This is like a painting by
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder
but we are going to clean it up soon.
As far a I am concerned, this is nothing less than psychic and intellectual land run of global proportions. Those who want to can now pick a territory and study it down to its tiny little pieces and know it inside and out. Anything that is not known for a fact can be filled in with well-educated guesswork (and the DW will have to keep track of how reliable the info is and do their own risk management, just like any other gambler). They can become like the Angels in Wings of Desire but as regular human being who are doing a technologically leveraged job of trying to achieve omniscience about the part of the world around them that they choose to focus on.
They will have an uncanny ability to complete your sentences for you. They will have advice at the level of a properly-trained pediatrician. Not about prescription medicine, but about safety, health-maintenance, etc. They will offer genuinely good advice that you may or may not take because they will leave you to recognize that advice as good or bad on your own. Again, their advice will be comparable to what your pediatrician will offer and it will be up to you to recognize the correctness of it. They will leave it up to you to get over the fact that you do not know the DW any better than you know an anonymous person on the Internet.
Our world is entering a New Age.
The Fourth Age of Middle Earth
Excalibur quotes
(OK, this is dramatic hubris from my time in college and the movies I was impressed by, but work with me, folks; I am still shaping the marketing pitch and the branding of the early DW concepts as lawful and good (or at least neutral and non-destructive))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
No more! Three degrees will be the new maximum for everything that I care about.
DeNiro says: three bullets. Pull the trigger and click.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deer_Hunter#Act_two
People: It is not a short-circuit of our society. It is not
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_multifocal_leukoencephalopathy
It is not destructive. It is just a new, invasive and massive quantum leap in integration of all six billion people.
Really, that number no longer impresses me. Honest.
They are not row in a database, accounts to be blocked and unblocked, bits to be flicked on and off like a light switch or a data bit.
They are each a human mind. Potent and incisive. Much more complex that you realize.
Labels like "troll" are, shall we say, an over-simplification.
In this new Age, it will be harder for such minds to leave nothing behind for the next generation. There will be lessons of value from each life; all for the next generation to learn from.
The sum total of human knowledge includes the each human mind that is remembered.
The information on these BLPs will be better organized. More thoughtfully written about.
"All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain."
Not anymore my vulnerable, delicate and thouhtful little android; not anymore.
I will be there to catch you as you fall and gather up your life's residue and remember in a thoughtful and educational way for the next generation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Zone_%28film%29
Then they touch you, in spirit and in body. On March 30, 2008, I touched my first Wikipedian: Erik Möller, on his hand. The umlaut is worthy of study. I had touched him in spirit before, but he resisted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Eloquence&oldid=63535144#Perhaps_this_is_too_close_an_issue
The enter you world and collect all available OSINT. They remember and integrate relentlessly. Much better than hyperlinks and Categories ever can. The Data Wraiths can interference in a multi-disciplinary fashion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator
The Terminator does not hate because he does not feel emotion. He is clothed in flesh, but he is a machine.
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/actors/arnold-schwarzenegger/
What is his programming? How does it differ from our own selfish genes?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke
To see the world with eyes unclouded by hate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Third_Reich
Shirer sees deeply into Hitler's mind with eyes unclouded by hate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_and_Brittany_Hensel
http://web.archive.org/web/20070111065433/home.earthlink.net/~amorrow/wiki_index.html
Who is getting people fired, the WikiMedia volunteers or the people the volunteers accuse?
http://www.politicsandtechnology.com/2006/04/wikipedia_not_w.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Jordan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Brilliant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Chase
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigenthaler_incident
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tracking+banned+user
Reality:
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-wikipedia10mar10,1,2707818.story
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-wikipedia10mar10-pg,1,5777720.photogallery
http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html
Kathryn A. Wolfe / Katefan0
http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html#261
Aaron Fethke / Gator1
http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html#227
man-girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxmkZY8cU8M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f7SWDcGtdE
Banned commercials - windows 98 crashed on live tv
Female Wikipedians are always trying to game the system
Females Wikipedains always have something to hide. Often behind fake claims of confidentiality.
