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It's looking like a scary day for tomorrow too!!!

Someone hold me...

The term "intellectual property circlejerk" cracks me up. If there was ever an area of human experience that needed more dirty words associated with it, it's the American legal system.

If you were a hot chick, and you put out, you'd get things off your wishlist.

Hell if you put out I'll get ya something on your wishlist. Anyway.

Hey, we Northerners ain't so bad!
When are you coming back?

--l*P

Bah. Time for you to move on up to NYC. Screw the 'rents.

Oh yeah, and you do actually need to write an essay to get into NHS (sorry, I don't make the rules, that's just how it is.) But I do think you would really like it - let me know if and when you do and I'll make sure to put in a good word for you.

I love that picture - but probably not for the reason you think I do.

Actually I love it because it shows how our preconceived notions can bias our opinions and take away our ability to critically evaluate data. Those fMRI images were taken from monkeys repeatedly injected with "typical" doses of MDMA as part of a study that was published several years ago (and repeatedly cited) to show the dangers of ecstacy usage. The picture is striking, no? The only problem with it - last year it was revealed that rather than being injected with MDMA, whose effect is unknown, they were mistakenly injected with methampethamine, whose effect is clear. The published paper was subsequently retracted and in fact that jury is still out on long term effects of MDMA usage. Food for thought.

As for your entry, that much is true - love clouds judgement almost as badly as most chemical impairments. The idiotic things people do when they think they're in "love" suggests that there should be a law against driving while in that state.

On another note... are you at all familiar with SG:NHS? You of all people would fit in that group rather nicely, I think.

And as for salon.com.... I'm still waiting to hear from them. They say to give them three weeks and if you still haven't heard you can assume that they aren't interested. It's been one, but I'm not holding my breath. I won't give up though, I still think I have something meaningful to say.

I am already aware of this phenomenon, and my henchmen have been working on a methadone-like chemical substitute for this "love" scourge for some time. We're close to a breakthrough, and I'm hoping to obtain FDA approval early next year. I expect initial sales to be high, but just in case they're not, I've already enlisted the help of thousands of cherubic orphans to administer the drug to random couples by bow-and-arrow.

i'n mot a bad riter:am eye?

I didn't know you were trying to write for Wired. I actually sent a couple of pieces off to Salon a few days ago. I'm still waiting to hear from them. That's kind of my dream job is to write for them (on the side) since it's one of my favorite publications. Good luck with it though!

Now there's an interesting condition, I've never heard of that one before. Hopefully it isn't too disturbing for you. If it keeps up you may want to go to a neurologist.

Yeah, supposedly most people don't dream in color. I don't know why.
As for just "knowing", you're probably right... although one time I THOUGHT I knew, but it turns out I was wrong...

--l*P

Or . . . you have an oddly increased capacity for brilliance on Saturdays?

I think you're spot on with your analysis of geek fantasy. It is masturbatory in a lot of ways - it's much easier to play a game where you can pretend to be a viking warlord with a hammer or justice or some crap like that rather than actually getting off of your ass and doing something to improve yourself.

A lot of my friends have geek tendencies but have enough redeeming social qualities to counterbalance them. That's fine, in my opinion, it's the obsessive aspect of geekiness that frightens me and is unhealthy.

And I have to say that I'm insanely jealous of your sleeping habits - if I had the opportunity I would totally do the same thing.

What sort of work are you looking for?

I know it's probably not much consolation, but that period after college when you haven't found a job yet is one of the freest times in your whole life. You can literally do anything. Enjoy the possiblities, while they're still there!

you forgot E:

Ride the rails, sleep in a field, drink coffee out of a tin can, learn to talk to horses, be written off as the artifact of a dead era, until one man who believes in you brings you a smallish, headstrong, chestnut colt and an oversized jockey and together, you inspire the nation during a time of incredible national agony.

saw your HST quote on the Droppin' Acid topic.

ever read his letter he wrote when Nixon died? it's classic HST and reassures us that he survived his cocaine years relatively intact (though it's worth noting that his volume of production has dropped dramatically...but what can you expect of a senior citizen who still drops, and has since the 60s, LSD and drinks like a fish).

Yeah, the protests were relatively tame. Which I'm happy about - the last thing I would want is for the protest movement to create more propaganda fodder for the Republicans.

Thanks for the happy birthday. You noticed the fortuitous timing of my posting my wishlist? I don't think it worked.

I love your new profile picture. Is it creepy of me to say it makes me want to ruffle your hair? Because...yeah.