Paul Maurice Martin

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• Commented on Stephenson's Anathem was inspired by Clock of the Long Now
  "SD" - rlly lk tht, lwys wndrd wht t ws tht hd... Pl - rgnlfth.cm...
• Commented on US Gov't torture playlist stickers
  You have to pinch yourself sometimes to realize all this is real and you're still living in the United States of America. Paul - rgnlfth.cm...
• Commented on Obama bumper stickers for every state
  I like it, though it may work a bit less well for people not familiar with the Virginia slogan that it plays on - Paul - rgnlfth.cm...
• Commented on National Geo's China issue has controversial pages glued together in China
  So strange; you wonder what the thinking is: "If we just glue them together, folks will suppose it was just a problem with the printer..." - ?? Like the Seinfeld episode says, there are coincidences and then there are BIG...
• Commented on Seth Roberts' fascinating self-experiments
  That is really uncanny. I have a rare disease - actually, never could be diagnosed, not after sixteen years, even by NIH - and I'm severely disabled. A bizarre feature is that for the past three years I've needed to...
• Commented on Scottish gov't report: don't e-count votes
  Sure makes sense to me......
• Commented on Pinkberry's "natural" desserts are made of toxic labratory gunk
  My guess is that the Pinkberry folks are just good old fashioned John Stuart Mill aficionados. Mill was the great rational thinker and essayist of Victorian England. His famous essay - "On Nature" I think was the title - basically...
• Commented on Children's book about plastic surgery
  Nothing like prepping that next generation of consumers I guess......
• Commented on Clockwork cufflinks
  I don't know, guys... Speaking personally, and maybe I really shouldn't, my digital dexterity has always made even just buttoning my cuffs somewhat challenging. Cufflinks that give such an appearance of complexity, even if they operate normally, could only confuse...
• Commented on Libraries and the occult
  Wouldn't someone with occult knowledge be able to locate a book in the stacks?...
• Commented on Medical transcriptionist melts keyboard with fingertips
  "E" is the most commonly used letter in the English language but I guess the fact that you have to reach up for it must diminish the pressure on it and account for why it doesn't appear to be one...
• Commented on Xeni on G4's AOTS re: Tibet and China's 'net blackout
  Good for you. What's been going on in Tibet since the mid-fifties is a real tragedy....
• Commented on Hairstylist shoots complaining customer
  "Guns don't shoot; people do." I'd like to adopt a reasoned and NRA-friendly position here and just point out that if the hair stylist hadn't had that gun in the next room, then she obviously would have found some other...
• Commented on Serial-mouse-driven Etch-a-Sketch
  If these are ever introduced into the workplace, our GNP is going to plummet......
• Commented on Three trillion dollars - Nobel winning economist tabulates true cost of Iraq war
  "We don't go to war on the calculations of green eye-shaded accountants or economists." Is he a grown up or does he have, I don't know, one of those hobby horses and a white cowboy hat that he uses for...
• Commented on Behemoth printer is practically a wall
  I guess you could say I bought the opposite end of Canon's line - their cheapest model personal econo-printer, twenty five years ago. It still prints flawlessly although the fatigue in the plastic from the cover opening and closing now...
• Commented on 1976 Video: Howard Rheingold, Martian Anthropologist
  I think the term "Martian Anthropoligist" might be confusing......
• Commented on Blind man's hallucinations
  I must be hallucinating myself. I could swear, odd as it sounds, that I was just reading a post about "inhaling pig brains." I posted a comment but it said that no such page exists. And now I'll be darned...
• Commented on Elephant artists
  I now suspect that much of 20th c. visual art was produced by elephants. Wonder what species produced the poetry....
• Commented on Is this the end of cheap food?
  And to make it all especially worthwhile, the results of a study have come back saying that switching to grain based fuels is likely to accelerate global warming. I've forgotten all the factors cited, but one, for example, is that...
• Commented on Jake von Slatt's Victorian RV -- video tour
  I really wanted to discuss the post under this one on the Buddhist chants, but it's the only post around with no discuss button. I'm discussted. So I'll just say that I'm glad to see the kids these days are...
• Commented on Flexible steel arm for hands-free calling, 1948
  I guess humankind coudn't really hope to improve on the Third Eye....
• Commented on Do monkeys have a theory of mind?
  "The 'theory of mind' refers to the ability to recognize and understand others' thoughts, desires, intentions, and feelings--basically to get where someone else if coming from." So in humans, for example, this would be like where Dubya looks into Putin's...
• Commented on Laughter yoga
  My sister used to do this incredibly goofy sounding laugh when we were kids; she could crack me up with it at will. That's the closest I've come to laughing for no reason - laughter provoked by someone else's laughter....
• Commented on CIA coverup, take action
  Yeah... it's always heartwarming to learn that a government agency is investigating itself, particularly under this administration. They're "workin' hard" 24/7 I guess....
• Commented on Rusty animal sculptures
  He makes natural-looking connections between the angles and shapes of his materials and those of the creatures he depicts....
• Commented on Due process too much hassle for DC dept. of motor vehicles
  It gets better all the time. I'd never gotten a ticket in my life between ages 16 and 40, when, after I'd lived in the area for a few years, DC started with the cameras at intersections. After getting hit...
• Commented on UK Minister detained at Dulles airport
  The Cheney-Bush administration seems to have decided that in these troubled times, the only way to save democracy is to kill it....