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Large Assortment of Statements
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ginmar's discussion about the book Twilight, saoba said:
Twilight is Romantick, artificial romance with all that icky person-hood removed from the female. And it sucks.
Romantic, on the other hand involves awareness.
Romantic is remembering what day the trash goes out and not making a big deal about it. Romantic is calling when you know she's going to be on her way home from a rough meeting or appointment to ask how it went. Romantic is telling your boss you need to leave early to do laundry for a business trip and seriously not getting it when a co-worker asks if your partner can't just do it for you because you've never thought it was someone else's job to keep track of whether or not you have clean shorts. Romantic is getting the on-call schedule swapped so you aren't on-call the week of her birthday without being prompted. Romantic is taking 30 minutes out of a 14 hour day at work to swing by the store and drop off more juice and soup for your partner who is coming down with a cold.
The Twilight stick figure character wouldn't know romantic if it ws dropped on him from a great height- nor would his lust object.
Statement: The rest of the post is a jumble of emails I sent to myself from work with an idea of posting... running backwards in time over the last few days. So if it seems jumbled... Er, yeah, it is supposed to seem that way because it is an assortment of unassociated emails.
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Ode to the C-words - Bank Director (Magazine) 1Q2003: Here; it is rather prophetic in a doom shall fall upon us if we don't change the way we do things kind of way... (why do we never learn?)
Great article from Wired about rewilding the world.
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I am contemplating using the pro version of this software to improve my efficiency. Neato for multi screen users. It's already been quite helpful.
To more expensive hard-core geek hardware… Like when they say pot is a gateway drug, Peek is a gateway device. Used to lure unsuspecting people into the use of mobile devices. First you get this to check your email occasionally, then you upgrade to the harder stuff so you can browse the web, do Google searches, read the news, make phone calls, listen to music, sync and check your calendar, find your way around town, take pictures, text, chat, blog… the list is endless.
Wall Street Journal review here.
Hell… I am actually contemplating getting this for CoB's Mom for Christmas. What do you think? Twenty a month isn't bad, compared to cell phone rates. If you communicate better in the written word rather than the spoken? This is an excellent option. Grapevine says wait until the second generation version comes out in November.
The New York Times' article is titled Nontechies, This One's for You. HA!
Mobile Devices Today mentions that this product is being aimed at a different demographic than your typical uber-gadget-geek.
A review on Wired by the Luddite had this to say (in its first paragraph):
"Sometimes, Freud said, a cigar is just a cigar. In an industry that offers an endless supply of tarted-up gadgetry as phallic substitutes for Freud's cigar, the Peek handheld represents a refreshing, if puzzling, exception to the rule that says, the more crap you can cram into a small device, the better."
Speaking of the Luddite: I love his reference to the Speaker's Corner
Sent to myself with a subject line "More techie goodness" was this article.
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Campbell's FFA Donations made by clicking on the Red Barn
Starting September 29, you can visit this site and click on the red barn to help support the future of American farming. Each time that you click the red barn, Campbell Soup Company will donate $1* to the National FFA Organization, which is dedicated to developing our future leaders through agricultural education.
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Note to self, upload one of the rat icons to use for this post:
Using this interactive graphic, test your intuitive number sense. After taking the test 25 times to get the "good estimate" they mention, I was correct 92% of the time, much higher than the 75% average of most adults. Cool. If you intend to take the test, realize that it is conducted on Adobe Flash, emphasis on the flash. The test is a series of slides with varying numbers of yellow and blue dots flashed on a screen for 200 milliseconds each — barely as long as an eye blink. You are given less than a second to assess the situation. Capish? Reminds me of a scene from The Fifth Element where Bruce Willis's character peeps around the corner onto the bridge and correctly determines how many of the aliens are and where they are positioned around the room. The related article can be found here, though for the link averse I have it below the cut. One excerpt: "One research team has found that how readily people rally their approximate number sense is linked over time to success in even the most advanced and abstruse mathematics courses…" tests are showing that "your evolutionarily endowed sense of approximation is related to how good you are at formal math." That must be the explanation for my string of A grades in calculus...
Here there was to be a screen capture of the results I refer to above... No dice, it didn't come through.
( Read more... )
If you do follow the link to the test, let me know what you get as a score!
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This is a great article about how you can get "smoker's mouth" from drinking constantly out of sport's top bottles, camel-backs, and from straws constantly throughout the day for, um, years.
Interesting website that attempts to address the seemingly limitless source of scams out there about electronic gadget bait and switch sites.
A great NPR story... about what? I have no idea now - follow the link and let me know!
The Locust Principle: Described here.
Pirate Week - link inside article to a cool pirate story.
Hybrids & Motorcycle Rally (American made only).
Run Mac OS X on and Eee PC.
Effects of fearmongering? More political conservatives.
Yay! DarkMarket goes dark. I love me my white hat hackers but don't really appreciate the malicious types.
