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Re:'git commit' your favorite coffee place to work in on Thursday November 28, 2013 @12:25PM (#6815464)
And thus the term "forkbait" was born.
Once again showing the eerie prescience of The Parking Lot is Full? http://www.belligerati.net/archives/chicken.gif

(Original link to 1996 comic on the PLIF archive is broken, regrettably)

Re:What was the matter with PDF? on Thursday January 03, 2013 @11:30AM (#5003075)
> I mean, who gives a shit about some nerds when you’re moving bazillions of copies of books that help teens or moms explore new facets of their sexuality?

Can we have this conversation without resorting to highly gendered stereotypes for trivial-media-that-I'm-not-interested-in examples?

Re:The "Work" Trap on Monday August 20, 2012 @11:21AM (#4407994)
Perhaps another way to think about this is the distinction between the act of working and the objective one's trying to accomplish. I think it can be very easy for some people (myself, ahem) to conflate these two, and ultimately to come to view the act of working as the essential good. Seems like this has been coming up a lot recently ('The Busy Trap', etc.).
Re:MS-DOS is 30 years old today on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @11:53AM (#2812648)
ahem.

LOADHIGH=c:\mouse\mouse.sys

Re:WakeMate 2.0 - For Real, This Time. on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @08:55AM (#2709280)
As I understand it, grogginess is associated with waking from deep sleep (no movement), not REM sleep.
Re:WakeMate 2.0 - For Real, This Time. on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @08:49AM (#2709260)
I was somewhat skeptical after reading some of the reviews, but after using the app for a couple of days I was satisfied that they're not faking data. I tend to wake up easily and have been able to match occasions when I wake up to the graphs.

I've been using the app for a couple of months and I feel that I am groggy less often when I wake up (though this could be expectation bias). It seems to work much better when I am sleeping alone I or my partner are traveling, though maybe this just means I need to buy a bigger bed.