Monday, June 01, 2009 - Posts

Monday, June 01, 2009

a day in a life 2009.06.01

via @fractalnavel: in the last 24 hours:
  • 2009.06.01 10:29: alcohol vindicated yet again: RT @klaatu Drinking prevents you from developing gallstones. http://is.gd/Li3m
  • 2009.06.01 10:31: @klaatu
    RT @internet: Sears and Kmart launch social networks called MySears.com and MyKmart.com. http://bit.ly/iK18k
    who the hell started this godawful "my" shit anyway ? myspace ? man, are they late to jump on board. never works. been there, etc.
  • 2009.06.01 10:33: @SowaJF
    @fractalnavel watch out for clouds they lead to storms, that might help with your shower deficiency - waiting for your birthday to freshen?
    630a - i think a shower, shave & treating myself to breakfast is a good way to recharge. argh - laundry - all manual now - to do.
  • 2009.06.01 10:37: @SowaJF
    relo opportunities - medical in CT / past: aero in VA, agri in IL, edu in MI-UP, silicon in CA, oil in TX, aero in WA, hyd ctls in Idaho,...
    consider that the current socio-economic structure is not sustainable; jump off grid when forced, or start transitioning early ?
  • 2009.06.01 10:39: @jdhunt
    Mmm... beer brats for dinner tonight.
    dang, jon - you're not supposed to eat your kids ! after marinating them in brew, no less... *doh - sorry - those brats...
  • 2009.06.01 13:10: shower, shave, haircut, breakfast- and there's a nice chill in the air this morning- in a top/door-less jeep, anyway. more human now. a bit.
  • 2009.06.01 13:13: to-do: crud form, site templates, modify data model to ensure security, minor error handling, ...
  • 2009.06.01 13:13: and, hmm - i want my twittertoblog aggregator to handle "strikeouts" too.
  • 2009.06.01 13:15: @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    @jdhunt
    Mmm... beer brats for dinner tonight.
    dang, jon - you're not supposed to eat your kids ! after marinating them in brew, no less... *doh - sorry - those brats...
    lol. The kid survived the day, but some pig didn't.
    well, she kinda looks a bit like a sausage, and given at least part of the genetic heritage, the confusion is understandable
  • 2009.06.01 13:23: do JScript regex'es handle backreferences ?
  • 2009.06.01 16:42: @craigg75
    sometimes listening to TWIT with Leo L. reminds me of a mass beat off session.. I need to turn it off at that point
    and wtf is 'TWIT' ? link ?
  • 2009.06.01 17:14: regex fng done, back to gae/python. i think i'll play with page templating
  • 2009.06.01 19:26: @jdhunt
    Sleeping baby on one side of me, sleeping dog on the other. With both in that state, that means I can get something done.
    as opposed to actually going to work, like most normal folk ;-)
  • 2009.06.01 19:27: OH @ http://bit.ly/15QTys : "I wrote this sentence with my toes, just to amuse you."
  • 2009.06.01 19:27: my kind of physicist ;-)
  • 2009.06.01 19:28: @craigg75
    Interesting scifi story to answer Fermi's Paradox -- http://snurl.com/j7swr David Brin - The Crystal Spheres
    aww, maan; i was hoping for text
  • 2009.06.01 19:30: @jdhunt
    @fractalnavel
    @jdhunt
    Sleeping baby on one side of me, sleeping dog on the other. With both in that state, that means I can get something done.
    as opposed to actually going to work, like most normal folk ;-)
    I notice you said "normal" and not yourself ;-)
    me & normal have a passing acquaintance: it wanted to make my acquaintance, and i said "pass"
  • 2009.06.01 19:30: does anyone ever RT themselves ? in public ? ;-)
  • 2009.06.01 19:33: where's the rain ? "they" promised me rain !
  • 2009.06.01 19:34: RT @jdhunt Quite frankly, that's a good way to live. Just make sure you have normal over once in awhile, even if it's just for pizza
  • 2009.06.01 19:37: @craigg75
    Interesting scifi story to answer Fermi's Paradox -- http://snurl.com/j7swr David Brin - The Crystal Spheres
    bummer - 404 on the mp3
  • 2009.06.01 19:39: all the leetle grassies are cut & waiting for their shower ...
  • 2009.06.01 19:39: see, this is what happens when i sleep for four hours and get up & drink a pot of coffee before 9
  • 2009.06.01 19:41: "The last several hundred years were marked by increased rationality" - can't say i entirely agree, but i'll play along
  • 2009.06.01 19:57: @craigg75
    increased rationality among a diminishing population, so the overall increase is offset by the faster increase of the gen. population
    or perhaps merely different species of irrationality - "even" science is turning out to be, well, not so scientific
  • 2009.06.01 19:58: i think it's time - for a beer run. yeah, a little hop off the wagon does a body good. back in 30...
  • 2009.06.01 20:41: five litre keglet of bell's oberon ale acquired @ $4/litre; plus a few samplers, and this from RT @jdhunt http://bit.ly/VFXYo - sweet !
