To those that say this will be obsolete in a year.. NONSENSE!! It'll never be obsolete! This is finally so fast that this will be THE LAST PIECE OF COMPUTER HARDWARE EVER TO BUY! It can only appreciate in value.
I'm investing in 10.
All those predictors judging this new hardware from prvious countless years of industry/market behavior judging from thousands of computer products.. they're all wrong. ROFL @ them..
My sig is entirely sarcastic. The amount of linux distros and the stupid forking pisses me off. IMO, if there were fewer better FREE distros, then more would adopt linux faster and we could finally get commercial software (games) ported to it..
1. This is Microsoft's fault.. Microsoft should fix their operating system to ask for a password any time a program is installed, registry settings are changed, key files are modified, etc.. Also, 'install on demand' should be eliminated from Internet Explorer. Ever notice how spyware pretty much didn't exist before Microsoft gave the developers complete control over a person's PC? The end user is stupid. The whole premise of Windows assumes that.. So then why did Microsoft decide that the end user should be able to have his system completely compromised with ONE SINGLE GODDAMN FUCKING WRONG CLICK WHEN BROWSING A SHADY SITE?
2. This is the fault of the legal system. Spyware is ALREADY illegal. Congress has talked about making it 'illegaler.' Someone needs to jump forth and realize the moneymaking potential that it is to sue the pants off the incessant spammers.
Again.. 99.9% of spyware problems can be fixed by just running in limited user mode. Ubuntu has the right idea..
$5 says Lite-on comes out and poops on the whole battle and hacks together a drive that reads both formats just like the DVDr formats. Then, this whole stupid fight will be a moot point since every manufacturer will copy and we can get back to arguing the real battles.. namely ATI and NVIDIA.. and AMD and INTEL.
It seems to me that every established gaming company that starts a new MMO starts off with some lofty level of arrogance. They attempt to have the same kind of company/customer relationship as doctor/clients.. WoW, so far, has been insanely successful and I'd say it's mostly because of how 'smooth' the game has been. For an MMO, there has been relatively few bugs in the launch of WoW.
But now, when there are bugs, they tell the customer very little. I cannot see how that's a good business model.
UbiSoft, when they launched Shadowbane, had a very buggy release. Instead of keeping the player base informed of what was going on with the game, UbiSoft chose such responses as 'Some have experienced lag; we are looking into it.' When this happened for almost a month straight of total lag, where the game played half as fast as normal, UbiSoft said very little to the player base. So, the player base left. I think since the initial lag about 3 months after Shadowbane's release, their player base was chopped in half. Since then, Shadowbane has been a 'dying' game.
Personally, I think one of the biggest reasons so many people played WoW is because of the well-established company, Blizzard, has an image of fierce support of their games. Lose that image, and Blizzard is Ubisoft..
We've figured out how to put an inferior OS on more expensive hardware! That way, we can have both the frustrations of Windows and pay out of the ass for Mac. Everybody wins!
Next, how to mod your Porsche into a Toyota Camry.
Yup.. we're all fucked up in America.. but at least we have the freedom to be fucked up. I feel like I'm appropriately fucked up and the government should not get to decide how fucked up I want to be. So, if mom wants to fight daughter for a boyfriend, let them.. It's between them.. not you and them.. so why do you care?
I have ADHD.. I zone out when I play video games.. also, sometimes I hyperfocus (and that sucks also.)
When I play Counterstrike, I usually just zone out.. I play, but I'm not really trying. It's like I'm just relaxing and calming down even though the game is frantic for most. I end up on the bottom in the rankings usually.. until someone talks trash or something and gives me a reason to feel competitive.. and then I destroy and get within the top 3 scores every time.
Sometimes I get annoyed having a score of 3 kills to 10 deaths.. but usually I just don't care. Other times, I hyperfocus.. and that really fucking sucks because I end up playing a game I meant to play for an hour from like 8pm to 8am straight.. no food, no water, no breaks.. And then I 'snap out of it' and I'm like 'oh shit.. why'd I do that?'
I really would like to get my hands on this video game.. When I study, I typically have to stop and tell myself every few minutes that I'm studying and not just letting my mind go.
I don't agree with the sarcasm you imply. And, that's not necessarily what I'm saying with my original post.
