TORQUE: In Which Adam Scott Has A BIG-ASS KEY.

TORQUE: In which Adam Scott has a BIG-ASS KEY.

Puppet love.

Ask MetaFilter: Why Am I Addicted to the Internet?

zachawry: Your brain gives you a little shot of dopamine every time it gains another piece of information. Yep, the Internet uses the same neural positive feedback mechanism as cocaine.

jessamyn: Temple Grandin has a quote about how the "seeking behavior" is a more powerful brain feelgood motivator than nearly anything else, more than food, sex, whatever...it's turning in to a place where things are happening and wondering "What happens next?" and looking to find out.

Temple Grandin:

We have a lot of evidence that the reason a drug like cocaine feels good is that it's intensely stimulating to the SEEKING system in the brain, not to any pleasure center...that's what feels good: being excited about things and intensely interested in what's going on -- being what people used to call "high on life!"

...Humans enjoy any kind of hunt: they like hunting through flea markets for hidden finds; they like hunting for answers to medical problems on the Internet; they like hunting for the ultimate meaning of life in church or in a philosophy seminar. All of those activities come out of the same system in the brain.

Not only does this make perfect sense re: my tendency to browse the Internet endlessly in hopes of finding cool stuff, but it also explains why I'll read ONTD live discussions of things like Sister Wives that I don't even watch. It's my brain going "Oh my god! Everyone's so excited about this! What will happen next??"

tl;dr version of this post: Tumblr = cocaine.

ABREE REVIEWS APPLES, PART 2

The apple on the hot seat today: the Golden Delicious!

These taste just like the Pink Ladies. Am I doing apple-eating wrong?

traversetwilight: #i miss the old bride  #this new bitch thinks she's super clever with her murder puns 

Not to mention her delicate, child-sized axe. That thing couldn't cut a cantelope in half, let alone take off a dude's head!