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Heh 12 years ago I posted that my new tuba was back from the shop - but this was the short lived Eb horn that was my entryway back.

On my blog's comments my mom wrote "Looks good. Now how about finding a local community band and joining in?" - good call!

(I'm so glad HONK! is a thing. Concert bands never really did it for me...)

And oof, that hot minute when my beard was dark... interesting take on the argument of it's ok to nag fat people because it's A seemingly potentially changeable through force of will and B correlated with bad health outcomes. Well, so is being poor, but a doctor saying "have you tried being rich?" would not be seen as practicing good medicine. Just got a set of AMGAMING Ergonomic Chair Arm Pads, 11" Latex Foam Arm Covers for $20.... nice! So cushion-y for my elbows and that part of my forearm... I think I lean to hard on them in my office chair otherwise.

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The guy running my team's daily standup has been getting us to throw in joke-of-the-days, generally bad kid puns. Last night I came up with this as I drifted to sleep:
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A bark-a-lounger! iPhone life hack. When you make a screenshot in Safari, if you click on the thumbnail before it flies off to "Photos", the edit screen has a "Full Page" option that lets you save a PDF of the whole long page instead of just a PNG of what you see. (via McGST, great blog) I just finished Ted Chiang's short story collection "Exhalation" - about half of the pieces I had already read, but he is truly a master at what I love about science fiction - exploration of the human by looking into what would be different if just a few parameters were changed - a new technology, or a belief system discredited in our world turning out to be true. (At their best "Black Mirror" and "Rick and Morty" pull the same trick.)

Chiang is especially interested in issues of free will and consciousness...

Experience isn't merely the best teacher; it's the only teacher. If she's learned anything raising Jax, it's that there are no shortcuts; if you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.

The story is about people raising virtual creatures - basically digital toddlers, with similar capacity for learning. He talks about this idea that it might always take a few decades to grow a mind in the "Story Notes "section. I think some sense of human value comes from the way so many years of effort goes into raising it. But of course, humans have the additional "value" that unlike software they can't then be trivially duplicated... Update: my coworker Scott Schmitt, who mentioned this collection, read my comment on human value because of unduplicatibility (and hence, scarcity) and suggested:

I would say, trivially duplicated or reset to an earlier state. Once experience is in us, it never really goes out.

Great quote (the concept of "rolling back to a previous state" gets a lot of play in the story.)

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As he practiced his writing, Jijingi came to understand what Moseby had meant: writing was not just a way to record what someone said; it could help you decide what you would say before you said it. And words were not just the pieces of speaking; they were the pieces of thinking. When you wrote them down, you could grasp your thoughts like bricks in your hands and push them into different arrangements. Writing let you look at your thoughts in a way you couldn't if you were just talking, and having seen them, you could improve them, make them stronger and more elaborate.

Cool story drawing parallels with a oral-tradition culture learning European writing and hypothetical future tech that would let us quickly jump into any moment we had livestreamed (and which might then replace our regular ways of remembering things...) and what that has to do with our sense of truth and meaning. (Another quote that struck home for me: “Fine,” she said. “But let’s be clear: you don’t come running to me every time you feel guilty over treating me like crap. I worked hard to put that behind me, and I’m not going to relive it just so you can feel better about yourself.”- the ran parallel to some pushback I've gotten from exes as I try to evaluate what the hell happened...)

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Lord, perhaps you don't hear my prayers. But I've never prayed with the expectation that it would affect your actions; I prayed with the expectation that it would affect mine.

Deep dive into "What if the physical evidence for a Young Earth was there?"

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I'm pretty confident that even if the many-worlds interpretation is correct, it doesn't mean that all of our decisions are canceled out. If we say that an individual's character is revealed by the choices they make over time, then, in a similar fashion, an individual's character would also be revealed by the choices they make across many worlds. If you could somehow examine a multitude of Martin Luthers across many worlds, I think you'd have to go far afield to find one that didn't defy the church, and that would say something about the kind of person he was.