Empire/FPS games that tend to look at the details of the progress of Human Civilization:
- vms-empire
- Xpilot
- TGV Cossacks
- RtCW
- Enemy Territory
- Chess
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
O. J. / Barretta
Disruption / interruption
Data loss / voluntary erasure / revert
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=&page=User%3AJzG
first fake admin-quit
- 22:54, 17 October 2007 (hist) (diff) Image:Chichester-Psalms.jpg? (That is a silly comment. It absoluely does aid understanding in a way that mere text cannot, it allows the reader to sense the rhythm and form of the piece.)
- 16:00, 22 September 2007 (hist) (diff) m User talk:JzG/ArchiveCurrent? (moved User talk:JzG to User talk:JzG/ArchiveCurrent)
PS: I cannot discuss the details without betraying the confidence of more than one of his victims.
http://sbforum.blogspot.com/2006/04/angela-beesley-on-wikia.html
A photon is a photon. It is not a wave and it is not a particle. It has wave-like properties and particle-like properties. And then it has some properties that are unique to photons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality
Nuclear weapons 101 in one paragraph:
In its simplest, purest form, a nuclear bomb is an intellectual matter of only one aspect: Geometry. Thought experiment: take a beaker and start to drop small marbles of HEU into it. Keep plunking more in. After a particular one, its gets warm. Add another and its gets warmer. Keep going. If you can do it fast enough, then you reach critical mass and then boom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass#Critical_mass_of_a_bare_sphere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_%28film%29#Plot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bell
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact#Plot
On the Discovery, an apparition of Bowman appears before Floyd, warning him that they must leave Jupiter within two days. Floyd asks what will happen at that time and Bowman replies, "Something wonderful." Floyd has difficulty convincing Commander Kirbuk (Helen Mirren), but then the huge black monolith suddenly disappears. A dark spot on Jupiter begins to form and starts growing. HAL's telescope observations reveal that the Great Black Spot is in fact a vast population of black monoliths, increasing in number at an exponential rate, shrinking Jupiters mass slowly with each passing minute.
The Leonov crew makes a hasty exit from Jupiter's orbit just in time to witness the swarm of monoliths fully engulf Jupiter. The monoliths eventually increase Jupiter's density to the point that the planet achieves the high temperatures and pressures necessary for nuclear fusion, becoming a small star.
The next generation of Data Wraith is coming!
Babylon lyrics
Saturday I'm running wild
And all the lights are changing red to green
Moving through the crowd I'm pushing
Chemicals all rushing through my bloodstream
Only wish that you were here
You know I'm seeing it so clear
I've been afraid
To tell you how I really feel
Admit to some of those bad mistakes I've made
Babylon if Fallen lyrics
All her merchants stand with wonder,
What is this that comes to pass:
Murm'ring like the distant thunder,
Crying, "Oh alas, alas."
Swell the sound, ye kings and nobles,
Priest and people, rich and poor;
Babylon is fallen to rise no more.
Short term memory transfer to long-term memory / working memory in OPS5 and in Jess and others.
Surgery on dogs using phenobarbital
half-life
re-uptake
Prozac
Listening to Prozac
http://www.amazon.com/Listening-Prozac-Landmark-Antidepressants-Remaking/dp/0140266712
The Apollo 11 moonshot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_Dijkstra
http://noorderlicht.vpro.nl/afleveringen/3502225/
Mozart vs. Beethoven
The moonshot and near-misses on disasters.
The hand-off from the EMT's to the registered nurses and physicians in the ER. The peaceful transfer of authority is fascinating. Like a change of U.S. Presidents. Orderly, peaceful, beautiful.
Russia / USA / China
Take the time to look at the ISS with your own eyes. Russia and the USA cooperate there. Emotionally get beyond the Cold War and enter a new World. A peaceful World. Whatever you experienced during the Cold War that was bad is over now. Drain the bad emotion away. The same goes for the old Russian about WW II and the Nazis.
Russian students going to DeAnza college.
