sentient brain
That's the usual state of brains, isn't it?
I used to heat with a wood stove, so in the evenings the house was nice and warm and then the fire in the stove would burn out while I slept and by the time I had to get out of bed the house would be ice-cold. Just starting the fire again took a while (I wasn't very good at it) and then everywhere not right next to the stove warmed up quite slowly.
(Until the house warmed up, my dog would stay so close to the stove that it would scare me. Those old-fashioned stoves get very hot and there's nothing beyond your own good sense that will prevent you from touching them and instantly being severely burned. He didn't have much good sense but apparently he had enough never to touch the thing...)
I've been told that experienced people can make it so that the embers in the stove stay hot overnight, which makes getting the fire going again much easier, but I never got the hang of it. On the plus side, when you live in a sparsely-populated forested area, burning wood for heat is much cheaper than burning oil or gas. I wonder how much coal would have cost... I did see a house with a furnace that one would have to shovel coal into like an old-fashioned steam-locomotive fireman.
She wanted to win a Nobel Prize, but the conversation was about a shorter-term goal (getting a professor position) that she took for granted. I told her she would be lucky to receive even one job offer, let alone the multiple offers she expected to choose from.
I didn't mean to imply anything to the contrary of what you're saying. I'm just reminded of the Simpsons episode where Smithers says
If Mr. Burns ever wants to see a stranger, he will observe him through a powerful telescope.
People are hidden from each other in plain sight.
That's right. I know Scott and he's a great guy.
I once told a woman I was dating that her goal in life was unrealistic and she needed to give up on it. I regret it - I still think I was right, but I was also such a jerk!
This is one of my favorites. Never compromise, even when it's with the way the world is and the way the world is definitely won't back down.
Posts like this are so weird to me. Clearly this is a common thing that a lot of people are going through, but in real life most people I know have succeeded through integrity (similar to kindness) and hard work. Not just kids from middle-class families, but immigrants, first-generation college students, etc. There must be some sort of filter creating a social bubble around me, like how I have met very few Trump voters (and don't know any of them well) despite the fact that there are actually quite many of them.
I suppose this is just nitpicking, but I think $500 a month is a lot more to a barber than a million is to Altman.
"Protection money" implies a significant expense. A million dollars is so little to a big tech company (and not that much to Trump) that this is more like a "Congratulations!" card with a Starbucks gift certificate inside. It's as little as Altman can send without being insulting, but if the fact that he sent anything at all sways Trump even a little bit then the return on investment will be enormous.
heteronormative assumptions
You could still have a wife yourself, with whichever licensing agreement the two of you negotiate.
Well, the Ninja Turtles were originally an unsubtle Daredevil parody...
(Is "parody" the right word? I think they were part parody and part homage.)