Frenzy
Currently Reading: "National Geographic" (recent issue)
My friend FM in Italy recently wrote to say that the miniskirt ban in Castellamare di Stabia I was joking with him about is actually a political maneuver to avoid talk of the serious problems the locals have with the Camorra. I guess I am lucky that the U.S. government would never do such things to it's people, like the failures of the G20 summ... hey let's all honor the troops it's veterans day!
Elsewhere in the news Suu Kyi has just been freed. During the Bush administration one of the main conservative think tanks contributing to policy became desperate and began a "listen to the students" initiative where they traveled across the country to different low-tier schools as a PR move to ask what should be done regarding the failed foreign initiatives brought through their recommendations (Iraq cough cough). Twelve entire students showed up to talk with them in the honors center. We sat around in a circle and as each commented such valuable insights as "War is bad " or "People are angry at the United States for our positions", as the two representatives looked on with sullen lethargy. Then it was my turn and I launched into a nuanced diatribe of our failures to this point acting abroad through implementations like debaathification and then drew out a detailed comparison of our goals and the alternative utilization of soft-power in the Serbian revolution, or even Guatemala. The woman representative looked at me as though I had just ridden in on a unicorn. The man, intrigued, first told me that he was 'very involved' with the Serbian revolution (I'll let you figure that one out), and then asked which areas I felt that the United States should be concentrating around. "Myanmar, for one" I said, looking him straight in the eye, and then we discussed nuclear proliferation, genocide, human slavery and regional control interests opposing threats as the rest of the students looked on uncomprehendingly. You can deal with Uzbekistan now when it's easy, or you can deal with it later when they become a serious problem. You can deal with Zimbabwe now when it's easy, or later when they are a serious problem. Myanmar is ruled by an insane military junta that is so enthralled with astrological predictions it moved its entire capital into the middle of the jungle, and reports have been leaking that they are attempting to gather the tools necessary for uranium enrichment and sit upon large reserves of petroleum, antimony, and tungsten. "You a very well informed". The man said. "Very well informed".
SO, soon after that the "National Endowment for Democracy" was formed through the pressure of several bought Congressmen and it started funneling millions of dollars into Myanmar, Uzbekistan, the Sudan and Zimbabwe. Publicly. No one reports on it. You know those T-shirts the Reuters article is mentioning on Suu Kyi? Torrent Frontline's episode "Bringing Down a Dictator". Compare this to the very well organized orange revolution and the STRANGELY similar stirrings in the green revolution... and things just keep getting more interesting.
At work yesterday filing old maps I stopped to peruse Dr. Leon Resnekov's copy of Medieval Medical Miniatures by Peter Murray Jones.
ALSO an ancient nemesis found me through my blog and from my writing derived a new form of memetic reproducing hacksoft called "Trojan Torrents" for certain types of transfers, that make Conficker seeding laughable by comparison, he wrote me to gloat about this.
Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses. - Vauvenargues
But he also wrote this:
"Also, I am planning on getting my airship rating before my wife and I have kids, so I should be able to fly a zeppelin.
This is something I've looked into quite a bit. I'd have to spend a few weeks in southern California, then spend a month or two in Germany, then come back to California to finish up.
My wife is on board with the idea, and this is a goal I take quite seriously.
Once I get my airship rating, I'd love to go up in a zeppelin with you. Or possibly before."
His current project is utilizing Freebase- "Freebase, a wonderful site that Google purchased a few months ago, that aims to be a Wikipedia for structured data."- to store augmented reality semantic content on hiking trails around the world, because he likes hiking and has similar "achievement unlocked" thinking to PBDSG and I. Hooray for programming.
WikiMedia itself is asking me for a "Wikipedia Story" since donation, is testimonial really the way to gain followers? I have no urge to wake up one morning with Moka Pantages stabbing me in the neck with a halberd (as I will likely write something caustically sardonic), but you guys are getting millions of dollars from Google since they are dependent in part on your functionality and your inability to create a good Wikimedia searchbar!
Speaking of which, I reloaded Google Chrome again a couple days ago (for the benefit of 'The Wilderness' prog. in the article I posted) but once again it fails to impress. There seems no way to fix the inferior favorites bar (in Firefox you can just port in the IE version, which I am loath to confess is much superior), and the subtraction of the search bar takes away a valuable 'cut and paste' reservoir. Sure one can open 'stickynotes' or somesuch and go back and forth reformatting the text, but even with its frequent failures and overloads Firefox still wins. There ARE cool coding functions in Chrome but they take up the entire bottom of the screen! Better luck next time Googers.