See also some quotes from The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, a beautiful, Tales of the Arabian Nights tinged study in the only kind of time machine that might be vaguely possible, a portal connecting to different eras (in the story notes he mentioned he took on Islamic trappings because there seems to be an acceptance in those cultures of Allah preordaining everything.) It's sort of weird being a "side-sleeper". You're lying there on your left side, all snug in blankets and maybe a body pillow, and your body is like "you know what? sure, this is great and all, but you know what would be REALLY great? This same thing but on your RIGHT side." So you shift over, dragging all the pillows and blankets over and re-settling in, and eight minutes later- "you know what? .... "

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So, there's another attempt at a kind of minor league for football, the AAF. Besides making some smart rule changes to the NFL setup, they made a whole set of 8 teams... I've always loved new team logo/branding (here's some I invented as a teen and then redrew 15 years ago for a "CyberWar League") getting some flavor of the city or region while being all tough and cool, so here's a link with all the new teams and logos:
There's a certain sameness to the logo treatment - I guess lacking the diversity you accumulate when teams get added and rebranded over decades, but overall pretty cool.

Slate mentions some of the rule changes and talks about the XFL and the USFL (but doesn't talk about NFL Europe which I thought was an interesting one.)

RIP Silicon Valley visionary John Perry Barlow. When he was 30, the EFF founder (and sometime Grateful Dead lyricist) drew up a list of what he called Principles of Adult Behavior. They are:

1. Be patient. No matter what.
2. Don't badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn't say to him.
3. Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.
4. Expand your sense of the possible.
5. Don't trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.
6. Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.
7. Tolerate ambiguity.
8. Laugh at yourself frequently.
9. Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.
10. Never forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong.
11. Give up blood sports.
12. Remember that your life belongs to others as well. Don't risk it frivolously.
13. Never lie to anyone for any reason. (Lies of omission are sometimes exempt.)
14. Learn the needs of those around you and respect them.
15. Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that.
16. Reduce your use of the first personal pronoun.
17. Praise at least as often as you disparage.
18. Admit your errors freely and soon.
19. Become less suspicious of joy.
20. Understand humility.
21. Remember that love forgives everything.
22. Foster dignity.
23. Live memorably.
24. Love yourself.
25. Endure.

What do you think of these? They seem pretty good to me. 3 might be a better way of getting to a sentiment I have of "no is the bad guy in their own story at the moment of action" (which has been pointed out to me is very shaky - but I think there's some important conceptual element to it.) I wonder what he meant by "blood sports" - would that include watching football?

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Man I loved this one back in the day... Keeping your refrigerator stocked will get you many women

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Sometimes I'm sad but then I remember TimeSplitters: Future Perfect had a Cat Driving Game. Bickering politics with a conservative friend. Can I just say Increase Records had these great 50s/60s compilations called "Cruisin' 19__" with real radio DJ banter from back in the day, and these awesome covers, this was the one brought to mind...

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"I don't need a spoon, It's in a cup- I can treat it like a beverage."

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Melissa says I eat the fruit like a pelican, or a seagull, just letting the fish or fruit in this case flow down the throat

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Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

The Worst Best Hackathon ever.

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So OK GO shares the Zero G Flight experience!

It's probably as authentic as it claims (no wires or green screen) but I don't think there's any way it could be "one take"... clever editing though

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http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/02/im-voting-for-hillary-because-of-my-daughter.html Some friends of mine were saying "There might be many reasons to vote for Hilary but if you're voting for her solely because she's a woman, you're sexist". To me that sounded like a bit of a strawman case, they claim that that (the "JUST because she's a woman" aspect) was what they had heard, but I think vanishingly few people are truly strictly single issue voters in that way; the candidate has to be in the ballpark to begin with, or else we would have heard more "Hilary OR Carly Fiorina".

My take on it is this: everyone has to- and generally does- evaluate candidates in a multidimensional way. Some factors you like, some factors you don't. If the claim is that it's somehow illegitimate for "gender alone" to be one of those many factors, I think you then have to explain 227 years of electing nuthin' but dudes to the highest office in the land. Just coincidence then, that in two centuries the best qualified person was always a guy?

