Wow, lots done today.
Oct. 20th, 2006 02:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptBefore I get to the entry, here's a spam subject I garnered a few days ago: Penis launcher. [SNL Sean Connery] What I want to know, is will it really launch my penis? [/SNL Sean Connery]
Productive sort of day. Put down draft one on the project. Got it shredded horribly. Now must go back over it with the fine-tooth comb and actually try to get it so that it respects the reader rather than condescending to them. Meaning absoultely zero meaningful progress. And there's still that Mod-damn paper associated with it. Beyond that, other projects loom upon the horizon, some of which I'm starting to get a little nervous about. I shouldn't, because there will be enough time to get everything done. I think. Well, there should be enough time, anyway.
I did go to a field hockey game - Michigan won, 5-1, having taken in excess of thirty shots and been awarded eighteen penalty corners. And I was pleasantly surprised to find that the graduate-school sponsored event at the local arcades meant that the machines were on free play for three hours. So I vanquished the motion-capture boxing game, for which I sport raw spots on both of my index fingers, right by the knuckle on each. There was DDR and ParaPara, Time Crisis, and a little Donkey Kong and Centipede. Also, took a swing at the Arcade Soul Calibur III... and was not impressed at all. Bring back Conquest mode, d00ds.
Politics leads again, not necessarily by volume, but because I want it to be furthest away from the things that might induce happiness. So we start with the thing that's been expected. Again, by signing the Military Comissions Act, habeas corpus has been effectively killed, and now only exists at the President's whim. Of which Keith Olbermann responds: "Your words are lies, Sir. They are lies, that imperil us all". Among other things. The Daily Kos tells us that the President has (has had?) the power to ship National Guardsmen wherever in the United States he pleases, despite the Guard being formed as State institutions and not permitted to be used in the enforcement of the law - unless the place in question is under martial law. Election squashing, perhaps, Kos says. Prison Planet takes the idea further and says bloggers, journalists, or people who express a dissenting view will be classified enemy combatants and summarily have their rights stripped, turning the freewheeling Web more into something like China's restricted web. As always, we hope it never comes to this. But if at some point I should disappear, come looking for me, okay? Last, and not as related, something we all knew already - the no-fly lists are a joke. Not really able to catch anyone while pissing off plenty of other people in the process.
Tetrahedral rover bots learning how to adapt their shape to get around obstacles. This could be great things for exploratory programs, as well as other robot ground drone uses. With the United States asserting that it will protect itself, even in spaaaaaaaace, though, it might take a while before we get to see those tetrahedrons fully at work. Other science news says that taking Tamiflu, the popular anti bird-flu drug, could produce a resistant strain. Aw, gee, really? And even moreso, University of Florida researchers are saying we're all becoming a bunch of coke fiends, and going to die from it. What I wonder is where they're getting the money for that kind of habit.
The most encouraging science article here says that soon, it may be possible to pilot a wheelchair or use a computer with an implant and Meindpowerz. But by far the most interesting link, which only peripherally uses science, and probably in an abusive way is How To Destroy the Earth With a Coffee Can. Well, it also needs a picture and a way of making antimatter exist in the universe longer than Planck time, but such things are unimportant.
And the last science link is a note that the entirety of Charles Darwin's works have been digitized and are available. So now everyone can examine the evidence for themselves.
Two lists of interest, in terms of people who complain that Hollywood is all liberals - here's the top 25 liberal actors, according to celebpolitics.com, and then the top 25 conservative actors, same source. Whoops. Looking at the money amounts, maybe Hollywood really is a bunch of liberals. My bad.
Perhaps the source of the "Celebrity Boob Twin" meme going about, here's apparently a list of celebrity brassiere sizes. What I find much more interesting than looking for a specific celebrity is looking at the entire list and noticing that there's no 40-anything, and B and C dominates, with D and A duking it out for second place. You would think that there was some sort of idealized image of the perfect woman's breast size, and that our female celebrities have to be reasonably close to the mark (smaller is apparently more okay than larger?) to achieve their fame. So, is it the acting, or the good looks?
The digital world is a tax nightmare, to some degree. So much so that tax officials are contemplating rules to take their cut of virtual currencies, especially those that can be converted into real cash or sold for real cash.
A scrapbook in a milk carton. Perfect for the people who worry that the face on the milk carton is them, and they need to keep a secret diary of their exploits.
The last marker for tonight is removed from the frazzle of politics and science and tax law and other such stressing things, and reminds us that in all our workings with the universe, what we experience often trumps what we learn, and that books are a great jumping-off point, but to expect all things to go strictly by the book is to miss important things. (Which is funny. As a professional who makes his living pointing people to books, this should probably disturb me rather than delight me.) This story of finding different and additional aspects to the ones described in the books tells us that we should be aware of this in other places - like interacting with other people. One never knows when someone you wouldn't normally think of as an advice-giver has a spot-on piece of wisdom.
