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The latest side affect discovery may hopefully put a lot of people’s fears to rest.
Some call it "phantom vibration syndrome”, others “vibranxiety”, either way you describe it, how many of you have thought you have felt your phone vibrating, only to pull it out and find it thoroughly asleep? I know it has happened to me countless times, and I had begun to wonder whether I was crazy; or at least, more crazy.

Well, Canadian blogger Steven Garrity had the same problem, and with a blog under his belt, he decided to put it out there for people to comment on. More than 30 cellphone users replied describing similar symptoms. "I ended up hearing from a lot of people who said, 'Hey, the exact same thing happens to me,' " Garrity says. "And it was somewhat comforting, because it made me think I wasn't insane, after all."

So is it nerve damage or muscle memory, or simply your mind playing tricks on you?
According to Jeffrey Janata, director of the behavioral medicine program at University Hospitals in Cleveland, it’s in your mind. "You come armed with this template that leads you to be attentive to sensations that represent a cellphone vibrating," Janata says. "And it leads you to over-incorporate non-vibratory sensations and attribute them to the idea that you're receiving a phone call."

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“ Laziness

The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book. See also impatience and hubris. (p.609)

Impatience

The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to. Hence, the second great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and hubris. (p.608)

Hubris

Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zaps you for. Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about. Hence, the third great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and impatience. (p.607) ”

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“ The dream of running a small cafe has nothing to do with the excitement of entrepreneurship or the joys of being one's own boss—none of us would ever consider opening a Laundromat or a stationery store, and even the most delusional can see that an independent bookshop is a bad idea these days. The small cafe connects to the fantasy of throwing a perpetual dinner party, and it cuts deeper—all the way to Barbie tea sets—than any other capitalist urge. To a couple in the throes of the cafe dream, money is almost an afterthought. Which is good, because they're going to lose a lot of it. ”

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