THE TEMPTING PLACES

MSN Personal News seems to think that I am a sports fan. It is inconceivable to them that anyone wouldn't be. And I will concede that seeing someone doing something with skill that came from years of practice, dedication, verve, talent, and surplus energy channeled into non-destructive behaviour, can in its own way be quite fascinating. That said, I think I should prefer to watch an organ transplant and read the patient's medical casefile instead.
Why isn't that a thing?

Isn't there something that involves small nerdy brainiacs doing something not quite so extroverted that they could offer to bring to my attention instead? Clever tool use?


And no, I am not interested in adding gelatine to some mystery ingredient to lose several sizes, or any of the fabulous articles telling me about some substance consumed daily by seniors which inevitably leads to dementia. The substance shall remain a mystery, as I will not click any of those links, and the dementia item articles require the reader to be well on their way to fooldom to scope out the fabulous findings which an ever-changing array of snake-oil sites wish one to read and believe, and probably purchase a miracle purge that overturns or counters the effects. Consuming televised sports on a daily basis turns people into brain-dead fools. Don't bother looking for other excuses.

Again: small brainy extroverts. Something brilliant.

Imagine. At the end of a darkening street in the city bright lights beckon one in. A hospitable place where research scientists and graduate students of many genders congregate while remaining seperate -- group solitude -- to do various things by themselves that involve slide rules and beakers, sometimes looking at each other's equipment, and making admiring statements about "interesting reading, that", and "must be the sample size".

Do not interpret that in nasty ways! I know you people!
It's all about inflated balls and glutei maxima!
The crap that goes on in your brains.
I'm disappointed in you.



To prove that you are human, please click on every square that shows somewhere you might hide during an uprising by the machines.



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