Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Monday, October 25, 2004
woo indeed.
rugs are laid, ikea furniture assembled, and a few vanloads later and we've got the fragile, frangible or difficult to pack items over to the new house. I've moved all my clothes save some bare essentials, and toiletries. So I'm sitting here at an empty desk, contemplating what will probably be a few days of radio silence. Tomorrow morning we move the computers to the new house, wednesday the movers get all the furnishings.
I'm looking forward to it. It's a very nice house, and I think it will actually be conducive to more and better work. As well as being much more pleasant to live in.
Quarters are cramped and multipurpose here, and there we will have very clean distinctions between working-space and living space, as well as a dining room and lounge and so on.
rugs are laid, ikea furniture assembled, and a few vanloads later and we've got the fragile, frangible or difficult to pack items over to the new house. I've moved all my clothes save some bare essentials, and toiletries. So I'm sitting here at an empty desk, contemplating what will probably be a few days of radio silence. Tomorrow morning we move the computers to the new house, wednesday the movers get all the furnishings.
I'm looking forward to it. It's a very nice house, and I think it will actually be conducive to more and better work. As well as being much more pleasant to live in.
Quarters are cramped and multipurpose here, and there we will have very clean distinctions between working-space and living space, as well as a dining room and lounge and so on.
Saturday, October 23, 2004
How wonderful, no?
We have keys to our new house, we'll be buying carpet tomorrow and planning our conquest.
Tonight I'm watching Anthony Hopkins do shakespeare and getting to bed.
I'm so tired of this dog and pony show, I'll be glad when the election is over, whichever monkey is elected. The thing I find so tiresome, what I dislike about anti-smoking commercials, and democrats maligning republicans, and republicans maligning democrats, and anti X fanatics of all stripes is this; They are right. Bush is a bad leader, Kerry is a sock puppet with no seeming values, smoking is bad for you. But in their zeal they embrace madness. Why lie? Why employ ridiculous lengths and futile fabrications? Isn't smoking bad enough? Isn't Bush's record bad enough? Aren't there enough examples of the failure of politicians? Why make up trumped up numbers to 'convince us' that smoking is really really bad? Why make the outrageous comparison of Bush to Hitler, of Kerry to some traitorous libelous plotter, burning medals and then using them in speeches. Isn't the truth bad enough? Why destroy what fragile credence I might give you?
It's obviously false. It's easy to see that smoking doesn't kill as many as they claim, that "smoking related fatalities" are so cleverly increased to include heart disease in smoking households, regardless of other factors. Bush isn't, and couldn't in his wildest dreams of control be Hitler's shadow, not struggling as he is to hold the reins of power through a single election, maintain a good show for a relatively small constituency of the people, with his petty dreams of slightly increased american power, limited war on limited means, repaying his commercial interests with the contracts and governmental approval they desire. Kerry is just another grasping politician, no less flawed or noble, with his focused blandness and cutting memorization skills, as he studies the polls and edits the video ads.
They are bad things. They are horrible things, sometimes. But that does not excuse the hurt you are doing to your OWN CAUSE by lying. By inflation, and by cheap theatrics. For a while there, I actually forgot that Bush was a bad president, because I was so tired of people attacking him for the wrong reasons. I starting thinking that Kerry should be shielded from comment. They're both tools who sold whatever consciences they had on the altars of power and political attainments, and I have no reservation in marking any successful politician as such that I have ever seen. Dennis Kucinich, perhaps, Sharpton, McCain, manage to avoid that distinction, in some doubt that I have about them, given what I've seen. Is Bush a fascist? Not really. Not any more than any modern politician is a fascist(a potentially troublesome statement). Fascists are big and bold and clear, and Bush is just a gerrymandering Republican, with clear and unflinching surety(for what and by whom I can't say) that he's right, and he'll be seen as right. Bad leader, certainly, and not someone I would invite over to dinner. He has played a part in a huge and costly war, which cost lives and money no one had the right to spend.
dont' fool yourself that the world changes with an election. The vote to go to war in Iraq was not close. It was very heavily supported. The CIA machinery that gave the intelligence was not built entirely by Bush. You cannot lay all the blame at his feet. We have allowed a government with terrible and inhuman aims to take up residence, that is true. But it's not republican, and it's not democratic. It's american, and it will survive whoever wins the presidential election. Beware of easy answers. If only we could beat Bush, then the world would be free.