Maybe you could argue that it's off balance for gender to be a disproportionately large litmus among many factor, but even then - stopping the signal to half the population that "you're not qualified for this because of your gender" is a worthy goal. And when you think of the mishmash nightmare of national politics an unambiguous signal stoppage would be a clear victory for humanity, vs the more uncertain world of political outcomes. (Even if you dig a person with progressive tendencies, and they win, you have to acknowledge the political landscape will be brutally polarized and obstructed. Possibly even more so than the last 8 years, so whatever ambitions you have need to be tempered with the fact that almost half the population disagrees vehemently with you)

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Here's the Eventbrite for the event I'll be joining in on tuba on Saturday and Sunday - free / but donations accepted... Thought my iPad Mini case might not hold a sticker, so I grabbed a sharpie...

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Also I just realized this printer/scanner Amber stuck me with (Lexmark freebie with a Mac she bought, perpetually out of ink) makes a darn fine footrest! Anyone know of a soft acoustic cover of "I Think We're Alone Now"? I would think it would be a natural way to take it, but everyone from Tiffany to The Killers makes it harsher and uptempo.

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Two random news thoughts:
1. Hooray for Michael Sam. Being out in a professional sports league takes guts.
2. Aw, Shirley Temple. What an achiever. Movies, Diplomacy, and a famous drink named after her!

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Just enough blacks to show that we care.

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http://www.blastr.com/2014-2-8/happy-birthday-jules-verne-10-verne-creations-inspired-modern-tech Jules Verne was amazing. Hell, he practically invented science fiction [citation needed]

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http://www.dorkly.com/article/59234/an-open-letter-from-a-death-star-architect So good.

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I just enhanced http://kirk.is/sidebar/ with a new 2D UI (instead of the old single column) and an author filter.

It's funny how twitter and FB stepped up and kind of replaced that kind of thing -- a lot more democratic than the blog/sidebar model, but it had it's charm.

Not sure if Dylan ever quite forgave me for opening it up rather than making it the Just Dylan show... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes Man. I will go on record saying that IF Peter Turkson is the next pope AND Rome or Jerusalem or maybe Athens get nuked, I will consider converting to Catholicism because that is some freaky stuff. Right now my opinion is that the multiplicity of religions indicates an understanding of something at best poetically true; a reasonably precise prophecy like that would be more supernaturally true.

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Tsundoku - bless the Japanese for having a word meaning 'unread books' http://t.co/AYF1fZz1

--Man, I don't have the tuba lungs I used to. Plus, now I have a beard and mustache. Still, it's nice having my own horn for once, even if it's just an Eb. I'll call her "Ephie".
Bill the Splut told a sad story about a kitty's final hours, and mentioned

He was meowing, which cats only do to humans, so he wanted human help.

I checked out the Wikipedia page on Cat Communication -- Bill slightly overstated the case, but not by too much. (and the noises they make during fighting are meows anyway, which is where I got confused.)

Anyway, the page embedded this photo ("A cat hissing and arching its back to make itself appear larger to ward off a threat.") -- the fullsize original is even better... I've just never quite seen those tactics look so effective before!

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Weird. "Omelette" is not recognized by chrome's spellcheck, but "Omelette's" is. Computers, they never fail to surprise and delight.

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Hearing about the Nokia/Microsoft thing. In retrospect, getting the axe from Nokia in 2009 probably wasn't such a bad thing for me.

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My new coffee flavor idea: "French Toast Roast": very rich, with just a hint of real maple sweetness.
--Snow Plows in the Financial District - ready for action which never quite arrived. Boston got just a few inches in all...

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Sawyer's scifi book "Mindscan" brings out the "philosophy of consciousness" idea of the zombie: a person who acts indistinguishably from a person but has no "inner consciousness". The book pushes an idea I hadn't heard, which is that we all have this kind of zombie, and it's the zombie acting when we're driving without thinking about it, or when we have to go back and reread a paragraph because we weren't paying attention. I don't buy the zombie/consciousness dualism though, nor do I think a person could convincing play a lively person 24/7 with "just" that kind of zombie - I don't think it would pass the Turing Test, for starters.

