEN cut off service 2 days later without telling me that was the plan. payment turn around is more than 2 days, even on a fast track. grrr.