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“I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do. I believe, in short, that we are equally beholden to heart and mind, and that those who have particularly passionate temperaments and questioning minds leave the world a different place for their having been there. It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy. Intensity has its costs, of course — in pain, in hastily and poorly reckoned plans, in impetuousness — but it has its advantages as well.” Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, Author and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in “ The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges ” NPR Morning Edition, June...

“ MindManager : Linear Thinking takes you straight to the expected.” Email about using mapping software to create linear procedures for engineering processes. —– Original Message —– Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:21 PM Subject: mindthingy This application is for hierarchies. The design process is linear-sequential. What you need is a simple checklist. 1. Draw preti pixchrs 2. add part nubmers 3. etc Mind Manager : Linear Thinking takes you straight to the expected. “Say hello to free-form thinking. Your brain doesn’t process in a linear fashion. Neither does Mindjet. Now you can think visually with dynamic layers of information displayed in a limitless arrangement that lends clarity to any project.” Ontology software maps interrelationships between objects and concepts in a given domain in ways that aren’t intuitive to a linear-sequential mind. I’m not sure how Mind Manager will help write a procedure because pr...

Protests Over a Rule to Protect Health Providers – NYTimes.com George W. Bush is trying to push a bill through Congress that enables doctors to force their religious beliefs on women. The NYT, phrases it as if they are somehow protecting the doctors’ rights. I don’t think so. If a doctor is a Fundamentalist Extremist, he has a duty to post a sign in his office saying “If it isn’t in the bible, I don’t do it.” Anyway, what the bill really does is: 1) Equates birth control with abortion. 2) Criminalizes birth control. 3) Enables Fundamentalist doctors to withhold health care information from female patients. 4) Makes it illegal for any government-funded health clinic to provide birth control information. 5) Sets human rights in the United States back 100 years. This is insane. Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Patty Murray had this to say: “In the final days of his administration, the president is again putting ideology first and attempting ...

Letter to a Brit friend. Are you interested in history and culture? Did you know that in the US we spell things like theater instead of theatre and color instead of colour because 19th century teacher and journalist Noah Webster wanted to create an American identity? He wrote a dictionary with his own spellings and pronunciations. Pretty silly if you ask me. The US hasn’t really been a great place to live in many years. The switch from a manufacturing economy in the ’70s and ’80s to a service economy was a disaster. There’s a rock song by Bob Seger called “ Making Thunderbirds ” that sums it up. Mind you, by the time I was in high school we were having gas crises. Gas guzzlers were a wasteful thing of the past. How the hell did SUVs get so popular? Did people really forget or is this some sick societal denial? Makin’ Thunderbirds Words and music by Bob Seger. The big line moved one mile an hour So loud it really hurt The big line moved s...

Thank goodness the nightmare is almost over. The Bush administration has plunged us into a moral and spiritual abyss, one that has separated us from our allies and friends. It is this same moral vacuum that has created the toxic business climate in the US. CEOs, COOs, CFOs are required by law to create the maximum return for their investors. This has resulted in American jobs being farmed out to shady Asian companies; top-level executives earning pay that is orders of magnitude higher than the pay of the lowest-level minimum wage worker; sacrificing quality and safety in American products; and a nationwide goose-step towards Marxism as Reaganomics – “trickle-down economics” – causes the collapse of the middle class. McCain would have continued the economic strategy of robbing the poor to give to the rich. There is a lot of work to do and it will take time. I hope we haven’t waited too long. My recommendations: Tie executives’ gross pay, benefits a...

AT&T Wireless Speed Test I found this speed test while searching for an rtsp player for my Samsung Blackjack. Nope, but they had an internet speed test. Much to my surprise the speed test ran and said my phone is faster than DSL. To be fair, the speed is probably from AT&T’s servers, not from my phone. But it makes a good story.

“My morals got me on my knees…” Yes indeed, morals must be a terrible thing. I wouldn’t know. >:-) Caught this song on an SNL rerun last night and looked for it on Youtube Mobile. Went searching for an rstp streaming video player for my Samsung Blackjack and wound up surfing the web for hours, finally quitting after running an internet speed test that says my phone is faster than DSL. Gotta love ADHD. IE doesn’t seem to know what to do with the YouTube mobile video either. What, don’t I have Real installed???? Ok, installed Real and it seems I need a 3gp plugin. Actually what I need is a phone that supports streaming media. Anyway, the song is hot. I may have to buy the CD.

Impermanence of Money The total national debt as of this morning, Nov. 17th, 2008 is $10,617,806,584,635.27 . The population of the US as of 22:40 GMT (EST+5) Nov 17, 2008 is 305,679,024 . THEREFORE each and every US citizen owes $34,735.15 . Cough it up, people. Make your check payable to the Bureau of the Public Debt, and in the memo section, notate that it is a Gift to reduce the Debt Held by the Public. Mail your check to: Attn Dept G Bureau Of the Public Debt P. O. Box 2188 Parkersburg, WV 26106-2188 Note: Perhaps we can borrow some? The world population is 6,737,570,334. If they’ll fork over $1575.91 each we’ll be out of this mess in no time. Update 3/24/2012: (thanks to flicka47 for inspiring me to revisit this. On 09/30/1980 the National Debt was $907,701,000,000.00. By 09/30/1985 the debt had doubled to $1,823,103,000,000.00. During this time period the debt ceiling was raised several times. On 09/30/1981 the debt ceiling was raised from $985 billion to $1,089 ...

I am having serious trouble keeping my debit card in my pocket on this one. I suspect that sometime between now and tomorrow morning I will yield to temptation. The Chip PC Jack is a computer that fits in a standard electrical outlet. WANT! A “Thin-Client” computer is one that runs a pared down operating system, in this case Windows CE. That’s the same OS that runs on many PDAs. However, the Chip PC Jack supports a standard keyboard, mouse and monitor. Two monitors, if you want, either VGA or DVI with separate adapter. Many of Microsoft’s productivity apps, i.e. Office, are available for Windows CE. If you want much Geek Mojo, this is it.

If white trash from Alaska can be vice president, then why can’t a geekess be president? Get the word out! Vote for me! Presidential Election Coverage 2008