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Thinking how little I like Gmail/Google's "Buzz". It's A. yet another thing to check if I want to find out what people are thinking, and B. it's convenient, but a distraction, because it pushes notification of public-ish announcements and musings into gmail, a space I generally have reserved and monitor for messages directed more specifically at me.

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Valentine's Day is also Chinese New Year? And it's going to be Year of the Tiger? And I'm a Tiger? Oh, for awesome.

--Watch Ali G Indahouse with JZ the other day. I guess Ali G is driving a Renault 5, which came to the USA as "Le Car". I had a matchbox one of those. (Which might not be too much smaller than the original, come to think of it.) "Le Car" wrote its name in big letters across the side. The only other cars I can think of that really do that are Hummers and this Porsche I saw the other day.

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Woman almost strangled in car wash - JZ points out that with a name like "Carpluk" you're just asking for trouble.

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I always kind of rolled my eyes at my uncle safety pinning pairs of socks pre-laundry... but I admit finding matches in my blue sock pile is getting old.

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IP over Avian Carriers - someone actually did "ping over pigeon"! (55% packet loss) (tx jz)

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In talking with Leonard over the weekend, I realized something: I LIKE spoilers. For me, stories mostly exist as "idea delivery mechanisms". If a work is executed well I'll read or watch to see how it does what it does anyway... big surprises and twists aren't a draw for me. Leonard took this idea further, and one bit of advice he has for writers is that big twist followed by an exploration of that twist is cooler than story with a big twist at the end. Picture Soylent Green as an exploration of the consequences of the product, rather than just Heston running down the street shouting...

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gtalk automatically makes thumbnails for links to youtube? weird, disturbing.

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I presented my teams's game jam game at the Boston Post Mortem Game Developer's meeting. I got utterly unsolicited job nibbles after, based on my work. This is incredibly gratifying. Maybe this is the time to take some risks and stop looking to write more boring business server software and something closer to my interests in life! Ah, brutally winter weather. Yay.

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Illustration of the Moment

--Paint-covered toilet from Peter Spier's "Oh, Were They Ever Happy!" I found this book while assisting EvilB, and immediately thought about my impression of this image when I was a kid... something about it, or the paint-dripping brush atop, seemed especially lurid.

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Thematically Related Anecdote of the Moment
Gas related humor warning: The other night I was composing a kisrael entry on a laptop, sitting on the floor near the couch where EvilB was folding some laundry. To my immediate horror, EvilB (inadvertently, he assures me) let one fly, and I promptly scurried to safety on the other side of living room. When I glanced back to check on the laptop, THE ENTRY WAS GONE. What is the power of this man's gaseous emissions that he might wipe out blogs ACROSS THE VERY INTERNET ITSELF?

I was duly impressed. Still am.

Back in Boston.

No doubt about it, I've lost some of my decluttering drive. I noticed that the other day when I finally got to take some stuff to the goodwill truck, and (what's the opposite of retroactively?) impressed myself with my previous discipline.

My new mantra: DECLUTTER WITHOUT MERCY OR REGRET. (Which I suspect is a play on Battle Without Honor Or Humanity.) I will always have enough stuff to be interested in. Thus uninteresting stuff is taking up too much space and unwarranted attention.

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News of the Moment

young astronauts in love, the sequel

My mom hadn't heard the "Adult Diapers" detail of the Lisa Nowak story. At first I was wondering what the time pressure was; I mean it would take some time to purchase and set up the diapers, and it doesn't take that long to go to the bathroom. But then, with the BB gun, pepper spray, buck knife, mallet, black gloves, rubber tubing, and garbage bags, I guess we've kind of ruled out the spontaneous, heat-of-the-moment type defense anyway.

Admittedly, the wikipedia note that "U.S. shuttle astronauts wear specially designed diapers during launch and re-entry" which made the whole thing make a little more sense, I guess.

At least now we have a new setup for that old chestnut...
"So what do you get your deranged stalker astronaut girlfriend for her birthday?"
"Depends..." Video of the Moment
I think I mentioned I saw some of the Super Bowl, including many of the commercials. One of the coolest was that Degree Deoderant Stunt City spot...that link has the much funnier Director's Cut. The thing is, I'm a little wary of their tag line. I'm already a bit wary of the prospect of my deoderant's aluminum gradually seeping into my mind and making me forget my own zip code, so the prospect of "3X The Protection, For Men Who Take Risks" really isn't that enticing.

