nickluft
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Comment · 11 years ago
Neat game, really an abstract card game with the chrome of designing apps. I can imagine it working very well. The special cards might need handling carefully as they might be too powerful! Play testing is the best way to spot those problems.
Comment · 12 years ago
Find a career that has immediate feedback and rewards. For example teaching, customer service or acting.
Comment · 16 years ago
Take baby steps to change behaviour. Don't believe in "will power".
Comment · 16 years ago
In reading about these child abuse cases I was struck by how familiar they sound to the Witch Trials of the 17th Century.
We have prosecutors convinced they have discovered a hidden evil and that it is more widespread than people like to think. They sometimes have children as witnesses. They have false confessions from the accused. And we have bodily investigations of "secrete places" either to confirm that sexual abuse has taken place or the devil "knew" was familiar with the accused. And we have bizarre stories of strange practices, which are credulously believed.
It is like there is some universal process going on here. Communities require these expressions of hidden evils. And if you doubt the veracity of these claims then you are suspect too.
I don't think this paranoia is a new phenomenon to human society. What changes is the topic, but not the underlying need we have in human society for these expressions.
Examples of Witch Trials.
Comment · 16 years ago
Sounds to me like you are strongly affected by coffee. It can't be good to be so dependent on anything.
Maybe you should try giving it up more slowly in the future. Reduce in-take gradually.
Comment · 16 years ago
But please avoid strong tea. It still has a lot of caffeine in it and tea can also hinder the absorption of iron and other long-term effects.
http://www.stashtea.com/caffeine+and+tea.aspx
Tea has approximately half the caffeine that coffee has.
Comment · 16 years ago
Ahh the sugar high!
I think this is a bit of a myth. See this:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2747/does-giving-sw...
Seems like one early study made the link but the following studies cannot make the link.
Comment · 16 years ago
Try something like meditation, exercising, taking 30 minute holidays... other non-addictive and well tested methods.
Comment · 16 years ago
I wonder if there is a simple medical test that could identify the caffeine intolerant?
Comment · 16 years ago
Oooo. I need to read this.
http://www.pediatricneurology.com/adhd.htm
Or would you recommend another source?
Note to self: reading medical textbooks means you always have the symptoms, so you are always ill.
http://www.impudent.org.uk/