For a good time, type “your-name needs” into google, and list off the funniest results.
Must stop procrastina…
earthshine has suggested that we all vote for me for president in 2020. Actually, he suggested that we all do it in one state in 2012 (to make a point) take a few states (and their associated senate seats) in 2016 (to drive home the point and establish “winnability”), and then seriously go for the gold in 2020.
With no humility whatsoever, I accept this bold plan. Hooray for me. If it’s anything like today’s videoconference experience, it’ll be a massive technical pain in the butt with a surprisingly positive outcome.
I have a first incentive to offer to my early supporters: According to my calculations, our future AI overlords will make themselves known to us at some point between 2020 and 2030. If you put me in power, I may well be in the position to bargain with them and offer immortality as well as virtual reality experiences so potent that they’ll make crack cocaine look like a lollipop.
Think on these things as we watch the current establishment tear itself apart, only to be reborn in its own image, every four to eight years: Who do you want in charge when the robots rise up?
Thanks a lot, simianpower. You gonna rock me to sleep after that nightmare producing horror story?
Go to the site for the conference I’m in tomorrow. Read the title carefully. For the slow, I’ll reproduce it here:
My motivation for showing up beastly early tomorrow just took a teensy little hit.
I’ve been trying to document the karate I’ve been learning, since I sense that I’m rapidly exceeding my ability to remember random crap. Plus, I know that at some point I’ll have to take a month or two off, and I’ll forget everything. Just the basic techniques and combinations are already up to six pages of fairly dense chicken scratch.
Blind man: • Dragon block to right, stepping out LF. Control wrist with right hand if possible. • LH palm heel to head, left arm continues over opponent’s arm • Turn right 180 degrees, stepping with left foot. Swing right arm between your body and opponent’s body • Sweep fwd with right arm and back with right leg • RF boot to the head
And so on. I haven’t even tried to write down a form or a weapon yet. I think I’ve learned a lot more than I’ve realized so far.
In other news, I have to be at BU tomorrow (south bank of the Charles river) at 8am. This means that I must leave my garage between 6:30 and 6:45. Uuuuuuuungh. All this for the dubious privilege of giving a 30 minute talk over the Access Grid. I hate talking to videoconference audiences. My timing is for crap, and the feedback from the audience is delayed enough to be simply random.
Since it’s going around like the bird flu, here are the posts that generated the most comment activity in my journal:
16: When I offered random beatings to idiots
14: What Harry Potter charater are you?
14: Electoral college
13: About Terry Schiavo
13: The whole Paul Harvey Christian thing
13: Planks in my future political platform
12: When I bloodied my nose with hot sauce
11: A big mash up of crap from the web
11: Web design rant BTW: This is my very favorite one.
What do we learn from this? That your commenting has almost nothing to do with what I write. The general trend seems to be if I (a) rage really hard or (b) talk politics. Harry Potter is sampling error, I’m sure of that.
Making one of my favorite comfort food recipes. If you do not own a mr chops-a-lot, this will be much more work for you than it is for me.
From an email I just got:
Being a Christian is like being a pumpkin. God lifts you up, takes you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. He opens you up, touches you deep inside and scoops out all the yucky stuff– including the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc. Then He carves you a new smiling face and puts His light inside you to shine for all the world to see. This was passed on to me from another pumpkin. Now, it is your turn to pass it to a pumpkin.
Sort of like the shepherd analogy, it sort of leaves me cold: Why do shepherds watch their flocks? Because eventually, the owner is going to either fleece them or eat them outright.
