# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1280 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1281 --- ## [I saved a life last night](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saved-a-life-last-night/586707)
**Author:** [@Whiteknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiteknight)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saved-a-life-last-night/586707 "2011-06-28T11:26:45Z")
I realize that this will probably come across as bragging, but I’m really not trying to and I just feel like I need to share this and, after all, this is MPSIMS. I started volunteering with my local volunteer fire/ems c… --- ## [Bugzilla for humans 1.11](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugzilla-for-humans-1-11/587119)
**Author:** [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2011, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bugzilla-for-humans-1-11/587119 "2011-06-28T08:06:35Z")
I ran across a graphic for various hotfixes as if a human were a standard software package. They’re a good start, but we need more. So submit your bugzilla hotfix. Here’s some of mine; Instances of yawning cause cascade… --- ## [ADHD child and stealing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adhd-child-and-stealing/584570)
**Author:** [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2011, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adhd-child-and-stealing/584570 "2011-06-28T07:53:26Z")
How do you cope? How do you get him to STOP? I’m moving more and more to my wits end and he’s only seven and a half. Mostly it’s been small things, and I dealt with them. He’s had to return items (other kids), pay for t… --- ## [Fighting lions for the economy- it's harder then it seems](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fighting-lions-for-the-economy-its-harder-then-it-seems/587087)
**Author:** [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fighting-lions-for-the-economy-its-harder-then-it-seems/587087 "2011-06-28T05:10:44Z")
And for today’s episode of You Can’t make This Stuff Up… meet Al Sayed al Essawy, wannabe gladiator! Some highlights from the article: What do you think? I see a wacky screwball comedy in the making. Either that, or… --- ## [Really... Horse semen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horse-semen/586914)
**Author:** [@Bannedit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bannedit)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-horse-semen/586914 "2011-06-28T04:58:26Z")
I just don’t understand some things… --- ## [Having anxiety without actually feeling anxious](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-anxiety-without-actually-feeling-anxious/587068)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-anxiety-without-actually-feeling-anxious/587068 "2011-06-28T04:56:05Z")
I am wondering if anyone has any conditions like this. I am working with my doctor to get my anxiety under control, so that isn’t a problem. But I seem to get the somatic symptoms of anxiety and panic (derealization, de… --- ## [Periodic Table of Atheists, no Joke](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/periodic-table-of-atheists-no-joke/587077)
**Author:** [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2011, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/periodic-table-of-atheists-no-joke/587077 "2011-06-28T04:46:10Z")
This is very cool, find your favorite non believer. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bay4lTZyHTE/TgYmEIFDbbI/AAAAAAAAAEM/uk50wWHaofw/s1600/tableofatheists150.jpg --- ## [I'll Never Be The Actor, The Doctor Or The Pilot.....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-never-be-the-actor-the-doctor-or-the-pilot/585770)
**Author:** [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-never-be-the-actor-the-doctor-or-the-pilot/585770 "2011-06-28T01:52:36Z")
… I wanted to be when I grew up, but I’m a happy boy anyway. I did do a little acting onstage, filmed a political interview, worked as a respiratory therpapist and helped folks get well, took a discovery ride and manage… --- ## [Job seekers: how's it going?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-seekers-hows-it-going/586330)
**Author:** [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2011, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-seekers-hows-it-going/586330 "2011-06-28T01:11:26Z")
For the unemployed, the under-employed and the wish-I-were-better-employed, how is the job search going? Anybody newly employed? --- ## [How are people so stupid?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-people-so-stupid/586280)
**Author:** [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-people-so-stupid/586280 "2011-06-28T00:51:09Z")
I sent out an e-mail with certain information in it. I get back a question, in response to that e-mail, with a question that is exactly answered in the e-mail I sent. :smack: Now I don’t even know how to write back. “Pl… --- ## [Detroit gets dumped on yet again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detroit-gets-dumped-on-yet-again/585821)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detroit-gets-dumped-on-yet-again/585821 "2011-06-28T00:42:50Z")
In reference to the Vancouver hockey riot, Rainn Wilson tweeted, “Vancouver is now the Detroit of Canada”. Very witty and very topical, Mr. Wilson. How long did it take you to come up with that line? And nice job refere… --- ## [We had to put our cat down today.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-had-to-put-our-cat-down-today/586847)
**Author:** [@Koldanar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koldanar)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-had-to-put-our-cat-down-today/586847 "2011-06-28T00:28:20Z")
Please see http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=553696 first; We had two scares with Sammie in the past; each time he pulled through. This time, we couldn’t do anything more for him. With a heart issu… --- ## [What time you got? (Update)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-you-got-update/586832)
**Author:** [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-you-got-update/586832 "2011-06-27T23:54:50Z")
Last summer we had some fun comparing clock times to get a feel for how spread out over the globe we are. Details can be see at At this moment what does your computer’s clock display? 08-27-2010, 05:58 AM Zeldar 0… --- ## [Most pointless thing I own](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-i-own/580309)
**Author:** [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pointless-thing-i-own/580309 "2011-06-27T23:17:15Z")
I bought my house in June 2009. To congratulate me, some friends and family gave me a $100 gift card to Home Depot for the stuff I never had a need for in an apartment - namely gardening supplies. Something very similar … --- ## [Using math in the real world](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-math-in-the-real-world/586421)
**Author:** [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-math-in-the-real-world/586421 "2011-06-27T22:53:56Z")
It seems to me that the most common reason students give for not taking “advanced” math classes (when they have a choice) is that they’ll never have to use it in the “real world.” I had to use a lot of math in my former … --- ## [Calorie burn and weight loss when cycling - this seems like cheating](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calorie-burn-and-weight-loss-when-cycling-this-seems-like-cheating/587062)
