Randomly happened upon this old 43Folders post on appending text via QuickSilver. Thinking about how fast that is for certain types of lists (books for library/amazon — and right, I know I haven’t put the library first in practice, but that’s exactly why I wrote it that way!; wines – but that seems like a…
Sometimes the WSJ depresses me. I read it for sensible, no BS news and financial analysis, and then their opinion page goes off the deep end with this sort of crap. I almost don’t want to link to this — it’s that embarrassing to the author in my opinion, but some guy whose Army time…
Smiles popped into my head today. This paragraph (refs omitted): Autism and Asperger syndrome are diagnosable developmental disorders, but autistic-like personality traits are continuously distributed in the non-clinical population. They are higher in males, in scientists (especially in the hard sciences and engineering) and in relatives of autistic-spectrum patients. Thus, individual differences in autistic-like traits…
I just read this insanely depressing quote from Ted Turner (yes, *that* Ted Turner, the BILLIONAIRE). He’s describing his three marriages ending in divorce, after the article discusses Ted’s weekly rotating girlfriends (four in total): Is he lonely? He pauses. “Maybe a little.” Yep, what’s the point of the billions if you’re still lonely? And…