This video, which is one of the recent TED Talk videos, is of Steven Pinker’s talk called The Stuff of Thought. This is simply brilliant. So brilliant, in fact, that those who know me well are about to be utterly astounded by what I am going to say: I now understand the value of indirect …
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If
Time is a limited resource. That’s why patience is a virtue. If By Rudyard Kipling IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and …
Today is not the day
Augh. Today is not the day I want to be an adult. Or have to go down to the courthouse. Or deal with law things and governments. Or go run errands before I can do that. Or stress about all sorts of future plans stuff. Or…. Bah. I want to crawl back into bed and …
Cat in a box
My mind is in Schrödinger’s box. Am I asking too much? Why can’t I just go to parties and have a good time?
Baby Steps
Baby steps have always been really hard for me to take. I am defined by extremes, my life a struggle to find a balance between two opposing influences on more scales than I could count. Today, I resolved to clean. It was not easy, but I succeeded a little bit. I cleaned the floor of …
We should re-instate that old USENET warning
From the everything-you-say-can-and-will-be-used-against-you department: Computer scientists will almost always be able to de-anonymize “anonymous” data, in this case thanks to movie ratings, Google offers users another way to store personal data, and all of this is old news I’ve been doing this for years, and my solution is pretty simple: no regrets. As an aside, …
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Culture of work ’til you drop
I heard a crazy thing today. There is an expectation of overtime in [the technology] industry. I don’t think anyone’s surprised by that. Um, I’m surprised by that. That’s why they call it overtime. It’s over(what is expected)time. Otherwise it would just be called moretime or something that doesn’t imply the fact that a particular …
Everyone’s failings
One of the patterns that has always been supremely obvious in my life (to anyone who has bothered to look) is that when I am depressed or upset I will often withdraw towards the things that give me comfort and that these things have typically fallen into one of two categories: Creative but non-technical pursuits …
The Map Of The Internet, Circa 2007
This map of the Internet is pretty neat. It even gives you a “you are here” signpost when you first arrive. More information on the map is available from the ISI ANT Census home page.
Photo of Bridal Veil Falls published in Park Guide
This is neat. My photo of Bridal Veil Falls in Yosemite National Park was selected for inclusion in the Schmap Yosemite trail guide. Now I get to say I’m a “published photographer” with at least some credence.