I am building a house of of bricked phones. so far I have 8 square feet of wall. I haven't mortared it yet.

This would be really great, the first step towards an Israeli colony on the moon. This ought to give them enough room, without being shoulder-to-shoulder with hostile neighbors.

...from CSI.

It used to be, that SCSI drives were commercial quality and expensive, and IDE drives were junk consumer. But SCSI drives were expected to be adequately cooled, and some of the old Seagate 4GB SCSI drives had a high failure rate because of inadequate cooling. I wonder if this doesn't translate into modern drives as well, with Seagate expecting that its cooling requirements be followed, or exceeded, while others are more suited to punishment.

Theo now works for GNOME? huh.

There are different parts of the brain; one which is careful, considerate, and can deal with new tasks but is slow. The other is faster, but sloppier and harder to train. This is instinct. When the two of these work in harmony, the results are great. Train your instinct by many attempts via your considerate mind, with various amounts of attention and varying inputs, but with measurable correctness. Use your deliberate mind to do a quick sanity check on what your instinctual mind presents, but sharpen ways to judge quickly.

Gameplay can be good for this. For instance, playing solitaire on the computer. Sure, solitaire isn't a valuable life skill of itself, but you can exercise your brain and build confidence in your learning systems with it. Action games also provide this, in varying degrees.

Of course, nutrition is also important.

but I forgot.

You'd think someone would have a metal detector out there, to help find such things. Yeah, I know, too obvious in hindsight from an armchair.

I'd prefer poitín.

Give me a break. So tired of all this bullshit. Hey I know since Asians have higher representation than Europeans in CS, let's put them in the óppressed' pile too.

...is not a country.

Stalin must be proud

...should legaly be considered Chimpanzees.

Keep POTS around. It just works.

I am not R1b either. I am I2a2b, which is not common. But, when all of the non-R1bs are totaled as a percentage of the European native population, we're a pretty sizable lot. Enough so, that saying "most" of western Europeans are R1b is rather deceptive. As far as the 1-3 fathers, well...yes. Haplogroups generally don't converge, by diverge, so that would mean one male ancestor. But how far back? There are also times when there are near-extinction events which cause the TMRCA (time to most recent common ancestor) to move closer to the present. This has been the case with my I2a2b haplogroup, which is likely the oldest in Ireland, but still has a rather recent TMRCA and small numbers.