Month: April 2016

the-future-now:

Science says there might be a hidden danger to complaining

Thanks to the natural wiring of
the brain, every stressed out, whiny, totally cray moment you have
makes it easier to have such moments in the future. You’re also more
likely to think of upsetting and unpleasant things at random since your
brain becomes used to it. Because stress, complaining and being pissed off releases a nasty little hormone called cortisol.

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Uh oh

Having a trip to look forward to is so important and nice. Planning it is half the fun. It is really going to be interesting with the little one.
But I keep finding myself thinking more of the 3 days stopover in my favorite country rather than the main trip.

Why Internet voting is a terrible idea, explained in small words anyone can understand

mostlysignssomeportents:

In this 20 minute video, Princeton computer science prof Andrew Appel lays out the problems with Internet-based voting in crisp, nontechnical language that anyone can understand.

Appel is a hero of fair elections: from buying “secure” voting machines on Ebay for $82, then writing extensively about their terrible flaws, to outing New Jersey for its voting irregularities coverup, Appel has been on the front lines of the electronic voting wars for years and years.

http://boingboing.net/2016/04/21/why-internet-voting-is-a-terri.html

There are nonstop flights from here to Osaka Kansai for a little more than
$700 including tax on so-nice Japan Airlines, and like $500+
on not-at-all-nice China Eastern!

Why oh why do such trivial and unnecessary things like (pointless) work,
money and responsibilities to future generations exist?

That’s it! I’m going across the street to Kinokuniya to flash my ANA
frequent-flyer card (with zero miles, since they all expired), and getting
a 5% off my daily fish bento.