tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134159962024-03-13T18:54:57.305-07:00Topics BlogWhat's on your mind?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13415996.post-25545797976781069082010-01-03T12:43:00.001-08:002010-01-03T12:43:45.916-08:00Wes Welker Injury Update<div>Did you watch the <strong>Patriots vs Texans</strong> game? A major upset for the New England Patriots made its way for them to lose grip in the game. Their receiver <strong>Wes Welker</strong> has suffered a <strong>knee injury</strong> during the first quarter. The <a href="http://toothing.blogspot.com/2010/01/wes-welker-injury-left-knee-drives.html" target="_blank">Wes Welker injury</a> caused the team to slowdown, while another team member Tom Brady also has a rib injury. In the third quarter, Patriots vs Texans are tied 13-13.</div> <div><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MpPIUItrMNI/S0EBemduRnI/AAAAAAAAAHY/7kbk_hpKvTI/s1600-h/wes%20welker%20knee%20injury%5B2%5D.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="wes welker knee injury" border="0" alt="wes welker knee injury" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MpPIUItrMNI/S0EBgCy9g9I/AAAAAAAAAHc/z8LII4yFA7c/wes%20welker%20knee%20injury_thumb.png?imgmax=800" width="244" height="238" /></a> </div> <a name='more'></a><!-- adsense --> <div>The <strong>New England Patriots</strong> spokesperson announced that the <a href="http://toothing.blogspot.com/2010/01/wes-welker-injury-left-knee-drives.html" target="_blank">Wes Welker injury</a> will render him unavailable for playing in their team indefinitely. We fans are just hopeful of the speedy recovery of Wes Welker from that unfortunate circumstance!</div> <div></div> <div></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13415996.post-1118818284990869172005-06-14T23:51:00.000-07:002005-06-14T23:51:24.993-07:00HistoryWorld War II or the Second World War was a global conflict that began on 7 July 1937, in Asia and 1 September 1939, in Europe and lasted until 1945, involving the majority of the world's countries and every inhabited continent. Virtually all countries that participated in World War I were involved in World War II. It was the most extensive and expensive apocalyptic armed conflict in the history of the World.<br />Attributed in varying degrees to the Treaty of Versailles, the Great Depression, nationalism, and militarism, the causes of the war are a matter of debate. On which date the war began is also debated, cited as either the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, the Japanese invasion of China on 7 July 1937 (the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War), or earlier yet the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Still others argue that the two world wars are one conflict separated only by a "ceasefire".<br />Fighting occurred across the Atlantic Ocean, in Western and Eastern Europe, in the Mediterranean Sea, Africa, the Middle East, in the Pacific and South East Asia, and it continued in China. In Europe, the war ended with the surrender of Germany on 8 May 1945 (V-E and Victory Days), but continued in Asia until Japan surrendered on 15 August 1945 (V-J Day).<br />Approximately 57 million people died as a result of the war, including acts of genocide such as the Holocaust, the Rape of Nanking, and General Ishii Shiro's Unit 731 experiments in Pingfan. As a case of total war, it involved the "home front" and bombing of civilians to a new degree. Atomic weapons, jet aircraft, and RADAR are only a few of many war-time inventions.<br />Post-war Europe was partitioned into Western and Soviet spheres of influence, the former undergoing economic reconstruction under the Marshall Plan and the latter becoming satellite states of the Soviet Union. Western Europe largely aligned as NATO, and Eastern Europe largely as the Warsaw pact, alliances which were fundamental to the ensuing Cold War. In Asia, the United States' military occupation of Japan led to its democratization, and China came to split into the Communist People's Republic of China and the Nationalist Republic of China.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13415996.post-1118818194959873112005-06-14T23:48:00.000-07:002005-06-14T23:49:54.960-07:00ParticipantsThe belligerents of the Second World War are usually considered to belong to either of the two blocs: the Axis and the Allies. A number of smaller countries participated in the war, more or less voluntarily, on the side of the power that in their neighbourhood was the most influential.<br />The Axis Powers consisted primarily of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which split the Earth into three spheres of influence under the Tripartite Pact of 1940, and vowed to defend one another against aggression. This replaced the German-Japanese Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936 that Italy had joined in 1937. Spain's fascist government lead by Francisco Franco was a great asset in trade to the Axis powers during the war. A number of smaller countries were counted among the Axis powers, but these countries did not have a profound impact on the war, nor did they supply the Axis powers with any great abundance of troops or supplies.<br />Until attacked by it in June 1941, the Soviet Union was effectively allied with Nazi Germany through the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, invading and occupying parts or the whole of Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania.<br />Among the Allied powers, the "Big Three" were the United Kingdom, from 3 September 1939, the Soviet Union, from June 1941, and the United States, from December 1941. China had been fighting Japan since 1937. The independent dominions and colonies of the British Empire, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Greece, and Denmark were also counted among the Allies, though many would ultimately be conquered and occupied by Axis forces.