  • 2009.06.01 20:41: now i can't get that tune outa my head ;-)
  • 2009.06.01 20:43: must be monday - spam follows are a-flowin'
  • 2009.06.01 20:44: "b double e double r u n ..." shut up, me !
  • 2009.06.01 20:50: still reading http://bit.ly/15QTys : "...Like the case in Ohio where 23 dead people were approved for mortgages..."
  • 2009.06.01 20:51: well, that's giving missouri's election of a dead governor or something a few years back a run for its money
  • 2009.06.01 20:52: no, @craigg75, i will never let you live that down ;-)
  • 2009.06.01 20:55: @craigg75
    senator not governor.. get the story straight... :P
    U.S. senator !
  • 2009.06.01 20:55: the again, a bunch of dead guys in office might be a plus ...
  • 2009.06.01 20:58: @craigg75
    and the guy that lost ended up causing more harm... John Ashcroft.. messed up process no matter how you look at it
    agreed.
  • 2009.06.01 21:00: now, let's see, where was i - oh yeah - "the crystal spheres" [brin] http://bit.ly/ChXfo (thx @craigg75 )
  • 2009.06.01 21:01: [b double-e...]
  • 2009.06.01 21:06: google translate - "Translation from English into English is not supported." yeah, i know how it feels
  • 2009.06.01 21:08: google doesn't do bengali - " ভাল আছি, ভালো থেকো " = ?
  • 2009.06.01 21:18: question: at what point will man be able to viably consider multi-millenial projects? or generally, at what tIdea will y(t[i+1]) be possible?
  • 2009.06.01 21:19: what's the current practical planning horizon ? social security seems to have been the longest considered; not as successful as hoped
  • 2009.06.01 21:20: so, to generate, if i want a plan of n units duration to have a good chance of succeeding, when will the first opportunity for that occur ?
  • 2009.06.01 21:21: probably can work that series backwards until n matches current capabilities. i suspect sum(xIdea) far exceeds n - which is interesting
  • 2009.06.01 21:23: what i'm looking for is n approaching cosmic scales; at some point, one hopes that sum(xIdea) << n - and soon. yeah, good luck :-\
  • 2009.06.01 21:24: so far, it's the other way around.
  • 2009.06.01 21:25: i suppose that has to be extended to not just a single species / evolutionary path; all life ? but 'life' is an arbitrary distinction
  • 2009.06.01 21:26: when we speak of planning as a function of awareness or consciousness... perhaps this is a basic metric ...
  • 2009.06.01 21:27: ... not just 'memory', but horizons in both directions (or, perhaps, the ability to sidestep the temporal issue altogether)
  • 2009.06.01 21:31: as n -> ∞, sum(xIdea) -> point of universal awareness ?
  • 2009.06.01 21:33: or maybe it's not "sum", but "limit". which immediately is a reminder that the limit of S[xIdea] can be << n.
  • 2009.06.01 21:34: and this is likely, given other limits such as c & h, etc. another reson to believe that there's an upper limit to knowledge in any universe
  • 2009.06.01 21:36: this is why i like my stories in text; i get distracted, and by the time i get back to an mp3, it's moved on.
  • 2009.06.01 21:37: cvrap; substitute 't' for 'x'...
  • 2009.06.01 21:41: likely, 'planning' and 'memory' and a total comprehension of reality/'causation' all converge in the ultimate gestalt grok. ok, enough ;-)
  • 2009.06.01 21:43: or, as it was once put succinctly: "love the one you're with"
  • 2009.06.01 22:16: "But intelligence arose only slowly and rarely ... it was often in a form that did not happen to covet space or other planets."
  • 2009.06.01 22:16: let's not be like that, eh ?
  • 2009.06.01 23:34: @klaatu
    @shuckins Recycling number 7 may or not contain BPA. Its a catch all category. This podcast mp3 details it quite well http://bit.ly/Hv71t
    small world; that's one of my niece's fiance
  • 2009.06.01 23:40: sigh ... weekly pizza etc. order on its way
  • 2009.06.01 23:44: @craigg75 re brin's story: needs one of (1) a creator; (2) a relevant interstellar evolutionary process; (3) physical phenomena
  • 2009.06.01 23:45: @craigg75 but as the story's narrator says, they haven't cracked that nut yet
  • 2009.06.01 23:46: @craigg75 the crystal spheres do exist, however, in the form of finite c combined w/ distance; ie, delta energy
  • 2009.06.01 23:48: @craigg75 i like landis' (non-fictional) percolation theory account of the fermi 'paradox'
  • 2009.06.02 00:03: re gae: this is instructive: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list
  • 2009.06.02 00:05: other: i was thinking of installing a cgi compatible web server on the xo, and then there's gae for linux
  • 2009.06.02 00:06: too bad gae doesn't provide a synhc app, only upload
  • 2009.06.02 03:58: letterman: still bitter after all these years
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