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| Linh: physics 4 life.
Linh: which means i'm dead
David: awww
David: RIP linh
David: can I have your stuff?
Linh: no. :3
Linh: i'm taking it with me :3
David: you can't take it with you
David: that's the quote
Linh: yes. yes i can 
Linh: hands off, you gravedigger!
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| http://reason.com/archives/2012/04/21/the-medicalization-of-rebellion/print
The Medicalization of Rebellion: The long, shameful history of using science to stigmatize dissent - There used to be a medical diagnosis for slaves, that they had mental problems for wanting to run away. Currently, in the latest issue of the DSM, is a disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), which talks about children who rebel against authority as also having a medical disease.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/04/03/149929993/why-did-my-wedding-dress-cost-so-much
Why Did My Wedding Dress Cost So Much? - Since people generally only buy one wedding dress, there's a huge asymmetry in knowledge, and so everyone gets ripped off when buying wedding dresses.
http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2047-americans-brits-accents.html
Why Do Americans and Brits Have Different Accents? - Americans sound how the Brit's used to sound 250 years ago. It's the Brit's that changed, not us.
http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/08/what-women-really-want-in-a-relationship/
What Women Really Want in a Relationship - Women are happy when their boyfriend or partner understands they’re upset. For men, it’s somewhat simpler — they’re happy when their partner is happy.
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| I saw a girl put this on her okcupid profile. I was amused:
On the evening of February 3rd, 1989 my mother had to get a C-section with me because I had wrapped the umbilical cord around my neck and pooped myself which was plugging up my nose and I was also choking on it.
After I was born, my father excitedly went into the nursery room to see the arrival of his new born daughter, and to his surprise, the crib he walks up to contained a little black baby, my father absolutely shocked, froze in front of said crib. A million thoughts were rushing to my fathers head about how my mom must have been cheating on him. One of the nurses notices my father looking awfully distraught and she walks over to him, and says to him "MR. DOE, THAT IS NOT YOUR DAUGHTER. YOUR DAUGHTER IS OVER THERE!"
True story.
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| Someone told me something interesting the other day. Basically, if you want cheap tools, go to the swap meet at the Kam drive in. They got brand new tools, at half price, and the cops seem to be ok with it. They also have pirated DVD's of movies that haven't even come out yet. You have cops walking around too, and nobody does anything, so they're probably on the take.
However, at the Aloha Stadium swap meet, the cops confront people about suspicious items, and will ask to see receipts. So if you want clean merchandise, go to the Aloha Stadium swap meet. If you want cheaper, probably stolen items, go to the Kam swap meet.
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| From "Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting", by Pamela Druckerman.
Chapter 3, "Doing Her Nights", page 45:
So how does Cohen get the babies of Tribeca to do their nights?
"My first intervention is to say, when your baby is born, just don't jump on your kid at night," Cohen says. "Give your baby a chance to self-soothe, don't automatically respond, even from birth."
For Cohen, this pause - I'm tempted to call it "La Pause" - is crucial. He says that using it very early on makes a big difference in how babies sleep. "The parents who were a little less responsive to late night fussing always had kids who were good sleepers, while the jumpy folks had kids who would wake up repeatedly at night until it became unbearable," he writes.
One reason for pausing is that young babies make a lot of movements and noise while they're sleeping. This is normal and fine. If parents rush in and pick up the baby every time he makes a peep, they'll sometimes wake him up.
Another reason for pausing is that babies wake up between their sleep cycles, which last about two hours. It's normal for them to cry a bit when they're first learning to connect these cycles. If a parent automatically interprets this cry as a demand for food or a sign of distress and rushes in to soothe the baby, the baby will have a hard time learning to connect the cycles on his own. That is, he'll need an adult to come in and soothe him back to sleep at the end of each sleep cycle.
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It goes on, saying that kids take about 2-3 months before they can connect their own sleep cycles, but that if the baby gets louder and louder, they do need to be picked up. But pausing for a few minutes to see if the baby really needs you is apparently what French parents do.
The whole book was pretty interesting, though I'm sure hard to implement in practice if I ever do have kids. Stuff about only giving kids food during appropriate dinner times, rather than having them snack all day like American kids usually do. And constantly offering up foods that have been rejected, like spinach, on the idea that eventually they'll come around. And ignoring kids, and telling them to play by themselves, to teach both patience and self-stimulation, while also making life for the parents easier (also a good thing).
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