In the last two-ish weeks, I've
Much more important even than the insidious marketing against (arbitrary) weight: http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/07/che
More men laid off than women changes working gender ratios. Means what for society? http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/07/a-p
From the "No DUH!" department: texting will make you drive badly. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/techn
Some food additives help fix us? http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
logisticslad has MUCH more clue than about such research, and he added:
Robots among us + reactions: http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/07/rob
**giggles** at http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/0
Food Safety bill reminds me of the Toy Safety (CPSIA) bill: hard on small producers http://www.grist.org/article/2009-0
I just had a lovely conversation with my grandmother, who had her 90th birthday today. She is in great spirits today. Yay! 10:26 PM Jul 27th from Ping.fm
She was also much more together than last time, after he small stroke-like events. Thank goodness. I wish I made more time for calls and letters!
Got distracted from work by http://www.PetFinder.com .... Um. Dogs dogs dogs dogs... somewhere is our next dog don't know where... 1:58 PM Jul 31st from Ping.fm
...still no news. Not much action. Wisdom through inertia? Mom got her puppy though. Um. Hm.
Having fun this a.m. with M, playing Frog Juice (from Gamewright http://www.gamewright.com) 11:50 AM Aug 2nd from Ping.fm
It's been really fun to play with M recently. We've been sharing paints and projects more, too.
I was amused by the movie Push. Action SF Schlock! Silly colors & camera! Mind powers v. PseudoMilitary! Tried for twisty plot! Cool glass ball. 12:45 PM Aug 2nd from Ping.fm
The plot was not as twisty as I think the original writer may have had, but I enjoyed several aspects of it. The "bleeders" were inutterably stupid, as a name and as a power. A little stupidly cast in terms of race, perhaps inevitable as it was set in Hong Kong. Dakota Fanning makes a fine wise-ass.
We followed up this movie with an attempt at a double-feature, with Knowing. That annoyed and frightened me immediately (as I was so tired), and I postponed it to the next night. Ugh! Well, I wasn't frightened. This movie couldn't decide what genre it was (SF? Action thriller? Horror?), and instead of having a light, comic-bookesque hand with the science (like Push, where it was just as implausible, but knew it), it pretended to have serious science and didn't succeed. I think it had the The What the Bleep! folks consulting on the physics and discussions of determinism and randomness. Not to mention this film had a flaky, not-even-as-reasoned as M. Night Shamalyan's religious warm fuzzy, sorta. I'm all for religious questions in some movies, but definitely not ones that rely on stupid stereotypes (ooh, look, emotionally traumatized science prof estranged from religious dad) and sophomoric questions. I did like one the voice of one of the characters (you'll know it when you get to it; it's not like anything else). ... OK, I think I managed to avoid spoilers there. Let me know if I didn't and I'll edit this.
I need to lay in a stock of .03 micron pens; I keep using and misplacing the one... 3:53 PM Aug 2nd from Ping.fm
Yes, we found 10 minutes to draw in! Woot!
Long day, good day, tiring day. 8:18 PM Aug 4th from Ping.fm
Brunch and conversation with birthday sib and other sib; successful accomplishment of errands; some new clothes from Goodwill and my kid paying for something himself and happily (money he's earned returning bottles); a/c in car; new library books; laundry progress (I'm ahead right now); even a NAP. And homemade corn chowder for dinner from awesome sweetie.
I like it that there was time for me and art and communication. I needed that.
Our CD writer on the desktop was failing, so R bought and installed a DVD-RW instead. M observed; R is a good teacher to M with stuff like this. It did, however, take a couple of steps to make enough room in the right places to put the software.... We did, eventually, succeed. Still need now to actually do the archiving.
Thought y'all might be interested to read or hear...
Plant to support pollinators (e.g. butterflies!). Need them for ~1/3 human food crops, ~80% flowers. http://www.pollinator.org/guides.htMuch more important even than the insidious marketing against (arbitrary) weight: http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/07/che
More men laid off than women changes working gender ratios. Means what for society? http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/07/a-p
From the "No DUH!" department: texting will make you drive badly. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/techn
Some food additives help fix us? http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2
logisticslad has MUCH more clue than about such research, and he added: Interesting... but I have not heard of this researcher, nor have I seen the published paper, so I reserve judgment.