The origination of the emoticon - send to Steve (with a LOL): http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/09/dayintech_0919
ginmar's discussion about the book Twilight, saoba said:Twilight is Romantick, artificial romance with all that icky person-hood removed from the female. And it sucks.
Romantic, on the other hand involves awareness.
Romantic is remembering what day the trash goes out and not making a big deal about it. Romantic is calling when you know she's going to be on her way home from a rough meeting or appointment to ask how it went. Romantic is telling your boss you need to leave early to do laundry for a business trip and seriously not getting it when a co-worker asks if your partner can't just do it for you because you've never thought it was someone else's job to keep track of whether or not you have clean shorts. Romantic is getting the on-call schedule swapped so you aren't on-call the week of her birthday without being prompted. Romantic is taking 30 minutes out of a 14 hour day at work to swing by the store and drop off more juice and soup for your partner who is coming down with a cold.
The Twilight stick figure character wouldn't know romantic if it ws dropped on him from a great height- nor would his lust object.
Statement: The rest of the post is a jumble of emails I sent to myself from work with an idea of posting... running backwards in time over the last few days. So if it seems jumbled... Er, yeah, it is supposed to seem that way because it is an assortment of unassociated emails.
------------------------------
Ode to the C-words - Bank Director (Magazine) 1Q2003: Here; it is rather prophetic in a doom shall fall upon us if we don't change the way we do things kind of way... (why do we never learn?)
Great article from Wired about rewilding the world.
----------------------------------------------
I am contemplating using the pro version of this software to improve my efficiency. Neato for multi screen users. It's already been quite helpful.
To more expensive hard-core geek hardware… Like when they say pot is a gateway drug, Peek is a gateway device. Used to lure unsuspecting people into the use of mobile devices. First you get this to check your email occasionally, then you upgrade to the harder stuff so you can browse the web, do Google searches, read the news, make phone calls, listen to music, sync and check your calendar, find your way around town, take pictures, text, chat, blog… the list is endless.
Wall Street Journal review here.
Hell… I am actually contemplating getting this for CoB's Mom for Christmas. What do you think? Twenty a month isn't bad, compared to cell phone rates. If you communicate better in the written word rather than the spoken? This is an excellent option. Grapevine says wait until the second generation version comes out in November.
The New York Times' article is titled Nontechies, This One's for You. HA!
Mobile Devices Today mentions that this product is being aimed at a different demographic than your typical uber-gadget-geek.
A review on Wired by the Luddite had this to say (in its first paragraph):
"Sometimes, Freud said, a cigar is just a cigar. In an industry that offers an endless supply of tarted-up gadgetry as phallic substitutes for Freud's cigar, the Peek handheld represents a refreshing, if puzzling, exception to the rule that says, the more crap you can cram into a small device, the better."
Speaking of the Luddite: I love his reference to the Speaker's Corner
Sent to myself with a subject line "More techie goodness" was this article.
-----------------------------------
Campbell's FFA Donations made by clicking on the Red Barn
Starting September 29, you can visit this site and click on the red barn to help support the future of American farming. Each time that you click the red barn, Campbell Soup Company will donate $1* to the National FFA Organization, which is dedicated to developing our future leaders through agricultural education.
---------------------------------
Note to self, upload one of the rat icons to use for this post:
Using this interactive graphic, test your intuitive number sense. After taking the test 25 times to get the "good estimate" they mention, I was correct 92% of the time, much higher than the 75% average of most adults. Cool. If you intend to take the test, realize that it is conducted on Adobe Flash, emphasis on the flash. The test is a series of slides with varying numbers of yellow and blue dots flashed on a screen for 200 milliseconds each — barely as long as an eye blink. You are given less than a second to assess the situation. Capish? Reminds me of a scene from The Fifth Element where Bruce Willis's character peeps around the corner onto the bridge and correctly determines how many of the aliens are and where they are positioned around the room. The related article can be found here, though for the link averse I have it below the cut. One excerpt: "One research team has found that how readily people rally their approximate number sense is linked over time to success in even the most advanced and abstruse mathematics courses…" tests are showing that "your evolutionarily endowed sense of approximation is related to how good you are at formal math." That must be the explanation for my string of A grades in calculus...
Here there was to be a screen capture of the results I refer to above... No dice, it didn't come through.
( Read more... )
If you do follow the link to the test, let me know what you get as a score!
----------------------------------
This is a great article about how you can get "smoker's mouth" from drinking constantly out of sport's top bottles, camel-backs, and from straws constantly throughout the day for, um, years.
Interesting website that attempts to address the seemingly limitless source of scams out there about electronic gadget bait and switch sites.
A great NPR story... about what? I have no idea now - follow the link and let me know!
The Locust Principle: Described here.
Pirate Week - link inside article to a cool pirate story.
Hybrids & Motorcycle Rally (American made only).
Run Mac OS X on and Eee PC.
Effects of fearmongering? More political conservatives.
Yay! DarkMarket goes dark. I love me my white hat hackers but don't really appreciate the malicious types.
The origination of the emoticon - send to Steve (with a LOL): http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/09/dayintech_0919
