Heijoshin

7:45pm: Still Fly


Shout out to who I used to be...

10:25pm: The true meaning of Halloween
http://e-merl.com/2009-10-29-atomic-flame

Or something.

2:49pm: Science!
Wicked, wicked late. I've got so many of these to catch up on...

Dude gets called a fraud just for discovering more complicated shit. OK, no, he really probably was a fraud to a large extent, but it's still interesting to see how this science stuff turns out.

Farms are jumping onto the sustainability wagon, which really just makes all kinds of sense. I appreciate that they acknowledge the ideological component of patriotism fueling the shift in behavior.

Holy freaking cyber eyes. Seriously, I think this is awesome, and I'm glad to hear that the speed of advances in the technology and science is increasing.

Paul Krugman talks a bunch about Keynes. I don't know enough economics to know how much of this is bullshit and how much isn't, but it was an interesting look at theoretical economics in the past couple decades.

A marvel of engineering, the quietest room in the world is in England. I can scarcely imagine how hard it must have been to plan and then actually construct such a place.

ADHD may be related to a lack of dopamine handling proteins. I like how they just assume that teachers will be able to come up with more interesting stuff for these kids, like it's the teachers who are coming up with boring propaganda for the kids. Still, if this study can be replicated, there may finally be a good biological basis for ADHD (or at least one I've heard of).

2:12pm: Uncle Don has landed...
Uncle Don is here. I am way excited. There may be drinking shenanigans tomorrow...

10:39pm: Think about it
http://www.imnotamonster.com/2009/10/fascinating-2/

3:10pm: Quote
Used to have this hanging up in my cube:

"We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger." - T.S. Eliot

6:53pm: Kanye...
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,40258337001_1924107,00.html

I really like Ze Frank.

11:15am: Bah
I am really done with this cold. I wish it was done with me. OJ, vitamins, fluids, sleep - doing what I can. It's just tenacious.

9:02pm: Must be feeling Halloween-esque
http://www.slowwave.com/index.php?date=04-05-08

It's just sort of creepy.

2:26pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpVq0JRL4mQ



I heard a track by these guys at Anna Banana months and months ago and haven't been able to find them again for a long time. So far as I know, this is all nonsense lyrics - they aren't speaking any sort of language, just gibberish. Love this stuff.

7:22pm: http://www.lefthandedtoons.com/591/

5:48pm: Threats
http://fafblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/q-our-threatiest-threat.html

"Q: There would be no defense against their self-defense.
"A: They pose an existential threat to our ability to existentially threaten them."

9:35pm: Because...
...every time they page someone to the white courtesy phone, this is what ends up running through my head:

9:16pm: What the hell?
This day will not end. My flight that was supposed get into Portland at 11:03 Pacific is now not even leaving Denver until 11:06 Mountain. I emailed my boss that I am taking tomorrow off and proceeded to have a Macallan 18 and filet mignon on the company.

But to add icing to the weird, I happen to be on the same flight as jupiterjuniper as she returns from her demi-world tour.

I think it's because my flight out of Omaha was on the Frontier plane with a Coyote on the tail.

8:50am: 2 hours of sleep last night. Flight doesn't leave Omaha until 6:41 PM Central. I'm not scheduled to actually land in PDX until about 11 PM Pacific, so I should get back to my apartment just a bit before midnight.

It's going to be a long day.

10:32pm: It's been a good weekend, but I can't help but sort of dread getting on the plane for Omaha on Tuesday. I wish there were direct flights. At least the Denver airport doesn't suck too hard.

Last night, I was surprised to find that it was cold enough in the rain that I'd wished I'd kept my full-fingered gloves in my jacket. As it was, I was very glad to have my jacket. And Loney Dear was surprisingly good; not that I didn't expect to enjoy it, but I was really blown away by his performance (and his band).

I've got about a moon to figure out a bunch of stuff. I'm curious to see how that all turns out.

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10:20pm: http://nedroidcomics.livejournal.com/251994.html

1:14pm: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nation_demands_fresh_celebrity

6:29pm: Seems appropriate for the weather, though MN got it worse today.

7:50pm: Home
Going to clean up and bike over to the Goodfoot. Feels good to be back. Life is alright.

10:11pm: Science!
I'll probably fall behind while I'm out of town the next couple weeks, but here's this week's, actually sort of on schedule.

The guy who wrote the Whole Earth Catalog wrote another book that sounds like it challenges environmentalists to get more friendly with technology. I'm not sure how I feel about global interventions into climate and the like, but I can't help but agree that unless you're willing to deal with serious amounts of death (I mean -serious- amounts of death), you're not going to get by on going back to technology-free lifestyles. We received the secret of fire, and now we have to deal with it.

While it's sort of short on the actual math (like I'd understand it, anyway), Wired has a nice piece on creating mathematical models of remarkably complex transitions. If they can figure it out, this would be a huge boon in anticipating all manner of zaniness.

But then I think about those two together, and it's like I'm living in some anime world where they perfectly plan for and engineer everything. I don't know that I'd like living there. I guess it's good for me I'll probably be long dead before it arrives.

In the "Everything I Need to Know about the Future I Learned from Shadowrun" department, researchers are getting a lot closer to overcoming paralysis through electronic implants. Sure, they talk about this for helping people who are injured, but so long as there are capitalists, this technology will eventually be turned into performance enhancement. The fact that they bring up the stem cell piece just shows the wonderful parallels of bioware and cyberware. When do I get to throw fireballs?

And the weirdest article about babies I've ever read. The topic is messy enough I'm not even going to go into it. No - not like that, though that's not a bad guess with babies.

7:38pm: http://www.superpoop.com/090809/calm-your-nerves.jpg

8:34pm: Military Now Offering Mindfulness Training
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090907/us_time/08599192075300

Honestly, I think this is excellent. May it do well and prosper, and may it help many soldiers.

10:24pm:

12:10pm: http://whoisioz.blogspot.com/2009/08/ioz-interviews-malcolm-gladwell.html

To tell the truth, I've never read any Gladwell, but this shit makes me laugh.