Fidelization?

Why in the world all superstores have to have their membership cards?  If that's to get customer fidelization, well, none of them succeeded with me: I have them all! And I just get the discounts.

Disconnected eyes

I like books, but truth is that I'm an awful reader.  If my reading isn't that catchy, I get easily distracted by something that pops into my mind, strangely enough my eyes don't stop reading: they manage to get until the end of the page on their own!  And that's when I realize that I missed the whole thing and that I have to start over.

Colours of numbers

0 is certainly black, and 1 is probably blue.  2 looks good in orange, but 3 is definitely yellow; 4 is almost certainly green, whereas 5 is red.  6 is cyan, and 7 is most likely white.  I'm not sure about 8 (probably brown), but 9 is surely purple.

Me and myself

I noticed that when I mentally speak to myself (mostly to get organized) I talk to me in first person plural: "now we finish this, then we go home."  I'm wondering what person people talk to themselves in.

Why are shoes thrown over the power lines?

I've found a few possible answers on the web.  Here they are:

• It's a time-honored tradition to throw your sneakers over the power lines on the last day of school.
• Because someone felt compelled to try to sling them up there so that they would stay (sometimes they are old shoes that need to be discarded, sometimes they are someone else's shoes, and the boys involved are playing a prank on that person.)
• Drug dealers use them as a sign that to let their customers know that drugs are sold in that area.
• To serve as a reminder/warning of a murder that occurred nearby.
• Because teenage boys who've just "scored" for the first time (i.e., lost their virginity) use that sign to proclaim their conquest to the world.
• They are left there as breeding pots for the extraterrestrial black oil virus. The life forms hide in the shelter of the shoes and observe traffic, waiting for just the right moment to commence the invasion.

Sources:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/factoids/a/sneakers.htm
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_274.html
http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/sneakers.htm
http://breebop.toastmedia.com/archives/000599.html
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threadselect.jsp?fid=1&tid=1403250

Found on an old Post-It

It's easier to unhumanize a human than to humanize a computer. (Aug 23, 2002)

Imagine...

Our generation is very fortunate, it's the first generation where people can find people from all over the world and start chatting in seconds.

If things keep evolving this way, in a near future everyone will be only a few clicks away from anyone else, and this will certainly change the world.

"Imagine all the people Sharing all the world..." (John Lennon, 1971)