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Aftermath - 15 Feburary 2007
Today was a day lost to the maw of Rails programming. I got up late for lab, but still managed to get there. It didn’t turn out to be as helpful as I though, but with the great assistance of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
unspeakablevorn, I was able to finally make some progress on things. After which, I promptly hit another barrier, which I will try to work through tomorrow.
There’s a monstrosity of links, so get comfortable.
Salmonella outbreak in peanut butter. If you have Peter Pan or Wal-Mart brand, check out your jars for a product code beginning with “2111” - if it’s there, toss the jar. Could be contaminated.
Inflatable Power Jacket. For people who need some help in making their muscles work again, or those who prefer the stylish portability of an exoskeleton over raw power. It could have been useful for this X-Box 360 that was masquerading as a PS3 - assuming that all the PS3’s claims about being more powerful are true. On the computer end, though, IBM unveiled a new type of on-chip memory that claims the fastest access times recorded. This being on-chip memory, it’s not something we’d slot in, but something more like cache memory for the processors, right? In terms of non-volitaile RAM, like flash memory, Nanowerk describes research being done on telescoping nanotubes that claims to make really fast memory on this sort. If speed goes up, then that’ll be nice - but some new protocols may have to be designed to permit data transfer at speeds that the new memory type will be capable of. From there, we can implement three-dimensional images that will be manipulated through gestures or speech. All of this technofascination, Joel Johnson says, leads to people shelling out ridiculous cash for early adoption. And to him, Web sites that hype all this new gadgetry are only promoting the whoring out of those early adopters, continuing the cycle of stupidity.
After many, many years of trying to get kids not to eat Legos, Kellogg has introduced a line of Lego fruit gummies. Now parents will have to discern between the building Legos and the eating ones.
More research on marijuana forthcoming, despite the D.E.A., apparently. The focus seems to be on painkilling, especially in patients with chronic or terminal conditions. It’s a start. Maybe after that, they can do research on other effects that marijuana or cannabinoids havr been put to, or others that it could be put to. Might help make marijuana legal all over the country. Or, the results of the research might be buried, subjected to a smear campaign, or other things designed to nix their credibility. Time will tell.
It’s not quite Live Aid (actually, nothing is quite Live Aid, and I might be totally off in making this reference), but Al Gore has a musical lineup for a climate change awareness concert tour. Good to be getting the word out about what we need to do. If one of the Saudi branches of al-Qaeda is successful, though, the United States may slow down on climate change, but have to pick up on alternative fuels. The group has called for a cutting-off of oil supplies to the United States, by any means necessary. Maybe that kind of threat, taken seriously, would kickstart the U.S. into producing efficient, renewable fuels and power sources. Maybe not. If the quotes that the Creative Generalist pulls from The Long Emergency are true, we've only got a small amount of time to get with the program... assuming we decide to spare the processing cycles to do so. With the amount of information we’re producing, we also have to factor in that data center energy consumption is double waht it was in 2000. Putting everything on the Web means having and using the energy to keep it all running.
Domestic politics: A bill to repeal the Military Commission Act has been introduced. New Congress, new legislation. Hopefully, it passes. And then we can take bets on whether the President will exercise another veto. Members of the Congress are also trying to pass a bill that would require agencies to be more public with their information and reporting, using the Freedom of Information Act as a launch point for the new bill. In terms of the nonbinding resolution, the conservative strategy is not to talk about the surge, or Iraq, but about the "radical Islamic movement". (Hat tip to ThinkProgress) At least they’re admitting that, y’know, if they talked about the issues, they’d get whipped.
Fittingly, one of the biggest redevelopment projects in a city know for its music is Musician's Village - although the people trying to get in sometimes have to scramble for paperwork to prove they’ve got enough of a regular income to may their mortgages.