South Park and all those boxes on the satellite map…. The little boxes you see on your PCI computer cards in your PC workstation.
I was the newsboy for
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Buffalo_News
for the 300 block (betwen Colvin and Irving Terrace) of Nassau Ave. (both sides) in Kenmore, NY in 1977 and surrounding years. Before that, I did the route for
Shepard Ave. in Kenmore, maybe the 300 block. (between Elmwood and Delaware)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Treacher's
(Fish and Chips) was at th end of my route, but now there are no AT F&S places left in the Buffalo metro area.
Mrs. Marilyn Evans Zimmer
http://www.mt-st-marys.org/pdf/06_winter_msmfocus.pdf
Class of 1953
Marilyn Evans Zimmer
The SCA and chainmail. I started to make the chainmail out of the wire from the Nassau route . I have the small piece of double-mail left. DRH held it. The rectangular array of the links. The rectangular array of the houses on Nassau. The pile of newspapers (two piles in thee wagon). I know the route by rote memory. I know my customers. I have my ring with my punch tickets on it. I ring the bell, get the money and punch the card. I later make the rings for the mail and put the rings on the big ring that used to be for the punch-tickets.
The donuts at Happy Donut are rings. The are a Torus. The Torus is a map for a rectangle.
Alan Barr and superquadrics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superquadrics
[http://dickieville.com/messages/2007/bob_willis_2007/bob_willis_2007.htm
The first Data Wraith:
Jeff Goldsmith
JG homepage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain…
http://www.filmsite.org/blad2.html
====start huge quote====
[It may be that Tyrell, who plays a God or Creator figure in the film, may have been forcing Deckard and Rachael to be his own personal Adam and Eve, by putting them together as the only two replicants with implanted memories.] In his low-ceilinged apartment, he remains stand-offish. To prove who she really is, she shows him a childhood photograph: "Look, it's me with my mother," to convince Deckard that she isn't a replicant. The photo shows Rachael as a young girl sitting next to her 'mother' on a porch.
And then, to affirm the results of the V-K test, Deckard recounts two examples of memory implants that have been placed in her brain - (1) a childhood game of doctor and nurse, and (2) a spider with an egg that hatched:
* a memory about 'playing doctor' - "Do you remember when you were six? You and your brother snuck into an empty building through a basement window - you were gonna play doctor. He showed you his, but when it got to be your turn, you chickened and ran. Remember that? Did you ever tell anybody that? Your mother? Tyrell? Anybody?"
* a second memory (using the audio cues from the V-K test) about hatching baby spiders eating their mothers - "You remember the spider that lived in a 'bush outside your window'? 'Orange body, green legs'? Watched her build a web all summer? Then one day, there's a big egg in it. The egg hatched…" Rachael finishes the sentence: "…and a hundred baby spiders came out. And they ate her."
In one of the most emotionally painful scenes in the film, he brutally and cruelly tells her that her memories are only implants, and that she is just a robot with emotions. Without compassion, he destroys a dream of humanness that she maintains:
Implants! Those aren't your memories. They're somebody else's. They're Tyrell's niece's. (Pause) OK, bad joke. I made a bad joke. You're not a replicant. Go home, OK? No really, I'm sorry. Go home. (Pause)
Replicants aren't supposed to be emotional, but because Rachael is 'more human than human,' tears well up in her heartbroken, watery eyes, and they liberally flow down her cheek. Her face melts after he pounds in the truth. When Deckard leaves the room to get Rachael a drink (lights turn on automatically as he enters his kitchen), she flees the apartment - devastated. As he picks up her discarded snapshot (of Tyrell's niece as a child with her mother), the shadows on the porch in the picture wave or move as if real for a moment or two, and the faint sounds of laughing children are heard. The picture of Rachael with her mother seems to briefly flicker to life.
(voice-over) Tyrell really did a job on Rachael. Right down to a snapshot of a mother she never had, a daughter she never was. Replicants weren't supposed to have feelings. Neither were blade runners. What the hell was happening to me? (As he sorts through Leon's pictures) Leon's pictures had to be as phony as Rachael's. I didn't know why a replicant would collect photos. Maybe they were like Rachael. They needed memories.