If you wrote a song, and it could only be duplicated a set number of times or only be a 'tangible' item, then I wouldn't have such a problem with normal price of supply/demand. Also, if Joe down the street buys a CD, but doesn't like it and gives it to me, that's not stealing. Most media companies say it is. If Joe down the street wants to copy YOUR music you wrote, that he bought, to all his devices, you're essentially stating that it should be up to you (not him) whether or not he can do that. And, I'm saying, I don't care so much about you getting paid - as most consumers.
If any intangible media is good enough, it WILL turn a profit if handled correctly. Media that isn't good, won't turn a profit regardless of how much the industry tries to force it on the consumer - if the system were perfectly fair.
I'm basically stating that it's ignorant of big media companies to believe that they can completely remove piracy as an alternative to their outrageous demands on the consumer.
I should "adapt" to people who don't feel like paying for my music. I should try to make it "convenient" for them!
As with any industry, yes, you should attempt to adapt. If your current business model is dying, then you should change it - and if not you, others will and you will be an alcoholic bum.
Thank you for reminding me that you have a built-in entitlement to my music, and the only way I can make money off of it is to price it so low that the costs of making and recording my music will never ever be recouped. Down with Capitalism!
Well, I don't expect you to send me all the CDs you make for free (though that would be nice.) But, if I wanted your music and the only way to get it by your terms was to give my left nut or download it, it would have to be REALLY good music for me to pay my left nut.
I'm not saying I have a built-in entitlement to your music. But, you're saying that someone who buys your music also does not have a built-in entitlement. I AM saying that somewhere between those two extremes lies an actual industry significance, and the antiquated business model of yesterday does not dictate today's terms. So, the 'extreme' end being piracy helps to fight the other extreme idea that 'all media should be bought on physical media, treated as tangible, and every copy should be paid for.'
BTW, your music sucks and I wouldn't buy it anyway. Keep practicing, though.
The whole point of piracy, imo, is to make all media (entertainment not limited by the economics of scarcity) more convienient than actually purchasing the media..
But, even with piracy, there's annoying costs involved.. It takes a user's time to find the shit. The user has to be skilled enough to extract it, run it, store it, convert it, etc.. Also, users have to rely on each other to package pirated media in convenient forms.
However, if one can pay a small fee to get ready access to their shows from anywhere, then piracy will die down. Once the actual media is more convenient than pirated media, piracy will be less of a problem. IMO, even most tenacious of pirates would rather have Google or Itunes store all their media so they could access it from their set-top boxes, Ipods, PSPs, cell-phones - all without having to take the time to convert it or store it on their own hard drives.
But then, since the media companies are so determined to prove piracy as a bigger problem than it is - as a display of greed not necessarily good for the media industry - they DRM the hell out of everything. So, most people that are used to controlling their own media just ignore everything with DRM.
Piracy, for consumers, IS A GOOD THING. The more consumers pirate, the more media companies will be FORCED to innovate and adapt. If the media companies were entirely in control, we'd probby be forced to listen to only the 10 most-popular songs on Clearchannel, watch reality tv with 1/2 the time being commercials, and call an 800 number to ask permission for every time we use the media.
IMO, what Apple is doing is a GOOD thing. It's just hilariously funny how Apple is doing it while becomming an unecessary middleman since the media companies have their heads so far up their own asses they can't realize that they are NOT in control of what the consumer wants - or even their own media once the consumer consumes it.
I support the principles of piracy.. I think it's morally acceptable to pirate when the pirated media is more convenient (with more features) than the regular media. The marketplace is about the consumer - not the producer. If I decide to put my Chiquita banana on a stripper's tit covered in chocolate and take pictures of it, Chiquita can't cry when I'm not consuming it like a normal monkey. I feel the same way about media companies..
If media companies had their way, they'd have control of our memories and erase everything they could re-sell us. So, we'd even forget we watched a movie or bought the DVD and blindly pay for it again./end rant.. gonna eat a banana now.
I was sitting at a McDonald's with my laptop during a road trip. There were two wifi networks available. One was titled 'McDonald's' and the other was titled 'BetterThanMcDonald's.' I used the latter. I love when people do that..
The lot of us that hates spyware the most need to get a couple Class-Action lawsuits going against the adware/spam companies and the companies that benefit from them. Isn't it already illegal to install backdoors and software that users did not authorize? Isn't it already illegal to take control of a computer (called hacking, right?)??
