And You May Ask Yourself...How Did I Get Here?

I'm pretty busy right now with the whole "returning to work after winter vacation" thing. And when not at work, I'm presently quite thoroughly occupied with stuff that, while quite enjoyable to someone like me who genuinely likes sorting bits of information into tidy little rectangles, doesn't make for very exciting writing (most of it involves sorting addresses and filling in spreadsheets for Methuselah Foundation activities).

I mean, I could write an epic narrative describing the captivating delight of sorting names and countries by color in OpenOffice, but I think I'll just try to get that stuff done without chronicling it for public consumption. :P

There are some Seriously Cool Things I'm looking forward to writing about within the next week or two. But in the meantime, here are some of the search terms I've been collecting (that is, search terms that led people to Existence is Wonderful). I always find it fascinating when others post these lists; it amazes me how different ideas and search inclinations can sometimes lead people with very disparate thoughts and interests to the same page.

Life Stuff, Longevity Stuff, Death Stuff

- survival and attitudes to life and death
- live a happy life, die a natural death
- does lack of money influence a person attitudes toward life
- "die peacefully" "healthy diet"
- elderly starting to die
- places for elderly peacefully die
- seeking immortality ethics
- animal longest existence on earth
- whale longevity 200 years
- current attitudes to life and death

All About Old People

- gerontology engineering for old people
- wonderful things about being elderly
- elderly who see people who don't exist
- oldest male centenarian in the united states
- when you past 80 years old, all kinds of ailments happen
- what conditions is a person's body when they reach 70 years of age

Fear and Harshness and Nihilism, Oh My!

- centenarians should die (What is this, Logan's Run: Seventy Years After?)
- should people living in a coma be disconnected
- should old people get expensive health care
- thought it doesn't matter because we're all going to die anyway
- existence without meaning
- life boredom

The Death/Sleep Mystique

(People are really interested in this, apparently.)

- how many people die in their sleep
- why do people die in their sleep
- how do people die in there sleep
- how do people die in their sleep
- when people die in their sleep
- prophecy about people dying in there sleep
- can healthy people die in there sleep
- can a person die in their sleep
- healthy person dying in their sleep
- do older people sleep a lot before they die?
- how does someone die in their sleep

Strange Times for the Atypically-Brained

(it's both interesting and kind of frightening that most of the people searching for autism-related stuff are searching based on misconceptions about autistics.)

- autism heuristics
- aspergers disorder traits vs. sociopathic tendancies
- aspergers are all atheists
- folapro autism
- ethics of eliminating autism
- autism, unable to lie
- autistic children, physical traits
- autism and fantasy worlds
- autism =empathy
- aspergers effeminate behavior
- curing autism through repentance (probably one of the scarier search terms I've seen)

Intelligence Quotient Questions

(I've only written a little bit about IQ testing, concepts of intelligence, etc., but I'm not done with this subject yet. Expect more in the coming year)

- i.q. test invalid
- is 'g' a statistical myth?
- what's the most highly regarded iq test?
- factor analysis weschler
- g intelligence
- understanding weschler preschool scale of intelligence
- raven's test practice

Hey, Look! A Fetus!

- pierced ear infection, will it affect fetus?
- mysticism of pregnancy
- birth deformities due to genetic modification of parent

California Googlin'

(This one brought to you by those wacky tectonic plates)

- you know you're from california when..
- how you know someone is a californian
- you know you're from california
- you know you live in california if
- you know you're from california when...
- you know you're from berkeley when
- you know you have lived in california when

Tasty(?) Word Salad

- should the us legislate helping, and by doing so try to eliminate bystander apathy
- power of the mind think into existence
- if someone broken bones is health according medical model
- time on job by age research

Essay Questions

- what would we do without fantasy novels
- how do politicians make their living
- discuss why it might be useful to look at the cognitive developments of human babies in order to understand why humans can live their lives in so many different ways (i.e. why humans have cultures).
- what sort of environmental surprise could you see coming with bioengineering
- brief thought for school children

Confusing and/or Amusing

- silly things about welshmen
- bizarre theories of moons existence
- are all psychological images of people true
- earth cooling tubes
- voldemort solipsism

File Under: "I Don't Even Want To Know..."

- famele real quirt show free
- are women capable of logical thought
- girls dont have brains
- symbolic cannibalism
- extreme body modification kitchen gadgets
- puppy mill advocates and market saturation

In addition to all this, a lot of people searched for stuff on portable word processors -- for some reason I didn't end up saving those searches, but it was neat to see that there's still an interest in cool, cheap computery things.