I was glad to see this blog post from Scott Adams, in which he describes thinking about topics in the form of hypothetical conversations with people he knows. I was glad to see it because it’s how I do a lot of my thinking, and it’s hard to describe to others. (Except in my head, I guess.) The point where our experiences differ is that Adams concentrates on particular people in the role of hypothetical listener, while my listeners tend to either be particular people for the day, or people who make sense depending on what I’m thinking about. It is one of those things that’s hard to explain to others, though. Adams says it best: ...

Time’s Person of the Year is me! I didn’t even realize I was up for it, but now that I’ve found out, I pledge to use my newfound status to…wait…never mind. Time’s Person of the Year is You. That’s right…You. Not me. All of You. Everyone else besides Me. Guess there’s always next year. That should just be down to me, and all of the babies born next year. I think I can beat out a bunch of babies. (Who am I kidding? They’ll be cute.) ...

The blog Girlfriend ‘07 lists ten fictional women who make it difficult to date real women: Hollywood has a tendency to create female characters who make it nearly impossible to ever be truly satisfied with real women. Because not only do these women tend to be beyond beautiful on the outside, but they’re always unbelievable on the inside too. They’re cool. They’re fun. They always know what to say. And they always have that one little thing that makes you fall in love with them. Maybe it’s because they usually have guys writing their lines and making them perfect, but either way they’re a tough act to follow. ...

It’s Christmas, and therefore the time for various media outlets to list dangerous toys. Radar has a good one, listing a few toys that were out when I was a kid. What I like about this sort of list is the indication the corporate world of the Seventies not only wasn’t concerned about us swallowing small toy pieces, but they actually wanted us to use open hot plates for melting plastic and to throw weighted metal darts at each other. Survival of the luckiest, or at least the kids who preferred to read. :) ...

My score on The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test: Modern, Cool Nerd (86 % Nerd, 52% Geek, 47% Dork) For The Record: A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia. A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one. A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions. You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd. ...

From Wil Wheaton’s blog: I love that. NASA kept Spirit awake so it (and we) could watch the sunset. Isn’t that just beautiful? We sent a robot all the way to another planet, and then had it do something humans have been doing since before we touched the monolith. We didn’t even learn anything from it . . . or did we? The picture which inspires.

I have a domain — clockworkmind.com --- that I have an idea of using for development purposes, but I haven’t set anything up yet. In the meantime, I set all email messages coming to that domain to forward to my Gmail address. Today, I received 200+ bounced messages from where a spammer used random usernames combined with [at]clockworkmind.com to send out spam to addresses that either didn’t exist or were blocked. There’s a great introduction to the world. :| ...

Page 917 of the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Describe the nature of Time as distinguished from the Geometrical definitions. Discuss amongst yourselves.

Donald Crowdis --- curator, television host, blogger, and survivor — will turn 93 on Christmas Eve. His wife has been in the hospital for a while, and he writes about missing her. In Mourning, Among Her Souvenirs

Yep, that’s a cat in a dress… A giant cat in a dress, judging by the mountains in the background. :) Cat dresses apparently are/were available – the catalog says Fall/Winter 2005 – at missglamourpuss.com. If it’s a boy cat? We believe cats are generally pretty open-minded, and metro-sexual to the point of being much more adventurous than your average man. In fact, we think cats are so haute-couture conscious, they looooove to experiment with their “feminine side”- kind of like all those New Romantics dressed up like Vivienne Westwood’s pirates in the 80’s. So while we draw the line at eyeliner, we say leave the inhibitions at the door and get a ballgown onto his cute little booty! ...