You too. Thanks for the chat.

Online? Yes. In real life? Yes. One of the advantages of being well-adjusted to life is the ability to consider the source. I’ve even had death threats against me from the anti-vaccine crowd, and my personal info posted on their commenting boards for me to “burn.” People who take time out of their days to insult and…

Really? Defending yourself? It’s an online commenting board, not the middle of the street. But, to each his own.

It’s the same urge that made you reply to their reply. In the anonymous world of online commenting, our social interaction “programming” in our brain is altered.

Alguien necesita una siesta.

What’s the over/under on Trump or Carson suggesting something similar in the US? I mean, if they want to close down mosques, surely they’ll want to shut down the internet.

Neeeeeeeerd!!!

I’m glad you went through it okay and without any complications. Unfortunately, the epidemiology tells us that the relative risks of homebirths and birth centers when it comes to complications and, unfortunately, deaths, are quite high compared to hospitals.

Was Denzel Washington at the controls?

A few weeks ago “@nexusbeats” (or someone using his verified email and twitter account) bought a $450 iPhone from me. When his check didn’t clear, I contacted UPS to have the intercept the package and send it back to me. They did... Except that someone contacted them hours after I did, telling them that they were me,…

Is it weird that this was cathartic?

Stupid Apple fanboys. Android had pre-ordering this Wednesday years ago.

I’ll have to respectfully disagree. Noteshelf has better palm rejection (which won’t be an issue come the Apple stylus... er... Pencil. And the response time is better as you jot down notes on it.

You could have also used NoteShelf or Penultimate to handwrite notes.

Why is this such a big deal? We “consume” human DNA all the time. All that house dust you breathe in? Lots of human DNA there. Open-mouth kissing at a drunken party? Lots of human DNA there. On the receiving end of, you know, that? Lots of human DNA there.

Hmmm... Classic prisoner’s dilemma.

Cushion the cranium, or star in your own real-life version of Human Centipede.

Dave Wong from Cracked.com had a great article on conspiracy theories (it was about the “Loose Change” movie about 9/11). One of his theses was that, if people were being paid off to disappear or claim that their relatives disappeared, how much money was it? How much money would a reasonable person take to keep quiet…

I’m going to have to respectfully disagree with your assessment that only the far Left is into anti-vaccine activism. The main drivers of some really hateful and dangerous speech against a vaccine mandate in California this summer were from the far right.

In my sparring with anti-vaxxers, I’ve come across a few that are also HIV truthers. They share germ theory denialism, mistrust of the government, and belief in pseudoscience. There is even a researcher, formerly at the university where I am attending and now at a nearby university, who is a big fan of Duensberg and…