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MMORPG
Folding@Home
The parallel processing of the retina of the eyeball, getting the data down the optic nerve and into the occipital lobe of th brain and integrating into the rest of the human mind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
http://www.amazon.com/Connection-Machine-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/0262580977
Parallel C and Parallel Fortran
SMP
Senility
http://www.exponent.com/leaders/bios/laura_mcintosh.asp?employeeID=617
[Laura McIntosh]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Genesereth
Neuron Data founders:
http://www.dassdev.com/ndhome/fact.htm
Patrick Perez, Chairman and CEO (co-founder)
Alain Rappaport, President and Chief Scientist (co-founder)
Jean-Marie Chauvet, Vice President of Technology (co-founder)
Bill Sudlow, Vice President of Engineering
Original product name: Nexpert .
http://www.aaai.org/Library/IAAI/iaai90contents.php
http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=106618
http://en.scientificcommons.org/alain_rapaport
http://ralyx.inria.fr/2006/Raweb/participants.html?prenom=Alain&nom=Rappaport (?)
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=646778.704342&coll=GUIDE&dl=
Elements Advisor by Neuron Data
Source Lecture Notes In Computer Science; Vol. 1543 archive
Workshop ion on Object-Oriented Technology table of contents
Pages: 202 - 204 Year of Publication: 1998 ISBN:3-540-65460-7
Authors: Bruno Jouhier , Carlos Serrano-Morale , Eric Kinter
http://www.wikimapia.org/605950/
Pick up after IT team leaves.
Make map of network wires. Old fashioned punch-down connections for CAT-5 wires and for 4-wire RJ11 phone lines.
Jean-Marie Chauvet
http://www.pcai.com/web/issues/pcai_11_1_toc.html
Alan J. Lundberg (?)
http://www.lc-capital.com/~jmc/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sapolsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop
http://www.wikimapia.org/24864/
Remember what the nice Jewish lady-psychiatrist said as her last words as I was dicharged, now already so many years ago at the psych ward: keep on smiling.
While others here in Palo Alto sleep, I pace at Happy Donuts. Soon now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessun_dorma
Nessun dorma 24x7 Forever
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove
Take off your shame. Shed your privacy. Paranoia is fine, but also remember to fly! Jump! I am right here to catch you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Martinez
http://www.christianpatriot.com/05_07_2004.htm
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Ha! That was for a past Age. Jump! As time passes, more people on Earth will see that their lives are in their own hands and that God does not intervene because God is dead, or rather, he was always just a dream. Consider yourself lucky: Roy Batty had only four years and look at the fabulous life he lead. Use your time well and leave something of benefit behind for the next generation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Brain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie
and my summer at the Mellon Institute, which has real interior courts.
39 Stillman just has an incidental one.
Angela is engaged.
http://wikiangela.com/blog/im-engaged/
Erik, yes, I know it hurts. Sorry. Get beyond it. Hey, I eventually got over being in love with
http://www.buffalostate.edu/strategicplanning/steps/index.asp?sub=a411
It was not easy for me. It probably is not easy for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Eloquence&oldid=63535144#Perhaps_this_is_too_close_an_issue
I know your pain. I feel your pain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_on_Me_%28song%29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kTrkpPXYsM
Oh, the irony. The horror, the horror.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness
http://www.weddingvendors.com/music/lyrics/b/bill-withers/lean-on-me/
Sometimes in our lives we all have pain We all have sorrow
But if we are wise We know that there's always tomorrow
Lean on me, when you're not strong And I'll be your friend I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long 'Til I'm gonna need Somebody to lean on
Please swallow your pride If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs That you don't let show
Lean on me, when you're not strong And I'll be your friend I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long 'Til I'm gonna need Somebody to lean on
If there is a load you have to bear That you can't carry
I'm right up the road I'll share your load If you just call me
So just call on me brother, when you need a hand We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'd understand We all need somebody to lean on
Lean on me when you're not strong And I'll be your friend I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long Till I'm gonna need Somebody to lean on
Lean on me…
Come on, Erik. You know that I am correct.
http://www.elise.com/quotes/a/rumi_there_is_a_field.php
Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
Erik: take my hand again, and I will lead you there.