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Video of the Other Moment
Speaking of men who weren't afraid to take risks... David Hasselhoff Is Hooked On a Feeling. Wow... now I think I understand why Germans LOVE David Hasselhoff. (I have first hand evidence of it, seeing the guy airbrushed on top of the bumper cars at a local carnival.)

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Realization of the Moment

"We're Russian so we like the cold...and Jewish, so we like to suffer."

(Tomorrow being an unusual exception.) Brainteaser of the Moment
Two boys, Adam and Billy, go to a bookstore. Adam is 41 cents short of the price of a certain book. Billy is one cent short. They decide to combine their money to buy the book but they realize they still don't have enough. How much does the book cost?

Answer: (highlight with mouse to read -- but seriously, try to work this one out. Give it at least a half hour if the answer isn't obvious to you.)

41 cents, i.e. Adam has no money.

I got this last night after an embarrasingly long time of writing out simultaneous equations and not getting anywhere. And then I only got the answer by looking for obvious "gimmick" answers and seeing if one worked. And I realized last night that I probably didn't really get it because I was still thinking maybe there was a second answer. This morning I finally realized how to think about it properly...Bill is only ONE CENT shy of the price of the book...add ANY positive integer value to that, and he should have enough...so there's no other amount other than zero for Adam's money. Let me know if you get it or not!

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Poem of the Moment

You want a social life, with friends.
A passionate love life and as well
To work hard every day. What's true
Is of these three you may have two
And two can pay you dividends
But never may have three.

There isn't time enough, my friends--
Though dawn begins, yet midnight ends--
To find the time to have love, work, and friends.
Michelangelo had feeling
For Vittoria and the Ceiling
But did he go to parties at day's end?

Homer nightly went to banquets
Wrote all day but had no lockets
Bright with pictures of his Girl.
I know one who loves and parties
And has done so since his thirties
But writes hardly anything at all.

Grabbed from this page which also has a great play on that old William Carlos Williams poem. (via Amy Krouse Rosenthal's Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life)

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Passing of the Moment
Death of a Playwright. (But hey...at least he got to do Marilyn Monroe...)

Saw a pretty cool movie last night..."The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra". (Got free passes the night earlier, in line for the Suicide Girls Burlesque show.) It is being distributed by Sony, but it was an indie film made on a $10K budget. It was legitimately funny, an Airplane-esque parody of 50s scifi/horror, except it never relied on breaking the fourth wall for laughs. You can see a preview at lostskeleton.com. I think it's playing this weekend at the Kendall cinema, with a few members of the cast on hand. Worth checking out, especially if you like supporting indie stuff.

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Slashdot Goofery of the Moment

I didn't RTFA, but it sounds like they're just running ethernet cables (or OC12 or whatever) to Mars. Didn't they stop to think that the planets move? Ridiculous! The ESA and NASA really need to get their acts together.

You've never heard of bungee earthernet? It's the new standard.

Could they make that space elevator on top of that? That would be useful, just don't get out on the floor expecting "ladies' lingerie" when its actually "hard, lung popping vacuum and solar radiation".

--Deraj DeZine, FooGoo, and myself in the slashdot discussion on that "100-Million Mile Network" to Mars article I posted yesterday. My first (Score: 5, Funny) in a while. (The first comment is the best, though, "RTFA" is the abbreviation advising one to Read The Article linked to before brashly commenting on it, so Deraj DeZine is being pretty funny there.) The space elevator is a real concept though.

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Politics of the Moment
Damn it, more argument that Edwards, not Kerry, is the democrats best hope to regain the whitehouse. Kerry just...reads wrong to a lot of people, on TV and what not. Even I can tell that, just like Bush reads really wrong to my crowd. Stupid democrats, their idiot bandwagoneering is going to cost them. UPDATE: As pointed out in today's comments, I was probably a little harsh just then. (But I wasn't saying everyone who supports Kerry was a bandwagoneer or an idiot.) Though I agree with the article I link to: I get the feeling a lot of Democrats are trying to think in terms of electability, which is well and good, but there are some indications that they're getting it wrong. If you're going to bandwagon, at least do so in a way that's likely to meet your goals. And if you prefer a candidate for more idealistic reasons, more power to you, but remember: a candidate who doesn't appeal to the swing vote for whatever reason is going to keep Bush in office.

