•November 18, 2009 •
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I am very particular. I know this.
However, there are a few valid reasons for this. I’ve certainly had plenty of miscommunication in my life, and the only thing to do in the face of this is to keep struggling to clarify.
For instance, at work we had a bit of a summit the other day, where I volunteered to research a video indexing system, ’cause we’re in this weird place where we use a million video formats and nothing seems to work with all of them.
However, when it made its way to the formal list, it says develop an indexing system.
You programmers out there can sense me twitching at the difference here – one says that I’ll be looking into software other people have created, and the other says that I will fashion with these two hands a mighty videoslaying sword that will cleave our beast into neat categories.
I’m not a programmer, though, and the person who did it isn’t either, so I’m learning to let that lie this time. However, this is how inaccurate words can wreck you – if, two months down the road, someone else sees this list and thinks I should be coding instead of applying someone else’s code, I’ve put myself in hot water by not speaking out.
What situations have you been in where imprecise words made you twitch?
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•November 17, 2009 •
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The other day I was talking to some friends about how I tend to do math in my head – oftentimes I round to get the easy answer and then remove the rounding, if you follow. So if I need to know 15%, I chop off the last digit (10%) and add half of that. They looked at me like I grew another head.
I ran into a wiki link today on a guy who does fast math in clubs, like some sorta comedian. First math trick in the comments is about squaring, and involves rounding.
What’s your favorite “math trick” that you use?
PS I hate blogs that obscure the link they’re referencing – do you click the image? the title? somewhere else? Make it obvious, eh?
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•November 16, 2009 •
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However, as you can see here, a D-Link Wireless N Router is only $19.99.
I mean, it’s D-Link, but still.
Seagate external 1TB for 79? Sounds reasonable. All video games 20 bucks or less. Ain’t too shabby.
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•November 11, 2009 •
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http://gizmodo.com/5401364/i-wear-my-suncontacts-at-night
Photochromic lenses that allow you to walk from inside to outside without putting on UV-filtering lenses have been around for decades. But the technology is just making its way to contacts.
Traditionally, these light-to-dark lenses have been constructed by coating a normal lens with a photochromic dye. When UV light hits the dye, the individual molecules expand, darkening the lens and absorbing light. Coating contacts, however, doesn’t work so well.
So researchers in Singapore have laced contacts with a matrix on nano tunnels filled with these photochromic dyes. Not only has the team been successful in producing transition contacts; these contacts darken in the presence of UV light faster than standard lenses (just 10 to 20 seconds).
Researchers are now working on isolating the photochromic material to just corneal region of your eye, granting you all of the UV filtering without turning your entire iris black.
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•November 4, 2009 •
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Off to work out. Might go to mongos in royal oak after. Company?
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•November 4, 2009 •
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It really saddens me that so many people make a distinction between the civil rights of gay people and those of the rest of our citizens. It saddens me even more that people feel like they should be able to vote away the rights of others not to be treated equally under the law.
And I find it totally depressing that people have convinced themselves that, somehow, allowing two people to bind together as a family in the eyes of the law threatens their own idea of family, even as they are comfortable with divorce and interracial marriage (once forbidden).
It is okay if I literally destroy marriage by getting divorced, but it is wrong if I were to perpetuate family unity and economic stability by marrying someone of my gender. How does that make sense?
There will be a time in history in which Americans will be just as ashamed of the persecution and anti-gay laws we’ve enacted as we are over segregation.
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