Tattoos are ugly.

I don't like tattoos. I think they're ugly and that people look better without them.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind tattoo art. There are some amazing tattoo artists. I just don't like markings on the skin.

I realize I sound old- fashioned. I'm about 10 years older than when tattoos became acceptable - especially for young women. The Brittany Spears of the world.

Now I think at least half of women under the age of 35 have tattoos.

When you're young, you want a tattoo because they're cool. You don't think about how the tattoo is going to look on your loose, wrinkled skin when you're 50 years old.

I believe people generally don't like the decisions their younger selves made. Tattoos are the perfect example. Your younger self makes a short-sighted, dumb decision that your body has to live with its whole life.

A computer can predict what I do.

This is perhaps the most frustrating game ever. It's called MindReader and the goal is to fool the computer by randomly pressing a 1 or 0. Meanwhile, the computer is trying to "read your mind" and predict whether you're going to press 0 or 1.

The first one to 100 wins. I've played 5 times and I haven't even been close to winning. In other words, the computer has successfully out-predicted me 5 times in a row - and by huge margins.

The computer uses math; specifically a "Context-Tree Weighting Method", which the programmers call "adequate". The computer uses math to read my mind and predict what I'm going to do next. Even when I try to be unpredictable, the computer still wins.

This scares and amazes me. It scares me because it shows that I'm not so unique after all. I can be predicted. It amazes me because this knowledge can be used to predict how people will react in certain situations. It takes the uncertainty out of behaviour.

The most interesting thing is that the computer predicts my next move even before I've consciously made it. The 2 or 3 seconds of my brain's reasoning is totally useless. I should just have a computer make all my decisions for me.

In the end, it will have chosen what I would have chosen most of the time anyway.