Then again, I'm now employed programming forms full time instead of part, and for a company that (for reasons that escape me) does not have software to print to instead of printers. You wouldn't believe the stack of paper you go through incrementally moving a bullet to find the thousandth of an inch that looks the best on the actual page.

There are often times when I wish to be less connected. However, nice of you to make the decision as to where and when for everyone around you, too.

(I'm very sorry I don't have mod points today, as I'm betting most of this crowd don't get the joke. If it helps, I laughed, loudly.)

Interestingly, apparently some of the drivers have trained for unfamiliar tracks using... GT4, I think? And Speed had an amusing segment a few years ago where they filmed a driver (Nico Rosburg?) do a virtual run all the way around the track with his eyes closed, with an accompanying feed showing that it would be very nearly a perfect run on the real thing.

Wasn't this an episode of the Mentalist?

Permanent cruise ship homes already exist.

Yep, I just tried it myself (FiOS in the Philadelphia area). No problems. I luv you, FiOS.

It's called the Tetris effect, believe it or not. Even people with anterograde amnesia experience it, despite not remembering playing the game!

I was in group therapy with a man who had been fired from a high powered executive job that he had made his whole life, and his wife had asked for a divorce immediately after, and he had become deeply depressed. Despite the councilor's best efforts, so pointlessly angry that he refused to do anything like applying for a job that he felt was below the level of his previous job. As of his last day of the two month program, he was within a day of being thrown out of his condo. He was a perfectly nice guy, and I felt bad for him, so I gave real thought to inviting him home to stay with us for a couple of weeks. But in the end I let him walk out (after wishing him well, of course, and telling him to call if he had an emergency). I had been in therapy with him three days a week for a month, and KNEW that as long as he was living on my couch, he would do absolutely nothing to fix his situation, and in the end I'd need to kick him out into the same exact situation. I very much hope that he got it together once he experienced living in his car in NJ in February, but there was nothing I would be able to do to actually help him in any real way.

I had at least one professor who insisted that we stop taking notes during crucial parts of the lectures, in order to make sure we absorbed the concept instead of just writing down a summary of it.