Why do the makers of worms/viruses get huge criminal punishments and the companies that make money off of adware get 'embarassment'?
If these were reputable companies in the first place, the old adage of "All publicity is good publicity" would not apply. We, as 'smart' users, owe it to the rest of the computing community to do our research, find out who is involved, and sue them until they bleed red.
Hell.. we could get a Wiki going of spyware (if there already isn't one), and which companies are involved, what addresses, countries, etc.. And then start hiring some lawyers to make lots of money off of our suffering..
I don't wanna be the one to start it, though. Fucking fuck. This porno site just popped up and Internet Explorer crashed. I gotta go.
39 hours per work week (a couple minutes late every day)
10 hours.. on phone with people that don't speak english even though they're 'support' for American companies 2 hours.. drooling over computer parts with coworkers 2 hours.. 'rigging' cute females' computers with problems 10 hours.. Slashdot and other forums 2 hours.. porn 4 hours.. blaming all problems on lack of hardware budget 8 hours.. being condescending to coworkers who make more money than them 1 hour.. fixing computer problems
All overtime is spent eating pizza and fixing computer problems they couldn't fix during their one real hour of work.
My mother, a financial advisor, is a lot more aggressive in our reporting of taxes. It's amazing how much you can save if you know what you're doing over companies like H&R Block. The reason you never got audited with H&R Block is because these 'bulk tax' companies are very conservative with their reporting. The IRS typically doesn't audit people that pay a little over their share.
So ya.. for a normal business, call H&R Block. If you're a financial advisor and have a son willing to do data entry for college money, then do it yourself.
I bought Quicken Deluxe 2006. And, I started entering in a bunch of data. I found a flaw where if you enter data quickly by tabbing through the boxes, it will eliminate the categories you need for reporting taxes..
I spent about 2 hours talking to an Indian guy over chat who barely spoke English who could not help me. He switched me over to a hispanic girl who spoke even less English at me for another 3 hours. Seriously.. both spoke horrible English. About three-fourths of my effort went to trying to communicate with them. Also, they knew shit about Quicken. It was easy to tell I knew more about it than them - just they were there as 'support' for idiots only or something.
Then, I called in the next day and spoke with person after person for another three hours. Each time, I had to duplicate the problem on my end, reinstall Quicken, duplicate the problem again.. and show them how to duplicate it. They duplicated it and still could not tell me how to fix it. They said they will send it to the development team. That was a month ago.. Hopefully they can fix this before tax season.
Whereas, in open source, if there was a problem like this, I could probby get one of the developers to issue a minor quickfix in a matter of days..
Hopefully there's a way to convert all my current data (about 50 hours of entry worth) into GnuCash's format. I'm definitely willing to give it a try..
Which is a bigger problem in America.. terrorism or the methods the Federal Government are using to fight terrorism?
All I ever hear about is how the Islamists are blowing themselves up like complete idiots in the Middle East.. and how the US Government is blowing money left and right for expensive terrorism-fighting trinkets that a half-way vigilant population could render obsolete.
I did LSD a couple times in high school. Whoa.. it seemed to have awoken something in me because I feel like I think about things and am aware of them more than before..
The one thing I kept thinking about during my 'trips' was how we are so unaware of our own selves. For instance, just a little while ago, my friend showed me how to crack the joint between my thumb and the base of my hand.. I was never aware of that before - and most people aren't aware of it. Some people can move their eyeballs in and out, some can wiggle their ears, some can control their own blood pressure to an extent.
Anyway, as for LSD, it typically enhances contrast to a great degree. In my case, I was able to see where things have been spilled on my floors before, where the paint rollers went on my walls, and I could easily read some of what I had written on paper on my desk by looking at the grooves the pen left behind.
It really made me think that we, as humans, should attempt to be much more aware of ourselves and our environment. Just as blind people develop 'super-hearing' sense, it seems to me we can develop this kind of talent for all our senses - and perhaps even realize new senses.
BTW, kids, don't do LSD. It's bad. Government says so.
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To those that say this will be obsolete in a year.. NONSENSE!! It'll never be obsolete! This is finally so fast that this will be THE LAST PIECE OF COMPUTER HARDWARE EVER TO BUY! It can only appreciate in value.
I'm investing in 10.
All those predictors judging this new hardware from prvious countless years of industry/market behavior judging from thousands of computer products.. they're all wrong. ROFL @ them..
