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Debido

If heat rises, then heaven might be hotter than hell.

About Me

"We are not realists. We are not idealists. We are intermediatists — that nothing is real, but that nothing is unreal: that all phenomena are approximations one way or the other between realness and unrealness." --Charles Fort

"We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." - Roy Amara (1925-2007)

My Interests

Skateboarding, Old VWs, Computers, Techmology, Mind States, Burning Man, Travel, Listen, Comedy and fellow Ethnographers.

I'd like to meet:

a space man.

Music:

is a bunch of sounds. The culture of music can be both negative and positive. Sonic Youth, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Yes, Supergrass, Tom Petty and the heart breakers, Trans Am, Ween, Mudhoney.

Movies:

Buckaroo Bansi, Altered States, Omega Man, Soylent Green, Donnie Darko, A Beautiful Mind, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Fahrenheit 451, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Time Bandits, Zardoz, The Meaning of Life, The Split. And when I have a cold like to watch cheesy movies on Sci-Fi channel. B-Movie fun.

Television:

Discovery, Comedy Central, Sci-Fi, Science Channel, BBC America, The Learning Channel, History Channel, Cartoon Network (Adult Swim) Spike. Yeah, I watch to much T.V. But I work out. So I'm not fat.

Books:

Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts (even though he did not write it), Thinner, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I should read more......

Heroes:

= :None. People I like: George Carlin, Dr. Carl Sagan, David Cross, Lewis Black, Bill Hicks, Attenborough, Jack Nicholson.

My Blog

Neuroscience of sarcasm

We know sarcasm when we hear it. Usually, anyway. Certain kinds of brain injury or dementia can cause us to completely miss when someone is being sarcastic. To understand why, neuropsychologists at th...
Posted by Debido on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PST

Woman comes back to life after rigor mortis sets in

A West Virgina woman's heart stopped three times and she was brain dead for 17 hours at a hospital. Rigor mortis had set in and the family was discussing donating her organs when she suddenly woke up....
Posted by Debido on Sun, 25 May 2008 08:06:00 PST

Research Into Procrastination Shows Surprising Findings

Science Daily  A University of Calgary professor in the Haskayne School of Business has recently published his magnum opus on the subject of procrastination -- and it's only taken him 10 years. --> O...
Posted by Debido on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:43:00 PST

Deja vu

"If this is true, it's Beta vs VHS all over again and HD-DVD may be the foregone winner of the format wars. First, Heise reports (summarized from the German by sgknox.com) that Digital Playground, who...
Posted by Debido on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:38:00 PST

Our grip on reality is slim, says UCL scientist

The neurological basis for poor witness statements and hallucinations has been found by scientists at UCL (University College London). In over a fifth of cases, people wrongly remembered whether they ...
Posted by Debido on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:43:00 PST

I always knew the "endtime" will be man-made.

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Posted by Debido on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:48:00 PST

Quiz.

Take a Quiz!!!! http://www.quizyourfriends.com/quizpage.php?quizname=0605111 75341-994554&  Warning: It's stupid....
Posted by Debido on Thu, 11 May 2006 02:56:00 PST

'Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions....

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Posted by Debido on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:43:00 PST

I wish Orlando had a Trader Joe's :-(

The best market, ever!  http://www.traderjoes.com/...
Posted by Debido on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:26:00 PST

Romantic love 'lasts just a year'

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Posted by Debido on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:37:00 PST