Be glad you don’t live in a shithole like China, where it’s apparently completely acceptable (albeit technically illegal) to cram people into factories and work them 17+ hours a day, 7 days a week. Yeah, that’s what 80 hours of overtime means. It took a “rash of suicides” for anybody to get some sunshine onto this… [Read more…]
“That’s how I got started in politics. I got a marketable commodity– one vote….before long I had sixty men back of me and formed the George Washington Plunkitt Association. What did the district leader say when I called at headquarters? I didn’t have to call headquarters.” – Plunkitt of Tammany Hall If Armey and Kibbe thinks the… [Read more…]
WOW. I’d like to preface this post with an acknowledgement that on a personal level, I’m quite lucky, as unlike a lot of people who are currently unemployed, I have part-time work for the fall available for the asking, from people who would be very happy to see me doing it. That said, I’d say… [Read more…]
Pop-Sci is all a-gaggle at a vest using shear fluids to support kevlar. BUT: In the tests, BAE scientists used a gas gun to fire ball-bearing bullets at nearly 1,000 feet per second at two test materials — 31 layers of regular Kevlar and 10 layers of Kevlar combined with the shear-thickening liquid. The shear-thickening… [Read more…]
As noted earlier, and now will be making even more grounds, Prime Minister Erdogan’s rationale for democracy is in order to destroy it. Well. No shit? That’s why we keep giving billions of dollars to Egypt, after all. I think this is a tempest in a teapot, and we should cut the strings on all… [Read more…]
What can you say about a guy who makes 1200+ 10-minute educational videos, and just releases them on Youtube? You say the man’s totally effing awesome, that’s what you say. We’re reaching a point where basic educational technology is going to totally upset the apple cart. As a guy working in the industry, I can’t wait.
Not for being rude, or anything of the sort — but simply because they don’t “get it.” So, I was in Store 2930 in Irving last Friday, and ordered a book on Mudbox (a 3d modelling software). I was promised by the store clerk that the book qualified for free expedited shipping, but that because… [Read more…]
Wait, what’s going on here? Well, the column writer quotes Bastiat, so you have a pretty good ide awhat he’s going to say…. but on the other hand, he’s citing a Harvard economic study — it would be VERY interesting to find out whether the guys who wrote it have anything to do with Lawrence… [Read more…]
Well, not really. Our mortgage is… as the house has lost a quarter of its value last year, and a few years of mortgage payments have effectively turned into rent payments. This happens again next year, we really WILL be underwater. So why am I happy? Well, it’s this little thing call “sunk costs” and… [Read more…]
Bane of all computer geeks who ever played Baldur’s Gate. Yeah, I know, you didn’t. Shut up. =) Anyway, this is the body of the narsty little monster that chewed up all my little toons. I’m starting to get the hang of box-modelling in 3dsMax… but don’t have the brain cells for doing the head… [Read more…]
I pay attention to Lawrence Lessig, even when I disagree on the details.
I’m starting to see something over and over again. Students who feel entitled to lecture their professors on the quality of the feedback they get, that it’s not positive enough. Students who simply can’t handle being told that their work was an incoherent mess (this is a real example, from a guy who then went… [Read more…]
I’ve ranted about High-Fructose Corn Syrup for something like twenty years now, after I went through a grocery store and found all the fruit juice was 60% or more sugar-water, and HFCS was showing up in my MEAT PRODUCTS. Well, the heavy research is in. The shit’s not only as bad for you as I… [Read more…]
August 18, 2010
by happycrow
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