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Working toward the weekend - 3 May 2007
May. 4th, 2007 12:14 amMixing things up, I’ll lead today’s post off an image. Specifically:
Something that I was rather proud of, considering a significant amount of those questions I don’t know if I was ever actually given the answers in eighth grade science, but I was able to reason out sufficient answers to get a good grade. Yay, thinking skills.
Also, the day after I fretted, my Anime Central badge arrived in the mail, with a nifty lanyard to attach it to. However, if I got the “Tenth Anniversary Special” badge, as I think I may have, I’m rather disappointed in it. Has someone else, who didn’t spring for the anniversary badge, gotten theirs and can describe it to me? I was expecting something a bit more special. In other anime news, speech synthesis software may be used to generate dialogue and narration in anime. Can you tell the real actors from the synthesised ones?
Geocaching is seven years old today. And people thought we’d never find a use for those GPS positioning devices...
The Buddhist Geeks offer up Sangha Start-up, some thoughts and tips on how to make a community of meditators and followers appear, not necessarily when you want them to, but when they decide to appear. Regarding evolving scripture and practice, Cabaret Brainwash has a few offerings to serve up for the serious, practicing, or just curious Discordian. Good images for meditation or chaos may be found in The Illustrated Smiths, which puts visuals to lyrics of songs. And perhaps an adept to follow can be found in William S. Burroughs on his visit with Whitley Streiber... or just Burroughs’s life by itself.
Something I wasn’t aware of, but I think is definitely fun - Time has an article on how drag queens are making bingo appeal to all ages. HIV/AIDS fundraisers with drag queens and dobbers. It doesn’t sound like a combination that would work on face, but after reading the article, I can definitely see where it would be fun.
Exceptions for mother’s health are good things - although they may be starting points. I suspect that a case such as an Irish teenager who wishes to have an abortion, but is blocked by the Irish Health Authority will be one debated in regard to the scope of such a thing. In her case, the doctors say the child will not live past a few days, but the law says she has to carry the child to term anyway. If it does, indeed, follow prediction, then what was the point of bringing the child into the world in the first place? Of course, predictions could be defied. Would a case like this fall under an exception regarding health of the baby or the mother? I’d say it probably wouldn’t. Should it?
Murder verdict delivered for vegan parents whose child died from lack of nutrients. Not necessarily that the child had a lack of food, but that the food itself may have contributed to the death of the child by preventing nutrient absorption or by not providing sufficient amounts of things like breast milk. The line between intentional killing and accidental death is fine, certainly.
The giant political bin starts with yellow ribbons do not "support the troops" - that requires a bit more action. The post also mentions that it’s perfectly okay to support troops while not supporting the politicians prolnoging the conflict. From this reminder, we go to an opinion praising Senator Feinstein's legislation to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Four thousand troops arrived in Iraq, another brigade's worth of troop surge, trying to maintain security and order. The politicitans in Iraq angered politicians in the United States by considering taking a summer recess. Taking time off while there is much left to do is not acceptable for the Iraqi government... of course, our own legislature does it every year, leaving things to be done or killing bills that have not made it to the vote by doing so. For other matters involving the military, the punishment for revealing sensitive information in military blogs is going to get stiffer. It also sounds like the regulations currently in place are going to be enforced more stringently with regard to information posted. This stronger enforcement does not leave everyone happy, especially those that believe military blogging is more true than mainstream media coverage of the war.
Internationally, although this may be a shock to some, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not as far right as things can get in Iran, as he has been accused of indecency by kissing the hand of a woman who was his schoolteacher. Just when you thought you’d hit the extreme, someone comes along to knock the edges further. It has to be a corollary to the “idiot-proof” rule, I swear. Something that pushes that line even further away is images coming to light of a girl being stoned to death as an "honour killing". This kind of violence will beget more violence in vengeance.
If domestic paranoia isn’t enough for you, or you want to see Google Maps put to good mashup/MyMaps work in promoting the idea that terror is all around, look at GlobalIncidentMap.com, which carries all sorts of icons regarding terror, suspected terror, arrests, fires, bombs, and all sorts of violent acts all around the world. It also works in occasions where you really need a buzzkill. If you want a real killer, though, have a look at a MonkeyFilter contributor's account of a band of children ganging up on four men in a park. That account makes me wonder just what’s happening to kids these days. And then I think about my treatment in the Ann Arbor library over the summer, and realize that there’s a good chance that the behavior I had from the teenagers in the library has the same root as the behavior mentioned here. What’s going on these days?
Finally, though, we take a look at what the past thought warfare might have looked like in the future - 1,000-foot tall mobile suit/giant robots. So they went big instead of small. We might eventually get around to them being right. Or maybe the future will have gynoids designed to look like attractive females. Perhaps trying to inspire future scientists and science fiction writers, a collection of pictures of Earth taken from spacecraft. That’s not to say the past doesn’t have a sense of humor itself. A sharpened freeze-frame of a Leave it To Beaver episode discovers that the letters sent home weren't always topical. I’m kind of surprised it doesn’t have the actor’s lines printed on it. In the same vein of delivering your services correctly, always proofread your work in progress, whatever it may be, so that you don’t end up being sued for $25,000 U.S. for misspelling a word and putting the wrong year on someone's tattoo or something similar.
