/me baffled

Can anyone tell me what just happened? When did Ross Perot go crazy? Nothing makes sense anymore, yet I understand everything.

Ernest Goes To Foreign Websites And Tells People Good Things About America. It is certainly no Ernest Goes To Jail, but then again, what is?

This is certainly a better waste^H^H^H^H^H^H use of money than NASA or, I don't know... education?

Or my response: "I haven't touched Windows since Window 2000, I don't know anything about fixing problems on Windows any more." Which is *mostly* true.

OH! Please tell me he had a pet elk that got drunk and fell down the stairs, he has a clairvoyant dwarf that sits under the table at dinner, he has an awesome mustache, and he lost his nose in a duel at college and made himself a new one out of gold. That would be the most awesome professor ever.

So they wouldn't like my fake band name: Tolkien Heads?

(Background: I enjoyed making fake band names combining something from fantasy or science fiction with a real band name, like Jefferson Starship Troopers)

Oh, I don't disagree, but Joe & Mary Anyman would certainly take exception.

:s/Google/Facebook and Farmville/

Fixed it for you.

How about increase education spending? People are more likely to come up with innovative technologies if they have a better understanding of existent technologies and ways that they could be improved. It isn't rocket surgery.

You mean they are making a new Duke Nukem? First I ever heard of it. I hope they don't do some rush job on it. May 3rd sounds like it would be too soon of a release date, that is a little over three months from now. I really think they should take their time on this one, spend some time developing it.

I think this is a good idea, to investigate someplace that is "haunted" as a skeptic with friends or family that believe the "hauntings" are real. Though I will not say that all Slashdot readers are smart, I will go out on a limb and say that the mean IQ here is higher than average. Chances are this guy is smart, and if he is willing to investigate a haunting with friends or family he is most likely a pretty nice guy; he is most likely someone that they are going to have a bit of respect for. It could be a great opportunity to go through the process of being skeptical with these people in an applicable context, not saying "this is how you do it, moron" but actually demonstrating the process of thinking skeptically in a valid and unpretentious way. At the very least it could teach them that being skeptical isn't just a knee-jerk reaction but a process of questioning and not drawing an unfounded conclusion. Who knows, it may even rub off, or at the very least garner a bit of respect for critical thinking. That said, they would have to be open to the idea of being skeptical, and there is the adage "you can't reason someone out of something that the didn't reason themselves into."

I designed a study to test precognition and psychic ability, could people read my mind in the future before i knew what i would be thinking? It was quite an elaborate test to set up, and I wouldn't know if their predictions were correct until later on. My findings determined that many people (much higher than what we would expect) were indeed able to read my mind before i knew what I was going to be thinking. We found that this ability was heightened around mid-morning. Many of the predictions were shockingly similar, and, unlike many alleged "predictions," were very specific. Of course, with the nature of the study, I was unaware of the results until around noon while correlating the data i began thinking, as was predicted, that it was time for lunch and I was rather hungry.

I bet there is, but I also feel it may require being super rich.

But that is pretty interesting, worth looking into at least. I too would like to bet against this.

A girl i used to work with used to call me "Ducky." Now who wants to go dancing to some post-punk, synthpop, and dress new romantic? It was my idea for some friends and me to dress '80s for dancing the last Sunday of Dragon*Con this past year.

I am not trying to flame or anything, but this would be much cooler if it sounded good (subjective, I know). It sounds kind of like they just cranked everything... kind of muddy and hard to distinguish notes. Give it a nice wood body and neck. Cool, but could be better.