With the prevalence of materials designed to permit sexual function long into the late years of life, it would follow that sex ed classes for the elderly are being held. Along with those just getting to the age of consent, those well into the upper decades are the people most in need of good sex ed, because they may not know about all the tools and tricks that are available now. Reinterpreting “sex ed” just slightly, shifting the focus away from humans, several zoos are offering tours about the how and when of animal sex.
Drinking and driving may get harder, if technology created by Toyota Motor Corporation ends up being mandated into all vehicles. An ignition interlock could detect blood-alcohol content or unfocused pupils and refuse to start/stop the vehicle if already driving until the occupant was sober. Or sober enough, depending on the settings. Could make for a very interesting night if someone drove in to have some drinks, and then got driven out at last call - depending on how much they’d had, the car might be where they slept for the night.
In other car stuff, DaimlerChrysler might be letting go of the Chrysler part. In doing so, they’d have to find a buyer, or expect the automaker to survive on its own, a dim prospect for American automakers at the moment.
Some JetBlue passengers spent more than 10 hours on a plane. And no, there were no motherf---ing snakes on the planes. Just ice and snow around them. The company apparently was concerned about passengers hurting themselves, but they waited a really long time before actually getting the people off and back to JFK. Were they expecting the storm to just pass by?
The human brain can actually make new brain cells. Which sort of knocks out what we were told earlier about them, and suggests that degenerative diseases of the brain, like those of the body, could be beaten with care and stem cells. By now, stem cells are like midichlorians, I guess - they’ve got this all-healing, all-encompassing Force in them, or something. Well, bottoms up to science, and hope they figure out what they can and can’t use, and how, in my lifetime.
Something that may be of use to anyone living in or visiting Australia - the map of the public toilets. All sorts of tools there to make sure you’re never too far away from a loo.
So that’s what happened Yesterday.. I promise to get back on schedule today, and not let Rails suck away the rest of my soul and working hours.
unspeakablevorn, I was able to finally make some progress on things. After which, I promptly hit another barrier, which I will try to work through tomorrow. There’s a monstrosity of links, so get comfortable.
Salmonella outbreak in peanut butter. If you have Peter Pan or Wal-Mart brand, check out your jars for a product code beginning with “2111” - if it’s there, toss the jar. Could be contaminated.
Inflatable Power Jacket. For people who need some help in making their muscles work again, or those who prefer the stylish portability of an exoskeleton over raw power. It could have been useful for this X-Box 360 that was masquerading as a PS3 - assuming that all the PS3’s claims about being more powerful are true. On the computer end, though, IBM unveiled a new type of on-chip memory that claims the fastest access times recorded. This being on-chip memory, it’s not something we’d slot in, but something more like cache memory for the processors, right? In terms of non-volitaile RAM, like flash memory, Nanowerk describes research being done on telescoping nanotubes that claims to make really fast memory on this sort. If speed goes up, then that’ll be nice - but some new protocols may have to be designed to permit data transfer at speeds that the new memory type will be capable of. From there, we can implement three-dimensional images that will be manipulated through gestures or speech. All of this technofascination, Joel Johnson says, leads to people shelling out ridiculous cash for early adoption. And to him, Web sites that hype all this new gadgetry are only promoting the whoring out of those early adopters, continuing the cycle of stupidity.
After many, many years of trying to get kids not to eat Legos, Kellogg has introduced a line of Lego fruit gummies. Now parents will have to discern between the building Legos and the eating ones.
More research on marijuana forthcoming, despite the D.E.A., apparently. The focus seems to be on painkilling, especially in patients with chronic or terminal conditions. It’s a start. Maybe after that, they can do research on other effects that marijuana or cannabinoids havr been put to, or others that it could be put to. Might help make marijuana legal all over the country. Or, the results of the research might be buried, subjected to a smear campaign, or other things designed to nix their credibility. Time will tell.