Speaking of wisdom, mine says bedtime is a good thing. G'night.
Productive sort of day. Put down draft one on the project. Got it shredded horribly. Now must go back over it with the fine-tooth comb and actually try to get it so that it respects the reader rather than condescending to them. Meaning absoultely zero meaningful progress. And there's still that Mod-damn paper associated with it. Beyond that, other projects loom upon the horizon, some of which I'm starting to get a little nervous about. I shouldn't, because there will be enough time to get everything done. I think. Well, there should be enough time, anyway.
I did go to a field hockey game - Michigan won, 5-1, having taken in excess of thirty shots and been awarded eighteen penalty corners. And I was pleasantly surprised to find that the graduate-school sponsored event at the local arcades meant that the machines were on free play for three hours. So I vanquished the motion-capture boxing game, for which I sport raw spots on both of my index fingers, right by the knuckle on each. There was DDR and ParaPara, Time Crisis, and a little Donkey Kong and Centipede. Also, took a swing at the Arcade Soul Calibur III... and was not impressed at all. Bring back Conquest mode, d00ds.
Politics leads again, not necessarily by volume, but because I want it to be furthest away from the things that might induce happiness. So we start with the thing that's been expected. Again, by signing the Military Comissions Act, habeas corpus has been effectively killed, and now only exists at the President's whim. Of which Keith Olbermann responds: "Your words are lies, Sir. They are lies, that imperil us all". Among other things. The Daily Kos tells us that the President has (has had?) the power to ship National Guardsmen wherever in the United States he pleases, despite the Guard being formed as State institutions and not permitted to be used in the enforcement of the law - unless the place in question is under martial law. Election squashing, perhaps, Kos says. Prison Planet takes the idea further and says bloggers, journalists, or people who express a dissenting view will be classified enemy combatants and summarily have their rights stripped, turning the freewheeling Web more into something like China's restricted web. As always, we hope it never comes to this. But if at some point I should disappear, come looking for me, okay? Last, and not as related, something we all knew already - the no-fly lists are a joke. Not really able to catch anyone while pissing off plenty of other people in the process.
Tetrahedral rover bots learning how to adapt their shape to get around obstacles. This could be great things for exploratory programs, as well as other robot ground drone uses. With the United States asserting that it will protect itself, even in spaaaaaaaace, though, it might take a while before we get to see those tetrahedrons fully at work. Other science news says that taking Tamiflu, the popular anti bird-flu drug, could produce a resistant strain. Aw, gee, really? And even moreso, University of Florida researchers are saying we're all becoming a bunch of coke fiends, and going to die from it. What I wonder is where they're getting the money for that kind of habit.
The most encouraging science article here says that soon, it may be possible to pilot a wheelchair or use a computer with an implant and Meindpowerz. But by far the most interesting link, which only peripherally uses science, and probably in an abusive way is How To Destroy the Earth With a Coffee Can. Well, it also needs a picture and a way of making antimatter exist in the universe longer than Planck time, but such things are unimportant.
And the last science link is a note that the entirety of Charles Darwin's works have been digitized and are available. So now everyone can examine the evidence for themselves.
Two lists of interest, in terms of people who complain that Hollywood is all liberals - here's the top 25 liberal actors, according to celebpolitics.com, and then the top 25 conservative actors, same source. Whoops. Looking at the money amounts, maybe Hollywood really is a bunch of liberals. My bad.
Perhaps the source of the "Celebrity Boob Twin" meme going about, here's apparently a list of celebrity brassiere sizes. What I find much more interesting than looking for a specific celebrity is looking at the entire list and noticing that there's no 40-anything, and B and C dominates, with D and A duking it out for second place. You would think that there was some sort of idealized image of the perfect woman's breast size, and that our female celebrities have to be reasonably close to the mark (smaller is apparently more okay than larger?) to achieve their fame. So, is it the acting, or the good looks?
The digital world is a tax nightmare, to some degree. So much so that tax officials are contemplating rules to take their cut of virtual currencies, especially those that can be converted into real cash or sold for real cash.
A scrapbook in a milk carton. Perfect for the people who worry that the face on the milk carton is them, and they need to keep a secret diary of their exploits.
The last marker for tonight is removed from the frazzle of politics and science and tax law and other such stressing things, and reminds us that in all our workings with the universe, what we experience often trumps what we learn, and that books are a great jumping-off point, but to expect all things to go strictly by the book is to miss important things. (Which is funny. As a professional who makes his living pointing people to books, this should probably disturb me rather than delight me.) This story of finding different and additional aspects to the ones described in the books tells us that we should be aware of this in other places - like interacting with other people. One never knows when someone you wouldn't normally think of as an advice-giver has a spot-on piece of wisdom.
Speaking of wisdom, mine says bedtime is a good thing. G'night.
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Date: 2006-10-20 04:37 pm (UTC)