Oh, man... about 10 years ago I was tripping on acid and for some reason shortly after peaking I decided to have a video chat with a buddy online. He was so freaked out by my inability to put together a cogent sentence, I think he was seriously considering calling 911 for me. I think eventually he just figured I was…

For the record, I was probably 3 to 4 feet away from the person in front of me at the time.

What this study should have done is actually measure personal space by averaging the distance between people in lines or queues. As an American, I’ve more than once been line-jumped by a foreigner who didn’t realize I was even in line, because the distance between me and the person in front of me was so immense (to…

Big House and Black Box are both good boxed wines — but my go-to is the boxed Shiraz that Trader Joe’s sells. I’ve never really cared for 2-buck-Chuck at all, but this stuff is quite tasty… and a terrific value.

I wasn’t a particularly skittish lad, but I recall one time when I was about 14 or so, walking in the woods near where our family had set up a camping trailer in the summer... and I suddenly came across an armadillo lumbering towards me on the trail. I couldn’t have been more surprised if it was a little green man…

Still better than the Maze Runner series, though.

I seem to recall as a child attending church lunches where the women preparing everything would put eggshells in the bottom of those huge coffee makers/servers. Seemed very strange to me at the time, but possibly it’s a similar concept?

Just started using Ghost Commander myself, and am loving it. It’s open-source, has several useful plugins, and no wonky permissions.

Then there are the conscious synthetics on Humans, who “swallow” a long latex baggie sort of thing which collects any food or drink they ingest in front of humans who don’t know they’re synths, only to pull it out via the mouth and empty it into the toilet later, when they’re alone. (Though obviously the Westworld host…

This is also a good way to get yourself unfollowed, blocked, and even reported. Whenever I am unfollowed by someone, if their followed-to-follower ratio suddenly took a huge leap, I not only unfollow, but report them for spam. (Twitter doesn’t have a button that says “This person is a follower whore” so that’s the…

Yes, and let’s not forget… ZOMBIE BEAR.

Hmm... seems Adobe may have been taking down a lot of those. I did find CS6 version for Mac still up on Amazon. But if you don’t trust eBay for that (and you can’t find a used copy on Craigslist or a used bookstore somewhere), then I’d suggest Photoshop Elements. I’ve tried it, and it’s actually a pretty decent piece…

You can often buy the previous versions on Amazon or eBay.

In my opinion, the last decent candidate they had was Harry Browne, who I think would’ve made a pretty damn good President, but it’d be a little difficult for him to run now, being dead and all.

Your motivation and reasoning is sound, but I believe the key is not to blame yourself or others, but instead just try to tell yourself different stories about your experiences, without making them so far-fetched that there’s no way you could believe them. It’s about striving to remove the whole “good vs. evil”…

Really surprised you didn’t mention Tweeten. As a longtime TweetDeck user, I find it to be nearly indistinguishable from TweetDeck. They’ve updated it a few times since I installed it several months back, as well.

Yeah, came here to say the same thing. While it may seem pretentious to ask the wait staff to decant your wine at a restaurant, doing so with a wine that “isn’t more than 10 years old” is absolutely worth your while. To claim that it has to be a high-end wine to reap the benefits is ridiculous. So when you’re at home,…

I am about as unqualified to speak about anime as anyone you’ll find, but I do have a notion of what it is. And that’s mainly because there’s something about the style that just rubs me the wrong way, and I will usually avoid watching anything that looks to me like anime.

If you’re talking about some daunting task that can be done quickly — or has to be done immediately because something bad will happen otherwise (like finally doing your taxes on April 14th) — then I agree that biting the bullet and rolling up your sleeves is probably a necessity. But if it’s something recurring, or it…