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13415996.post-1118817518952758042005-06-14T23:38:00.000-07:002005-06-14T23:38:38.953-07:00Home frontIn Britain and America women joined the work force in jobs that the men overseas used to occupy. Families also grew victory gardens, small home vegetable gardens, to supply themselves with food during the war. They did this because the food was limited and they had to use ration stamps to get food. Sugar and coffee were especially hard to get, and gasoline was also rationed, as was silk. Schools and organizations held scrap drives and money collections to help the war effort. Many things were conserved to turn into weapons later, such as fat left over from cooking. This was later used to make explosives such as nitroglycerin. Franklin D. Roosevelt stated that the efforts of civilians at home to support the war through personal sacrifice was as critical to winning the war as the efforts of the soldiers themselves, and that the civilian populace constituted an additional front at home.<br />In Germany, at least for the first part of the war, there were surprisingly few restrictions on civlian activities. Most goods were freely available.<br />Civilian populations were heavily involved in war production and subject to propaganda from their governments.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13415996.post-1118771988895454192005-06-14T10:59:00.000-07:002005-06-15T00:02:24.250-07:00Business financeDuring the classical period, economics had a close link with psychology. For example, Adam Smith wrote an important text describing psychological principles of individual behavior, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Jeremy Bentham wrote extensively on the psychological underpinnings of utility. Economists began to distance themselves from psychology during the development of neo-classical economics as they sought to reshape the discipline as a natural science, with explanations of economic behavior deduced from assumptions about the nature of economic agents. The concept of homo economicus was developed and the psychology of this entity was fundamentally rational. Nevertheless, psychological explanations continued to inform the analysis of many important figures in the development of neo-classical economics such as Francis Edgeworth, Vilfredo Pareto, Irving Fisher and John Maynard Keynes.Psychology had largely disappeared from economic discussions by the mid 20th century. A number of factors contributed to the resurgence of its use and the development of behavioral economics. Expected utility and discounted utility models began to gain wide acceptance which generated testable hypotheses about decision making under uncertainty and intertemporal consumption respectively, and a number of observed and repeatable anomalies challenged these hypotheses. Furthermore, during the 1960s cognitive psychology began to describe the brain as an information processing device (in contrast to behaviorist models). Psychologists in this field such as Ward Edwards, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman began to benchmark their cognitive models of decision making under risk and uncertainty against economic models of rational behavior.Perhaps the most important paper in the development of the behavioral finance and economics fields was written by Kahneman and Tversky in 1979. This paper, 'Prospect theory: Decision Making Under Risk', used cognitive psychological techniques to explain a number of documented anomalies in rational economic decision making. Further milestones in the development of the field include a well attended and diverse conference at the University of Chicago (see Hogarth & Reder, 1987) and a special 1997 edition of the respected Quarterly Journal of Economics ('In Memory of Amos Tversky') devoted to the topic of behavioral economics.<br />MethodologyAt the outset behavioral economics and finance theories were developed almost exclusively from experimental observations and survey responses, though in more recent times real world data has taken a more prominent position. fMRI has also been used to determine which areas of the brain are active during various steps of economic decision making. Experiments simulating market situations such as stock market trading and auctions are seen as particularly useful as they can be used to isolate the effect of a particular bias upon behavior; observed market behavior can typically be explained in a number of ways, carefully designed experiments can help narrow the range of plausible explanations. Experiments are designed to be incentive compatible, with binding transactions involving real money the norm.[edit]<br />Key observationsThere are three main themes in behavioral finance and economics (Shefrin, 2002):Heuristics: People often make decisions based on approximate rules of thumb, not strictly rational analyses. See also cognitive biases and bounded rationality. Framing: The way a problem or decision is presented to the decision maker will affect their action. Market inefficiencies: Attempts to explain observed market outcomes which are contrary to rational expectations and market efficiency. These include mispricings, non-rational decision making, and return anomalies. Richard Thaler, in particular, has written a long series of papers describing specific market anomalies from a behavioral perspective. Market wide anomalies can not generally be explained by individuals suffering from cognitive biases, as individual biases often do not have a large enough effect to change market prices and returns. In addition, individual biases could potentially cancel each other out. Cognitive biases have real anomalous effects only if there is a social contamination with a strong emotional content (collective greed or fear), leading to more widespread phenomena such as herding and groupthink. Behavioral finance and economics rests as much on social psychology as on individual psychology.There are two exceptions to this general statement. First, it might be the case that enough individuals exhibit biased (ie. different from rational expectations) behavior that such behavior is the norm and this behavior would, then, have market wide effects. Further, some behavioral models explicitly demonstrate that a small but significant anomalous group can have market-wide effects (eg. Fehr and Schmidt, 1999).