**Author:** [@silk1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silk1976)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calorie-burn-and-weight-loss-when-cycling-this-seems-like-cheating/587062 "2011-06-27T21:39:14Z")
Over the past several years, I’ve gotten back into distance running. At first it was just a way to get back into some sort of shape, but then in a desire to not be too one dimensional, I started doing triathlons - mostl… --- ## [What is this? Ghostly mirage of city in China](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-ghostly-mirage-of-city-in-china/586942)
**Author:** [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-ghostly-mirage-of-city-in-china/586942 "2011-06-27T19:12:25Z")
Thisseems really weird to me. Is this real or even possible? --- ## [What a way to start being 37](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-way-to-start-being-37/586810)
**Author:** [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-way-to-start-being-37/586810 "2011-06-27T19:06:20Z")
My birthday is June 24th. I had great plans for that day. After work I was going to go to Bonefish Grill then see a nice minor league ball game with the Lakewood Blueclaws that would end with fireworks and then maybe go … --- ## [I Love NY! NY passes SSM bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ny-ny-passes-ssm-bill/586794)
**Author:** [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ny-ny-passes-ssm-bill/586794 "2011-06-27T17:48:09Z")
Neither mundane or pointless. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/nyregion/gay-marriage-approved-by-new-york-senate.html?\_r=1&smid=fb-nytimes&WT.mc\_id=NY-SM-E-FB-SM-LIN-GMA-062411-NYT-NA&WT.mc\_ev=click Way to go New York… --- ## [An inspiring story about recovery from mental illness](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-inspiring-story-about-recovery-from-mental-illness/586734)
**Author:** [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-inspiring-story-about-recovery-from-mental-illness/586734 "2011-06-27T17:32:31Z")
Marsha Linehan is famous among mental health workers for creating DBT, the only treatment that really seems to help people with borderline personality disorder. I thought it was very interesting to read this article abou… --- ## [I'm beginning to feel like it's all BS.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-beginning-to-feel-like-its-all-bs/586790)
**Author:** [@humanafterall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/humanafterall)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-beginning-to-feel-like-its-all-bs/586790 "2011-06-27T16:27:46Z")
The SSM Bill in New York, the conflict in Libya, the war with Al Qaeda, Wikileaks, LulzSec, Senatorial scandals, Casey Anthony trial. Unemployment is through the roof. The world’s in wonderful shape. What do they have in… --- ## [Electric clocks may no longer keep accurate time](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electric-clocks-may-no-longer-keep-accurate-time/586941)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electric-clocks-may-no-longer-keep-accurate-time/586941 "2011-06-27T15:50:00Z")
It was in the newspaper today that the power companies are considering trying an experiment: loosening just how precisely the 60-cycles per second of alternating current are regulated, in order to make adaptations to the… --- ## [I quit my job!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-my-job/586851)
**Author:** [@Meggroll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meggroll)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-quit-my-job/586851 "2011-06-27T13:18:37Z")
I am so happy about this! I’ve had a goofy smile on my face since yesterday. I’ve worked at Target the past 8 years, with breaks for school/other jobs, and transferred to a new store about a year ago. The management was… --- ## [Weird car shit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-car-shit/586938)
**Author:** [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-car-shit/586938 "2011-06-27T12:30:48Z")
This almost made me pull over yesterday in confusion when it happened. I was driving along, listening to the radio (it was set to 88.7) and had both hands on the steering wheel (I had it on cruise control so I didn’t ha… --- ## [Census shows whites lose US majority among babies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/census-shows-whites-lose-us-majority-among-babies/587004)
**Author:** [@Chen019](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chen019)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/census-shows-whites-lose-us-majority-among-babies/587004 "2011-06-27T05:51:29Z")
On the cards for a while now. Heh @ this bit about education. Should have thought about that earlier. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2079429,00.html --- ## [The Sergeant Major of the Marine Corp's take on DADT repeal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sergeant-major-of-the-marine-corps-take-on-dadt-repeal/586882)
**Author:** [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sergeant-major-of-the-marine-corps-take-on-dadt-repeal/586882 "2011-06-27T05:18:27Z")
I’m sure you’re a very good Marine and soldier, Sergeant Major Michael Barrett. I now know you’re a decent man, as well. Way to go. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/06/21/straight-talk-from-top-enlisted-marine-on-do… --- ## [CPR class; a smackabout MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpr-class-a-smackabout-mmp/586129)
**Author:** [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Replies:** 216\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpr-class-a-smackabout-mmp/586129 "2011-06-27T03:28:14Z")
After six months being out of the game, the time has come for me to get back in to running rescue, whether my wife approves or not. We have settled in to the new digs in southern Merrylande, and it’s been at least a mont… --- ## [Caucasian wingnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caucasian-wingnut/586971)
**Author:** [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caucasian-wingnut/586971 "2011-06-27T01:34:10Z")
No, it’s not what you’re thinking. Now here’s a fabulous Caucasian wingnut. You’ll want one of your very own. --- ## [A Clock Designed to Run for 10,000 Years](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clock-designed-to-run-for-10-000-years/586950)
**Author:** [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clock-designed-to-run-for-10-000-years/586950 "2011-06-27T01:29:07Z")
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is funding a project to build a clock that will run (and keep accurate time) for ten thousand years. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/10000-year-clock/all/1 Why do I have this feeling th… --- ## [What are some REALLY obnoxious things people could do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-really-obnoxious-things-people-could-do/586561)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-really-obnoxious-things-people-could-do/586561 "2011-06-27T00:50:43Z")
Like… Using your car alarm as an alarm clock. See, it would work great: really loud, too annoying to sleep through, and you’d have to get up to turn it off. (Yes, a neighbor got a new car. It’s alarm is set to ‘pani… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1279) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1281)