Link of the Moment
It's the Parasite Pals Super Fun Site! Meet Holly Hostess and her friends, Dig Dig the Head Louse, Tickles the Tapeworm, Blinky the Eyelash Mite, and ZZeezz the Bed Bug. So cute! And so disgusting!

Quote of the Moment

Show me a man who does not, on occasion, allow his beard to grow and I'll show you a man who cares more about what society thinks of him than of what he thinks of himself.

Woohoo! More of an excuse when I decide to go a few weeks (rather than my usual one...) without shaving.

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Image of the Moment

--Photo by Ranjit, in New York City. I think I understand what the defacer of this poster was getting at.

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Middle East Essays of the Moment
Foreign Affairs on Palestine, Iraq, and American Strategy. The core idea is that the Palestinean issue is a powerful symbol used in Middle East politics, and an important one, but the answer isn't "deal with Palestine first". Another interesting but scary article: Is The Currency Oil is Traded In the real reason for this whole Iraq thing? Iraq made out like bandits by switching to the Euro before it started its recent huge gains against the dollar. If OPEC followed suit en masse, the result could be a dollar devaluation mess on a third world scale.

Heh. It would be funny (ok, not ha ha funny) if that was one of the reasons why Euro-using France and Germany are against the war, and the UK is for it. (Don't know what the pound/dollar relationship is though.) Anyway, MetaFilter, where I got this link from, had some followup discussion where people who are better informed than I am (or at least better at pretending to be) have some comments.

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Link of the Moment
Another webpage that reads your mind. Amazing! The Dept. of Homeland Security should get this technology and use it to weed out terrorists! So I think I may be out of work soon. Which means I have to be careful about what I do. Not so much for the finances (though that too) but so I don't make any bogus associations between things I like to do now and getting laid off. My friend Beau got an appendicitis attack right after eating Nachos, and his body made an association that didn't let him eat nachos for years. Linda Barry's Wisdom For When You Are Sick includes not asking for your favorite foods for a similar reason. I have some freezer pops at home that I'm nervous about, and I think it's because at my dotbomb we had a freezer that I kept well stocked with them...

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Quote of the Moment

"I want you in the worst way...
...which is standing up in a hammock."

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Links of the Moment
I was requested by some guy to link to his site Toast In A Can. I would've ignored the request, since I'm not a big link exchanger, but I wanted to contrast this Hillary Clinton bashing picture that I found on the site, which plays on her reputation as an unlikable witch, with this New York Times article that says even the Republican senators find her quite likable in person. Yay Liberals. Quote and Links of the Moment

"Hey, what's the matter?"
"I'm sad because you're going to die."
"Yeah, that bugs me sometimes too. But not so much as you think... ...When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway."

If you don't know about Richard Feynman, you might be scientifically literate, and you might be culturally literate, but you're not literate in scientific culture, and you should at least check out this site. Feynman has taught a lot of people what science is and how it should be done (from his groundbreaking work in particle physics to his speculative musings on nanotechnology ("There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom!") to his integrity on the committee investigating the explosion of the Challenger) --and also how life outside of science should be lived, how we can do interesting things in fields we're not 'experts' in, like how Feynman become a drummer for a ballet troop without knowing anything about music except how it sounds, or his love for the mysterious remote country of Tuva.

This quote is interesting in the way it relates meme theory and mortality-- how our ideas can live on beyond us, and passing on those memes might be more important than passing on our genes. (Speaking of which, random note: Mo worked with Feynman's son.)

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Tax Code of the Moment
Mo found the following gem from the 2000 Massachusetts Resident Income Tax Form 1:

• Embezzled or other income from illegal activities is taxable and should be reported on Schedule X, line 5.

Uh yeah, I'll be sure to get right on that.