[edit]<br />Behavioral finance topicsKey observations made the behavioral finance literature include the lack of symmetry between decisions to acquire or keep resources, called colloquially the "bird in the bush" paradox, and the strong loss aversion or regret attached to any decision where some emotionally valued resources (e.g. a home) might be totally lost. Loss aversion appears to manifest itself in investor behavior as an unwillingness to sell shares or other equity, if doing so would force the trader to realise a nominal loss (Genesove & Mayer, 2001). It may also help explain why housing market prices do not adjust downwards to market clearing levels during periods of low demand.Applying a version of prospect theory, Benartzi and Thaler (1995) claim to have solved the equity premium puzzle, something conventional finance models have been unable to do.<br />Behavioral finance modelsSome financial models used in money management and asset valuation use behavioral finance parameters, for exampleThaler's model of price reactions to information, with three phases, underreaction - adjustment - overreaction, creating a price trend The stock image coefficient.<br />Criticisms of behavioral financeCritics of behavioral finance, such as Eugene Fama, typically support the efficient market theory. They contend that behavioral finance is more a collection of anomalies than a true branch of finance and that these anomalies will eventually be priced out of the market or explained by appeal to market microstructure arguments. However, a distinction should be noted between individual biases and social biases; the former can be averaged out by the market, while the other can create feedback loops that drive the market further and further from the equilibrium of the "fair price".A specific example of this criticism is found in some attempted explanations of the equity premium puzzle. It is argued that the puzzle simply arises due to entry barriers (both practical and psychological) which have traditionally impeded entry by individuals into the stock market, and that returns between stocks and bonds should stabilize as electronic resources open up the stock market to a greater number of traders (See Freeman, 2004 for a review). In reply, others contend that most personal investment funds are managed through superannuation funds, so the effect of these putative barriers to entry would be minimal. In addition, professional investors and fund managers seem to hold more bonds than one would would expect given return differentials.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13415996.post-1118771903614416322005-06-14T10:56:00.000-07:002005-06-14T23:36:14.533-07:00EconomyThe massive research and development involved in the Manhattan Project in order to quickly achieve a working nuclear weapon design greatly impacted the scientific community, among other things creating a network of national laboratories in the United States. In addition, the pressing for numerous calculations for various things like code breaking and ballistics tables kick-started the development of electronic computer technology. While the war stimulated many technologies: radio development accelerated, and radar developed; it retarded others, most notably popular television which the BBC had been developing, but which was shelved, as it also was in Germany and the United States, until the end of the war.<br />The Jet aircraft age began during the war with the development of the Heinkel He 178, the first true turbojet, the Messerschmitt 262—the first jet in combat, and the Gloster Meteor, the first reliable and useful jet fighter. The Nazi terror weapon, the V-2 rocket, was the first step into the space age as its trajectory took it through the stratosphere, higher than any aircraft. It led directly to the development of the ICBM. Wernher Von Braun led the V2 development team and later immigrated to the United States where he developed the Saturn 5 rocket, which took men to the moon in 1969.<br />All military technology progressed at faster pace even than modern computers, and over six years there was a disorientating rate of change in combat in everything from aircraft to Small Arms. The best jet fighters at the end of the war could have effectively combatted twenty Spitfire Mark Is, the best early war fighters. The best late war tank, the JS-3, may well have defeated thirty of the best tanks of 1939, Panzer IVDs. The early war bombers that caused such carnage would almost all have been shot down in 1945, many with one shot, by radar aimed, proximity fuse detonated anti-aircraft fire, just as the 1941 "invincible fighter", the Zero, had by 1944 become the "turkey" of the "Turkey shoot". This future shock was capped by the atomic bomb.<br />The chaotic impotence of opposed amphibious landings typical of WWI disasters was overcome; the DUKW, a six-wheel-drive amphibious truck, and amphibious tanks were developed by the United States to support beach landing attacks, and the organization and coordination of amphibious assaults became a science; laying the foundations for the methodology of Project Management used to organize most modern, large-scale technological and engineering development.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13415996.post-5082815523959171672002-07-21T08:12:00.000-07:002009-12-02T08:15:25.233-08:00Socializing Without PrejudiceWhat is one musical instrument you cannot play now, but have always wanted to learn how to play? Are you willing as an adult, to take the time to learn it now?<br />
