June 2012
105 posts
“There’s a jerk inside all of us: we roll our eyes when someone in line has a complicated order, curse at little old ladies who don’t drive fast enough, and sneer at people who are just too happy. Over time, that snark kills our productivity and poisons our relationships. Here’s how to keep your inner asshole in check.”
—The Snarky Voice in Your Head Is Killing Your Productivity; Here’s How to Stop It (via wilwheaton)
How to tell if you’re a troll — TheBloggess.com →
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It’s a multiple choice quiz that’s funny and insightful. It’s also pretty damn accurate, especially in the scoring section:If you answered mostly [LETTER REMOVED BY WIL]’s:
You’re a probably an asshole. Or possibly you’re an angry teenager. It’s occasionally hard to tell those apart. Most people find you abrasive, obnoxious and vile, however you’re in luck because you can grow out of this phase, and even if you don’t there are lots of other assholes out there to share your time with you.
There are a lot of angry teenagers on the Internet the last few weeks. I just want to say something, with kindness, to them: you guys, read this post about how being snarky is ruining your life from Lifehacker and maybe you’ll feel a lot better about yourself, stop being an angry asshole to everyone, and end up surrounding yourself with awesome people who are awesome.
…because there is a fundamental law of the universe that they don’t tell you about when you’re younger: you attract what you put out into the world; it’s basic human psychology. So if you’re awesome to people, other awesome people will want to be around you, but if you’re a dick, only other dicks will want to be around you.
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Bunny tilts her head and give Scribbles a questioning look. She turns to the closest body sitting up and pries the mouth open, while taking out a flashlight and shining it into the cavity. She hums while the rest of us stare at her. After a moment she pauses and turns around, her cheeks slightly red.
“Sorry. I tend to get caught up in my own thoughts,” she says.
“Perfectly alright,” Seamus says. “Could you let us in on what you were thinking?”
“Well, I started to wonder how that could happen,” she says. “Transubstantiation is often discounted in cases such as this but I can’t rule out teleportation or colocalization until I can get a tissue sample under a microscope. It’s theorized that the latter two explanations would leave signs via vis the hemoglobin becoming magnetized but that’s not certain. It’s hard to polarize hemoglobin since it has salt bridges between the polypeptide chains, making it easy to pass around charges through the entire structure of the protein and thus being able to offset any sort of induced charge needed to create the aforementioned magnetization. So I’d also have to examine non-hemoglobin tissues as well to see if I can find any sign of polarization there. We’re lucky since the lungs are ideal for such an examination. You see the bronchial tubes are fractal shaped so they hide a huge surface area in a relatively small space which means that a great volume of tissue would be exposed to any sort of field which given the confined space of a respiratory system would have to very intense and therefore leave said telltale signs.”
” —Selection from what I was writing earlier today.