It’s not quite Live Aid (actually, nothing is quite Live Aid, and I might be totally off in making this reference), but Al Gore has a musical lineup for a climate change awareness concert tour. Good to be getting the word out about what we need to do. If one of the Saudi branches of al-Qaeda is successful, though, the United States may slow down on climate change, but have to pick up on alternative fuels. The group has called for a cutting-off of oil supplies to the United States, by any means necessary. Maybe that kind of threat, taken seriously, would kickstart the U.S. into producing efficient, renewable fuels and power sources. Maybe not. If the quotes that the Creative Generalist pulls from The Long Emergency are true, we've only got a small amount of time to get with the program... assuming we decide to spare the processing cycles to do so. With the amount of information we’re producing, we also have to factor in that data center energy consumption is double waht it was in 2000. Putting everything on the Web means having and using the energy to keep it all running.
Domestic politics: A bill to repeal the Military Commission Act has been introduced. New Congress, new legislation. Hopefully, it passes. And then we can take bets on whether the President will exercise another veto. Members of the Congress are also trying to pass a bill that would require agencies to be more public with their information and reporting, using the Freedom of Information Act as a launch point for the new bill. In terms of the nonbinding resolution, the conservative strategy is not to talk about the surge, or Iraq, but about the "radical Islamic movement". (Hat tip to ThinkProgress) At least they’re admitting that, y’know, if they talked about the issues, they’d get whipped.
Fittingly, one of the biggest redevelopment projects in a city know for its music is Musician's Village - although the people trying to get in sometimes have to scramble for paperwork to prove they’ve got enough of a regular income to may their mortgages.
With the prevalence of materials designed to permit sexual function long into the late years of life, it would follow that sex ed classes for the elderly are being held. Along with those just getting to the age of consent, those well into the upper decades are the people most in need of good sex ed, because they may not know about all the tools and tricks that are available now. Reinterpreting “sex ed” just slightly, shifting the focus away from humans, several zoos are offering tours about the how and when of animal sex.
Drinking and driving may get harder, if technology created by Toyota Motor Corporation ends up being mandated into all vehicles. An ignition interlock could detect blood-alcohol content or unfocused pupils and refuse to start/stop the vehicle if already driving until the occupant was sober. Or sober enough, depending on the settings. Could make for a very interesting night if someone drove in to have some drinks, and then got driven out at last call - depending on how much they’d had, the car might be where they slept for the night.
In other car stuff, DaimlerChrysler might be letting go of the Chrysler part. In doing so, they’d have to find a buyer, or expect the automaker to survive on its own, a dim prospect for American automakers at the moment.
Some JetBlue passengers spent more than 10 hours on a plane. And no, there were no motherf---ing snakes on the planes. Just ice and snow around them. The company apparently was concerned about passengers hurting themselves, but they waited a really long time before actually getting the people off and back to JFK. Were they expecting the storm to just pass by?
The human brain can actually make new brain cells. Which sort of knocks out what we were told earlier about them, and suggests that degenerative diseases of the brain, like those of the body, could be beaten with care and stem cells. By now, stem cells are like midichlorians, I guess - they’ve got this all-healing, all-encompassing Force in them, or something. Well, bottoms up to science, and hope they figure out what they can and can’t use, and how, in my lifetime.
Something that may be of use to anyone living in or visiting Australia - the map of the public toilets. All sorts of tools there to make sure you’re never too far away from a loo.
So that’s what happened Yesterday.. I promise to get back on schedule today, and not let Rails suck away the rest of my soul and working hours.
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now parents will also have a new sensation when they're fumbling around in the darkness on their way to the bathroom, or something like that, and step on a lego... other than leaping around in agonizing pain, and possibly stepping on other legos, in the process.
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...ewwwwwww
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Lego gummies - can you build with them?
The zoo-sex made me giggle. I mean, it's a nifty idea for people who want to learn that kind of stuff, but it really amuses me that they do it on Valentine's day.
And, glad to know I can always find a public loo in Australia. Now, if only they'd make those maps for other countries. I had the hardest time trying to find a loo in London.
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