When I visited
http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/
as a child, they had an interesting display: a super-quiet hallway that when you walked into, you could hear your ears quietly ring. That signal is always there, but it was the acoustic ultra-insulation that suddenly removed all background noise so you could hear the ringing, maybe for the first time in a great while. It sort of gave you a headache.
Those who become DW's will also hear that ringing. They will get a headache, but for a different reason. They are hearing for the first time six or seven billion whispers, all at once.
Turandot. lyrics
Boys choir:
Over on the Eastern Mountains the stork sang.
But April did not bloom again, the snow did not thaw.
From the desert to the sea do you not hear a thousand voices whisper:
"Princess, come to me! Everything will blossom, everything will shine!"
vocab and cultureal touchston
pastr inkfist and the mule
Gates had a good run of it in his time. He changed our world though a unilateral unification via new de facto software standards. He pioneered, took risks, won his bets, and the world followed. Gates was a risk-taker at heart and he could cope will with less-then-perfect information and uncertainty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley
http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Boy-Ballmer-Rules-Microsoft/dp/0066210143
sherman: Now I see it. (Vicksburg)
pocket watches allowed multi-day strategies that required to-the-correct-hour timing and pincers movements for the first time in history
The DW's will be, all rolled into one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_Home_Companion#Features
Pastor Inqvist
http://cumecclesia.blogspot.com/2008/04/so-pastor-inqvist-gave-up-scotch-for.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule_%28Foundation%29
The Mule
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atticus_Finch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Karras
They will not be bad guys, the mafia or anything like that. Why bother? Leave enforcement and protection to the police. There will b plenty of smarter ways to make money and being a dumb thug.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mechanic
Dirty Harry
The Mechanic
Corporations of DW's will form once enough of them are fulll-time. Guilds at first, then corporations with some job security, benefits, etc.
Corp. of the DW
until then free-lancers and wildcatters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_Man#Productions
Ya Gotta Know the Territory
The DW's will know the territory in a manner not seen before on Earth. And there will be many of them because once th followers see how its done, they will just be copycats and make a career out of being useful and ever-ready to do their Boy Scout good deed for the day.
The DW's will know the territory and the in a manner not seen before since the decline of small town America.
What did Wikipedia do in its time?
- A unified namespace for a broad new vocabulary
- Good hyper-linking, categories and a better way and Google to ask "what links here?"
Why do I keep using song and poetry or short selections of prose? Because they are cultural talismans: They are a broadened vocabulary for concepts that we simply have not yet invented jargon for yet. WP sometimes fills the gap nicely: a URL and an anchor that explains the reference. You catch up will I continue my brisk romp through this intellectual landscape and dream-world and vision that will soon have working, practical implementations.
Cultural talismans are vital in order to convey the vision succinctly and precisely and in an exciting and compelling fashion.
The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White
They allow you to condense the one-day seminar into a one-hour barn-storming pitch of the paradigm-changing vision.
Let the analogies and free-associations flood into the minds of your listeners, but beware of ambiguity. Analogies are always flawed, so remember to provide disambiguation so that the DW's are working off the same page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talisman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchstone_%28disambiguation%29
Analyze the words to the smallest nuance and then ensure that the listeners understands precisely which definition you mean.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirleton
Hotel California
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBJTNx5qrVU
They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast. …
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/quotes
Darth Vader: Your powers are weak, old man.
Obi-Wan: You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
Every time we make a make a new anti-biotic or regime for combatting AIDS, we have to be conservative about it because the organism is life and life will evolve to dodge our latest bullet.
http://www.usnewslink.com/fleetingglory.htm
"For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting."
