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I would suggest a head with a spigot coming out of the forehead... except that Valve (a PC game maker) already uses a very similar image.

I like the idea of having alerts, but having seen the alerts, is there a way to delete or disassociate them from my account to reduce the clutter? Jon - not asking for you to do it. Just asking if there is a way to do it.

Though these stories might sometimes be hard to find, may I offer for anyone's reading enjoyment: Robert A Heinlein's short story, "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" Isaac Asimov's short story, "The Final Question" They are relevant to Jon's question regarding reality not being...

My memory is really strange. I remember all sorts of things that have shapes or technical factors, but if I see a face I haven't seen in a while, I go flat out blank. I can remember lectures from various professors (now pushing 50 years ago in some cases) but when my wife tells me to get...

Actually, NG and I might disagree on how USA folks feel about Brexit. The ones who voted for Donald Trump would surely think that dumping a bunch of socialist hangers-on is a great idea. I see the EU as being at a crossroads that will either kill it or lead to a great future. The thing that...

Neither. I refuse to have a phone that might actually be smarter than me. I sure don't want one pretentious enough to claim to be smart. I have an old flip phone (clam shell) that I use ONLY when on the road and ONLY for emergencies. Given that I am no longer on call 24x7 and that my wife...

Before I retired, my reading was entirely technical because I had to keep up with U.S. Navy certification requirements. I reached a limit when the government slapped yet another qualification on me. It was no longer enough to have a system admin certification in my specialty O/S. It was no...

Before I got married, I lived in a place with an outdoor gas-fired barbecue grill. So I would trim up a steak to remove the outer rim of fat, grill to medium-well. Then a small can of peas and a small packet of instant mashed potatoes. I'm definitely a simple soul when it comes to food.

Just don't feed them so much. They'll be fine.

"Sky High" is a bit of a fluff piece. I watched it because I had the temporary hots for Diana Panabaker at the time.

I started my writing project as the result of a bad reading experience. My mother was dying slowly of Alzheimer's Disease. (Of course you never die of that; it is always contributory.) Anyway, I stayed home a lot and read a lot of fantasy/sci-fi for enjoyment. Until I came to a story that...

As a more serious note, and this ties in to the AI thread: Let's consider MS Office as a productivity tool. In essence, the greatest power of these tools isn't to compose. Oh, composition is an important task. But correction of anything from minor errors to a complete change of direction...

I am reminded of that old adage. Anyone can screw things up. But to screw up things on a massive scale, you need a computer.

See Phillip K Dick's "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (in movie form, "Total Recall") My problem with that concept ties in to the thread on whether we control our own thoughts. It is our memories that provide the psychological forces that drive our decisions. If we have someone else's...

Other than a tendency to splatter my shirt when I drop my food 'cause the sticks slipped, I enjoy using them. But then again, I so rarely miss my mouth with WHATEVER implement is at hand that it hardly matters. One might argue that knives and forks work better when eating a huge platter of...

In a modern age where dietary supplements come in bottles (of pills), a vegetarian or vegan can survive without nutritional issues. However, in the absence of such supplements, vegetables don't provide EVERYTHING you need to live. Some meat proteins (and more important, certain types of fats)...

I'm thinking that "eating sticks" are pre-wheel AND pre-fork but that is based on logic and gut instinct. Fire is pre-wheel and so is cooking. So logic tells me that the first person to cook something probably burned the crap out of his/her hands, invented new swear words, and started using...

I am an amateur writer with five complete novels, one in work, and one hung up because it took a wrong turn and I don't know if I can salvage it. No publications yet (but some nice rejection letters.) I write in the fantasy/science fiction realm. I used to tell my U.S. Navy friends that I...

As a pragmatist, I work on the evidence available. I have found so many flaws in the Bible that I cannot accept it as anything other than the ancient equivalent to Aesop's Fables or Grimm's Faerie Tales - collections of stories to amuse, amaze, and educate kids regarding their culture. Stories...

When I take my morning exercise in the form of a neighborhood walk (approx. 3 miles round trip), I will sometimes meditate on my my next story that I want to write. As far as something like formal transcendental meditation, though? Nope. Never tried it.