Ach, tired and bitter at the age of 23. I'm going to bed. And then I'm going to focus on my previous assessment, that the world is getting better. I truly believe that. Our foolish aspersions aside, there is more joy and more health in the world than ever before. If we can but find the strength to leave behind the complications and problems of our past.
Politics is so easy to focus on. I'm sure an hour of medical research probably had more effect on the real lives of people than many countless hours carrying plaques bearing the name of some grubbing electoral wanna-be.
We have keys to our new house, we'll be buying carpet tomorrow and planning our conquest.
Tonight I'm watching Anthony Hopkins do shakespeare and getting to bed.
I'm so tired of this dog and pony show, I'll be glad when the election is over, whichever monkey is elected. The thing I find so tiresome, what I dislike about anti-smoking commercials, and democrats maligning republicans, and republicans maligning democrats, and anti X fanatics of all stripes is this; They are right. Bush is a bad leader, Kerry is a sock puppet with no seeming values, smoking is bad for you. But in their zeal they embrace madness. Why lie? Why employ ridiculous lengths and futile fabrications? Isn't smoking bad enough? Isn't Bush's record bad enough? Aren't there enough examples of the failure of politicians? Why make up trumped up numbers to 'convince us' that smoking is really really bad? Why make the outrageous comparison of Bush to Hitler, of Kerry to some traitorous libelous plotter, burning medals and then using them in speeches. Isn't the truth bad enough? Why destroy what fragile credence I might give you?
It's obviously false. It's easy to see that smoking doesn't kill as many as they claim, that "smoking related fatalities" are so cleverly increased to include heart disease in smoking households, regardless of other factors. Bush isn't, and couldn't in his wildest dreams of control be Hitler's shadow, not struggling as he is to hold the reins of power through a single election, maintain a good show for a relatively small constituency of the people, with his petty dreams of slightly increased american power, limited war on limited means, repaying his commercial interests with the contracts and governmental approval they desire. Kerry is just another grasping politician, no less flawed or noble, with his focused blandness and cutting memorization skills, as he studies the polls and edits the video ads.
They are bad things. They are horrible things, sometimes. But that does not excuse the hurt you are doing to your OWN CAUSE by lying. By inflation, and by cheap theatrics. For a while there, I actually forgot that Bush was a bad president, because I was so tired of people attacking him for the wrong reasons. I starting thinking that Kerry should be shielded from comment. They're both tools who sold whatever consciences they had on the altars of power and political attainments, and I have no reservation in marking any successful politician as such that I have ever seen. Dennis Kucinich, perhaps, Sharpton, McCain, manage to avoid that distinction, in some doubt that I have about them, given what I've seen. Is Bush a fascist? Not really. Not any more than any modern politician is a fascist(a potentially troublesome statement). Fascists are big and bold and clear, and Bush is just a gerrymandering Republican, with clear and unflinching surety(for what and by whom I can't say) that he's right, and he'll be seen as right. Bad leader, certainly, and not someone I would invite over to dinner. He has played a part in a huge and costly war, which cost lives and money no one had the right to spend.
dont' fool yourself that the world changes with an election. The vote to go to war in Iraq was not close. It was very heavily supported. The CIA machinery that gave the intelligence was not built entirely by Bush. You cannot lay all the blame at his feet. We have allowed a government with terrible and inhuman aims to take up residence, that is true. But it's not republican, and it's not democratic. It's american, and it will survive whoever wins the presidential election. Beware of easy answers. If only we could beat Bush, then the world would be free.
Ach, tired and bitter at the age of 23. I'm going to bed. And then I'm going to focus on my previous assessment, that the world is getting better. I truly believe that. Our foolish aspersions aside, there is more joy and more health in the world than ever before. If we can but find the strength to leave behind the complications and problems of our past.
Politics is so easy to focus on. I'm sure an hour of medical research probably had more effect on the real lives of people than many countless hours carrying plaques bearing the name of some grubbing electoral wanna-be.
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Shinkuro, Inc. - Tools for Collaboration
I have more than a passing interest in group ware. But open source tools still lag behind commercial software which lag in the usability department.
I have more than a passing interest in group ware. But open source tools still lag behind commercial software which lag in the usability department.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
outlawpoet@hell.com is back online, thank you Gu.
we've settled on a place, over on 81st in Playa Del Rey, not too far from here. It'll be more than a block from the beach, which is too bad, and no longer withint walking distance of the venice boardwalk, but I suppose I survived before I could do that for lunch.