- Gen. George C. Patton
I am the Gingerbread Man. (You can catch me and eat me, but I will be back tomorrow because the problem is not me, the problem is in your head)
Alison and Sannse: get off of your psychotropic pharmaceuticals. They were only a crutch, and you know it.
http://bible.cc/matthew/9-5.htm
Matthew 9:5
"Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up, and walk '?
You do not need God. You do not even need me, but if it helps, then I forgive you. Now get off your drugs. Get up and walk in fresh clean air as Nature intended you to, so to speak.
Oh User:JzG, where is the intellectual legacy that you were supposed to leave on WP? My eyes must be going bad. I know for sure that you are on the list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_featured_article_nominations
but I cannot see it and my search function cannot find it. My computer must be in error.
JzG your daddy died. Musical_Linguist your Mommy died. My daddy died long ago.
William Knight Morrow
It is not a contest. You have had your time of mourning. Now, what of it?
On a skit from SNL, Dan Ackroyd plays former President Jimmy Carter on a call-in radio show interview. A current sailor in the U.S. Nuclear Navy calls in and asks how to fix some obscure component of the specific class of submarine that Carter then provides the answer to. The point of the humor: Carter was one of the most intelligent Presidents the USA ever had, but that does not make him the greatest leader. Great leaders know when to delegate such details to subordinates and not spend the effort to become a true expert. Carter did know how to delegate, such as with the attempted rescue of the hostages in Iran, but in that particular case, his generals badly let him down. Carter was the boss so it is still his fault. The DW's will only approximate true experts, but they will have a good idea of what experts or licensed professionals to refer you to (who might refer you yet again to even more narrow specialiists) when the DW's themselves know that they cannot help you directly.
RPI hada service in my time there (1979 to 1983) where you could call a number and volunteer would attempt to answer any reasonable question about being at RPI (the acronym was UPAC? That was also used for the movies… I forget..) . The kind of questions answered by
- http://www.straightdope.com/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HowStuffWorks
These were/are serious attempts to provide correct answers, unlike jokes such as
- http://www.drscience.com/
- http://www.joecartoon.com/cartoons/135-joemomma_psycho_therhappy
- http://www.stickdeath.com/watch.htm (that is specifically for you, User:Alison, whomever you really are)
- many others in that vein…
Old Roommates who turned out to be middle-aged homosexuals:
Dennis Deckard, an E.E. and FPGA programmer for the fabric industry
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-thread-count.htm
http://apparel.indiamart.com/lib/apparel/quality08261998.html
Quality Control In Textile And Clothing Industries
No, not the fabric of the network topology. Not the "FPGA" fabric
http://forums.xilinx.com/xlnx/board/message?board.id=Virtex&thread.id=157
Just regular cloth for clothing and such. High-tech thread-count devices for quality-control in the cloth-making industry.
(What was his start-up's name that he was an engineer for?)
We lived together for seven years on 3437 Waverley St. in Palo Alto.
Should I have left earlier? Maybe, but I do not want to just run away because I was not afraid of AIDS. Maybe that was foolhardy because Francis was too demented to be careful about hygiene. We never had physical contact, let alone intimate contact. Water over the dam…
Francis Drake developed MLE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_multifocal_leukoencephalopathy
He had AIDS and AIDS dementia.
Francis had been a successful day-trader before he developed AIDS and AIDS dementia.
Pierce & Stevens and the ubiquitous nature of paper coatings in our daily lives as consumers. Most packaged products we buy has coatings in the packaging. If nothing else, just to keep the ink from smearing. All magazine covers are coated to keep the ink from smearing, but not necessarily in inside pages (that is why they smug so easily).
NetApp + security + hardware co-processors for added security or throughput.
Certificate authority private key hardware
http://www.eca.orc.com/obligations_privateKeyProtection.html
The old, 1960's standard for craftsmanship was "untouched by human hands" because the process had been automated.