Well before Mother’s Day, Salary.com determines a stay-at-home mother's work is worth $138,095 U.S. a year. Motherhood is a full-time job. Government and work treating it as such would be a welcome change from current assistance and leave policies.
An errant word is more and more likely to result in potentially strong consequences, as politicians in Canada are calling for the head of the national team's captain over a complaint he made to his goaltender about the officiating - “French referees in Montreal”, specifically. There’s also the Vatican calling a comedian's comments about the Church's decisions and lack of evolution "terrorism". Nothing up to the level of remarks in the States, I’d say, and certainly not up to Bill O'Reilly's use of a derogatory word about once every seven seconds on his program or the JV and Elvis show's "comedy" regarding Asian Americans.
The stupidity factor looms large in a judge deciding to sue a dry-cleaning shop for $65 million U.S., claiming that he never got his pants back from them. The shop owners say that they found the pants a day or two after the judge was scheduled to pick them up, and returned them to him. They’ve even offered settlements, but the judge apparently wants his pound of flesh on this matter. We think that this case will probably have similar results.
Check out this Google Maps mashup (or MyMap, whichever it may be) - fifty Dunkin' Donuts within five miles of Downtown Crossing in Boston. It’s kind of like Starbucks around the nation, or the ABC stores in Hawai’i. Aieeeeee!
Tiny terrier keeps five tots alive when two pit bulls attacked the children. The terrier had to be put down because of injuries suffered while tussling with the two bigger dogs. The two pit bulls are also likely to be put down because of their bad behavior.
Two things, from Planet Ark. The first says environmental satellites are in danger, as military and human flight objectives take up more of the Untied States budget, which could lead to gaps in forecasting service or not being able to make predictions like Bangkok's possible flooding in the next twenty years.
On the tail end are thirty-two tattoos of a video game or science fiction nature, several of which are rather detailed. If that doesn’t work for you, how about cute pictures of baby kangaroos and newborn hedgehogs? Still no? Perhaps you’ll be amazed by the knitter that made a glove for a hand chair? Or perhaps the mouse peripheral that is now also a VoIP telephone? Nothing? Even a Boeing 737 left on a city road in India probably won’t interest you then. If none of that works, maybe I can get a reaction by showing off the one hundred kilogram gold coin?
No? Well, I’m going to bed, then. The rest of you can figure out your own damn entertainment.
Something that I was rather proud of, considering a significant amount of those questions I don’t know if I was ever actually given the answers in eighth grade science, but I was able to reason out sufficient answers to get a good grade. Yay, thinking skills.
Also, the day after I fretted, my Anime Central badge arrived in the mail, with a nifty lanyard to attach it to. However, if I got the “Tenth Anniversary Special” badge, as I think I may have, I’m rather disappointed in it. Has someone else, who didn’t spring for the anniversary badge, gotten theirs and can describe it to me? I was expecting something a bit more special. In other anime news, speech synthesis software may be used to generate dialogue and narration in anime. Can you tell the real actors from the synthesised ones?
Geocaching is seven years old today. And people thought we’d never find a use for those GPS positioning devices...
The Buddhist Geeks offer up Sangha Start-up, some thoughts and tips on how to make a community of meditators and followers appear, not necessarily when you want them to, but when they decide to appear. Regarding evolving scripture and practice, Cabaret Brainwash has a few offerings to serve up for the serious, practicing, or just curious Discordian. Good images for meditation or chaos may be found in The Illustrated Smiths, which puts visuals to lyrics of songs. And perhaps an adept to follow can be found in William S. Burroughs on his visit with Whitley Streiber... or just Burroughs’s life by itself.
Something I wasn’t aware of, but I think is definitely fun - Time has an article on how drag queens are making bingo appeal to all ages. HIV/AIDS fundraisers with drag queens and dobbers. It doesn’t sound like a combination that would work on face, but after reading the article, I can definitely see where it would be fun.
Exceptions for mother’s health are good things - although they may be starting points. I suspect that a case such as an Irish teenager who wishes to have an abortion, but is blocked by the Irish Health Authority will be one debated in regard to the scope of such a thing. In her case, the doctors say the child will not live past a few days, but the law says she has to carry the child to term anyway. If it does, indeed, follow prediction, then what was the point of bringing the child into the world in the first place? Of course, predictions could be defied. Would a case like this fall under an exception regarding health of the baby or the mother? I’d say it probably wouldn’t. Should it?
Murder verdict delivered for vegan parents whose child died from lack of nutrients. Not necessarily that the child had a lack of food, but that the food itself may have contributed to the death of the child by preventing nutrient absorption or by not providing sufficient amounts of things like breast milk. The line between intentional killing and accidental death is fine, certainly.
