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Miss Parker vs. Sybian

Can't we just all get along?

I think geeks and non-geeks can relate to this one.

why is it so hard to make a t-shirt?

con este font



y uno de estos diseños...

I'm gonna live forever!

A good argument with your spouse could be just what the doctor ordered.
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Preliminary results from a survey of married couples suggest that disputing husbands and wives who hold in their anger die earlier than expressive couples.

"When couples get together, one of their main jobs is reconciliation about conflict," said researcher Ernest Harburg, professor emeritus with the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Psychology Department. "Usually nobody is trained to do this. If they have good parents, they can imitate, that's fine, but usually the couple is ignorant about the process of resolving conflict."

So while conflict is inevitable, the critical matter is how couples resolve it.

"The key matter is, when the conflict happens, how do you resolve it?" Harburg said. "When you don't, if you bury your anger, and you brood on it and you resent the other person or the attacker, and you don't try to resolve the problem, then you're in trouble."

The findings add to past research showing that the release of anger can be healthy. For instance, one study revealed when people are angry they tend to make better decisions, perhaps because this emotion triggers the brain to ignore irrelevant cues and focus on the meat of the matter. Individuals who express anger might also have a sense of control and optimism over a situation, according to another past study.

Bottled anger adds to stress, which tends to shorten lives, many studies show.

In the current study, the authors suggest a combination of factors to explain the higher mortality for couples who don't express their anger. These include "mutual anger suppression, poor communication (of feelings and issues) and poor problem-solving with medical consequences," they write in the January issue of the Journal of Family Communication.

Over a 17-year period, Harburg and his colleagues studied 192 married couples in which spouses ranged in age from 35 to 69, focusing on aggressive behavior considered unfair or undeserved by the person being "attacked." Harburg said that if an attack is viewed as fair, the victim doesn't tend to get angry.

Based on the participants' anger-coping responses to hypothetical situations, Harburg placed couples into one of four categories: both partners express their anger; the wife expresses anger; the husband communicates anger while the other suppresses; and both the husband and wife brood and suppress their anger.

The researchers found that 26 couples, meaning 52 individuals, were suppressors in which both partners held in their anger. Twenty-five percent of the suppressors died during the study period compared with about 12 percent for the other remaining couples.

In 27 percent of the suppressor couples, one member of the couple died during the study period, and in 23 percent of those couples, both died during the study period. That's compared to only 6 percent of couples where both spouses died in the remaining three groups combined. Only 19 percent in the remaining three groups combined saw one partner die during the study period.

The results held even when other health factors were accounted for, including age, smoking, weight, blood pressure, bronchial problems, breathing and cardiovascular risk.

Harburg said the results are preliminary, and his team is now collecting 30-year follow-up data. He expects the follow-up to show almost double the death rate compared with the preliminary findings.

Need some new Hardware

Fo' real.





Yo da Rat, why don't you post me a link to some kickass custom made computer for me. Like, build it and link me the end result.

Lemmiwinks: The Game

Si el cooler de katia ta leve and you need time to kill at work, try this game que me encontré por ahi (actually buscando mi propia banda en google - weak). Tienes que guiar a Lemmiwinks out of Mr. Slaves ass, naturally, which is not gay at all...like the band...

http://www.comedycentral.com/games/action_arcade/lemmiwinks.jhtml

Watch out for those tight intestine walls!

Bluehillorrism

youtube sucks

These guys have no flexibility

My video looks crappy on my computer... what's wrong?

Most video compression is lossy, i.e. it operates on the premise that much of the data present before compression is not necessary for achieving good perceptual quality. For example, DVDs use a video coding standard called MPEG-2 that can compress ~2 hours of video data by 15 to 30 times while still producing a picture quality that is generally considered high quality for standard-definition video. Video compression, like data compression, is a tradeoff between disk space, video quality and the cost of hardware required to decompress the video in a reasonable time. However, if the video is overcompressed in a lossy manner, visible (and sometimes distracting) compression artifacts can appear.

A compression artifact (or artefact) is the result of an aggressive data compression scheme applied to an image, audio, or video that discards some data which is determined by an algorithm to be of lesser importance to the overall content but which is nonetheless discernible and objectionable to the user. Artifacts in time-dependent data such as audio or video are often a result of the latent error in lossy data compression.

Technically speaking, a compression artifact is a particular class of data error that is usually the consequence of quantization in lossy data compression. Where transform coding is used, they typically assume the form of one of the basis functions of the coder's transform space.

Compression artifacts occur in many common media such as DVDs, common computer file formats such as JPEG, MP3, or MPEG files, and Sony's ATRAC compression algorithm. Uncompressed media (such as on Laserdiscs, Audio CDs, and WAV files) or losslessly compressed media (FLAC, PNG, etc.) do not suffer from compression artifacts unless they were encoded from a compressed source.

I wonder if this applies to Final Cut files saved on common media such as Maxell DVD-R's? I love wikipedia!
...and I'm bored...

The Rat, fuck your expresso machine, you need this

Actually I still want your machine

NDS users! bow to your sensei!

you must get this... now...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ZLTKBO/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

"...this little card allows you to do amazing things with your Nintendo DS (any version). Such things as reading e-books, watching videos, listening to mp3s, viewing pictures, running homebrew games/applications and most of all running copied commercial games. Yes, you will never have to BUY another Nintendo DS game if you own this little piece of magic..."

Scotch Mist

Spygate, Shady Brady and Bill Belicheat

Blues found these, but since he's pulling a Blues, I guess I'll post it, enjoy!
(*If you dont like foozball you probably wont like the videos as much, peace!)

8 days no posts?

did the rat go back to china?
i'm the worst post-er of all time so i'll leave it up to you guys to keep me entertained at work.
BIEN!

-da yanks-