Robot From The Future! » the bay http://robotfromthefuture.com Crochet » Epic Nerdery » Medieval Warfare Sun, 20 May 2012 23:15:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Copyright © Robot From The Future! 2010 stella@robotfromthefuture.com (Robot From The Future!) stella@robotfromthefuture.com (Robot From The Future!) 1440 http://www.robotfromthefuture.com/visuals/quinfeed.jpg Robot From The Future! http://robotfromthefuture.com 144 144 Science Fiction » Epic Nerdery » Medieval Warfare Robot From The Future! Robot From The Future! stella@robotfromthefuture.com no no Why I Sometimes Hate the Bay Area http://robotfromthefuture.com/2010/02/why-i-sometimes-hate-the-bay-area/ http://robotfromthefuture.com/2010/02/why-i-sometimes-hate-the-bay-area/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:24:44 +0000 Stella http://robotfromthefuture.com/?p=6563 From: My Friend
To: [Undisclosed Recipients]
Sent: Fri, February 26, 2010 1:54:42 pm
Subject: Fwd: “Happy” or “Positive” People Observed to Have Fewer Heart Attacks, Data Show; Positive Emotions May Help Protect Against Heart Disease

Happy Friday Family and Friends,
Science says smile! I’m sure a lot of you already new this , but I wanted to share this with you all.

http://cumc.columbia.edu/news/press_releases/PositiveHeart.html – “Happy” or “Positive” People Observed to Have Fewer Heart Attacks, Data Show. Positive Emotions May Help Protect Against Heart Disease

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From: “My Friend’s Pessimistic, Religiously Anti-American Leftist Self-Loathing Friend Who Is The Walking Stereotype That Keeps Fox News In Business”
Date: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Subject: Re: Fwd: “Happy” or “Positive” People Observed to Have Fewer Heart Attacks, Data Show; Positive Emotions May Help Protect Against Heart Disease
To: [All of us, including the people that she doesn't know]

For an alternative and compelling point of view: read Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Bright Sided.” She talks about how warped the (deeply American) culture of positive thinking can be.

Here’s a link: http://www.amazon.com/Bright-sided-Relentless-Promotion-Positive-Undermined/dp/0805087494/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267201609&sr=8-1

Here’s an excerpt: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113758696

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Can’t Somebody Just Say Happy Friday Around Here?!?!?!

]]> http://robotfromthefuture.com/2010/02/why-i-sometimes-hate-the-bay-area/feed/ 0 Only in the Bay Area . . . http://robotfromthefuture.com/2008/12/only-in-the-bay-area/ http://robotfromthefuture.com/2008/12/only-in-the-bay-area/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:54:00 +0000 Stella http://www.olrun.net/edda/?p=2204 Thank goodness for random drive-by humor. In this case it’s literal. I was pulling into work and an ad came on the radio:

DAD: Son, your mother and I are very concerned about you.
SON: Yeah, I know but–
DAD: You see, we were in your room and we saw what you have growing in your closet.
SON: Dad, I can explain!
DAD: Those wilting leaves! The inadequate light! What were you thinking?

Holy crap. It was an ad for a hydroponics company. It was absolutely surreal. It was a funny commercial, granted, but I don’t know how they actually got away with that. They didn’t say “marijuana” on the air, but come on. Everybody knows that the most innovative developments in hydroponics and soil science have been instituted by brilliantly creative potheads. That’s really the shame of the feds destroying their crops when they find them. What they really ought to do is give agricultural scientists a couple of months with ganja farmers and oh, the things we could learn. We could feed the world. That is, if they all didn’t get too high to remember why they were there in the first place.

It was an incredibly stupid commercial, but it still made me laugh. It was another one of those moments where I just shook my head and thought, “only in The Bay . . . only in The Bay.”

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