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[yendi]

1. Just One Club Card. Print out one sheet to carry with all of your assorted store club card info (Shaw's, CVS, Kroger, etc).

2. A list of experts who have given up on Wikipedia. Stored at Wikipedia itself, of course.

3. Verizon attempts to fuck the Constitution sideways. We're not violating privacy; we're practicing free speech!

4. Target recalls store-brand risotto due to salmonella.

5. Continuing research on how we perceive faces as opposed to other objects. As someone with moderate Prosopagnosia, I find this stuff fascinating.

6. A Sporkife! Although it's far from perfect -- it needs a longer handle, for one thing, and I'd prefer something that didn't require reversing.

7. For those interested in the Cat Captcha stuff, boutell's been covering it extensively in his LJ.

8. That post from this weekend showing the new Supergirl Action Figure (for a definition of action that includes "things normally associated with Jenna Jameson) is up to 53 comments. I think that's the most comments I've ever gotten for so little writing (as compared to the whopping two comments last night's three-thousand word review generated).

9. One-minute clips of the new Adult Swim shows.

Comments

[concordantnexus.livejournal.com]

Well, a picture IS worth a thousand words. :p

[yendi]

True. :-)

[dindin.livejournal.com]

...It kind of begs the question: why would you buy Target brand Risotto?

[yendi]

I've bought their store-brand chips and other stuff; I could see someone buying groceries there anyway easily picking up some of the other stuff. It's likely no worse than some of the brand name stuff in the supermarket.

[dindin.livejournal.com]

It's sort of like buying Walmart brand Souffle mix to me. I got nothing against generics, but this doesn't make sense. :)

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

I would never go to Target for grocery shopping; but there was at least one occasion when I was there for some other stuff, and grabbed some food while I was there.

[dindin.livejournal.com]

Sure, sure. But would you grab risotto?

[pkthunder.livejournal.com]

I actually just bought some yesterday (I now understand why there was an empty shelf where Four-Cheese Risotto should have been). I know that it's not really risotto, but I enjoy convenient flavored rice side dishes and Archer Farms is a decent brand.

I guess risotto is "in" now as far as marketers are concerned. I don't understand the "risotto" setting on the rice steamer featured on that gadget show on Food Network this weekend, either.

[afeldspar.livejournal.com]

I have to point out, there's nothing particularly ironic about that "list of experts who have given up on Wikipedia" being stored on Wikipedia, because it's a Wikipedia project page, not an article. It's no more ironic than finding a list of "Johnson family members refusing to come to the reunion" in the Johnson household.

[yendi]

True. Which is why I didn't call it ironic. :-)

[morality-play.livejournal.com]

Hi Yendi. You and I never talk.

I was very interested in this wikipedia link that you submitted. It pertains to a larger problem I'm interested in. The institutional treatment of academics, and the "cultural force" of 10,000 idiots banned together. Something like that.

Anyway, if I ever finish with my current "Demonology" thesis, I might want to write something up about this for my journal, and if you've been following this problem over at WikiPedia, I'd value your comments when I do.

[yendi]

I haven't been following it that well, but over at Making Light, there's a great post following it and commenting on the assorted issues there.

[afeldspar.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll bite, then, what's the special significance of it being stored on Wikipedia?

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

I was diagnosed with propaganosia as well (have walked past my own mother in the grocery store because she wasn't looking at me and I didn't get the visual cue of her body language showing she recognized me) I find this stuff really interesting, in that I can't draw 2 dimensional art (shading and perspective are handled by the math parts of the brain, and I'm also dyscalculic, which propaganosia commonly goes hand in hand with) however, I DO sculpt. I can sculpt someone's face quite accurately if I do break it down in sections, I'm even pretty good at looking at someone's facial structure and bone structure and being able to tell you a lot of thier heritage (I can usually look at an asian person and make a good fairly accurate guess as to whether they are Korean or Chinese, etc.) However, to percieve a face as a composite, and tell it apart from another, forget it.

I don't know if it's from the poor eyesight as a child, or it if it's from the early on head injuries, but stick say, ving rhames next to michael duncan clark and unless I hear them speak or I look over thier faces section by section, no way could I tell them apart. I learned to recognize people by body language, voice, what they wore and they way the smelled...but then there's the wierd thing of being able to analyze heritage pretty well, but still not be able to tell two similiar people apart.

The brain is one strange thing.

[yendi]

*nod*

I recently had someone point me to a post by a drama-person complaining that I'd ignored them. Since it's someone I'd only met twice and hadn't seen at years, I almost lashed into them, then I realized that I can't assume that my expectations for recognizing people are anything like "normal" ones. It's weird.

I'm the same way with all the other symptoms you describe. I hate it when folks change hair styles, for example, because that's a crucial identifier for me. And I hate running into folks with no context to associate with them (like walking down the street).

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

Not long after we moved here I was standing outside a store waiting for someone and this elderly couple were walking across the parking lot towards me. They were obviously staring at me, and it was that "oh hey its...well, why isn't she waving/saying anything/how rude!" thing going on....GAH!!

Turned out it was the people we had bought our house from!

Nowadays I just look at people who are giving me "that look" "sorry, if I know you I'm not trying to be rude and not say hello, I had a head injury and I can't recognize people anymore. Tell me your name and I'll probably be able to remember you" (at which point I can get the voice recognition cue and know who the heck they are.)

Which is really the shortcut version of it but it still knocks off a lot of that crap. Yeesh.

[rowancat.livejournal.com]

At Adult Swim under Games there is a hilarious *online shockwave flash
action/fight game called Bible Fight pitting Adam, Eve, Moses, Noah,
Satan, etc.
Moses calling down rains of frogs on his opponent like a localized hailstorm, Noah causing a huge stampede of animals to run over people :)
*You can't download it, it's broken up into too many swf files...

There is also an office game where you try to get yourself killed in less
than five minutes by annoying other coworkers to the breaking point :)

[butterflymama3.livejournal.com]

I am in total favor of one universal card. I hate having all those cards and now keytags to carry around. UGH!

[ogre42.livejournal.com]

It is a nice idea, but I have to wonder what the folks that are offering the service are going to do with all of your card numbers in THEIR database. I know that there are any number of companies (Lexus-Nexus for one) that all they do is collect data and sell it to others. I am just hesitant to share that much more info to a random company.

I would suggest just creating your own cut and paste version. It wouldn't be too hard and then you limit your online data exposure.

Or maybe I am just a wee bit too paranoid...

[techempage.livejournal.com]

8. That post from this weekend showing the new Supergirl Action Figure (for a definition of action that includes "things normally associated with Jenna Jameson) is up to 53 comments. I think that's the most comments I've ever gotten for so little writing (as compared to the whopping two comments last night's three-thousand word review generated).

I've learned (and I'm guilty of it myself) the longer a post, the less likely people are to read/comment on it.

Especially when I'm a over a week behind, like now.