“Why don’t I have a girlfriend?

I am convinced that the situation can be readily explained in purely scientific terms.

…the potential girlfriend must be approximately my age, must be beautiful,
she must also be reasonably intelligent.”.
(Tristan Miller)

A PC for 99 $: the E-Way TU Tiny 200.

Tiny (dimensions: 11.5 x 11.5 x 3.5 cm; weight: 500 g.) has 128 MB Ram, a fanless 200Mhz CPU, 3 USB ports, and a Compact Flash slot; includes LAN, VGA, and audio.

The TU Tiny is compatible with Linux (for example with Puppy Linux, that runs using a 128MB USB Flash Card).

See also: the NorhTech MicroClient Jr, that share the same concept and design.

“The intricacies of human language may have fouled them up, or perhaps unfortunate slips of the tongue led them to ignominy. Whatever the case, there’s a lot to laugh at.”.

Things People Said. A RinkWorks production.

Some examples:

Kids’ Ideas About Love

“Lovers will just be staring at each other and their food will get cold.
Other people care more about the food.”.
Brad, age 8

The Language Barrier

“Please do not feed the animals.
If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.”.
A sign in a Budapest zoo

Warning Labels

“Do not use for drying pets.”.
In the manual for a microwave oven

Oh be the music in my head,
the air around my bed, oh be my rest.
Replace the small disgraces of
the times and places that I never really left.

Did you leave the darkness without me?
You’re always miles ahead.
And you’re standing in tomorrow on the runway.

The Innocence Mission: Tomorrow On The Runway.
(from Befriended, 2003)

“Yesterday’s tomorrow, today.”. Modern Mechanix: what modern was. Enlightening.

Above: Era Magnetic Drum Storage Systems, advertisement, detail.
(Scientific American, 1953)
See under advertisements and computers.

“All Over Coffee strips are time bombs, moments that on the surface appear meaningless or random, but later, while going about your day, trigger connections.

These settings of absent streets offer a space where, seemingly, no one exists.

Like the conversations where we must imagine the speakers, we must also project them into these spaces. At first, the emptiness of these scenes appear normal, but then the absence of life draws us in.
Without people or cars, there is room for us.
There is a dream-like safety, and quietness for our imaginations.”.

(Paul Madonna)

All Over Coffee, by Paul Madonna.
Published every Sunday in the San Francisco Chronicle.

A song by (The Real) Tuesday Weld.
Animation by Aleksey Budovsky (Figli-Migli Productions).

“This film* is based on Stephen Coates’ song from the album When Psyche meets Cupid.

The animation tells a story of a prisoner who works in a prison’s gramophone factory and while assembling gramophones thinks of his girlfriend.”.

*Requires Quick Time Player and broadband. (File size: 26Mb)

The Nonverbal Dictionary Of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues by David B. Givens:

“Items in this Dictionary have been researched by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, linguists, psychiatrists, psychologists, semioticians, and others who have studied human communication from a scientific point of view.”.

From Proxemics:

“I have learned to depend more on what people do than what they say in response to a direct question, to pay close attention to that which cannot be consciously manipulated, and to look for patterns rather than content.”.
(Edward T. Hall, 1968)

“Humanclock.com shows a photograph of the current time,
with the photo changing every minute of the day (all 1,440 occuring minutes on Earth!).”.

The Human Clock – A Clock Photo for Every Minute of the Day. By Daniel Craig Giffen.

“Stephen Barnwell has been an artist and illustrator for over twenty years. His work has appeared in numerous books, magazines, websites, gaming products, films, and plays.”.

“A recognized artist in the moneyart genre.”. See, for example, his Dream-Dollars.