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Do you have a close circle of a few, very good friends, or do you have a large circle of friends who are always at arms length?<br />
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How social are you? Do you spend more time with other people than you do alone, or vice versa?<br />
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Saturday, July 20, 2002<br />
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Do you have one or two radio stations [or internet radio stations] that you listen to or do you tend to station-surf? Music or talk-radio?<br />
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Do you phone over the internet? Do you use netmeeting and a webcam to talk to people?<br />
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Friday, July 19, 2002<br />
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what is your source for learning about current events, etc. are you an internet-only reader, or internet + newspaper/magazine, or mostly offline? why?<br />
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Is anything important happening in your local news that the rest of the world may not be aware of, or may be only vaguely informed of?<br />
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posted by Erin (air-in) @ 10:54 AM<br />
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How do you feel about the recent child abductions and murders? (i.e. Samantha Runnion) Have you ever been close to such an incident? Has anything like that ever happened near where you live?<br />
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What did you dream about last night? Do you feel that your dreams are connected to any recent hopes, fears, worries, etc.? How so?<br />
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posted by Erin (air-in) @ 10:44 AM<br />
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Have you ever won anything? What did you win?<br />
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Are you an "emotional" person? Why or why not. If you're not regularly affected by things, what is one thing that has occurred in your life that made you change your perspective on life, et al?<br />
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Is there anything unusual in your daily routine?<br />
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Who are five celebrities that if you had the chance to hook up, mess around, or just have a fling with, who would they be, and why?<br />
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What college do/did you go to? Why did you choose that school?<br />
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Thursday, July 18, 2002<br />
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How do you deal with people that annoy you? Do you have a fail safe tactic?<br />
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Describe your greatest fear.<br />
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posted by Gordon @ 4:34 PM<br />
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do you stress out easily? what are some methods that you use to "chill out"?<br />
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what's *your* theory - evolution, creationism, or some combination of the two? why or why not do you believe in them? have you ever gone to an institution like a catholic school which teaches you one thing while preaching you another one?<br />
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what is your "style" in life?<br />
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What are five things that you want right now?<br />
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List 5 of the craziest things you have done while NOT under any influences such as drugs or alcohol.<br />
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You have one wish for the world. What would it be?<br />
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Are you a design label junkie? Or are labels just the thing that tells you what temperature you should wash your clothes at?<br />
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What gives you the conviction you need to get out of bed in the mornings?<br />
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Tuesday, July 16, 2002<br />
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posted by Erin (air-in) @ 11:06 PM<br />
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What's the worst summer job (or any job for that matter) that you've ever had? Why was it so bad? Was it the pay or the work or both?<br />
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posted by Melanie * @ 11:41 AMUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13415996.post-92054784369241034422002-05-31T07:55:00.000-07:002009-12-02T08:00:43.844-08:00Reality Shows and EmotionsWhat do you thinks of reality tv shows?<br />
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Thursday, May 30, 2002<br />
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If you've already graduated high school, how did it feel and what emotions did you go through? If you're graduating high school this year, how do you feel about it? If you still have a few years to go, how do you think it will feel? Do you think you'll be happy, sad or both?<br />
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Tuesday, May 28, 2002<br />
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if you could go back to high school, or college, or elementary school, name one event that you would have changed completely.<br />
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Monday, May 27, 2002<br />
