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Two down, one to go - 9 April 2007
Apr. 10th, 2007 12:59 amAnother class’s assignments are complete and finished. Two down, one to go. And I’m not real worried about this last one, since I have both time and freedom to do the last parts of it. One presentation Wednesday, one final project, and it’s all over. Then six years culminates in the achievement of my second degree. Wow. When I started, I wasn’t sure I was going to get through one, much less two. Now, the “last task” of my university experience is to get myself a job.
We lead with comedy tonight -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
poncelet puts up a further analysis of the dynamics of the music, err, underpants industry. It’s a fun romp, and if you’ve got a good imagination, visualization will only make things funnier.
Fluffy press release, ahoy! Apparently, The U.S. pays attention to the mouth in deciphering emotion, while in Japan it's the eyes that garner attention. Of which several have already suggested this is the reason why it’s :-) here and ^_^ there.
I have to admire the technique displayed on this particular YTMND highlight - Epic Slut consists of two postings. One offering a trade - 5000 WoW gold for the girl to get her mount, with the reward being that the benefactor gets to mount her. The second post is that such a trade was found to be agreeable and was executed. I suspect both sides of that trade won out quite well.
Poking fun at the president, Ford Motor Co. CEO may have kept the President alive by ensuring that he was in front of the correct port to plug in a hyrbid. There’s nothing there that says the President was actually in any danger of trying to plug into the hydrogen, of course. But the fact that the CEO worried about the president possibly harming himself says something about what we think of Mr. Bush’s intelligence, I think. I wonder whether the White House will bill it as a foiled terrorist attempt.
Speculation on the future of the world,stacis_leak posted eight potential news reports leading the world into a genderless society. One where the equipment you get means pretty close to nothing at all in determining what sort of person you are.
Can’t give anything about the veracity of the source, but Infowars has an article saying the talking cameras will use children's voices to try and reduce the backtalk or defiant action. Considering what the rest of the piece reads as, I’m not putting large bets on it. Those in the area that can hear the cameras, though, do report back and tell us what it sounds like.
Two spots of politics. First, North Korea has said it will allow nuclear inspectors back into the country if $25 million U.S. of funds currently frozen are released. The second part is 500 pages from Ali Allawi detailing how the West (err, Iraq) could have been won.
There are now more than one million living species catalouged. The process is not yet complete, however, and this is only a catalogue of living species, not those extincted or known about by fossil records. And once it’s done, we can send the scientists back out into the field for the update. I wonder if they will have to classify the attempts to grow plants and crops that produce pharmacological substances rather than food when they go out for round two. In other science (SCIENCE!), a process is in testing stages that would turn a biological oil, like soy oil, into a plastic, which could then be shredded and converted into a biofuel. I wonder what the energy requirements on this process are right now, and whether they could be made sufficiently efficient for a more widespread use of this technique. It would certainly help with the waste that is generated on all the things that are wrapped in plastic, like toys.
Last from science is an article in Popular Science about trying to make chips that can communicate as if they were brain cells, using the language of the cells. These are a long way off from human usage, but if they work as planned and can work their way all the way up to human selves, these chips could be one way of staving off Alzheimers and other brain-degenerating diseases. Or they could be one more chip in the transhumanist movement, and start becoming man-machine interfaces. We’ll see how they develop.
Art and a very long tradition, spanning artists - the Gasoline Alley Autumn Walk. Although these days, the characters that began the walk that many years ago are now old, and it sounds like soon, if it hasn’t happened already, the walk will have to pass to a new generation, as the old one won’t be around to enjoy it any more.
Those still in sugar shock over the Spring Festival’s abundance of sweet things would probably be advised to skip the following link, where a 2.25 kilogram Cadbury Egg is constructed in a step-by-step manner.
I think that’s it for me tonight. Tomorrow should be a relaxing sort of day. It’s nice to have one of those. Hopefully, they’ll continue to happen, even as I go off to work and such.
We lead with comedy tonight -
poncelet puts up a further analysis of the dynamics of the music, err, underpants industry. It’s a fun romp, and if you’ve got a good imagination, visualization will only make things funnier.Fluffy press release, ahoy! Apparently, The U.S. pays attention to the mouth in deciphering emotion, while in Japan it's the eyes that garner attention. Of which several have already suggested this is the reason why it’s :-) here and ^_^ there.
I have to admire the technique displayed on this particular YTMND highlight - Epic Slut consists of two postings. One offering a trade - 5000 WoW gold for the girl to get her mount, with the reward being that the benefactor gets to mount her. The second post is that such a trade was found to be agreeable and was executed. I suspect both sides of that trade won out quite well.
Poking fun at the president, Ford Motor Co. CEO may have kept the President alive by ensuring that he was in front of the correct port to plug in a hyrbid. There’s nothing there that says the President was actually in any danger of trying to plug into the hydrogen, of course. But the fact that the CEO worried about the president possibly harming himself says something about what we think of Mr. Bush’s intelligence, I think. I wonder whether the White House will bill it as a foiled terrorist attempt.
Speculation on the future of the world,
stacis_leak posted eight potential news reports leading the world into a genderless society. One where the equipment you get means pretty close to nothing at all in determining what sort of person you are. Can’t give anything about the veracity of the source, but Infowars has an article saying the talking cameras will use children's voices to try and reduce the backtalk or defiant action. Considering what the rest of the piece reads as, I’m not putting large bets on it. Those in the area that can hear the cameras, though, do report back and tell us what it sounds like.
Two spots of politics. First, North Korea has said it will allow nuclear inspectors back into the country if $25 million U.S. of funds currently frozen are released. The second part is 500 pages from Ali Allawi detailing how the West (err, Iraq) could have been won.
There are now more than one million living species catalouged. The process is not yet complete, however, and this is only a catalogue of living species, not those extincted or known about by fossil records. And once it’s done, we can send the scientists back out into the field for the update. I wonder if they will have to classify the attempts to grow plants and crops that produce pharmacological substances rather than food when they go out for round two. In other science (SCIENCE!), a process is in testing stages that would turn a biological oil, like soy oil, into a plastic, which could then be shredded and converted into a biofuel. I wonder what the energy requirements on this process are right now, and whether they could be made sufficiently efficient for a more widespread use of this technique. It would certainly help with the waste that is generated on all the things that are wrapped in plastic, like toys.
Last from science is an article in Popular Science about trying to make chips that can communicate as if they were brain cells, using the language of the cells. These are a long way off from human usage, but if they work as planned and can work their way all the way up to human selves, these chips could be one way of staving off Alzheimers and other brain-degenerating diseases. Or they could be one more chip in the transhumanist movement, and start becoming man-machine interfaces. We’ll see how they develop.
Art and a very long tradition, spanning artists - the Gasoline Alley Autumn Walk. Although these days, the characters that began the walk that many years ago are now old, and it sounds like soon, if it hasn’t happened already, the walk will have to pass to a new generation, as the old one won’t be around to enjoy it any more.
Those still in sugar shock over the Spring Festival’s abundance of sweet things would probably be advised to skip the following link, where a 2.25 kilogram Cadbury Egg is constructed in a step-by-step manner.
I think that’s it for me tonight. Tomorrow should be a relaxing sort of day. It’s nice to have one of those. Hopefully, they’ll continue to happen, even as I go off to work and such.