My friend FM in Italy recently wrote to say that the miniskirt ban in Castellamare di Stabia I was joking with him about is actually a political maneuver to avoid talk of the serious problems the locals have with the Camorra. I guess I am lucky that the U.S. government would never do such things to it's people, like the failures of the G20 summ... hey let's all honor the troops it's veterans day!
Elsewhere in the news Suu Kyi has just been freed. During the Bush administration one of the main conservative think tanks contributing to policy became desperate and began a "listen to the students" initiative where they traveled across the country to different low-tier schools as a PR move to ask what should be done regarding the failed foreign initiatives brought through their recommendations (Iraq cough cough). Twelve entire students showed up to talk with them in the honors center. We sat around in a circle and as each commented such valuable insights as "War is bad " or "People are angry at the United States for our positions", as the two representatives looked on with sullen lethargy. Then it was my turn and I launched into a nuanced diatribe of our failures to this point acting abroad through implementations like debaathification and then drew out a detailed comparison of our goals and the alternative utilization of soft-power in the Serbian revolution, or even Guatemala. The woman representative looked at me as though I had just ridden in on a unicorn. The man, intrigued, first told me that he was 'very involved' with the Serbian revolution (I'll let you figure that one out), and then asked which areas I felt that the United States should be concentrating around. "Myanmar, for one" I said, looking him straight in the eye, and then we discussed nuclear proliferation, genocide, human slavery and regional control interests opposing threats as the rest of the students looked on uncomprehendingly. You can deal with Uzbekistan now when it's easy, or you can deal with it later when they become a serious problem. You can deal with Zimbabwe now when it's easy, or later when they are a serious problem. Myanmar is ruled by an insane military junta that is so enthralled with astrological predictions it moved its entire capital into the middle of the jungle, and reports have been leaking that they are attempting to gather the tools necessary for uranium enrichment and sit upon large reserves of petroleum, antimony, and tungsten. "You a very well informed". The man said. "Very well informed".
SO, soon after that the "National Endowment for Democracy" was formed through the pressure of several bought Congressmen and it started funneling millions of dollars into Myanmar, Uzbekistan, the Sudan and Zimbabwe. Publicly. No one reports on it. You know those T-shirts the Reuters article is mentioning on Suu Kyi? Torrent Frontline's episode "Bringing Down a Dictator". Compare this to the very well organized orange revolution and the STRANGELY similar stirrings in the green revolution... and things just keep getting more interesting.
At work yesterday filing old maps I stopped to peruse Dr. Leon Resnekov's copy of Medieval Medical Miniatures by Peter Murray Jones.
ALSO an ancient nemesis found me through my blog and from my writing derived a new form of memetic reproducing hacksoft called "Trojan Torrents" for certain types of transfers, that make Conficker seeding laughable by comparison, he wrote me to gloat about this.
Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses. - Vauvenargues
But he also wrote this:
"Also, I am planning on getting my airship rating before my wife and I have kids, so I should be able to fly a zeppelin.
This is something I've looked into quite a bit. I'd have to spend a few weeks in southern California, then spend a month or two in Germany, then come back to California to finish up.
My wife is on board with the idea, and this is a goal I take quite seriously.
Once I get my airship rating, I'd love to go up in a zeppelin with you. Or possibly before."
His current project is utilizing Freebase- "Freebase, a wonderful site that Google purchased a few months ago, that aims to be a Wikipedia for structured data."- to store augmented reality semantic content on hiking trails around the world, because he likes hiking and has similar "achievement unlocked" thinking to PBDSG and I. Hooray for programming.
WikiMedia itself is asking me for a "Wikipedia Story" since donation, is testimonial really the way to gain followers? I have no urge to wake up one morning with Moka Pantages stabbing me in the neck with a halberd (as I will likely write something caustically sardonic), but you guys are getting millions of dollars from Google since they are dependent in part on your functionality and your inability to create a good Wikimedia searchbar!
Speaking of which, I reloaded Google Chrome again a couple days ago (for the benefit of 'The Wilderness' prog. in the article I posted) but once again it fails to impress. There seems no way to fix the inferior favorites bar (in Firefox you can just port in the IE version, which I am loath to confess is much superior), and the subtraction of the search bar takes away a valuable 'cut and paste' reservoir. Sure one can open 'stickynotes' or somesuch and go back and forth reformatting the text, but even with its frequent failures and overloads Firefox still wins. There ARE cool coding functions in Chrome but they take up the entire bottom of the screen! Better luck next time Googers.