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[JoshuaFH]

I want to go out and do something to alleviate this ever-present loneliness in my life, but I just don't know what to do or where to go.

Now I can't seem to get a hold of my old friends from college anymore, so I guess now I'm just some friendless fuck with no direction in life. I just don't know what to do. I hate myself.

[SalmonGod]

I've just realised that one day Slash will die.
one of the only people who I look up to who isn't already dead. Shit.

A good chunk of people I enjoy/admire are getting really old.  Roger Waters/Tim Curry/Hayao Miyazaki to name a couple.  It's really depressing to think that they're finished or close to it.  It's also weird to think that all of the entertainers I've enjoyed since I was a teenager are middle-aged now.  Sometimes I'll see a picture of someone that I haven't seen in a long time, and there's always this small shock to find them not young and vibrant anymore.

[Rose]

I tried watching the new red dwarf season, and had that reaction.

[Solifuge]

http://verabee.com/wolf/

A good kind of sad, though.

[Pnx]

Feeling all broody, broody, broody, in a way I really wish I wasn't.

Yerk.

[Fniff]

My cat just killed a bird. Rather nastily.

D:

[Dutchling]

My cat just killed a bird. Rather nastily.

D:

I once found two bunny ears in the kitchen.

[Fniff]

Cats: nature's serial killers.

[10ebbor10]

My cat just killed a bird. Rather nastily.

D:

I once found two bunny ears in the kitchen.

I once found an entire bunny in the kitchen. Dropped it outside.
Found it again.
Removed again.
Found it again; cat wouldn't let me remove it.
...
Found it again; or at least half of it.

[Descan]

I'm sad that science stories in the news need to answer "What is this good for?"

While shit like sports news or entertainment news is taken as "Well people are naturally curious!"

I think it stems from science educators and people like Carl Sagan or Bill Nye, bless their hearts, trying to make science seem worthy of notice by focusing on what it's good for, instead of "holy shit we can see inside the sun WITH MATH guys" being enough.

This is where I got the thought.

So now I have a story with an attractive audience hook where the math is something everyone saw at school. The one other thing you need to make a science news story work is to be able to answer the question "What is this good for?" Why this is an important question, has always baffled me. After all, the news media are full of reports about sports, music, movies, entertainment, and the arts, none of which are "good for anything" in the sense that science stories are supposed to live up to. "People enjoy it" or "Entertainment is a good thing in itself" or even "People are just naturally curious and want to know stuff" (though not too much according to Mr. Stein) are generally regarded as sufficient justification for most things the news media report on. Still, my colleagues in the media tell me that a science story won't work unless it gives an indication of a possible "application". And I know from many years of experience that, as in any other profession, the professionals in this case do know what they are talking about.

[BlackFlyme]

I remember my dad complaining about the squirrels living in the tree in our front yard once. They kept throwing acorns down off of it, and they kept damaging things left on our deck.

The next few days afterwards he kept coming home to our cat sitting amidst squirrel bits strewn across the lawn.

I guess it was an improvement.

[Steelmagic]

My PSP has been stolen (sort of, it was my fault). I only ever really used it to listen to music while taking a shower but still I'd rather not lose it.

[Vattic]

http://verabee.com/wolf/

A good kind of sad, though.

Thank you for posting this.

[Graknorke]

My PSP has been stolen (sort of, it was my fault). I only ever really used it to listen to music while taking a shower but still I'd rather not lose it.

If it's stolen it's stolen. It doesn't stop being theft because you didn't secure it properly.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

There's this brand of spicy potato chips I could get from the vending machines at my high school that I am suddenly strongly craving, but I have never found them anywhere else and cannot remember the name of it. All I can remember is that the bag was mostly white and it was a small brand.