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Picks and finds from Erica Tesla. Little elaboration here, kiddies; if you're looking for that, go to my blog. I largely post stuff here to distribute stuff to friends - stuff that otherwise I'd forget to IM them (or whatever) - or to save it for me, for later. Yes, I am so scatterbrained I have to blog stuff to myself.

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Craig Ferguson 7/21/9A Late Late Show beginning (via Malinky2Stoatir)

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So, once again, I figure, I’m left in the position of months of a near sedentary, non-weight bearing lifestyle…

Except, that’s complete and utter excuse-driven bullshit.

I will not allow a repeat performance. I’ve lived and breathed the right thing to do for far too many years to do the wrong thing one more time. I’m human, yes. But, I’m not willing to suffer and blame circumstances any longer. Even if it seems like every form of movement I adore has been, at least temporarily, stripped away from me.

Fat Bottom Bloggers: Is Your Blog Killing You? | Awake At The Wheel | Crossroads of Work & Play. This is amazing and inspiring. It makes me want to redouble my health-seeking initiatives. And go play more.
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ISSUE #88318
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Client Issue:
“your getting than you used to be”
(That’s the entirety of the message from the client.)

Problem Point:
While it is unclear whether or not this is actually a complaint, what is clear is that the technician’s “getting” is in some way different than the technician himself was at some point in the past.

Improvement Goal:
Each technician should take better care of his “getting”, to ensure that it stops differing from how the technician used to be. That way, the technician will potentially be praised by the client with the commendation that, “your getting is now exactly the same as you are now”. And those are the type of praises that result in raises.

Support Should Never Be Necessary - The Daily WTF (Read the whole thing. I cried.)
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Based on data from the first three months of Kickstarter’s existence, it looks like there’s more than something to it. To date, if a project manages to get to 25% of its funding goal, it has a 94% success rate. Here’s a visual to illustrate that. The X axis represents percentage funded, the Y axis shows the percentage of projects that have reached that level:
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In 2003, researchers at a federal agency proposed a long-term study of 10,000 drivers to assess the safety risk posed by cellphone use behind the wheel.
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With just a few weeks of training, you can learn to “see” objects in the dark using echolocation the same way dolphins and bats do.

Ordinary people with no special skills can use tongue clicks to visualize objects by listening to the way sound echoes off their surroundings, according to acoustic experts at the University of Alcalá de Henares in Spain.

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Bare essentials of safety from Air New Zealand (via AirNZnothing2hide)

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