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When looking for a mate, how important is personal hygiene to you? For example if the possible "mate" didn't shave could you still date them? Where would you draw the line?<br />
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What gives you a sense of satisfaction?<br />
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Sunday, May 26, 2002<br />
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Which is your favourite season? Why?<br />
posted by Susanna Potari @ 2:51 AM<br />
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Do you find it hard to get rid of seemingly useless junk? Why?<br />
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How do you cope with stress?<br />
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Thursday, May 23, 2002<br />
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are you good at ending relationships (friendships, romances, etc)? do you tend to let them go on when you should've ended them a long time ago, or can you say goodbye and never look back?<br />
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How open-minded are you? Once you've formed an opinion on a matter, are you still open to hearing the arguments of the opposing viewpoint and taking them into consideration? Are there certain topics for which your opinion is cemented? Why? Do you feel that opposing viewpoints are a threat, or do you feel like questioning your opinions and viewpoints constantly is necessary to make sure that what you believe is the "right" thing?<br />
posted by Erin (air-in) @ 9:51 AM<br />
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Have you seen all of the Star Wars movies? (If not, why not? Are you purposely avoiding them for a reason, or have you just not made an effort to see them?) What do you think of them?<br />
posted by Erin (air-in) @ 9:48 AM<br />
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What mistakes have you made in your life that you'd like to protect other people from making?<br />
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What do you think of couples who met on the internet? Do you feel it is becoming more socially acceptable as internet access becomes standard in homes?<br />
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Regarding this usnews.com article: Do you think that schools should teach abstinence only or provide medically accurate sex education with information about contraceptives? Why? What were you taught as a child/teenager? How did this influence your choices?<br />
posted by Erin (air-in) @ 9:44 AM<br />
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What are five books you'd recommend to your readers, and why? What books would you suggest they avoid?<br />
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How productive are you? Do you get a lot done on a regular basis, or do you waste a lot of time doing nothing?<br />
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Not to be funny, why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways? Do you know of any other humorous thought-provoking questions that can be considered as legitimate questions?<br />
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would you ever consider being a teacher? why or why not?<br />
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Sunday, March 24, 2002<br />
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Saturday, March 23, 2002<br />
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what are your thoughts on long distance relationships? are you in one, or have you sworn them off? do you think people can legitimately follow through with them for a while?<br />
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what conversational bad habits do you have? i.e., do you spit, mumble, talk to fast, talk to much, not talk at all, forget to ask how people are doing?<br />
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posted by tom biro @ 10:30 AM<br />
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How well do your parents get along? Are they still married? Do you ever wish that they were or that they weren't?<br />
posted by Erin (air-in) @ 10:22 AM<br />
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Thursday, March 21, 2002<br />
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what ethnicity are you? what characteristics, whether linguistic, physical, cultural, or otherwise do you like? don't like? what are some ethnic backgrounds that you enjoy hearing or learning about?<br />
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What's your favourite way to release stress?<br />
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Wednesday, March 20, 2002<br />
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what magazines and newspapers do you read and why? do you ever "change" publications, or stick to your "old standby"?<br />
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What would you prefer - living on your own, with family, with friends, with pets....<br />
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If you could live anywhere in the world, no consequences, where would you go? Who would you like to take with you?<br />
posted by Beth @ 1:02 AM<br />
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What are your thoughts on women changing surnames when getting married? Do you believe that more men should do this? Would you change your surname / expect your partner to change his/hers? [Directed at both men and women]<br />
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Tuesday, March 19, 2002<br />
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businesspeople like to do a "swot" analysis during decision making time. do one on yourself. "s" = strengths, "w" = weaknesses, "o" = opportunities, "t" = threats. be honest. does this help you out at all, or give you a new perspective on yourself?<br />
