Oh great, now everybody will have to worry about dressing-room cameras and amateur paparazzi…
Archive of entries posted on July 2009
Know Thyself: Goals, Context, and Purpose
A few months ago, I thought I’d found the answer to my motivation problems. A tweak to my purpose, thought I, and all would be well. As usual, things weren’t that simple… it helped, but after the initial surge of enthusiasm wore off, I discovered that it didn’t make enough difference to keep me moving. [...]
“Easter Island dirt may hold key to longer life”
Hm… I could use a few extra healthy decades…
“Australian govt memo, 1968: Women become ‘spinster battle axes;’ ‘men usually mellow’”
Oh, GoddessJ and several of our more feminist-leaning friends should have a field day with this one.
“A woman spends 287 days choosing what to wear”
I can believe it.
“Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax”
I was born in 1970, the year after the first moon landing. Throughout my entire life, every reference I heard about it silently reinforced the assumption that mankind had been to the moon. So when I heard that some people thought that it was a hoax made in a movie studio, I was perplexed. I [...]
“Wichita police horse scared by 5-foot-long inflatable penis”
They say reality is stranger than fiction…
Know Thyself: Enthusiasm
This week, after more than six years of effort, I finally solved what seems to be the last theoretical problem to Project X. I have the entire high-level design now. Parts of it may still need some tweaks, but the whole thing hangs together remarkably well. It’s both a lot simpler overall, and a lot [...]
“Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers”
Ploni Almoni sent me this link recently. I read it, amused and agreeing with almost everything — until I got to the end: In short, I hate software — most of all and especially my own — because I know how hard it is to get it right. It may sound strange, but it’s a [...]
“Neatolicious Fun Facts: Chess”
I’ve been working on my chess game lately, in an attempt to improve my logic skills. It has apparently worked… previously, any computer chess game would mop the floor with me on any but the absolute lowest skill setting (and sometimes even then). Now I can beat the Caissa Chess program on my iPod Touch [...]