1) I get a kick out of typing stuff into YouTube/Google and finding that autocomplete (you know what I mean right) is baffled, cos it means I'm searching for something different =D
2) Shafie gave me a brilliant strategy to use the next time I found strangers giving me unwanted attention (that is to say, when certain people stare as I walk along a certain area). He says to look at their hair and give a wth look. They'll get all self-conscious cos they can't see their hair. (And it was really funny when he said it but I doubt I'll ever actually do that.)
3) Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 is fantastic.
"We went to the New York's World Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present an future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just the way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just as illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever."
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