anamnesis

"The majority of people aren’t sad because there is something wrong with their brain. They are sad because their lives suck. But rather than admit that to themselves, they run to the Doctor and beg for a diagnosis that alleviates their personal responsibility in this regard." Feisty article with some solid arguments. IMHO. Sometimes Science and Technology are the enemies of common sense.

From Meme Cats ... sometimes a picture is worth some words...

That big honker graph of taxes updated for this year that's fun to navigate on. Shift key to zoom, hold the left mouse button and drag to move the chart around and Ctrl key to zoom out. Biggest climber seems to be "excise taxes" which are what, exactly? And what is the "Millennium Challenge Corporation?" Kind of reminds of those find waldo games for where that dang penny is going, er, I mean 1 trillion dollars. My bad.

Mew at Katsurahama beach, Japan. Wonder where his travels will take him? With Love, K, BrightEyes and Sonic.

GEM will probably know this one: Always smiles or maybe frowns, Sinks in water, never drowns. Catches prey on its barbed teeth. Hunts all day but never eats.

This guy reminds of what ger-beans would've probably looked like doing the Numa Numa video. I'm going to have to make one myself just cause it looks like so much fun, but will have to burn the tape so I don't get blackmailed :-)

Some extracts from Disorder in the Court from actual cases. ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active? WITNESS: No, I just lie there. ________________________________ ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth? WITNESS: July 18th. ATTORNEY: What year? WITNESS: Every year. ______________________________________ ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all? WITNESS: Yes. ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory? WITNESS: I forget. ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot? _____________________________________ ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you? WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which. ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you? WITNESS: Forty-five years. _____________________________________ ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning? WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar ...

Explained quite well by a three year old.

Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean-- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver

An ad appeared on May 1st, 1981 in the classifieds of the Arizona Daily Wildcat, a newspaper published by the University of Arizona. It was cryptic, and no one paid much attention to it. But another cryptic message appeared the next year, on May 1st. And on every May 1st since 1981 ---unless it fell on a weekend. It's become known as The May Day Mystery ...

XYLITOL: this stuff rocks! A sugar replacement made from Birch bark and other natural stuff, developed by those clever Finns (aka Benecolites; see previous post.) Xylitol has some intriguing properties. For one, it doesn't trigger the dump of insulin in the bloodstream that ordinary sugar (sucrose) does. It tastes good, in fact, has a BETTER after-taste than sugar, more of a light, refreshing flavor. It can replace sugar 1:1 in most recipes and usages. Now this is all kinda cool, but as they say in the infomercials, wait, there's more! Helps Reduce the Development of Dental Caries Reduces Plaque Formation Provides One-Third Fewer Calories than Sugar – about 2.4 Calories per Gram Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1963, xylitol has no known toxic levels. Ability to inhibit the growth of bacteria that cause middle ear infections in young children. In two recent studies involving over 1,000 children, xylitol-flavoured chewing gum was found to reduce the inci...