A couple videos by folks who have something to say worth hearing. For me, at least: These guys are talking about going out and making your way in the world.
Richard Branson, with some should-be-common-sense words on how you lead a business.
Henry Rollins, on how he started to do what he wanted to do instead of just working to live, and how he's stuck...
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Richard Branson, with some should-be-common-sense words on how you lead a business.
Henry Rollins, on how he started to do what he wanted to do instead of just working to live, and how he's stuck...
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elody:
rouge sustainability activist i guess.
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tarion:
You will indeed 
Only in a few months though. Don't want people getting sick of me
Only in a few months though. Don't want people getting sick of me
carnivall:
That's horrifying and awesome.
But other than the supervillains that want to live forever, how many people really wanna prolong life over and over again? Is this even a worthy endeavor? I read that no one has technically died of old age since 1951, so it's not like this is really helpful in that sense.
But other than the supervillains that want to live forever, how many people really wanna prolong life over and over again? Is this even a worthy endeavor? I read that no one has technically died of old age since 1951, so it's not like this is really helpful in that sense.
acidgrampa:
Delivering 2kgs of C4 to your enemy anonymously might be very cost effective. 
tarion:
Firstly, from you that is extremely flattering
Secondly, I second quadcopter deliveries in Africa!! Sounds like genius to me
xoxoxoxox
Secondly, I second quadcopter deliveries in Africa!! Sounds like genius to me
xoxoxoxox
"Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine" just landed on XBox.
This game has been a darling of the Indie video game scene since it won its first avalanche of awards 4 years ago... and then the developer kept on polishing it. It hit Steam a couple weeks back, and word is that it lives up to (very high) expectations.
Monaco is a quick-to-learn game about cat-burglary...
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This game has been a darling of the Indie video game scene since it won its first avalanche of awards 4 years ago... and then the developer kept on polishing it. It hit Steam a couple weeks back, and word is that it lives up to (very high) expectations.
Monaco is a quick-to-learn game about cat-burglary...
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richard_:
Same here. Im trying to recover my account but so far its been a waiting game. Once i do though i come find you.
richard_:
Thats what Im hearing.. Its only been a week for me. Sounds like i got a little ways to go.
Adventures in Synthetic Reasoning
Fact #1:
Cards Against Humanity is a game that makes people say things like, "What ended my last relationship? Lance Armstrong's missing testicle." There have been, like, 85,000 copies of it printed so far.
Fact #2:
Between the 6th and 8th century, there were approximately 65,000 books made in all of Europe. I don't mean 65,000 original books were written. No,...
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Fact #1:
Cards Against Humanity is a game that makes people say things like, "What ended my last relationship? Lance Armstrong's missing testicle." There have been, like, 85,000 copies of it printed so far.
Fact #2:
Between the 6th and 8th century, there were approximately 65,000 books made in all of Europe. I don't mean 65,000 original books were written. No,...
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Today is the 3rd Anniversary of the "Flash Crash of 2:45", a stock market crash that wiped out 1 trillion dollars of wealth, and then brought it back, in barely 20 minutes. It's widely held to be the first stock market crash caused by deranged A.I.s. Not everyone cares about the stock market, but when we've handed A.I.s enough power to disappear and then recover...
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arroia:
It's quite scary when you put it that way. I enjoy all types of science fiction, and I often catch myself wondering if something like whatever is happening in the book will happen to us sooner or later. Hopefully I'm still here to see all the cool bits in case it does. 
I'll share the rest of the steampunk pics as soon as I get them. It was a great shoot, and we put a lot of effort in it, so I'm sure that I'll like the end result.
I'll share the rest of the steampunk pics as soon as I get them. It was a great shoot, and we put a lot of effort in it, so I'm sure that I'll like the end result.
xiiand4swords:
It wasn't deranged. I say that because the market corrected itself. However, it was effectively impossible for human's too react to or correct. That it continues to be a normal practice - if moderated somewhat more than it was before the crash - does seem deranged.
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mneylu:
Not in those words so much, more like, I've been studying the radicals and their origins and what not and how they expanded later to make more words and combine and what not. So, I'm working on the written, not the spoken, traditional chinese.. 
mneylu:
Not sure. Not all of them have an origin we can sort out.. but If you remind me somehow once I get my Radical text out of storage it seems pretty legit. "What Radical Is that?" the charts are sweet.