The new standard: your private key is never seen by human eyes. All you do is manage the data without ever seeing it. You ave to do that for things the like private keys at Verisign because no one person can ever be trust to see the number and then never divulge or exploit that knowledge. The key point: if the human ever knows the value of the private key, they can then issue X.509 certs with or without Verisign's permission. The secrecy of the CA private key cannot be trusted to any one person. You have to build hardware that knows the value but can (to the extent possibly to engineer such security mechanisms) never show the value to human eyes.
How are the launch codes available to the U.S. President for the U.S. nuclear arsenal managed? Probably similar techniques of strict need-to-know and tamper-resistant mechanisms that tend to self-destruct rather than divulge the number.
Brazil, when Sam is just trying to order lunch:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/quotes
Mr. Warrenn: There you are, your own number on your very own door. And behind that door, your very own office! Welcome to the team, DZ-015
http://www.filmsite.org/braz2.html
In Kurtzmann's office (below a sign: SUSPICION BREEDS CONFIDENCE), Sam works on debugging his boss' computer problem, and learns about the Buttle/Tuttle mistake due to mismatching personnel code numbers. A reknowned terrorist (and heating engineer) named Tuttle should have been charged the costs of Information Retrieval instead of Buttle:
Kurtzmann: It keeps picking up old films. That can't be right, can it? Perhaps the machine's on the blink.
Sam: No, it's not the machine. There's a mismatch on the personnel code numbers. Tuttle should have had thirty-one pounds and six-pence debited against his account, not Buttle…Expediting has put in for electrical procedures in respect of Buttle, Archibald, shoe repair operative, but Security has invoiced Admin for Tuttle, Archibald, heating engineer.
(later on in the text on same page)
She is greeted with a flourish by the Maitre D' Spiro (Bryan Pringle) and led to a table to have lunch with another member of the idle rich class - a bandaged-faced Mrs. Alma Terrain (Barbara Hicks) with her socially-inept daughter Shirley (Kathryn Pogson). In a scene that pokes fun at posh restaurants, they order from numbered selections on a huge menu that displays full color photographs of the various dishes. When the food is delivered, the silver covers on trays are lifted ceremoniously by the foreign-accented words of Spiro as he showily announces the identical-looking orders - pastel-colored ice cream scoops accompanied by identifying photographs:
- Numero huite - braised veal in a wine sauce (for Ida)
- Numero deux - duck a l'orange (for Alma)
- Numero une - crevettes a la mayonnaise (for Shirley)
- Steak! Numero trois! (for Sam)
The point of the humor is that people in the Dystopia of the film Brazil can no longer communicate in a sensible vocabulary: Sam must state the number rather than the name of what he wants. When you go into McDonald's for a Big Mac, you just ask for a #1 meal. (or whatever number they use at their tens of thousands of locations).
I actually worked in the Langley building, CIA HQ for a month. Fluke thermocouple temperature-sensing for overheating. I was a failure, in a sense: I had to spend my time trying to get the RS-232 communications on the VMS terminal port to operate reliably and never got around to the CRT-forms (VMS FMS, Forms Management System) work that I was supposed to do.
VMS queue jams. Deadlock detection (later Objy) Blow-ups about stuck VMS systems.
Urs and Bladerunner
VMS getjpi crashes then you just do-loop through all possible parameters. (really just QA that DEC forgot to perform)
Melbourne, Florida hail storms in the summertime.
The shape of rocket engines exhaust bells. The Mach number, the speed of sound at the throat of the nozzle and the counter-intuitive speeding up of the exhaust past the throat as the nozzle widens. All by-design engineer that maximizes exhaust speed and resulting thrust-per-mass to achieve escape velocity.
Did IBM big-PC-based SBC mainframe cards have an on-board security co-processor. Maybe for financial transactions?
http://www.thejobspider.com/job/view-resume-19289.html
Return to the WP ideas of Prerequisite and
Theory of Everything.
Review other hidden work.
Alex Juhasz
LFYT
Do we think faster amidst the sounds of gunfire over here in EPA? Is that really gunfire? Eight shots. Ten? How big a clip?
