One of the biggest pieces of BS I was feed as a youth was this notion of youth having an "immortality complex". Immediately noticed for what it was, I had this picture of a young guy, confronted with drugs foir the first time, saying "aw, what the heck, it's not like I can die or anything, I'm immortal". It's not an immortality complex that hampers youth, it's the inability to look into the future. More simply put, we didn't consider the longer term, we couldn't look farther than the window of action. And current research seems to add to that idea, that the adolecent mind is not, generally, capable of looking to the future.
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Author: Carl Setzer
A blogger blogging from just north of Seattle.
Neologism Du Jour
Try this one for size: egolarity, a combination of "ego" and "singularity". This would be that person with so dense an ego that nothing can escape, nor penetrate, the event horizon. I'm thinking of the person so absorbed by their cell-phone conversation that they're oblivious to the rest of humanity that surrounds them, especially other traffic.
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Facts
My friend Aaron put me up to this.
Here’s how you play: Once you’ve been tagged you have to write a blog with 10 weird, random, facts, habits or goals about yourself.
1. I detest rodents.
2. I spent my childhood drifting around the country. Thus, I was born in Rhode Island, though I haven’t been there since I was 3.
3. I am a graduate of the Navy’s Nuclear Power Program, and trained on the same prototype as my father.
4. I started school in Chantilly, VA.
5. I lived for several years on the Subic Bay Naval base as a kid. What I remember most from there are the beaches, and the monkeys. We had a troupe of monkeys who would perch in the trees out of our backyard.
6. I hate guns. When I was in 8th grade, my best friend’s father murdered his mother then committed suicide. He (Bill, my friend Adam’s father) taught me hunter safety and made all kinds of NRA noise about how to keep your house gun-safe. Repeat: I hate guns. (This did make some trouble for me in the Navy.)
7. Before 6, I did some competitive shooting.
8. I have a certificate in information processing from the Tongue Point Job Corps Center (Astoria, OR). Astoria is one of my most favorite towns, and I love the Oregon Coast.
9. I have formally studied the following subjects (declared as majors at various institutions): music, electronics technology, mechanical engineering, computer science, business, political science, sociology, and English/creative writing. To date, I’ve completed a degree in exactly zero disciplines.
10. I realized that I was a bit different from my classmates in Junior High, when I first read Euclid and Plato, and was reading Asimov for light reading. Most of my cohort was reading Steven King.
A day in Metro Cebu
Written by Jaime R. Vergara, it’s a powerfully written exploration of life in a remote portion of the
Introducing the Chumby
My first thought about seeing this was something akin to “what the heck is it?” And, after reading this bit from CNet, I still have that question. I can answer the basic question, that it’s a linux based internet appliance, one part clock radio and mp3 player (an mp3 player that has no battery , though it has the ability to add one if you can splice and solder your own – no portability cripples this thing), another part widget player (Flickr photo viewer, etc) that you can’t edit from the device – you need to go to a internet connected computer and adjust the setting through the company’s website.
This is, still, an important device. First, a mainstream device with a customized linux interface is important (Palm can’t have all the fun). Also, since this thing is built on open standards (not just linux, but also Adobe’s Flash Lite), the possibility of someone crafting the perfect app for this is immense. That just depends on gathering enough geek attention for someone to craft something useful. I’m not going to drop $179 for this, but I might be willing to play around with something like this were the price to drop lower.
My World View
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Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.
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Scientology Today
Some insights into the methods and concepts of our Scientology neighbors. Let me introduce you to the E-meter. I found this from a link in a Slashdot story about Scientology being granted access to eBay’s database.
Extract: The Year of Living Biblically
Extract: The Year of Living Biblically
One of the more interesting notions I’ve run across in the recent past. Spending a year running around
First, Let’s Toss Out All the Yahoo Board Members | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD
First, Let’s Toss Out All the Yahoo Board Members | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD
Can you say “shareholder revolt”?
CTV.ca | Carly’s Writings
Reading the experts respond to Carly’s writings shows me (at least) how little we, as a collective, know about autism…even the experts.