Midweek madness

[silveradept]

Mrrrrrg. Absentmindedness flared up again. This time, I got so pissed off about it that I've started setting alarms to appear and asked whether I could get a cheap PDA. Something needs to chirp at me, I guess, to remind me of anything happening. I even wrote this one down and still forgot it. Hopefully, they're not too mand, and I'll be able to make it up on Monday. It wasn't anything significant or important, but it shakes my confidence in being trusted with anything that actually is. I think I'd forget my own birthday, if it wasn't on an important day for this country.

Tomorrow is an international day of Peace. Would that it were truly so, and that the day after was another day of peace, and so forth, and so forth.

Are the first Turing-capable entities going to have the majority of their data from call centers? It's certainly a way to mine things and extract conversational data. Maybe next year, the programs will be that much bigger and better.

And maybe, just maybe, they'll make better decisions than Fox. Fox has decided to lauch FoxFaith, a film unit devoted to making up to 12 films a year aimed for the religious crowd. So we might see a Mini-Passion every month. Doesn't that just make your heart sing?

The Attorney general is asking Congress to require ISPs to save records. "Wont they think of the children?" is his justification.

Speaking of stupid things, the U.S. military is delaying the purchase of a working RPG point-defense system because they'd rather have their contractor develop one. They are playing with lives here, and the dicking around is really a bad thing. Body counts down is good, and this tech might actually help the soliders make some progress towards the objectives of having a peace to keep.

Things you may have never seen on the news or the Internet news - Project Censored's list of the 25 most censored news stories for this year. Headlines like "Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran" that you might not have seen in the NYT. Again, I'm not sure whether these are just overlooked or actively squished, but they may be interesting to peruse. #24 says that Cheney's Haliburton stock went up more than 3000% the last year. Public trust, yes, but are the pols manipulating things so that when they get out, they'll have made significant money?

Anyway, that's all there is from me tonight. Maybe tomorrow I'll feel able to take the day on again.

Comments

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

aren't you worried it will wash off? Then again, I'm one of those people who hates i when my hands are dirty, and that includes when I write on myself by accident with ink, so I don't think I'd be able to willingly write a message on my hand. I remember in middle school, if you bought a ticket for the "dance", they'd stamp your hand so you could get in, and I always hated having to have my hand stamped all day.

Just as long as "I will not tell lies" isn't etched into your hand, it sounds like it works for you.

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

Actually, washing out is the beauty of the system. The hand is a very temporary data storage site. All my phone numbers are in my phone, to-dos and date-relevant things in Google calendar. So if I'm without a computer and need to remember to do something, it goes on the hand. And then as soon as I sit down at a computer, I go online and add it to google calendar (or, Google notebook for to-dos, or to my phone for numbers.) In the morning, I just memorize a list of things I have to do from the calendar (Easy) but if something is particularly important or I need a specific and difficult to memorize number (like a room number for a meeting), I'll write it on the hand.

It's a system that works, but only because I actively use it.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

true. I still think i'd be worried about accidentally washing it off. I mean, I wash my hands a bunch of times in a day.