Posts Tagged ‘Feedback’

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Two Left Feet

by Seraphine Khorana on September 25th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Two Left Feet

I must have done something really awful in a past life. The great karmic hand in the sky reached down and smote me again. Luckily, I didn’t break anything. I sprained my thumb and elbow. I got a few abrasions and contusions (medical talk for scrapes and bruises).

Hang a faceted crystal in the center of the bathroom; place a three-inch round mirror on the ceiling directly above the toilet to visually reverse the downward flow of water; place earth-type objects in the corners of the room to stabilize the energy.
Quotation from Stephanie Roberts, The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Feng Shui
(Feng shui toilet tips)

Women have this higher alternative value of how to spend their time.
Quotation from Grace Tsiang, as quoted in Women Desert Wall Street (Reuters)
I love this quote.

No results found for “Hiking shoes for two left feet”.
Quotation from Google search

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Top of the Food Chain

by Seraphine Khorana on March 24th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Top of the Food Chain

If you think fats and oils are at the top of the food chain, you deserve at least partial credit for a correct answer. But bacteria breaks down oil in this rock-paper-scissors game we call Life.

For the first half of geological time, our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
Quotation from Richard Dawkins

Salad bars are like a restaurant’s lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
Quotation from Doug Coupland

If you don’t change, then what’s the point of anything happening to you?
Another quotation from Doug Coupland

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Name Brand Placebo

by Seraphine Khorana on February 10th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Name Brand Placebo

Placebos are scientifically shown to be effective 40% of the time against pain and depression. However, I haven’t found any studies that specifically compare the beneficial effects of a “name brand” Placebo versus a generic sugar pill. I suspect that this is one case where the name brand drug would be more effective than the generic version, despite both having the same “active ingredient.” Yes, I will accept a research grant to prove the point.

Reportedly, patients have even become “addicted” to placebos: According to an Internet paper by Ben Z. Krentzman, M.D., one patient ingested 10,000 placebo units in one year; another had a compulsive desire to take placebo tablets, tended to increase the “dose,” couldn’t stop taking the “medicine” without psychiatric help, and suffered “abstinence syndrome” when deprived of it—classic characteristics of drug addiction.
Quotation from Kenneth E. Legins, Is Prescribing Placebos Ethical?, American Council on Science and Health

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You Have A Good One

by Seraphine Khorana on January 11th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
You Have A Good One

“You have a good one” is akin to saying “Have a Nice Day.”
Isn’t it ironic that “A Good One” is also a congratulatory phrase used when someone tells a “Good Joke?”

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
Quotation from Michel Eyquem, Of Cripples

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Crap is Art

by Seraphine Khorana on December 22nd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Crap is Art

“When you wet the bed, first it gets warm then it gets cold.” So says James Joyce. And this is true for everything: a man’s life, a mother’s love, worldly passion, weather, fashion, technology, war, a bird in the nest, a beating heart, milk on the floor, ball bearings, anger, the sun, a barking dog, ice cream, the sound of a hand moving through water, words, sulpher, the color blue.

You never know who will have the answers… but you must push to find the questions that need to be asked.
Quotation from Jason Manley

Hence art is indefinable. (Weitz, 1956)
Quotation from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Economists are calling it an Adverse Feedback Loop

by Seraphine Khorana on February 25th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Economists are calling it an Adverse Feedback Loop

There is no substitute for a healthy diet and regular exercise. There are no shortcuts. Pills don’t work. Fad diets don’t work. Even having your stomach stapled doesn’t work if you don’t take care of yourself. It’s like that with the economy too.

P.S. I have the flu.

Twin Crises Feed the Spiral (The Wall Street Journal)

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