What I said:
I remember hearing/reading something about “Most people keep trying the same methods on the same problems over and over hoping for different results. What they don’t accept or realize is that to get different results, they have to use new methods.”
The quote someone shared:
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein
20% = 1 out of every 5 people. So if you’re not “highly sensitive,” then you know someone who is.
I mostly like this quote:
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.
To him… a touch is a blow,
a sound is a noise,
a misfortune is a tragedy,
a joy is an ecstasy,
a friend is a lover,
a lover is a god,
and failure is death.
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create – - – so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
-Pearl S. Buck
The only part I really don’t like is the “inhumanly” since obviously it isn’t inhuman – it’s a standard human variation. But I’ll put up with abnormal since 20% doesn’t make a majority. But abnormal meaning “outside of normal” not meaning strange/bad.
Also from the tech email list (following the previous one):
Ejoying the comments on this thread today. Hey, watch out for spam rage.
It may have cost one guy $250,000 and up to five years in prison last year.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,61339,00.html
“a Silicon Valley computer programmer has been arrested for threatening to torture and kill employees of the company he blames for bombarding his computer with Web ads promising to enlarge his …”
“Here’s what happened: I go to their website and start complaining to them, would you please, please, please stop bothering me,” he said. “It just sort of escalated … and I sort of lost my cool at that point.”
So occasionally on the boring tech support email list I’m on, somebody actually says something funny:
spammer’s are using our bandwidth to send their emails, violating the law, using hijacked computers, spreading viruses, etc. Most people, however, don’t consider the bandwidth usage, and don’t know spam is sent from hijacked computers and viruses. They just view spam as another (albeit particulary annoying) form of advertising. That’s why, IMO, “we allow people to use us like this.”
The average person isn’t pissed off enough about it. Yet. What keeps me hopeful as I wade through spam and listen to my users complain is that someday, some people are going to drive a dump truck full of spam (the original, smelly stuff) and dump it into some spammer’s yard, or convertible, or perhaps both. I imagine them opening their front door and having a meat mountain slide into their living room. Good times.
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And yes I’m geek enough to get this and think it’s funny. =P
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Jim Downing
“..and, as I said to my girlfriend today, there’s a marked difference between crack dealers and Barnes & Noble: at least a crack dealer has the decency to give you your first hit for free.” – My Big Bro (scaryblackdeath)
Sooo true! My reply:
Book stores are sooo dangerous to my poor little budget! The last time I went to one… I went in for 1 book…. and came out with 7. And that was restraining myself. Sigh…. That’s why I try to avoid them at all costs and just get my parents to give me their old books. I’m finally starting to get my library/office together though. I just need some more of those white IKEA cd shelves – they work great for paperbacks. 
JP just invented this one: Debt is like a Backwards Disneyland… 5 minute ride becomes 2+ hours in line….
USA Today reports that a different study from the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami Medical School concluded that when we touch someone else it lowers the stress hormone cortisol. That sets off a chain reaction in our bodies. The dip in cortisol creates a boost in serotonin and dopamine, two chemicals that make us feel really good.
Still, the best touch of all is from a lover. Touch from friends can be helpful, but it doesn’t have the same effect as a lover’s hug or kiss or consoling pat, according to psychologist Kathleen Light, co-author of the UNC study.
“I am not you, and what I need and want and what works for me is not the same as it is for you, so please just let me be me. You don’t have to understand, just accept.” – Me
“Oh, and if you can’t understand or accept? Then feel free to get lost because I have enough wonderful people in my life that I don’t need to put up with your crap.” – Also me 
Task of the day: Forgive myself for not being able to be the kind of owner that I felt Calista deserved. I need to remember that finding her a better home was an act of love. Sigh….