My sig is entirely sarcastic. The amount of linux distros and the stupid forking pisses me off. IMO, if there were fewer better FREE distros, then more would adopt linux faster and we could finally get commercial software (games) ported to it..
So I agree with you.
1. This is Microsoft's fault.. Microsoft should fix their operating system to ask for a password any time a program is installed, registry settings are changed, key files are modified, etc.. Also, 'install on demand' should be eliminated from Internet Explorer. Ever notice how spyware pretty much didn't exist before Microsoft gave the developers complete control over a person's PC? The end user is stupid. The whole premise of Windows assumes that.. So then why did Microsoft decide that the end user should be able to have his system completely compromised with ONE SINGLE GODDAMN FUCKING WRONG CLICK WHEN BROWSING A SHADY SITE?
2. This is the fault of the legal system. Spyware is ALREADY illegal. Congress has talked about making it 'illegaler.' Someone needs to jump forth and realize the moneymaking potential that it is to sue the pants off the incessant spammers.
Again.. 99.9% of spyware problems can be fixed by just running in limited user mode. Ubuntu has the right idea..
$5 says Lite-on comes out and poops on the whole battle and hacks together a drive that reads both formats just like the DVDr formats. Then, this whole stupid fight will be a moot point since every manufacturer will copy and we can get back to arguing the real battles.. namely ATI and NVIDIA.. and AMD and INTEL.
It seems to me that every established gaming company that starts a new MMO starts off with some lofty level of arrogance. They attempt to have the same kind of company/customer relationship as doctor/clients.. WoW, so far, has been insanely successful and I'd say it's mostly because of how 'smooth' the game has been. For an MMO, there has been relatively few bugs in the launch of WoW.
But now, when there are bugs, they tell the customer very little. I cannot see how that's a good business model.
UbiSoft, when they launched Shadowbane, had a very buggy release. Instead of keeping the player base informed of what was going on with the game, UbiSoft chose such responses as 'Some have experienced lag; we are looking into it.' When this happened for almost a month straight of total lag, where the game played half as fast as normal, UbiSoft said very little to the player base. So, the player base left. I think since the initial lag about 3 months after Shadowbane's release, their player base was chopped in half. Since then, Shadowbane has been a 'dying' game.
Personally, I think one of the biggest reasons so many people played WoW is because of the well-established company, Blizzard, has an image of fierce support of their games. Lose that image, and Blizzard is Ubisoft..
Shame humanity has to enact change through illegal acts. Next up we change the US government via sniper rifle.
/= Immoral.. Yet, if something is illegal long enough, people seem to think it is immoral.
Aren't pretty much all changes enacted through 'illegal' acts? civil disobedience, revolutions, founding of the United States of America..
Illegal
We've figured out how to put an inferior OS on more expensive hardware! That way, we can have both the frustrations of Windows and pay out of the ass for Mac. Everybody wins!
Next, how to mod your Porsche into a Toyota Camry.
KEK!!!
Yup.. we're all fucked up in America.. but at least we have the freedom to be fucked up. I feel like I'm appropriately fucked up and the government should not get to decide how fucked up I want to be. So, if mom wants to fight daughter for a boyfriend, let them.. It's between them.. not you and them.. so why do you care?
I have ADHD.. I zone out when I play video games.. also, sometimes I hyperfocus (and that sucks also.)
When I play Counterstrike, I usually just zone out.. I play, but I'm not really trying. It's like I'm just relaxing and calming down even though the game is frantic for most. I end up on the bottom in the rankings usually.. until someone talks trash or something and gives me a reason to feel competitive.. and then I destroy and get within the top 3 scores every time.
Sometimes I get annoyed having a score of 3 kills to 10 deaths.. but usually I just don't care. Other times, I hyperfocus.. and that really fucking sucks because I end up playing a game I meant to play for an hour from like 8pm to 8am straight.. no food, no water, no breaks.. And then I 'snap out of it' and I'm like 'oh shit.. why'd I do that?'
I really would like to get my hands on this video game.. When I study, I typically have to stop and tell myself every few minutes that I'm studying and not just letting my mind go.
Success, government criticism, freedom of religion, and hygene are pretty much unknown in the Arab or African worlds also.
I don't agree with the sarcasm you imply. And, that's not necessarily what I'm saying with my original post.
