My boss has less than 15 min free at any one time from 9am to 3pm tomorrow and he was not in the office Friday or today. It is going to suck to be him tomorrow.
A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. Things used to be so much simpler.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Jun 21, 2010 11:59:29 am PDT #7985 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Zenkitty - Jun 21, 2010 12:04:04 pm PDT #7986 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Perhaps someone said something naughty on the Leverage blog that alerted your work filters, ita? (It wasn't me!)
Sheryl - Jun 21, 2010 12:04:07 pm PDT #7987 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
It doesn't matter how hot it is, Nova must sprawl in my lap. Cats...
Gudanov - Jun 21, 2010 12:12:55 pm PDT #7988 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
North Korea World Cup News
Apparently Kim Jong-il, gives advice directly to their coach "using mobile phones that are not visible to the naked eye." The technology is reportedly to have been developed by Kim Jong-il himself. Invisible phones! Take that Apple, Motorola, and Nokia.
§ ita § - Jun 21, 2010 12:14:40 pm PDT #7989 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Invisible phones! Take that Apple, Motorola, and Nokia.
That was totally on an episode of Numb3rs.
brenda m - Jun 21, 2010 12:14:52 pm PDT #7990 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Take that Apple, Motorola, and Nokia.
And Portugal!
Oh wait, not so much.
I think I'll stick with my visible phone, thanks.
tommyrot - Jun 21, 2010 12:17:32 pm PDT #7991 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Have folks heard that North Korea hired Chinese to play the part of North Korean soccer fans in the stadium, because most North Koreans can't leave the country?
Stay classy, Kim Jong-il!
Kathy A - Jun 21, 2010 12:21:42 pm PDT #7992 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Zenkitty - Jun 21, 2010 12:21:57 pm PDT #7993 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Heck, I lose my phone all the time when it's visible! An invisible phone would have to be glued to my person.
I'm waiting for the invention of earring phones.
tommyrot - Jun 21, 2010 12:27:30 pm PDT #7994 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1)
Wheeler had walked into two Pittsburgh banks and attempted to rob them in broad daylight. What made the case peculiar is that he made no visible attempt at disguise. The surveillance tapes were key to his arrest. There he is with a gun, standing in front of a teller demanding money. Yet, when arrested, Wheeler was completely disbelieving. “But I wore the juice,” he said. Apparently, he was under the deeply misguided impression that rubbing one’s face with lemon juice rendered it invisible to video cameras.
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As Dunning read through the article, a thought washed over him, an epiphany. If Wheeler was too stupid to be a bank robber, perhaps he was also too stupid to know that he was too stupid to be a bank robber — that is, his stupidity protected him from an awareness of his own stupidity.
Dunning wondered whether it was possible to measure one’s self-assessed level of competence against something a little more objective — say, actual competence. Within weeks, he and his graduate student, Justin Kruger, had organized a program of research. Their paper, “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties of Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-assessments,” was published in 1999.
The NYT article is kind of longish... and also part 1 of a 5 part series.