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This is what I do at work. /* For instructions on use, read article  * "Computer Program Virtually Eliminates  * Machine Errors"  * http://www.aa6e.net/msewing/orema.html  */ void orema() {    short invocation; }

Fretful Passenger, Turmoil on Jet and Fatal Shots – New York Times Even non-bipolars sometimes act in an erratic manner. In this case, the patient’s prescription had run out while he was out of the country visiting relatives. Rigoberto Alpizar and his wife were on their way home from vacation. There he was, stuck in a small tin-can full of people elbow-to-elbow. All he wanted was to step out into the airport and get some air. The air marshals obviously weren’t very well-trained to recognize and deal with mental illness . They are trained to quickly and brutally take charge if things don’t go smoothly. It’s called DFP – “Deadly Force Policy.” There are far more mentally ill people on planes than terrorists. The FBI was investigating fewer than 700 suspected terrorists as of November according to the Washington Post, but there are well over 3,000,000 Americans with bipolar type I. Have a clue . Don’t even get me started on the n...

Refer back to a previous posting . http://koko.org/world/ Koko has a tested IQ of between 70 and 95 on a human scale, where 100 is considered “normal.” One wag has suggested that we use gorillas as sky marshals. I would like to point out that the wording on Koko’s site was that a 100 IQ is “normal.” What it really is, is average. 78% of the human population is in the range of 80 to 120 points. But how does IQ work? Another way to look at it is that with a 70 IQ Koko might get through the 6th grade and hold a job doing simple tasks in a supervised environment. In reality, of course, her language limitations might make this difficult. With an IQ of 80, she might be able to complete the 7th grade and work unsupervised in an unskilled job – washing dishes, say. With an IQ of 90 she might graduate high school and be capable of working a semi-skilled job. I used the bottom of the ability ranges here. With a 95 IQ, Koko might be able to earn a college ...

In tens of thousands of years, plate tectonics will have turned the entire face of the planet under, and some new species will walk in the world. We will likely be reduced to an archetype – the Eater of Futures, perhaps? The best we can hope for is that when we become a vague racial memory, it is a pleasant memory.

Ever since I started my first web page back in 1995, I have been fascinated with the server logfiles. Laughing Squid provides access to my logs through the Plesk interface, so I get to scan them occasionally. It’s good for a laugh. Huh? She laughs over server logs? What a geekess! Well, duh! They’re, like, sooooo awesome! Yahoo!’s crawler doesn’t sip, it slurps: 68.142.251.21 – – [23/Nov/2005:04:35:30 -0800] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0” 200 440 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)” But what does that jumble mean? It’s easy when you break it down and look at each part. 68.142.251.21 is the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the bot. This address traces the access to the bot’s Internet Service Provider (ISP), and sometimes even to the exact computer. One way to get more information i...

Linear-sequential means like a mathematical proof. We know “A”. So “B”. Then “C”. Which demonstrates “D”. Linear-sequential can be manipulated to prove “E” if it behoves you to ignore “D.” Exercise: Create a Venn Diagram. I mean that a perfectly logical progression can take you to an incorrect conclusion if you ignore some of the facts. If you over-simplify. That happens a lot in the White House. And in our criminal justice system. Combine that with the “A” – “not A”, black and white thinking of a lawyer. Manipulate the grey areas so that they seem to support your point of view. Global thinking is different. We know “A”. We also know “5”. Plus we know “banana.” These are related by some non-obvious factor, like a fruit stand at 5th and A. Something else only has two of the factors, maybe a fruit stand at 7th and A. But maybe the quest...

“I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity?” — William Saroyan (American writer, 1908-1981)