If you wrote a song, and it could only be duplicated a set number of times or only be a 'tangible' item, then I wouldn't have such a problem with normal price of supply/demand. Also, if Joe down the street buys a CD, but doesn't like it and gives it to me, that's not stealing. Most media companies say it is. If Joe down the street wants to copy YOUR music you wrote, that he bought, to all his devices, you're essentially stating that it should be up to you (not him) whether or not he can do that. And, I'm saying, I don't care so much about you getting paid - as most consumers.
If any intangible media is good enough, it WILL turn a profit if handled correctly. Media that isn't good, won't turn a profit regardless of how much the industry tries to force it on the consumer - if the system were perfectly fair.
I'm basically stating that it's ignorant of big media companies to believe that they can completely remove piracy as an alternative to their outrageous demands on the consumer.
I should "adapt" to people who don't feel like paying for my music. I should try to make it "convenient" for them!
As with any industry, yes, you should attempt to adapt. If your current business model is dying, then you should change it - and if not you, others will and you will be an alcoholic bum.
Thank you for reminding me that you have a built-in entitlement to my music, and the only way I can make money off of it is to price it so low that the costs of making and recording my music will never ever be recouped. Down with Capitalism!
Well, I don't expect you to send me all the CDs you make for free (though that would be nice.) But, if I wanted your music and the only way to get it by your terms was to give my left nut or download it, it would have to be REALLY good music for me to pay my left nut.
I'm not saying I have a built-in entitlement to your music. But, you're saying that someone who buys your music also does not have a built-in entitlement. I AM saying that somewhere between those two extremes lies an actual industry significance, and the antiquated business model of yesterday does not dictate today's terms. So, the 'extreme' end being piracy helps to fight the other extreme idea that 'all media should be bought on physical media, treated as tangible, and every copy should be paid for.'
BTW, your music sucks and I wouldn't buy it anyway. Keep practicing, though.
The whole point of piracy, imo, is to make all media (entertainment not limited by the economics of scarcity) more convienient than actually purchasing the media..
/end rant.. gonna eat a banana now.
But, even with piracy, there's annoying costs involved.. It takes a user's time to find the shit. The user has to be skilled enough to extract it, run it, store it, convert it, etc.. Also, users have to rely on each other to package pirated media in convenient forms.
However, if one can pay a small fee to get ready access to their shows from anywhere, then piracy will die down. Once the actual media is more convenient than pirated media, piracy will be less of a problem. IMO, even most tenacious of pirates would rather have Google or Itunes store all their media so they could access it from their set-top boxes, Ipods, PSPs, cell-phones - all without having to take the time to convert it or store it on their own hard drives.
But then, since the media companies are so determined to prove piracy as a bigger problem than it is - as a display of greed not necessarily good for the media industry - they DRM the hell out of everything. So, most people that are used to controlling their own media just ignore everything with DRM.
Piracy, for consumers, IS A GOOD THING. The more consumers pirate, the more media companies will be FORCED to innovate and adapt. If the media companies were entirely in control, we'd probby be forced to listen to only the 10 most-popular songs on Clearchannel, watch reality tv with 1/2 the time being commercials, and call an 800 number to ask permission for every time we use the media.
IMO, what Apple is doing is a GOOD thing. It's just hilariously funny how Apple is doing it while becomming an unecessary middleman since the media companies have their heads so far up their own asses they can't realize that they are NOT in control of what the consumer wants - or even their own media once the consumer consumes it.
I support the principles of piracy.. I think it's morally acceptable to pirate when the pirated media is more convenient (with more features) than the regular media. The marketplace is about the consumer - not the producer. If I decide to put my Chiquita banana on a stripper's tit covered in chocolate and take pictures of it, Chiquita can't cry when I'm not consuming it like a normal monkey. I feel the same way about media companies..
If media companies had their way, they'd have control of our memories and erase everything they could re-sell us. So, we'd even forget we watched a movie or bought the DVD and blindly pay for it again.
I was sitting at a McDonald's with my laptop during a road trip. There were two wifi networks available. One was titled 'McDonald's' and the other was titled 'BetterThanMcDonald's.' I used the latter. I love when people do that..
So that's why your anus is green.. But who wants to mine your anus?
At least a disgruntled employee can burn the entire data center down without an implanted RFID chip...
