The USA is like that kid at college you hated.
Didn’t want to get involved in the class project then showed up during the presentation so that he could claim he did all the work.
Somebody needs to think about this stuff...
by justin
The USA is like that kid at college you hated.
Didn’t want to get involved in the class project then showed up during the presentation so that he could claim he did all the work.
by justin
Today I finished reading “Dragonquest” by Anne McCaffrey
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This week I am listening to “In My Tribe” by 10,000 Maniacs
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Today I finished reading “Wizard at Large” by Terry Brooks
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Dr Seuss poems sounds like how Dr Seuss writes.
Does that make them Seusserations?
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This week I am listening to “Through the Looking Glass” by Siouxsie and the Banshees
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Today I finished reading “Test of the Twins” by Margaret Weis
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Today I finished reading “The Heritage of Hastur” by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Today I finished reading “Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melnibone” by Roy Thomas
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This week I am listening to “Appetite for Destruction” by Guns N’ Roses
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This week I am listening to “Actually” by Pet Shop Boys
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This month I am studying “A level computer science” and “Tang-Soo Do karate”
6 months part-time. 1st month of CompSci and 12th month of karate
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Today I finished reading “The Sirens of Titan” by Kurt Vonnegut
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People only want democracy when they think you will vote the same way they will.
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An inexorable progression of technology:
If we can solve the problem in hardware, it will be.
If we cannot solve the problem in hardware…
If we can solve the problem in software, it will be.
If we cannot solve the problem in software…
We don’t understand the problem well enough to solve it.
Once we understand the problem well enough to solve it..
We will solve the problem in software.
And then we’ll move the solution to hardware.
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This week I am listening to “Diesel and Dust” by Midnight Oil
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Today I finished reading “The Spell Sword” by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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This week I am listening to “…Nothing Like the Sun” by Sting
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Today I finished reading “The Black Unicorn” by Terry Brooks
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This week I am listening to “The Circus” by Erasure
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Today I finished reading “The Design of the UNIX Operating System” by Maurice Bach
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This week I am listening to “Electric” by The Cult
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Today I finished reading “Men Without Women” by Ernest Hemingway
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I figured out long ago (about 4 years) that if I want to get ahead in life the last thing I want to set as a career goal is to work for someone else for 40 years just so I can get a pittance of a retirement.
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This week I am listening to “Solitude Standing” by Suzanne Vega
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This month I am studying “Fundamentals of calculus” and also “Tang-Soo Do Karate”
I figured I should brush up on my mathematics.
Hired a private tutor for four nights a week for two hours a night, for the next month, to help me with that.
And of course, my study of (Korean) karate continues with the 11th month of my Tang-Soo Do karate classes.
I am going to scale my karate back by an hour a day so that I can focus on the calculus.
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This week I am listening to “Bête Noire” by Bryan Ferry
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This week I am listening to “Saint Julian” by Julian Cope
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Today I finished reading “Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology” by Bruce Sterling
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This week I am listening to “Frank’s Wild Years” by Tom Waits
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Today I finished reading “Garfield Weighs In” by Jim Davis
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Today I finished reading “Asterix and the Golden Sickle” by Rene Goscinny
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This week I am listening to “Introduce Yourself” by Faith No More
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This month I studying “Regular expressions.”
I’ve only tinkered with these (regular expressions) a little. I know what they are and how to use them.
Local community college is offering two week, part-time course in how to use them.
I am also continuing with my karate studies and am entering the 10th month of my Tang-Soo Do karate classes.
by justin
Today I finished reading “The Leaky Establishment” by David Langford
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Self-driving cars are going to happen.
It is simply a matter of time.
Maybe 30 years from today for the first vehicles that are partially automated, that is, they can drive safely on private roads or roads that require a permit such as a motorway where the traffic is more predictable.
Perhaps 40 years from today for a significant number of self-driving, self-navigating vehicles on the roads.
And 50 years from today (at the outside) for almost all vehicles to be self-driving.
In 50 years vehicles that are non-self-driving will be an anomaly.
by justin
I’ve yet to meet a fast computer I couldn’t make slow through the application of an incorrect algorithm.
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This week I am listening to “Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know” by Dead or Alive
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This week I am listening to “Boi-ngo” by Oingo Boingo
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Today I finished reading “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare
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This week I am listening to “The Ideal Copy” by Wire
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I voted.
Conservative.
And then I was down at the student’s union having a pint of cider with some acquaintances.
Who thought I was the scum of the Earth because I “voted the wrong way.”
They were unanimous in the belief that “It is people like me” (the ones exercising their democratic right to vote for whoever they choose too) “that is what is wrong with this country. If we had our way, (in a proper democracy) you wouldn’t be allowed to vote for the wrong candidate.”
That isn’t how democracy works you arseholes!
The biggest irony is that more than half of the people I spoke to (about 30 people), when I questioned them, said they hadn’t voted.
With the reasons given being about evenly split between “It’s not worth it, it won’t make a difference” and “I couldn’t be bothered.”
Fuck this country and fuck my generation for being so complacent.
by justin
This week I am listening to “Paid in Full” by Eric B. and Rakim
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This month I am studying “A level computer science” and “Tang-Soo Do karate”
6th month of law and 9th month of karate
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Today I finished reading “Stormqueen!” by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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This week I am listening to “Mainstream” by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
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This week I am listening to “Eye of the Hurricane” by The Alarm
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Today I finished reading “Count Zero” by William Gibson
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This week I am listening to “Savage” by Eurythmics
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Today I finished reading “Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold” by Terry Brooks