Damek.

Another week turns out to be not what I’d expected a week before. Solitude, thoughts and chores? No, the universe decides to throw me people, mysteries and activities. How about the upcoming weekend — last ski trip of the season? No, money and love leads me to choose a friend’s party which may or may [...]

Most people do. Some love it, though, get a kick out of it. Sometimes though it’s not even a real game, it’s just a comedy of errors between people who aren’t communicating well. Even people who may have communicated very well for a while can suddenly just lose the knack for it.
Via Slashdot:
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First, this old thing about commuting not paying off. I can agree with that. I so often dream of living & working within walking or cycling distance. But sometimes it’s necessary, and damn if we could get some vastly improved mass transit (streetcars would be nice) and finally get congestion pricing approved, daily commutes wouldn’t [...]

Wow.
[They] devised an experiment in which they asked a set of men attending UC Berkeley to answer a variety of questions on sexual preference. Then they paid them to repeat the experiment, only this time, the questions would pop up on the computer while they were masturbating to pornography… Not only did the answers to [...]

Some things to think about, much of it resonates with me, especially how “feeling alone can be a healthy emotion and, indeed, choosing to be alone for a period of solitude can be enriching. To experience loneliness, however, can be to feel overwhelmed by an unbearable feeling of separateness at a profound level.”
Common symptoms

Believing that [...]