We'll be moving the 27th, so some packing soon, as well as getting carpets and other things down before the furniture.
Then on Nov 5, of course, the Accellerating Change conference.
I would like to go back to SLC for a thanksgiving area visit, as my proposed visit in october was rather thrashed by this move and other things.
I guess I visit slc a great deal. particularly given my limited funding. But I care a great deal for crystal and my friends there. I moved out to LA solely for this job. I work most of the time, beause it is my passion, and this is a chance to do real ground-breaking research.
One interesting possibility is that with the new house, I have much more private space, and can have crystal visit me here.
we've settled on a place, over on 81st in Playa Del Rey, not too far from here. It'll be more than a block from the beach, which is too bad, and no longer withint walking distance of the venice boardwalk, but I suppose I survived before I could do that for lunch.
We'll be moving the 27th, so some packing soon, as well as getting carpets and other things down before the furniture.
Then on Nov 5, of course, the Accellerating Change conference.
I would like to go back to SLC for a thanksgiving area visit, as my proposed visit in october was rather thrashed by this move and other things.
I guess I visit slc a great deal. particularly given my limited funding. But I care a great deal for crystal and my friends there. I moved out to LA solely for this job. I work most of the time, beause it is my passion, and this is a chance to do real ground-breaking research.
One interesting possibility is that with the new house, I have much more private space, and can have crystal visit me here.
outlawpoet@hell.com is back online, thank you Gu.
we've settled on a place, over on 81st in Playa Del Rey, not too far from here. It'll be more than a block from the beach, which is too bad, and no longer withint walking distance of the venice boardwalk, but I suppose I survived before I could do that for lunch.
We'll be moving the 27th, so some packing soon, as well as getting carpets and other things down before the furniture.
Then on Nov 5, of course, the Accellerating Change conference.
I would like to go back to SLC for a thanksgiving area visit, as my proposed visit in october was rather thrashed by this move and other things.
I guess I visit slc a great deal. particularly given my limited funding. But I care a great deal for crystal and my friends there. I moved out to LA solely for this job. I work most of the time, beause it is my passion, and this is a chance to do real ground-breaking research.
One interesting possibility is that with the new house, I have much more private space, and can have crystal visit me here.
we've settled on a place, over on 81st in Playa Del Rey, not too far from here. It'll be more than a block from the beach, which is too bad, and no longer withint walking distance of the venice boardwalk, but I suppose I survived before I could do that for lunch.
We'll be moving the 27th, so some packing soon, as well as getting carpets and other things down before the furniture.
Then on Nov 5, of course, the Accellerating Change conference.
I would like to go back to SLC for a thanksgiving area visit, as my proposed visit in october was rather thrashed by this move and other things.
I guess I visit slc a great deal. particularly given my limited funding. But I care a great deal for crystal and my friends there. I moved out to LA solely for this job. I work most of the time, beause it is my passion, and this is a chance to do real ground-breaking research.
One interesting possibility is that with the new house, I have much more private space, and can have crystal visit me here.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Friday, October 08, 2004
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Guide Horse Foundation - Miniature horses for the blind
This is a very interesting idea. I think it even may be as advantageous as they say. Certainly dogs are inappropriate in many cases. And even the best trained dogs have very inconvenient reactions and instincts.
This is a very interesting idea. I think it even may be as advantageous as they say. Certainly dogs are inappropriate in many cases. And even the best trained dogs have very inconvenient reactions and instincts.
Monday, October 04, 2004
Well, more interesting stuff.
we've been given notice by our landlord, and the a2i2 crew is looking for a new place(s). I have to admit, I've never looked for a place for so many people before, so does anyone have good tips or tricks for real estate?
two smaller places would be okay, but one large facility would be ideal, to keep everyone connected.
the earl grey is more than half gone, which dismays me a bit, I was under the impression that a loose leaf tea wouldn't go as fast...
we've been given notice by our landlord, and the a2i2 crew is looking for a new place(s). I have to admit, I've never looked for a place for so many people before, so does anyone have good tips or tricks for real estate?
two smaller places would be okay, but one large facility would be ideal, to keep everyone connected.
the earl grey is more than half gone, which dismays me a bit, I was under the impression that a loose leaf tea wouldn't go as fast...
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