Many people have belief in the popular saying “Silence is gold”, while most of us have been caught in such weird situations---in an elevator, a waiting room or on an underground---surrounded by people who deeply concentrate on their ...
I was afraid that Ms. Todd was going to come up with some other weird nonviolent game for us to play. But finally the bell rang, and we were allowed to get out of jail. I mean, we were allowed to go home. I think that ...
because they start out as us. So you see, I'd missed fitting in to just about every category out there: daughter, wife, mother, scholar. And the dream of being a writer was really kind of like a small, sad stone in my throat. ...
“It being so rural, now multistate, it’s just going to take a lot more boots on the ground, a lot more work, to get things under control,” Wells said during a media briefing this week. “It’s not an isolated population.” […] If the outbreak goes on until next January, it...
I’ve met really really weird things. I saw a UFO on my way to the Olympic gym. A green creepy alien asked me in a strange accent:” I’m from Jupiter, passing by earth. What are u guys doing over here?” It was my duty to explain. “The Olympic games is an international sport...
It was capable of generating a few sentences at a time before things got weird. While both represented significant advances in the field of AI research, neither was suitable for large-scale real-world use. That changed with the launch of GPT-3 in 2020. While it took a while—and the ...
I was nervous and sure that people would think I was weird. But that’s irrational. As David Sedaris says, “How is it fair that the person who rips a lottery ticket into 16 pieces and throws it on the ground isn’t crazy, but the guy who picks it up, is?” It turned out to ...
"Swearing At Work Is Officially Good." Metro. October 17, 2007. http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=71188&in_page_id=2 "Survey says 'never mind the b***s'." University of East Anglia. October 15, 2007.http://comm.uea.ac.uk/press/release.asp?id=792 Winerma...
F: You know, maybe someday, healthy people will go to bioengineers to change their body so it’s better in some way — so they’re stronger, faster, or better looking. M: Yeah, probably, but I think that’s a good thing. F: I don’t know. I think it’s kind of weird. ...
As weird as it is that you can’t pay new money into the Monzo Pension (yet), we still think Monzo’s entry into the market is a good thing. Putting the emphasis on rounding-up old pensions is a truly innovative move that will help a lot of people. ...