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A Room Full of Lion Tamers
To tame a lion, you need a good chair. That’s one of the lessons that Dave Hoover, a wild animal trainer, shares in Errol Morris’s documentary Fast, Cheap and Out of Control. Why a chair? Because, he explains, a cat has only one point of interest. If a lion’s charging at you, it’s best to shove four points of interest into his face. Presented with the four focal points of the chair legs, that lion becomes confused and forgets his primary thought—“Eat the man in the white pants!” This works, by the way. I’ve tried it with my housecats....
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Defragging at Glen West
I'm a Mac user now, but back when I had PCs, I would occasionally run a utility called “disk defragmenter.” You'd click some options and after several grinding minutes you'd get a message like, “Your disk is 46% fragmented. Defragment?” I doubt anyone really understood what it did. It was just something to try when your system got sluggish, crashed a lot, or generally acted overwhelmed and cranky. And it was fun to watch all the little squares of colors....
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