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” A bunch of local kids have been riding dirt bikes and ATVs all over the property and fucking up the trails and roads. So I’m going to go up in August and scare them off. I’m gonna have fun with this.”
Just bring SDFL along.
Donatella, Rob graduated from MIT. dont believe his BS about the other school. Rob’s 2 degrees are in applied mathematics and behaviorial science
Lech, I have to tell you that the real man-0-meter,
chest-thump-a-thon thing is really OLD.
The YOY rate of change is enough information in and of itself.
If someone doesn’t understand that prices are rising vs. a year ago after a long period of falling, they have no cognitive ability to make a judgement.
This is what the markets anticipate and typically prove to be the case.
It has no forward predictive power but it is A TREND. Markets like trends.
I don’t think a compass was on my real man list. I own a Garmin. It’s a piece of shit and never gets signal so I mostly navigate on my own. It was a gift from my in-laws and I’m pretty sure they bought it out of the busted up merchandise bin somewhere.
A real man should be able to navigate into and out of a modestly sized area where there are no signs of human activity. Say, walk 1/2 mile into the woods and then get himself back out, for example. Wearing shoes he’s not afraid of scuffing of course.
My father emailed me this morning to tell me he’s having a problem on some land he owns in Massachusetts. A bunch of local kids have been riding dirt bikes and ATVs all over the property and fucking up the trails and roads. So I’m going to go up in August and scare them off. I’m gonna have fun with this.
wow that is awesome, i would love to read her paper. perhaps ones day be in a control group for one of her experiments?! people with my condition cant understand GPS things either.. i mean yeah it makes it somewhat simpler, but it’s a lot more complicated than that really.
*rob*
It’s a man, Rob. I will tell him (he teaches at your alma mater BTW).
M4L, I don’t think that the supermarket or gas range works, but the calculator analogy does. Also, the clock thing isn’t really analagous.
It is about creating cognitive maps which are more flexible, i.e. what if key roads are flooded or a major accident blocks a way or if there is a horrific traffic jam. If you have some sense of where you are and a broad mental map, you can work your way out of any place. I once was with one of those “call ahead corporate cab” guys who decided to use his GPS to get around something. I was exhausted and not paying attention and when I realized how he got where we were going with his GPS, we were almost circling – he had absolutely no concept of what he was doing. Or cab drivers who cannot visualize the shape of Manhattan.
Whoa! The convo is now buttsex? I’m out!
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roses = generou$$ = $$$$
UM EW! i thought a rose was an overstretched and abused protruding anus. why would someone pay extra money for that!? blech. there is no bigger a turn off than watching porn and seeing one of those pop up, or out.
*rob*