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« My stupid life: December 2014 | Main | My stupid life: February 2015 » My stupid lifeAround these parts we know how to deal with Blizzards You call up the Iron Man of the future (the, er, not too distant future of 2020), and he blasts them away. The above from Amazing Spider-Man annual #20, from 1986 when 2020 did seem a little further away. By fnord12 | January 26, 2015, 12:35 PM | Comics
& My stupid life | Comments (3)| Link Matthew Yglesias has some sad facts that are particularly relevant to the SuperMegaHousehold as we watch our internet-only Comcast bill start creeping up again. By fnord12 | January 15, 2015, 10:02 AM | Liberal Outrage
& My stupid life | Link Having just come off a two week staycation that was pretty awesome at least until the flu bug bit, i can kind of get behind the conclusion of this Why Americans Are Terrible at Vacation article: ...when visiting Paris, for example... skip the Eiffel Tower (most Parisians haven't been since they were five years old) and instead... [try] mirroring locally relevant activities like having sex, drinking wine before noon, reading a weighty philosophy book, and taking a nap. I definitely find the tour style vacation to be exhausting, and love the idea of just going somewhere to relax. But i can actually relax just fine at home, and home is where i keep all my stuff, so i can take the occasional break from relaxing to paint some miniatures or work on my comics timeline. And if i'm just going to hang out somewhere, i'm not really going to see anything, so what's the point? Any way you look at it, though, i think it's time to go back on vacation. By fnord12 | January 14, 2015, 1:39 PM | My stupid life | Link From the September 2014 Scientific American, in an interview article fretting about our growing inability to turn off the technology around us: And... People are also good with a robot that could stand in as a companion for an older person. But I take a moral position here because older people deserve to tell the story of their life to someone who understands what a life is. They've lost spouses; they've lost children. We're suggesting they tell the story of their life to something that has no idea was a life is or what a loss is. I never had these utopian family dinners and i never had Facebook, so a lot of what this article is saying sounds crazy to me. But i do know that one day me and Min are going to be old, and we don't have any kids, so we're going to need that robot companion. We were thinking it could be dog shaped. By fnord12 | January 13, 2015, 2:28 PM | My stupid life & Science | Comments (2)| Link By fnord12 | January 4, 2015, 4:47 PM | My stupid life | Link « My stupid life: December 2014 | Main | My stupid life: February 2015 » |