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| Sunday, July 12th, 2009 |
natowelch
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4:29p |
They Know What They're Doing
You know, we have more people who are uninsured in this country than the entire population of Canada. -- Wendell Potter, recently retired PR executive for CIGNA, one of America's largest health insurance providers. |
natowelch
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4:00p |
With Carrots
I forgot I put a bunch of veggie bullion into yesterday's rice curry dish. I thought I put in the same amount of curry into today's rice, but, sans bullion, it had NO flavor at all. That's too bad. Carrots always have flavor. I'll be on Wreck Beach tomorrow, later. Then Tuesday I leave for a trip to Castlegar to see ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) turrelle for my 35th birthday, and then on to Calgary to see walpurg and Flora and the clan over the weekend. Send money. Peace. |
jwz
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10:14a |
RFID passport wardriving
Obviously the workaround is to stay away from Fisherman's Wharf. Zipping past Fisherman's Wharf, Chris Paget's scanner downloaded to his laptop the unique serial numbers of two pedestrians' electronic U.S. passport cards embedded with radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags. Within an hour, he'd "skimmed" four more of the new, microchipped PASS cards from a distance of 20 feet. "There's a reason you don't wear your Social Security number across your T-shirt," Albrecht says, "and beaming out your new, national RFID number in a 30-foot radius would be far worse." But Gigi Zenk, a spokeswoman for the Washington state Department of Licensing, says Americans "aren't that concerned about the RFID" in a time when "tracking an individual is much easier through a cell phone." Current Music: Emergency Broadcast Network -- Station Identification |
| Saturday, July 11th, 2009 |
natowelch
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9:42p |
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natowelch
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6:37p |
Ding Dong
All of a sudden, my brother is married. Best of luck, bro. |
natowelch
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2:04p |
Cloud-Free
WTF was I whining about last night? I'm going outside. |
jwz
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9:02a |
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jwz
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8:59a |
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| Friday, July 10th, 2009 |
natowelch
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10:37p |
Eat and Run
My roommate's cat, Mr Fish, as a complete worthless dickhead/shitbag/asshole. It took the retard a complete week to find out where I moved Smoke's food bowl, but he still doesn't care enough to refrain from doing what he knows he's not supposed to. Fuck you, you little shit pump. Get dead. He's been this way since September, when he moved in. Please note it's taken this long for me to lose my patience enough to say such vitriolic things. |
jwz
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1:47p |
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| Thursday, July 9th, 2009 |
jwz
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7:40p |
SoundExchange
I can't make any sense of what this new SoundExchange settlement actually means for DNA Lounge. Is someone going to come knocking on my door asking for an additional $25,000 per year because of our webcasts? Given that A) we are already paying ASCAP/SESAC/BMI for them, and B) the webcasts produce zero revenue. If you think you understand this crap, please explain it to me...
Current Music: The Cure -- One Hundred Years |
jwz
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7:19p |
The Robotic Head of Albert Einstein Teaches Itself to Smile.
| And Soon It Will Destroy You. To begin teaching the robot, the researchers stuck Einstein in front of a mirror and instructed the robot to "body babble" by contorting its face into random positions. A video camera connected to facial recognition software gave the robot feedback: When it made a movement that resembled a "real" expression, it received a reward signal.  |
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Current Music: Dandi Wind -- Einsteinbrains |
jwz
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2:39p |
Train
Current Music: Goldfrapp -- Train |
jwz
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2:23p |
Docking
Current Music: Add N to (X) -- Poke 'er 'ole |
jwz
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2:18p |
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natowelch
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10:55a |
Surprise!
