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Comment Need TV to sleep. (Score 1) 138

My trouble is, I can't fall asleep in a perfectly quiet room, with pitch black.

I do best, falling asleep to the TV being on. I used to have a regular tv that had a timer, which would turn itself off and cut the ambient light.

Now, I have a 27" computer monitor which is my "TV", and it doesn't have a built in timerâ¦so, it stays on all night, even when the DVR cuts off on Uverse, it has a blue screensaver light which I think affects me.

I guess I need to find a wall timer and hook it to the monitor and try that.

But I just don't do well in 100% quiet environments, even in school, if the room was quiet and no tv or stereo, I would start fidgeting, and goofing off, but with tv or stereo on in background I'd study for hours and all of a sudden, notice that hours had passed and I didn't realize what had played or what tv shows had been on.

Strange.

Comment Re:Or maybe, you know... (Score 1) 138

Yes, because a lack of sleep is the #1 reason why people don't exercise and eat right.

Well, it can affect things.

For one, about the only time good for me to hit the gym and exercise is EARLY in the morning. If I don't sleep well that night, I can't get up and work out and then to work on only 4 hours sleep. If I sleep 4 hours, and wake up, toss and turn till 6amâ¦I don't feel like hitting the gym and will try to crash till 7:30 or so to get a bit more sleep before having to get up and run to work. If I get a full 7 hours of sleep in a row, I wake up early, refreshed and ready to hit the gym and then start my work day from there.

That's just scheduling, but the body has been show more and more to react very badly if not properly rested each night with sleep.

Comment Was this a Racist Clinton Statement? (Score 1) 255

What did Chelsea mean by "not look like Mark Zuckerberg"?

Was this a racist statement because he is white, he shouldn't be looked at as a 'face' of computer science success?

Of course my statement here is a bit tongue in cheek, but if this had been said about a dark skinned person, I'd lay money on it, that THAT would be called out as a racist statement.

Comment Re: As painful as it is... (Score 2) 552

Why didn't they dump the kid and save her for God's sake???

They can make another kid, there is only one of her!!

What a sad and tragic story. I'd have saved my wife, no question or 2nd thought in that contest. I'd rather have the woman I'd known and loved for time, than a fetus I'd not met and hadn't even processed the atmosphere yetâ¦.now, he's stuck with a vegetable for a wife, and raising a kid on his own. Worst of both worlds.

Why was this such a hard choice to me? Seems a no brainer to me (no pun intended).

Comment Re:BFDâ¦. (Score 1) 208

Oh god. Not this again. What makes you think the replacements will be any better?

If nothing else, it would get al the "long timers" out of there. Get rid of the politicians that have turned Federal service into a lifetime career.

Get them out, at least we could somewhat start over if no one has 'seniority' and get the entrenched politics out of there.

That alone would be worth it to me.

Comment Re:If you have the opportunity (Score 0) 433

You have a Pakistani friend, nice girl.

Well, your little logic trail failed right about there. I generally don't date foreign chicks, nor outside of my race.

Nothing against them, but they don't turn me on, and I'm not attracted to them. And really, no such thing as "friends" with girls, I pretty much only hang with women I'm fucking or am trying to fuck.

Problem solved.

Comment BFDâ¦. (Score 5, Insightful) 208

Big Fucking Deal, it passes.

From what I've heard of what passed, not only does it NOT have any teeth to it, but it is written so broadly that with secret judges giving secret interpretations (even the secret judges don't consult with each other I"m led to believe), this could likely give the NSA and other TLA agencies *more* leeway to get creative in the work of crushing the US citizens' rights.

C'mon folks, no matter who is currently in office, D or R, please this time around vote for anyone other than the incumbent, and let's sweep the house and senate clean over the next couple years and start from scratch.

Comment Re:If you have the opportunity (Score 1, Insightful) 433

I can't imagine that killing off AQ leaders doesn't hurt them some, which is good.

So, keep droning them and add in other measures that even more effectively kills them, weakens them and brings them down.

There is no one single method that will eliminate them, so use all tools at your disposal.

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