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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
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9:42 am
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The trouble with choosing to walk down the path of knowledge is: There can be no turning back.
That which has been learned cannot be unlearned, barring severe head trauma.
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| Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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4:01 pm
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And now I shall speak blasphemy: C# isn't that horrible after all.
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| Sunday, June 14th, 2009
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8:35 pm
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I still think a Belldandy stained glass window would be really, really neat.
It would be really, really expensive too.
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| Monday, June 8th, 2009
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10:45 pm
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Well, I smoothed out an idea I got on the trip and turned it into a writing snippet. I don't quite like the feel since it's not quite what I want but I can't figure out how to smooth it out further.
( A short writing bit )
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| Sunday, June 7th, 2009
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8:19 pm
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Anyway, I'm home now.
And after the pleasure comes the chores... I have to do laundry and prepare for work tomorrow...
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| Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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11:16 pm
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The hotel is firewalling SSH currently. They weren't doing this last night or even five hours ago. I am annoyed.
Edit: Only things apparently allowed right now are HTTP and HTTPS. Not even POP3 works. Geez...
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| Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
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9:04 pm
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| Sunday, May 31st, 2009
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9:12 pm
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The Lego store had its grand opening today. They were having some sort of promotion and the lines were long. It'd be hyperbole to compare the line to, say, waiting for Space Mountain but the line was pretty long. I think there were more people waiting to get in than there were for the afternoon J-Pop concert at Animazement.
It looks like a nifty store and I will certainly enjoy it... when there is no line.
(Charlotte got the Ikea store. We got the Lego store. I think we won.)
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| Saturday, May 30th, 2009
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6:06 pm
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lighthawk and I were talking today...
If one takes the progression of size of iPods from classic to nano to shuffle to its logical extreme, iPods will some day be almost subatomic, which then gives rise to the idea of quantum music.
So therefore either: You're listening to music and you can't know if it's good or bad... Or... You know what you're listening to is good or bad but you can't know what you're listening to.
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3:33 pm
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iTunes is not happy with copying my library list from one machine to the other. (I'm trying to phase out the machine that currently runs the "master" install of iTunes.) It helps that all of my music (except for iTunes purchases) are on a shared network drive so I can avoid at least some silliness.
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| Friday, May 29th, 2009
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9:12 pm
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The problem with summer is that it's not a good time for hot tea.
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| Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
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9:31 am
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It's finally gotten to be that time. I have reached the storage limit on my 80GB iPod.
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| Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
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5:53 pm
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So we're going back to DC in a week and a half. It's going to be an expensive vacation.
Anyway, in the odd case anyone reading has been in the area, I'm looking for suggestions for restaurants for lunch and dinner. Anyone have any?
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12:41 pm
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Some day I'm going to need to remember to make an LJ post that says that I'm having a wonderfully fantastic day and life couldn't be better and so on because it'd make a break from me posting "Today sucks and here's why" whenever I do actually post.
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| Monday, May 11th, 2009
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5:45 pm - F12
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There's a song stuck in my head and it goes something like this...
Here's a lemming
There's a lemming
And a bloody lot of lemmings
Builder lemming
Miner lemming
Lemming
Lemming
BOMB
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| Friday, May 8th, 2009
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3:27 pm
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I suppose I should really look into getting a PGP key set up and actually using it.
The only issue is that I can check email from several different places so I would need to set up the same private key on several different machines. I'm not certain this is intended.
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| Thursday, May 7th, 2009
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10:16 pm - New icon
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9:18 am
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| Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
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9:17 am
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| Friday, April 17th, 2009
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10:32 pm
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So I think I'm getting sick. I've had a headache since 10:30am, my eyes got light-sensitive for a bit at 9:15pm, I got really cold around 10:05pm, and now the headache has definitely moved forward and the aching is from the sinuses.
But all of this complaining aside, I think that human reaction to sickness is an indication that human sentience is an evolutionary byproduct rather than a deliberate choice.
We are not very aware of issues with our body. We assume everything is fine because we don't feel amiss and then, bam, you have a heart attack or a stroke. Our only indication that something is wrong, e.g. being ill, are experiencing the symptoms of the problem.
I have a headache. It could be tension in my neck. It could be sinus congestion. It could be a life-threatening disease of the brain. I simply don't know. All I know is that I have a headache.
The primary way we know something is wrong is pain or some other form of discomfort. It's like warning lights on a car. We don't know that a seal has worn away and oil has been leaking. We just know that the damn "check engine" light is on.
It seems to me that if sentience were deliberate, we would be more self-aware of our bodies. We would be able to tell "Hey, I have sinus congestion." Or "Hey, my blood is pumping through my arteries quite as well as it used to." Because we would be more self-aware, with proper training, we could figure out if our bodies are running out of kilter and take actions to fix it. Instead of focusing on reactive medicine, like we do now, the focus would be proactive medicine, fixing the body before something goes horribly wrong.
Overall, assuming we could process the information, self-awareness in this fashion would probably increase our overall life expectancy. Of course, the trauma from losing a hand or the like might be lethal. Win some, lose some, I guess.
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