I received a surprise package this morning from Vancouver. Well, thank you for the spices and napkins. Whoever you are. |
| Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 |
natowelch
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6:20p |
The Royal We
I forgot in June, but I am resuming my monthly habit of reviewing my LJ for the month in years past. I'm also digging out information on what I've been up to in general, based on tags and such. At times, I feel compelled to update years-old entries, and link connections between old passages and new, refined, or even poeticized versions of the same thoughts that spontaneously erupt years down the line. I should think about taking a year, somewhere down the road, and dedicate it to reviewing all the things I've written throughout my life. Call it "A Year in Review". heh. I have conversations with myself all the time. But when you start chatting back and forth with yourself after you have forgotten, over the span of years, it feels more like an other. It starts actually connecting with my sense of sovereignty, respect, and company, like it could comfort loneliness. These are just words, of course. Letters across life. Time capsules. But there are other relics to be found: drawings, music, videos. Some I've created, some are mashed up, and some are pulled from others' work. Then, there will be software, like "siteblast", my first perl script for assembling web sites from templates (before I learned PHP). Even more interesting is the kinds of memories we could create for ourselves in the future. suppose you could build a "home theatre," stocked with robots, that could precisely record and playback performances made years ago? Disney's hall of Presidents in every living room. Your own personal Chuck E Cheese's pizza time theatre. Now wipe the cheese out of your mind, and put your own content in it. Youtube it. Share digital performance files online. Mash them up. And THEN, after all that, archive them, let them gather dust, and revisit them years later, and see what you had to say decades ago. Have a conversation with yourself. Confront your own younger demeanor. Krapp's Last Video Game. (Bonus points for anyone who claims the reference without Google) Imagine sitting in a room with the android presences of yourself, recorded at ten year intervals, as you describe your year. Record how each of you reacts to the others as you go. Were you ever alone? The past is looking a lot more interesting than it used to. I often imagine having contact with a multitude of me, with me everytime I imagine having contact with that multitude. A council of myself. |
jwz
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3:37p |
JAILBREAK ZEPPELIN!
 Spanish police thwart jail break using remote-controlled Zeppelin Three people have been arrested after their plan to aid the escape of an inmate from prison in Las Palmas on the Canary Islands was discovered by police. They planned to use a 13 foot long remote-controlled airship to deliver night vision goggles, climbing gear and camouflage paint to the Italian convict who would then use the equipment to escape from prison. It is thought the inmate, identified by police as 52 year-old Giulio B, would use the gear to scale down a prison wall at night where a car would be waiting to take him into hiding. "He would be transported to a foreign country where he would hide out while he waited for false identity documents and would continue to oversee the shipment of drugs to our country," a statement released by Spanish police said. The three people arrested by police had sent up camp in a camouflaged tent on a hill some 600 metres away from the jail where they spent weeks observing security measures at the prison through powerful binoculars and telephoto lenses. The team of two Spaniards and a Urugauan had set up motion detection sensors around their camp to warn of anyone approaching their stake-out site. Authorities said they learnt of the plan and intercepted the package containing the inflatable zeppelin when it arrived in the Canary Islands from Bergamo. Current Music: Yazoo -- In My Room |
natowelch
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12:30p |
Meet the New Boss. Same as the Old Boss.
 Put me on the record now as not trusting of Microsoft, Apple, or Google. Doug Rushkoff has a rather convoluted way of saying people are worked up over nothing when worrying about the implications of cloud computing, and of Google's new Chrome OS, just announced yesterday. Being a long-time resistor of the idea of letting a for-profit enterprise take care of my data and software, I was a little surprised to hear this argument coming from a well-known proponent of openness. I was even a little crushed, perhaps. But then, after some analysis, it turns out he wasn't really talking about me. While there have been "cloud computing" efforts before, they always ran up against people's (false) notions of computer privacy, virus contagion, and fear of dependence. Rushkoff is one of those people that can actually make me reconsider and scrutinize my ideas. Were my notions of privacy, independence, and security, really "false"? I scoffed at first, but I decided to at least give Doug the benefit of the doubt, and listen to his argument. ( Unto the knot ) |
jwz
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12:34p |
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| Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 |
jwz
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9:43p |
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jwz
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9:16p |
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jwz
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4:15p |
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natowelch
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2:44p |
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natowelch
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2:23p |
Metastasis
Woot! Ricalope and Samalander got the place! They'll be moving upstairs into 407, jsut two floors above, at the end of the month, or thereabouts. We're going to take over the building! Mwa. |
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