Morality

"Never do anything that you wouldn't want them to find you dead while you are doing it."   Could it be so simple?

Look me in the eyes

It's impossible -- you can only do one at a time.  And, besides, if somebody is talking to me I can't help it, I always end up looking straight in the lips.  Is it just me?

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)

Old memories

I don't know why, but today I remembered some things that happened about 30 years ago.  There was me asking my grandfather: "How are people supposed to keep their hands when they walk? Straight open, or closed in a fist?" He said: "Something in between", and it seemed to me a good answer.

I remember me watching my hand and thinking it had nice proportions, I don't think it has changed much.

I also remember some pretty boring moments, strange that they left a sign that has lasted for so long... For instance I see me sitting on the floor staring at the carpet, or watching the room's door trying to catch sleep for my afternoon nap...

Animality?

I find quite interesting that we spend a lot of time in cutting our hair and trimming our nails.  We also use special products to make our hair feel softer and look brighter.  We have even invented professionals that we pay to perform these make-up operations on us.  If an alien dropped on the Earth he would probably report that "Humans derive from monkeys but they try to hide it by polishing their hair and making their nails look more gentle."

The first five minutes

The first five minutes when I wake up, that's when I think my brain works 2x.  As if I had a double who shares my own experiences and yet can give me a different perspective on a problem.  BTW this only works when I wake up naturally, that's why I try to wake up before the alarm.  I actually think the alarm causes some sort of brain damage, it's responsible for the crime of interrupting dreams, it's the first bad news of the day -- the day itself heals the alarm's wound, and makes me forget about it.  I'm thinking that the sunlight can mend as much as the dark can hurt.