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I feel comfy the way I am but it would be cool to try be a girl temporarily if such opportunity arose.

You mean to switch physically? That would indeed be interesting...

zenzizenzizenzic - ( )

A number raised to the eighth power

@Rusty: Do you have any idea why that is? or is it just the way your body recycles energy?

No clue... Cherry Coke mellows me, Mello Yello wakes me up, and 5-hour energy does nothing.

Hoping that my nose doesn't start dripping blood, and then probly heading out to go get a Cherry Coke.

I'm about to go out and get a Cherry Coke.

I currently have a perpetual bloody nose. Most likely a combination of allergies and very dry air.

This article from BetaNews kinda got me to thinking that it might be interesting to see if we ourselves can see how we fit into the different internet demographics sections.

BetaNews Article: The misunderstood 'digital native' has a two-minute attention span

There have been quite a few studies aimed at figuring out what makes the so-called "digital native" (i.e. children of the 90's who have had Web access and mobile technology their entire lives) tick.

 

Most of them arrive at some disparaging conclusion or other: "Digital natives are slow to pick up nonverbal cues," "Digital natives need help understanding search," and my personal favorite, "Beware the Digital Native!" (in which Enrique Salem, president and CEO of Symantec, says digital natives don't think about identity and security "the way we do.")

 

Magazine publisher Time Inc. wanted to find out about the cross-platform media consumption habits of digital natives, and see how they compare to the habits of "digital immigrants" (i.e. consumers who were introduced to mobile technology as adults.)

 

To do this, Time hired Boston's Innerscope Research to hook up 30 individuals with biometric monitoring, and point-of-view camera glasses to collect observational data for 300 hours.

 

What did they learn?

 

The "digital natives" switched their attention between various media platforms (such as television, magazines, tablets, smartphones, or channels within platforms) 27 times per hour. Just about once every other minute.

 

And because there is so much time spent switching, the user's emotional engagement is low. The biometric gear captured fewer emotional highs and lows as a result of their media consumption, and subequently the act of switching was used to regulate mood.

 

While this is itself useful data, it's not entirely startling. Kids' brains can handle tons of different streams of information. The startling part of the study was the fact that digital natives are not disrupted by a non-linear narrative.

 

Digital Immigrants wanted to see a beginning, middle, and end to stories in that order, but natives accepted beginning, middle, and end in any order, almost like packet-based storytelling.

 

It wasn't the biggest sample possible, but it is an interesting look at a demographic that grown-ups just don't seem to understand.

So how about you? Are you a beginning-middle-end person, or can you take in a non-linear story?

lol

That's ok.

The same way they expect to enforce digital copyrights, and get SOPA/PIPA/ACTA/CISPA passed... Get idiots to thinking that the law is right regardless of how totally moronic it is.

Red Alert 3 OST.

I've downed 3 six-packs of 5-hour energy... Didn't even wake me up. Did nothing.

Only way to stay awake during class...

Everyone changing genders... Don't worry, I'm a constant.

I would honestly mail you chocolate chip cookies if you gave me your address.

 

Or just give me the address of a local bakery and I'll see if they'll let me pay for a cookie for you.

You're aware he has his latitude and longitude in his profile? He lives in an apartment, if I'm correct.

 

EDIT:

 

I'm not there anymore... I'm at college, and my parents (that do live there) are moving right now.

YUP.mkv

And now this is getting turned into the pony thread too...

Last one I saw was Shadow of the Vampire. I give it a 4/10. Funny for the beginning, terrible ending.

Have you ever presented someone with an extremely simple + fast + easy solution to a problem, and they go and overcomplicate it to where it's almost unrecognizable? (besides the US government)

FTL

20oz Mello Yello.

Sunny and depressing. (I love rain)

Yup, it's true. Still on the books.

Rule 331: G.I.R.L. = Guy In Real Life.

Actually Brink was using the id Tech 5 engine before Rage. Brink has never given me any issues, runs like melted butter, and looks better than UT3 engine IMO.