Comment Re:why oh why (Score 1) 99
'Scuse me, I did read the article!
'Scuse me, I did read the article!
Perhaps Malcolm Gladwell had better update his book, "The Tipping Point". It's about how fads, crazes and fashions take off. In the book, he doesn't mention people who remain impervious to such things. They are indeed an interesting group.
Say any more?
Are one-third of Hyatt customers are men staying on their own? Could it be that after they check in, a woman arrives, on her own, in very high heeled shoes, and after an hour in his room, she then leaves again, and doesn't stay for breakfast?
I prefer the classic Microsoft Natural Keyboard in grey. How can you stand your oversized N key?? Wow, look at this: USD 208.99 on eBay!
Here's one I made earlier:
http://www.pjc.me.uk/ceefax/
...readily alter one's piratey-boat profile.
In Greek mythology, a satyr is a horse/goat-like creature that f***s everything in sight.
There might be evidence that some inmates go on to commit crimes that are related to their spell in prison. So ban prison.
I speculate that when we look up at the sky at night, it is full of steaming jungles crammed with giant insects.
My theory is it takes a heck of a big whack from a comet or something like that to get a living watery planet from one stable ecosystem to a new more advanced one. The trouble is, it has to be a whack of the right size. Big enough to do the job, not so big as to wipe all the life out completely.
It's easy to think that evolution happens gradually, like drips in a cave building stalectites. Well, it does, but the real action is when there's a huge flood. All those dinosaurs didn't give over gracefully. Their time would've gone on forever if something big hadn't come along to end it.
Imagine building a pyramid, but you can only build the next level if you throw 10 dice and they all come up 6. How many dice throws is it going to take? A lot, but it's mathematically guaranteed to happen and even though it is pretty unlikely, in our case it has already happened and here we are!
A list is only as strong as its weakest link. -- Don Knuth