Category — Microblog Mondays

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A few years back, Lifehacker had an article about letting your friends order for you.  This idea not only horrified me enough to bookmark the post, but it has stuck with me since then, turning around in my brain every time I meet a friend at a restaurant.

Are you kidding?  Order for me?  I barely know what I want, and I have full access to my tastebuds and brain.  How can someone who isn’t me know what I want to eat?

And I would never want to order for someone else.  How could I possibly know what they’re in the mood to eat unless they tell me?  And if they’re telling me, they can order for themselves.

Would you ever let someone choose what you’re going to eat at a restaurant?

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Mental Floss recently had an article about bibliotherapists.  They are support staff for therapists who recommend books with the understanding that a book can sometimes change your mood or help you see a situation in a new way or simply transport you somewhere else for a few hours.  Mental Floss explains,

Patients fill out a questionnaire about their reading habits and issues they might be having, and get a prescription for something that speaks to their specific set of circumstances.

I kind of love this idea, though I don’t know how I would feel about going to a bibliotherapist.  I love getting book recommendations, but I sort of balk at being told what to read.

What do you think?  Do you enjoy being told what to read?

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Back when we were little, my grandparents would take us to the A&P and buy us Dynamints and Fruit Stripe gum.  Dynamints were suppository-sized Tic Tacs that came in a three-flavour pack: grape (which was the best flavour), orange, and cherry.  Not only were they a delicious candy, but it was fun to shake the box and annoy everyone around you.

I really miss Dynamints.  I don’t think they make them anymore.

I’m also missing root beer flavoured and Stick-o-Pep Lifesavers.

What candy or former food product do you miss?

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A few months ago, Gizmodo asked a question in a post: how much would you pay to live one extra year?  With expensive life-extending drugs a possibility, how much should we consider spending in order to grab another year?  And who should foot the bill?  And who gets the limited supply of drugs?  Will this be the latest division of class: those who can afford the extra time and those who have to make do with the time allotted?  It’s already the case with treatments for common diseases.

But if you strip away all the questions about medications and the worth of certain lives more than others, it comes down to a thought-provoking question.  If you were decently comfortable and mobile, how much would you pay for an additional year of life?  Is it worth take out a second mortgage or borrowing money that your loved ones will pay back?  What number is too high when it comes to grabbing time?  And is there any way you could walk away from that choice if it was possible to make?

The question chilled me to my core.

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I want to live in a hobbit hole.  Mental Floss recently had an article about a manufacturer of prefabricated homes that are covered in sod and look like hobbit holes.  Though I realized looking at the houses that what I want isn’t the outside of the hobbit hole but the inside.

I like small, cozy spaces with lots of room for shelving books neatly (so they can be found quickly).  I like squashy chairs and throw blankets and wood.  I want a little bed like this for nap time.  (Actually, does anyone remember a few years ago that there was a picture of a bed like this — a frame that had books inside — that we were all covetously passing around the Internet?  I can’t find the bed of my dreams despite a lot of keyword Googling.)

What is your ideal home?

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