The giant political bin starts with yellow ribbons do not "support the troops" - that requires a bit more action. The post also mentions that it’s perfectly okay to support troops while not supporting the politicians prolnoging the conflict. From this reminder, we go to an opinion praising Senator Feinstein's legislation to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Four thousand troops arrived in Iraq, another brigade's worth of troop surge, trying to maintain security and order. The politicitans in Iraq angered politicians in the United States by considering taking a summer recess. Taking time off while there is much left to do is not acceptable for the Iraqi government... of course, our own legislature does it every year, leaving things to be done or killing bills that have not made it to the vote by doing so. For other matters involving the military, the punishment for revealing sensitive information in military blogs is going to get stiffer. It also sounds like the regulations currently in place are going to be enforced more stringently with regard to information posted. This stronger enforcement does not leave everyone happy, especially those that believe military blogging is more true than mainstream media coverage of the war.
Internationally, although this may be a shock to some, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not as far right as things can get in Iran, as he has been accused of indecency by kissing the hand of a woman who was his schoolteacher. Just when you thought you’d hit the extreme, someone comes along to knock the edges further. It has to be a corollary to the “idiot-proof” rule, I swear. Something that pushes that line even further away is images coming to light of a girl being stoned to death as an "honour killing". This kind of violence will beget more violence in vengeance.
If domestic paranoia isn’t enough for you, or you want to see Google Maps put to good mashup/MyMaps work in promoting the idea that terror is all around, look at GlobalIncidentMap.com, which carries all sorts of icons regarding terror, suspected terror, arrests, fires, bombs, and all sorts of violent acts all around the world. It also works in occasions where you really need a buzzkill. If you want a real killer, though, have a look at a MonkeyFilter contributor's account of a band of children ganging up on four men in a park. That account makes me wonder just what’s happening to kids these days. And then I think about my treatment in the Ann Arbor library over the summer, and realize that there’s a good chance that the behavior I had from the teenagers in the library has the same root as the behavior mentioned here. What’s going on these days?
Finally, though, we take a look at what the past thought warfare might have looked like in the future - 1,000-foot tall mobile suit/giant robots. So they went big instead of small. We might eventually get around to them being right. Or maybe the future will have gynoids designed to look like attractive females. Perhaps trying to inspire future scientists and science fiction writers, a collection of pictures of Earth taken from spacecraft. That’s not to say the past doesn’t have a sense of humor itself. A sharpened freeze-frame of a Leave it To Beaver episode discovers that the letters sent home weren't always topical. I’m kind of surprised it doesn’t have the actor’s lines printed on it. In the same vein of delivering your services correctly, always proofread your work in progress, whatever it may be, so that you don’t end up being sued for $25,000 U.S. for misspelling a word and putting the wrong year on someone's tattoo or something similar.
Well before Mother’s Day, Salary.com determines a stay-at-home mother's work is worth $138,095 U.S. a year. Motherhood is a full-time job. Government and work treating it as such would be a welcome change from current assistance and leave policies.
An errant word is more and more likely to result in potentially strong consequences, as politicians in Canada are calling for the head of the national team's captain over a complaint he made to his goaltender about the officiating - “French referees in Montreal”, specifically. There’s also the Vatican calling a comedian's comments about the Church's decisions and lack of evolution "terrorism". Nothing up to the level of remarks in the States, I’d say, and certainly not up to Bill O'Reilly's use of a derogatory word about once every seven seconds on his program or the JV and Elvis show's "comedy" regarding Asian Americans.
The stupidity factor looms large in a judge deciding to sue a dry-cleaning shop for $65 million U.S., claiming that he never got his pants back from them. The shop owners say that they found the pants a day or two after the judge was scheduled to pick them up, and returned them to him. They’ve even offered settlements, but the judge apparently wants his pound of flesh on this matter. We think that this case will probably have similar results.
Check out this Google Maps mashup (or MyMap, whichever it may be) - fifty Dunkin' Donuts within five miles of Downtown Crossing in Boston. It’s kind of like Starbucks around the nation, or the ABC stores in Hawai’i. Aieeeeee!
Tiny terrier keeps five tots alive when two pit bulls attacked the children. The terrier had to be put down because of injuries suffered while tussling with the two bigger dogs. The two pit bulls are also likely to be put down because of their bad behavior.
Two things, from Planet Ark. The first says environmental satellites are in danger, as military and human flight objectives take up more of the Untied States budget, which could lead to gaps in forecasting service or not being able to make predictions like Bangkok's possible flooding in the next twenty years.
On the tail end are thirty-two tattoos of a video game or science fiction nature, several of which are rather detailed. If that doesn’t work for you, how about cute pictures of baby kangaroos and newborn hedgehogs? Still no? Perhaps you’ll be amazed by the knitter that made a glove for a hand chair? Or perhaps the mouse peripheral that is now also a VoIP telephone? Nothing? Even a Boeing 737 left on a city road in India probably won’t interest you then. If none of that works, maybe I can get a reaction by showing off the one hundred kilogram gold coin?
No? Well, I’m going to bed, then. The rest of you can figure out your own damn entertainment.
