The prior photo-handler in Ubuntu was implemented in a slightly idiosyncratic language. Could be pragmatic, or could be programmer-ego. Not immediately obvious, which. The current photo-handler in Ubuntu (and OpenSUSE) is Shotwell … implemented in a *completely* idio … idiot … er, “unique” language. And it crashes on uploading photos … for months. (A photo-manager [...]
During the “Art Walk” in Laguna Beach. Walking along a dark, crowded, noisy sidewalk. “Do you have a cigarette?” Heard distinctly from an approaching blonde girl, when still twenty-odd feet away. “No.” I answered, as the couple passed. “What??” She turned after we passed. “What did you say??” She had a very odd expression, as [...]
Trying to rebuild a personal social network. Something I neglected over the last decade. Music … local social groups offer “tribute” bands. Not interested. I liked … at the time … a lot of the then-popular bands. The “tribute” groups are bands that cannot produce of value their own music. I did like the ’70′s [...]
Picked up a pretty good book, on a random browse through the bookstore – which is unusual as most books I end up buying through recommendations and Amazon. The Longevity Project website, Borders (where I bought the book), Amazon, NPR, Atlantic, Stanford, Psychology Today The interesting bit (for me) is that this is a eight [...]
Ran across an article in Slate: Sex Is Cheap Why young men have the upper hand in bed, even when they’re failing in life. What the article says fits with the behavior I see around my sons. Sex seems to very available, and cheap. Guess I was born into the wrong generation. On the other [...]
Roger Schank (a prominent AI figure) gave a talk at UCI several years back. His notion was the humans do not naturally reason deductively, rather we use something he called “story-based reasoning”. In fact most of human communication is in the form of “mini-stories”. This upset the deductive AI people to no end, but to [...]
Wanted to capture this picture for years. Green grass, blue skies, an animal in the right place … all are unusual. This last Wednesday, everything lined up.
Thinking about small-scale fusion and came up with a couple questions, for which I do not know where to look for answers. Send a stream of accelerated protons into a pool of water, what is the rate of fusion? If the pool of water is at the center of an electrolysis setup, do the injected [...]