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Oh, yeah, I like that one. I'll have to try it. I also occasionally just blurt out in an empty room, "I know you're listening". AS an aside, the only well proven psychic phenomena is The Mechanic Effect. ( when you take a vehicle in to be serviced and complain it makes a noise, and it refuses to with the mechanic watching, Then starts again 5 blocks away ) My belief that "sure there is magic/psychic, but it doesn't work" annoys both sides on the subject, so I think it's the most likely answer based on Murphy's Law. ( The Perversity of The Universe Tends towards a Maximum ) I offer as anecdotal proof,  The Razer keyboard I bought this last year. The controls for the lighting are software. The default setting is "Breathe" where the backlight cycles from full to off. I could not get the software to function, on 2 machines running Microsoft XP and 10. Would. Not. Work. ( read that in Full Shatner Mode ) And, the "breathe" setting blinds you in a dark room than goes dark so you cannot use the backlight at all... and it's a trendy black keyboard with dim grey letters, when not illuminated. So I gave it to a buddy. Works great for him, as I predicted. Full Shatner & Cassandra on the same subject. It's gotta be me, but you explain it. (Message edited by aesquire on April 12, 2019) | ||
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 I don't have any AI assistants. For....reasons.  | ||
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That's the best one this decade, Tom. | ||
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CAN'T. STOP. LAUGHING. THE DOGS. | ||
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But were you traveling in a pod with the fabric woven in figure eights in 6 sided structures while you had the ability to see out? Or did you play mind games on everyone after reading a college textbook on psychotherapy through LSD you found in a yard sale? I lived in a rental that had multiple units. My unit had 4 floors. The two units on the other side had 1 floor each. The lower unit had some potheads in it for a long time. There were two girls living in the upper unit. They had an LSD party every Sunday. I got used to the noise and regular antics. One Sunday I decided that they weren't tripping hard enough. I had been telling them (the regular stars of the parties) that I had a magic book that taught me mastery of invisibility. I showed and read to them passages from the book for weeks. Come judgment day I dressed in black shoes, socks, pants, gloves, and a knee length peacoat. Under the peacoat I sported a bright tie dyed Teeshirt. I had access to their living room on the second floor through the windows on the porch roof. After they all in full blown trip mode went to the far end of the unit I climbed through the window. As they came back down the hall and into the living room I hid in a shadowy corner and they walked by me without seeing me. I jumped into the center of the room and all of them as I shouted,"I told you I could make myself invisible" while opening the peacoat and displaying the bright tie dyed shirt. Two of them dropped on all fours. So, I got in their faces shouting look into my eye while pointing to my right eye which is dark brown, near black. It was all the canvas their whacked minds needed to display an image. I chased them from side to side in the room continuing to tell them to look into my eye while pointing at it. What ever they were seeing had them scared out of their minds. At the height of the frenzy I wrapped the peacoat around me and fled down the hall around the corner and out of the unit. 10 or 15 minutes later they showed up on my porch knocking on the door. I answered it in white tennis shoes, blue jeans and the tie dyed shirt. I explained to the trippy dudes and dudettes that the majik was real. They got their moneys worth that Sunday. I routinely showed up to entertain them after that. | ||
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Dang. You've got a similar sense of humor and ambition to deploy it as I do. I feel that Halloween hainted houses are going the dodo's way. One thing I really love about a former boss is that he had a mind for epic hainted houses. Still does. That's a flat awesome tale. Remind me to tell you some of mine. | ||
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Snerk. Twenty plus years doing volunteer first aid for the SCA. Pennsic War has aprox 10,000 souls, doing martial arts, partying hard, camping, etc. Lots of experience with heat, stepping on tent stakes, and alcohol poisoning. Also an insomniac, so when bored at 3 a.m., I'd drop by the medical tent to say hi. One evening they had an agitated young man, who had apparently been drugged without his knowledge. The consensus was acid. ( physician and nurses ) So I offered to take him for a walk, away from buzzing florescent lights, and stressed, well meaning, concerned people. I took him out to the tournament area, ( a familiar place for him ) a quiet field with some hay bales to sit on, and through the quiet camping areas when he was restless, and "talked him mellow" including the expected "atoms are like solar systems, so...one atom in your finger...." stuff. He was feeling much better by dawn, so I took him back by the medical tent to close his file out, and escorted him on the long walk back to his camp. Then dealt with the consternation there, by sending him to bed, and explaining the evening's issues, emphasizing his innocence in the matter and requesting they not give him too hard a time. Fortunately some of the older folk had experience with such matters, and were upset, but understanding. I am not authorized to discuss the Law Enforcement side of this story. ( I also worked security ) | ||
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   Schroedinger's cat plots her revenge  And... guilty as charged  (Message edited by aesquire on April 28, 2019) | ||
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I always figured Yoda was speaking direct translations of German. |
