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so there are people that can tell a person's personality by their handwriting.

so I'm guessing they probably had a bunch of people fill out a handwritten personality test, and then just compared the writing...

this is, of course, assuming that no one lied on the test, and that they are writing in their normal style...

also - I would assume, they were not trying to rush to complete the exam, and that they were not intoxicated...

(Assumptions are very important and they must be explicitly stated, otherwise, miscommunication can lead to HUGE problems, rework, wasted time, and frustration)

then, a large enough sample would have to be taken, for if a small sample was taken, it would not be indicative of the true population...

because if I were to give the sample to, say ten people, and they just happened to be the last ten people I called on the phone, and I assumed that the last ten people I called was a true distribution of, say, the world... then 100% of the people in the work would be in their early-20's to mid-30's, 80% asian, 60% filipino, 70% female, and I would be related to 40% of the people in the world and married to 10% of the world's population. I would have also hugged everyone in the world.

you can see how my assumption would be faulty. I haven't hugged 100% of the world... maybe just 92% :-P

I digress... I was just looking at my handwriting and how it changes dramatically depending on the situation... when I am taking notes in meetings, it is sloppy, yet small, and my letters all run together... when I am just leaving messages for people on post-its it is very neat and straight and... when I write birthday cards it's...

man... I just totally got bored with this post.

I'm done.

so...

when you drink a lot of coffee...

and you piss...

and not that you smell it...

but does it smell like coffee?

um... cos... um... I heard that it does...

and, if you drink enough alcohol...

when you sweat...

does it smell like piss?

:-P

ok...

so this is probably the longest shot I'm probably ever going to take...

but here goes.

I am looking for the Akira Prism Card (Tetsuo and Kaori - P1) from 1994 by Cornerstone Communications.

I could not even find a picture of it on the net. I know it exists because I was looking for it for most of 1994-1996... in 1996 I started my obsession with gambit, so I fell off...

anyhow, the P1 card from that set is the only card that I do not have for that collection.

I have every single other card (including the promos)

if you know of anyone who might know of anyone that might have an inkling about someone who has this card, please let me know who and how to get a hold of them, because I would like to buy the card.

... end longshot...

you can program a robot.

sometimes, I feel like I'm being programmed and I spit out the programmed response given a certain situation.

so I figured I'll talk like a robot.

[robotic monotone] then I can feel comfortable spitting out programmed responses and not have to think about anything [end robotic monotone]

hehe... imagine that I really said that in a robot voice.

that's funny [to me]

if that really happened, and you didn't think it was funny, you would probably be staring at me with a bewildered look on your face.

at that point I would be laughing because I think it's funny when people look confused, especially when they don't know what to make of my antics.

usually it just means people think I'm weird, but whatever... normal is boring.

... ... ...

of course, I could just be a crazy, attention deficient [please note that this word does not follow the pneumonic device "i before e, except after c etc etc" - hehe weird [this word doesn't either]]...

where was I?

whatever. I have to go eat.

I'm hungry.

pandas aren't really bears - they are more closely related to raccoons.

I thought the maid threw out my reach replacement floss thingys, but she put it in the medicine cabinet, which I forgot I had... inside I found the tweezers and the nail clippers that I thought I lost along with more dental floss... so I'm not mad at her anymore... I was last week after they cleaned the apartment... I guess I'm a jerk-face.

in "the eyre affair" there are traveling devices called gravitubes. essentially it is a chord [a straight line connecting two points on a curve] drilled through the earth connecting one city with another. given that the midpoint of the chord is actually closer to the center of the earth than the endpoints, you would essentially be falling to the midpoint, and since the amount of kinetic energy generated by the time you reach the mid point should be sufficient enough to shoot you back to the other end point, theoretically a frictionless vehicle can travel through the drilled chord - or gravitube - with minimal energy (this would be the energy to over come any static friction or linear friction or whatever). After thinking this through, I would think that the tube would have to be a vacuum to eliminate air resistance, and there would have to be some way for the vehicle to not touch the sides... magnetically perhaps. however, it would require an enoromous amount of energy to charge an entire tube, not to mention any safety features... however, given zero friction, the acceration of gravity, and more math than I care to share - all travel through any gravitube would take 42.2415 minutes. neat.

pluto is no longer a planet. it is a dwarf planet. whatever that means. who cares anyway? it's not like it is going to shake the foundations of science, and even if it did (somehow) how would what we call pluto make it anymore than a ball of ice. it's not like we are going to live on it anytime soon. it is about 38.49 AU's from earth at it's closest and at the speed of light it would take us 5 hours to get there... but since we currently cannot travel at the speed of light and with current technology it would take us over 10 years to get there, actually walking on pluto is a moot point. not to mention it is hypothesized that pluto's atmosphere actually freezes during parts of it's orbit around the sun...

you need to remember to blink often when playing video games, as people tend to stare and being forced to blink at an inopportune time can mean crashing and burning or completing a level.

I get stupider after watch poker on tv. so I try to forget as quickly as possible that I have watched anything...

stargate sg1 has either been cancelled or put on hold... it is quite possible that the 10th season is the last... although they say they will be looking to continue in one way or another (think movie or other network)... the scifi channel will challenge any move to another network.