The lot of us that hates spyware the most need to get a couple Class-Action lawsuits going against the adware/spam companies and the companies that benefit from them. Isn't it already illegal to install backdoors and software that users did not authorize? Isn't it already illegal to take control of a computer (called hacking, right?)??
Why do the makers of worms/viruses get huge criminal punishments and the companies that make money off of adware get 'embarassment'?
If these were reputable companies in the first place, the old adage of "All publicity is good publicity" would not apply. We, as 'smart' users, owe it to the rest of the computing community to do our research, find out who is involved, and sue them until they bleed red.
Hell.. we could get a Wiki going of spyware (if there already isn't one), and which companies are involved, what addresses, countries, etc.. And then start hiring some lawyers to make lots of money off of our suffering..
I don't wanna be the one to start it, though. Fucking fuck. This porno site just popped up and Internet Explorer crashed. I gotta go.
Then you're not a sysadmin; rather, you are a slave.
39 hours per work week (a couple minutes late every day)
10 hours.. on phone with people that don't speak english even though they're 'support' for American companies
2 hours.. drooling over computer parts with coworkers
2 hours.. 'rigging' cute females' computers with problems
10 hours.. Slashdot and other forums
2 hours.. porn
4 hours.. blaming all problems on lack of hardware budget
8 hours.. being condescending to coworkers who make more money than them
1 hour.. fixing computer problems
All overtime is spent eating pizza and fixing computer problems they couldn't fix during their one real hour of work.
My mother, a financial advisor, is a lot more aggressive in our reporting of taxes. It's amazing how much you can save if you know what you're doing over companies like H&R Block. The reason you never got audited with H&R Block is because these 'bulk tax' companies are very conservative with their reporting. The IRS typically doesn't audit people that pay a little over their share.
So ya.. for a normal business, call H&R Block. If you're a financial advisor and have a son willing to do data entry for college money, then do it yourself.
I bought Quicken Deluxe 2006. And, I started entering in a bunch of data. I found a flaw where if you enter data quickly by tabbing through the boxes, it will eliminate the categories you need for reporting taxes..
I spent about 2 hours talking to an Indian guy over chat who barely spoke English who could not help me. He switched me over to a hispanic girl who spoke even less English at me for another 3 hours. Seriously.. both spoke horrible English. About three-fourths of my effort went to trying to communicate with them. Also, they knew shit about Quicken. It was easy to tell I knew more about it than them - just they were there as 'support' for idiots only or something.
Then, I called in the next day and spoke with person after person for another three hours. Each time, I had to duplicate the problem on my end, reinstall Quicken, duplicate the problem again.. and show them how to duplicate it. They duplicated it and still could not tell me how to fix it. They said they will send it to the development team. That was a month ago.. Hopefully they can fix this before tax season.
Whereas, in open source, if there was a problem like this, I could probby get one of the developers to issue a minor quickfix in a matter of days..
Hopefully there's a way to convert all my current data (about 50 hours of entry worth) into GnuCash's format. I'm definitely willing to give it a try..
I already took acid tomorrow and went back to yesterday. Now I'm a day ahead of everyone else.
Have you been to an airport?
Which is a bigger problem in America.. terrorism or the methods the Federal Government are using to fight terrorism?
All I ever hear about is how the Islamists are blowing themselves up like complete idiots in the Middle East.. and how the US Government is blowing money left and right for expensive terrorism-fighting trinkets that a half-way vigilant population could render obsolete.
I did LSD a couple times in high school. Whoa.. it seemed to have awoken something in me because I feel like I think about things and am aware of them more than before..
The one thing I kept thinking about during my 'trips' was how we are so unaware of our own selves. For instance, just a little while ago, my friend showed me how to crack the joint between my thumb and the base of my hand.. I was never aware of that before - and most people aren't aware of it. Some people can move their eyeballs in and out, some can wiggle their ears, some can control their own blood pressure to an extent.
Anyway, as for LSD, it typically enhances contrast to a great degree. In my case, I was able to see where things have been spilled on my floors before, where the paint rollers went on my walls, and I could easily read some of what I had written on paper on my desk by looking at the grooves the pen left behind.
It really made me think that we, as humans, should attempt to be much more aware of ourselves and our environment. Just as blind people develop 'super-hearing' sense, it seems to me we can develop this kind of talent for all our senses - and perhaps even realize new senses.
BTW, kids, don't do LSD. It's bad. Government says so.