Saturday, April 24, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Probable-Possible
Probable-Possible, my black hen,
She lays eggs in the Relative When.
She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now
Because she's unable to postulate How.
Poem-A-Day: Dorothy Parker, The Passionate Freudian to His Love
The Passionate Freudian to His Love
Only name the day, and we'll fly away
In the face of old traditions,
To a sheltered spot, by the world forgot,
Where we'll park our inhibitions.
Come and gaze in eyes where the lovelight lies
As it psychoanalyzes,
And when once you glean what your fantasies mean
Life will hold no more surprises.
When you've told your love what you're thinking of
Things will be much more informal;
Through a sunlit land we'll go hand-in-hand,
Drifting gently back to normal.
While the pale moon gleams, we will dream sweet dreams,
And I'll win your admiration,
For it's only fair to admit I'm there
With a mean interpretation.
In the sunrise glow we will whisper low
Of the scenes our dreams have painted,
And when you're advised what they symbolized
We'll begin to feel acquainted.
So we'll gaily float in a slumber boat
Where subconscious waves dash wildly;
In the stars' soft light, we will say good-night—
And "good-night!" will put it mildly.
Our desires shall be from repressions free—
As it's only right to treat them.
To your ego's whims I will sing sweet hymns,
And ad libido repeat them.
With your hand in mine, idly we'll recline
Amid bowers of neuroses,
While the sun seeks rest in the great red west
We will sit and match psychoses.
So come dwell a while on that distant isle
In the brilliant tropic weather;
Where a Freud in need is a Freud indeed,
We'll always be Jung together.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Tech FAIL - The blank registration form.
To round out the rant let me be clear - such "Conferences" are thinly veiled captured audience SALES pitches. So, if you want me to sit through you promotion the very least you can do is fill out the form for me (which I know is possible as a few do come that way. But not many).
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
R.I.P. Benjamin Hooks
Benjamin Hooks, Civil Rights Champion, Dies At 85
Longtime civil rights leader Benjamin Hooks has died. The Baptist minister and lawyer is best remembered as head of the NAACP, which was struggling and in debt when Hooks took it over in 1977. By the time he stepped down 15 years later, membership had grown by several hundred thousand. Hooks died early Thursday at his home in Memphis, Tenn., after a long illness. He was 85.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Family of Seven
Documenting the undocumented: How one company counts the “invisible poor”
Melanie Edwards knew there was a problem when market researchers had more information on the video game habits of American teenagers than on the populations of African nations.
. . .
What are the consequences of knowing so little about so many?
I like to equate it to a family of seven. There are seven billion people in the world, that’s the family of seven. Four of the members in our family, we don’t know anything about. We don’t know about their education levels. We don’t know about their health conditions. You can imagine if four of your siblings were ill or illiterate or unemployed, that would have a big impact on the family as a whole.
Friday, April 09, 2010
Better the devil you know?
From the New York Times...
Protesters From Kansas Take Aim at Miners
By BERNIE BECKER
Published: April 8, 2010
MONTCOAL W.V. — Protesters from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., headed to the Upper Big Branch mine Thursday morning to convey the message that the explosion there that left 25 miners dead was a result of e-mail messages allegedly sent from West Virginia threatening the Church and its publisher, according to a statement from the Church.
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The church, which is led by Fred Phelps, has attracted attention in recent years by showing up at funerals for soldiers who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. At those funerals they carry signs that say that God hates homosexuality and that the death of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan is God’s way of punishing the United States for its tolerance of it.
“This whole nation is awash in rebellious sin and defiance of God, His standard, and His servant’s faithful words,” a news release on the church’s Web site said Thursday morning.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Monday, April 05, 2010
Preserving History
A former university professor and an agricultural diversity expert, Fowler is the executive director of theGlobal Crop Diversity Trust, which runs the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Nicknamed the Doomsday Vault, the project launched in 2008 to “to serve as the ultimate safety net for one of the world’s most important natural resources.”
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Saturday, April 03, 2010
iPad Exclusivity
I won't be buying an iPad. I can't. I am not affluent enough.
I suppose if I scraped and scrimped and scrounged couch change I might come up with the asking price. But even then I couldn't afford one. For the same reason I drive a 15 year old beater. Or that I am pounding this out on an IBM R51 - the copyright date on the bottom says 2004 - ancient by laptop standards. Quite simply I do not circulate in the ... ahem, circles ... of affluence that are important to the iPad Apple folks. Very possibly the "A" folks would rather I not purchase one of their iPads. ("There goes the neighborhood ... and all that")
The iPad is priced to sell to folks who have money. The iPad is priced to engage affluent folks in a culture that will inevitably cost them more and more money. The iPad is priced to sell to the folks who can afford to pay for the "A" culture.
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