Robots among us + reactions: http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/07/rob
**giggles** at http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/0
Food Safety bill reminds me of the Toy Safety (CPSIA) bill: hard on small producers http://www.grist.org/article/2009-0
Found time for the silly and the good
Up early enough for yoga and coffee by myself; not quite enough time to read /connect online and still do some work. Maybe later for that! 8:23 AM Jul 26th from Ping.fm it's always good when I do yoga, especially.I just had a lovely conversation with my grandmother, who had her 90th birthday today. She is in great spirits today. Yay! 10:26 PM Jul 27th from Ping.fm
She was also much more together than last time, after he small stroke-like events. Thank goodness. I wish I made more time for calls and letters!
Got distracted from work by http://www.PetFinder.com .... Um. Dogs dogs dogs dogs... somewhere is our next dog don't know where... 1:58 PM Jul 31st from Ping.fm
...still no news. Not much action. Wisdom through inertia? Mom got her puppy though. Um. Hm.
Having fun this a.m. with M, playing Frog Juice (from Gamewright http://www.gamewright.com) 11:50 AM Aug 2nd from Ping.fm
It's been really fun to play with M recently. We've been sharing paints and projects more, too.
I was amused by the movie Push. Action SF Schlock! Silly colors & camera! Mind powers v. PseudoMilitary! Tried for twisty plot! Cool glass ball. 12:45 PM Aug 2nd from Ping.fm
The plot was not as twisty as I think the original writer may have had, but I enjoyed several aspects of it. The "bleeders" were inutterably stupid, as a name and as a power. A little stupidly cast in terms of race, perhaps inevitable as it was set in Hong Kong. Dakota Fanning makes a fine wise-ass.
We followed up this movie with an attempt at a double-feature, with Knowing. That annoyed and frightened me immediately (as I was so tired), and I postponed it to the next night. Ugh! Well, I wasn't frightened. This movie couldn't decide what genre it was (SF? Action thriller? Horror?), and instead of having a light, comic-bookesque hand with the science (like Push, where it was just as implausible, but knew it), it pretended to have serious science and didn't succeed. I think it had the The What the Bleep! folks consulting on the physics and discussions of determinism and randomness. Not to mention this film had a flaky, not-even-as-reasoned as M. Night Shamalyan's religious warm fuzzy, sorta. I'm all for religious questions in some movies, but definitely not ones that rely on stupid stereotypes (ooh, look, emotionally traumatized science prof estranged from religious dad) and sophomoric questions. I did like one the voice of one of the characters (you'll know it when you get to it; it's not like anything else). ... OK, I think I managed to avoid spoilers there. Let me know if I didn't and I'll edit this.
I need to lay in a stock of .03 micron pens; I keep using and misplacing the one... 3:53 PM Aug 2nd from Ping.fm
Yes, we found 10 minutes to draw in! Woot!
Long day, good day, tiring day. 8:18 PM Aug 4th from Ping.fm
Brunch and conversation with birthday sib and other sib; successful accomplishment of errands; some new clothes from Goodwill and my kid paying for something himself and happily (money he's earned returning bottles); a/c in car; new library books; laundry progress (I'm ahead right now); even a NAP. And homemade corn chowder for dinner from awesome sweetie.
I like it that there was time for me and art and communication. I needed that.
New Gear in the Machine
Archive to DVD on hold b/c not enough room to install write app. More room on hold til HD backed up. Yet not enough room on backup drive! 6:45 AM Jul 27th from Ping.fmOur CD writer on the desktop was failing, so R bought and installed a DVD-RW instead. M observed; R is a good teacher to M with stuff like this. It did, however, take a couple of steps to make enough room in the right places to put the software.... We did, eventually, succeed. Still need now to actually do the archiving.
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