Too long for Twitter

You know you read too many manlove romances when, while watching "The Human Spark: So Human, So Chimp", you automatically assume both Brian Hare and Danny Povinelli are gay and start imagining what might happen when they meet at conferences.

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I really need to change up my reading habits for a while. Perhaps some hard sf and non-fiction, since the questions of what makes us different and are we alone (and what if we are!) have been constantly on my mind for months now.

But that PBS series is fantastic, well worth watching (as most on PBS are, of course).

Also, This:

If the films in this list were arranged in order of ascending awesomeness rather than chronologically, Primer would still occupy the final slot. Made on a budget of $7,000 (seven! thousand!), Primer is one of the few movies I have ever watched twice in a row—and certainly the only movie I’ve ever watched at 8 a.m. after having watched it twice in a row on the evening prior. It’s like a deep-tissue massage for your brain—afterwards you may hurt like hell, but you’ll also feel strangely invigorated.

—Mindfuck Movies by Matthew Baldwin

I finally saw Primer a few months ago, and yes, I watched it thrice. Plus jumped around a bit watching sections, to see if I'd figured it all out completely and where I tripped up, a fourth time. If you haven't seen it yet, go, now, get your hands on a copy. And be prepared to spend the rest of the weekend watching it again and again. The rest of the movies on Baldwin's list are favourites, too. About the only one missing that immediately comes to mind is The Fountain. But of course that may be because I believe (Hugh Jackman + Darren Aronofsky) x Clint Mansell score = WIN!

I know it's disgusting, but I have to share

After a couple of months of dealing with cold/flu/infection, it now seems that when I blow my nose, it also comes out my eye. Yeah, I know, I had to google it to make sure I wasn't hallucinating.

So it's been happening for a couple of weeks, about as long as my right ear has been plugged, but I still keep forgetting. I'll be goofing along, moving trees around on my FarmVille farm, when I'll absently do the pressure-relieving trick you do when flying, holding your nose & blowing, to relieve the pressure on my ear, and SPURT!, snot bubbles out my eye. Very disconcerting.