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lumo:
Nice! <3
cadavre:
that's a pretty amazingly awesome project!
This week:
- Signed up for Mandarin Chinese classes.
- Started studying the construction of CNC devices. (i.e. robot tools that take a picture or a 3D model in, and carve or burn that shape out for you.)
- Still working on the new boardgame design; started on a second one in parallel.
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ateh:
Going to China?
ateh:
Sounds like an excellent and properly sneakily plotted trip.
Kid Ateh is all of a sudden afraid of werewolves. She has woken me up every night for the last three, worried about them and asking to sleep with us in our bed. I'm okay with this, in theory, but she has grown, she is only a few inches shorter than me now, it's a tight squeeze for the three of us.
I have (mostly) learned over time that it's best to let the girls sort out their fears and desires at their own pace, that their pace hardly ever matches mine. So I have only just started hinting at the idea that you could fight the werewolves. We'll get there.
Kid Ateh is all of a sudden afraid of werewolves. She has woken me up every night for the last three, worried about them and asking to sleep with us in our bed. I'm okay with this, in theory, but she has grown, she is only a few inches shorter than me now, it's a tight squeeze for the three of us.
I have (mostly) learned over time that it's best to let the girls sort out their fears and desires at their own pace, that their pace hardly ever matches mine. So I have only just started hinting at the idea that you could fight the werewolves. We'll get there.
I love living in The Bay.
Tonight: Went to a salon put on by the Health Extension Community. The first speaker was a guy who built a stem cell lab in his garage from lab equipment bought cheap from bankrupt startups, and funded by reselling the high tech tools they didn't need themselves but that they got offered during those shopping/vulturing trips. The second...
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Tonight: Went to a salon put on by the Health Extension Community. The first speaker was a guy who built a stem cell lab in his garage from lab equipment bought cheap from bankrupt startups, and funded by reselling the high tech tools they didn't need themselves but that they got offered during those shopping/vulturing trips. The second...
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coyotemike:
I've heard of that. I wonder if he's updated to tell them to print the rejection letters off, first, since 99.9% is email
Thanks
Thanks
ateh:
As someone who grew up Not Mormon in the heart of Mormonland, I disagree completely. But things are so different everywhere outside of Mormonland, and I would do well to keep that in mind.
Sounds like you have been having a right good geeky time. Cheers!
Sounds like you have been having a right good geeky time. Cheers!
Oh bother. Morning again. Not that I should be complaining.
Just that I was up again until far too close to dawn. writing some gent' in Japan ideas about how to tweak his board game.* Excellent to be so inspired you'd rather not sleep. Less excellent the next day when it's time to get to work, and you barely slept.
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Just that I was up again until far too close to dawn. writing some gent' in Japan ideas about how to tweak his board game.* Excellent to be so inspired you'd rather not sleep. Less excellent the next day when it's time to get to work, and you barely slept.
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richard_:
Ah sleep... Never have i needed it more. Hope things calmed for you and sleep has found you well.
richard_:
Im thinking safety first might be my number one concern from here on out.
Science!!
Today's test: Reposado Tequilas.
5 test subjects drank a 1/3 shot of tequila, straight, from each of 4 samples:
- Zapopan
- Cazadores
- Milagro
- Trader Joe's "Distinqt"
The tests were double blinded: Neither subject nor administrator knew what was being consumed*. The subjects ranked the 4 samples, and those rankings were processed via Condorcet voting.
1st place: Cazadores
2nd place: Trader Joe's...
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Today's test: Reposado Tequilas.
5 test subjects drank a 1/3 shot of tequila, straight, from each of 4 samples:
- Zapopan
- Cazadores
- Milagro
- Trader Joe's "Distinqt"
The tests were double blinded: Neither subject nor administrator knew what was being consumed*. The subjects ranked the 4 samples, and those rankings were processed via Condorcet voting.
1st place: Cazadores
2nd place: Trader Joe's...
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cadavre:
especially liquor and candy! Well...at least in my opinion
datsun:
You're right, and we postponed his chicken pox vaccine for just that reason (my wife's sister nearly died from chicken pox at age thirteen, so if he doesn't get it within the next few years, we will vaccinate against it, but supposedly the naturally acquired immunity is better defense against shingles later). But I was hoping he'd be at least two before he caught it.