I'll take a geek, thanks.

HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Posterous

There’s something interesting happening in the space between and a full blown blog. We’re seeing more and more of our social friends turn to sites like Posterous for 140 character plus musings, or simple and fast photo and video sharing....

Abso-freakin-lutely.

All the evidence I've seen shows that positive thinking and confidence improves performance. In anything.

Fun, no?
Of course, now I'm probably going to spend the rest of the day searching out YouTube videos of people testing out Voice Recognition Software - like Chris Garrett's video here - instead of buckling down to install my own brand-squeaky-new copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking!

The favorite liquid attraction--almost always available, even in the most modest colonial public pleasure garden--was alcohol. The earliest references to tavern gardens in the British American colonies revolve around enjoying alcohol. And occasionally, those intoxicating beverages helped lead to intimate encounters in commercial gardens.

"There's that word again..."

The Monkeysphere is the group of people who each of us, using our monkeyish brains, are able to conceptualize as people. If the monkey scientists are monkey right, it's physically impossible for this to be a number much larger than 150.

Most of us do not have room in our Monkeysphere for our friendly neighborhood sanitation worker. So, we don't think of him as a person. We think of him as The Thing That Makes The Trash Go Away.

And even if you happen to know and like your particular garbage man, at one point or another we all have limits to our sphere of monkey concern. It's the way our brains are built. We each have a certain circle of people who we think of as people, usually our own friends and family and neighbors, and then maybe some classmates or coworkers or church or suicide cult.

Those who exist outside that core group of a few dozen people are not people to us. They're sort of one-dimensional bit characters.

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"So? What difference does all this make?"

Oh, not much. It's just the one single reason society doesn't work.