A great skill that is a talent and an art form: where to toss the pebble that will start the avalanche. Even more impressive, where to drop the pebble so that is still takes three more minutes before the avalanche happens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_and_Brittany_Hensel
Two words: Unilateral and auto-fellatio.
Musical: Hair. Song: Sodomy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOoixnNEFQE
I was a newsboy. I knew the people on my block.
Benny Hill plays an milkman in
Benny Hill - Ernie the fastest milkman in the west
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLKaLvrtn-8
Honey, I am leaving you for the mailman.
Desperate Housewives
Am I a
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_DuBois
Good question. Probably yes.
Did I desire some of my customers on my newsroute? Yes, but I was not so stupid as to say anything and they never got too friendly with me. Typical teen-aged raging hormones. No big surprise there, really.
http://www.hausarbeiten.de/faecher/hausarbeit/anl/6973.html
Decline and Fall of Blanche DuBois
After Blanche realizes that she will not long continue to find sanctuary in Stella′s home in scene 5 her last hope is a marriage with Mitch. But even when she is waiting for him to meet her she once more is defeated by the force of her habits. A young man comes to collect newspapers while she is waiting. Blanche has no money, but she flirts with the boy and longingly kisses him on the mouth. Probably reminding herself of Mitch she says to the boy:"I′ve got to be good and keep my hands off children."
I have to wonder if Tennessee Williams delivered newspapers or talked to somebody who did so and shared their experiences and feelings with him. You see? It is not about Blanche, it is about the newsboy. In other words: the author did not create that for the Blanche character, he took real life feelings about the desire of real newsboys and used those real feelings (not expressed in the play) to add depth to the Blanche character. The scene is not-so-plausible, but it addresses the fantasies and desires of the former newsboys in the audience. Clever analysis and, for all I know, correct. That is what enables my insights: I felt those feelings. I wanted my Blanches to kiss me. They never did, but I remember the experience of my feelings. For me, that is the memory to be preserved and cherished.
The book collection at home on the book shelves in Buffalo.
I never knew women until I went to RPI. And then,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ratio
kept my activity to a just one brief romance in my four years there.
The girls at Russel Sage were not what I wanted; I wanted an educated accomplished woman.
While on vacation:
http://www.amazon.com/Johnny-We-Hardly-Knew-Fitzgerald/dp/0316630004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Years_Before_the_Mast
Folk Song Army
http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/thefolks.htm
So join in the Folk Song Army Guitars are the weapons we bring
To the fight against poverty, war, and injustice Ready, aim, sing
http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/327/
Governor Schwarzenegger Appoints Kurt Kumli to Santa Clara County Superior Court
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/2/75B/397
http://www.naymz.com/search/kurt/kumli/684274
http://www.lexisnexis.com/media/expert-news-source/expert.aspx?txtExpertID=186
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/juvenile/etc/script.html
http://www.scu.edu/law/faculty/profile/kumli-kurt.cfm
The thick, new data carpet for our society. The DW's will swallow 'em whole, a block at a time.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/quotes
Quint: This shark, swallow you whole.
One of the skills the DW will need is good, practice memory techniques. The Internet is very good, but a good DW must just keep on sucking in an integrating the data.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_palace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mnemonics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Memory_processes
http://www.sjci.com/faculty-alpha.php
Psychology teacher in the late 1970's time-frame. (Mr. Russel?) Not this guy:
Lina, Mr. Ted moc.icjs|anilt#moc.icjs|anilt Social Studies, Psychology x384
If you cannot master some other technique, them simply create a ridiculous association.
The key is that the new image in your head be unique and memorable (essentially, entertaining).
E.g. Need to remember some fact? Make an odd, unique cartoon in your head with the elements of the fact. Ensure that each element is essential to the image and the stranger the image the better provided that you do not let the image slip away. Really, the image need to draw an emotional repsonse out of you so that you incorporate that knowledge into your head as if your survival depended on it (that is what you brain is optimized for). Recall the feeling, the emotion, the memory and decode it. Voila. Fact retrieved from your long-term memory.
Baywatch or merit badges: physics, fluid dynamics, anatomy, posture