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what was the one event in your past that made you feel the most alive?<br />
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who is the greatest influence in your life?<br />
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Thursday, October 25, 2001<br />
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What is your first feeling/instinct or response when somebody says "I love you" to you? Why ? "It depends on who is saying it to me" is not an acceptable answer.<br />
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What is the most hurtful thing that anyone has ever done or said to you?<br />
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posted by Erin (air-in) @ 11:58 AM<br />
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If you could go back to any personal event in your life and stop it from ever having happened, what event would that be and why? What is its significance to the grand scheme of things or it's impact on who you are and have become? What do you hope to accomplish by undoing it?<br />
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SONG LYRICS YOU MOST RELATE TO?<br />
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Wednesday, October 24, 2001<br />
Should the government be allowed to grant itself powers to snoop on its citizens for a good reason, just because we're in a war? Should it have to rescind these powers as soon as the conflict is over?<br />
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Should the families of people who are terminally ill, but not capable of committing suicide without help, be able to help them commit suicide? Should this be a legal right, reflected by guidelines, or just a case of non-prosecution of people in this situation - turning a blind eye?<br />
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Write about a sick demented thought you have that you would never share with anyone who know you personally.<br />
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If you were a superhero, what would your superpower be? What would your superhero name be? Why?<br />
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Tuesday, October 23, 2001<br />
How much does your life[style] mean to you? Could you pack a single suitcase, get on a plane, bus, or train, and move to a new city in the middle of the night if you could afford to do so, if you had somewhere to go? Could you leave without good-byes, without a forwarding address? Do you own too many things of value (sentimental or monetary) and meaning to pack into a suitcase?<br />
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Are there people you know that you wish you know better? What do you wonder about them? What things do you think about them that you never tell them, never will? Do you wish you could?<br />
posted by Erin (air-in) @ 8:40 PM<br />
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Do you feel like your sexual self is separate from the rest of you, or that it blends in with the rest? Would people be shocked or amazed to hear about the things you do or think? Do you feel like, in certain situations or with certain people, you are sexless and without gender?<br />
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how are you different from the person you portray in your blogs to the person you are in real life? which one is the real you?<br />
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Monday, October 22, 2001<br />
Is your happiness dependent on the people in your life and your surroundings, or are you self-contained? What are the pros and cons of this?<br />
posted by Erin (air-in) @ 11:33 PM<br />
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What's the best gift you've ever given another person? (Why?) What's the best gift you've ever gotten?<br />
posted by Erin (air-in) @ 10:40 PM<br />
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take the closest person to your life and analyze the hell out of them. are they a good or bad influence on you? why are they in your life? do you like them?<br />
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pick an issue. perhaps political, or social, global or specific. think about it. research it. decide where you stand. www.speakout.com and www.hrw.org are good places to look for ideas and information.<br />
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You have a cassette tape (approximately 30 minutes on each side) to record the soundtrack of your life... what is the track listing?<br />
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In ten years, what do you want your life to be like? What do you hope to have done by then and what do you hope to be doing? Do you focus on where you want to live and what kind of job you want to have, or do you get wrapped up in the details of how you want your future apartment to be decorated?<br />
posted by Erin (air-in) @ 5:36 PM<br />
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If you and your best friend left on a two day road trip tomorrow afternoon, what would you bring with you? Where would you go? Where would you stop along the way?<br />
posted by Erin (air-in) @ 5:13 PM<br />
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Pretend you are going on the Real World with six other people, living in a large metropolitan city of your choice, your life televised. You have to pick your six housemates and they all have to be people with websites. Which six people would you pick and where is their site located?<br />
posted by Erin (air-in) @ 4:53 PM<br />
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Here we will post topics, and you, dear friend, can actually start blogging about things that are more exciting than watching the grass grow.<br />
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