Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Category: Personal / Relationships

  • Where Good Ideas Come From

    Found this interesting as it means the social interactions we make with others, talking about our ideas, is the mechanism by which we develop ideas. We have to spend time around others working in tangential areas to drive good ideas. “Chance favors the connected mind.”

  • Unaccomplished

    So much to accomplish on my “days off”. Finished grocery shopping and posting meeting notes for one group. Have to figure out the agenda for another meeting later today. Feel like I need a vacation…

  • New Year’s Resolutions 2010

    My resolutions for 2009 involved reading good stuff and being more social. More or less they were successful. I read fulfilled the reading goal by October. To fulfill the social goal, I attended most of the BrunchBunch, Athens Flickr Meetups, Athens Strobist Meetups, and even lunches with coworkers. These were by and large successful. So,…

  • Me Social Media

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    Dan Schultz doesn’t like Facebook or Twitter because they are too focussed on individual expression rather than the community. That may be because he is using them wrong. I liked photography as a kid, but I didn’t know any photographers. Flickr happened to come into my life just after I bought my first digital camera.…

  • Resolution No.1 2009 Complete

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    I recently completed my first resolution for the year 2009: Read 10,000 pages of science, economics, health, history, or policy books. Check the Reading page for the master list. Titles in bold are the ones I recommend. (They also are probably the ones I quote the most.) Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection…

  • You’re So Vain

    You probably think this blog is about you. Well… Maybe…. I’m not even sure this blog is about me. Probably it is not about you. Instead, it making a generalization. You know, those statements which are based on false reductionist approaches and assume some random event represents the key to solving everything. Anyway. Stop taking…

  • Cognitive Load

    My parents taught me as a child lying is harder than telling the truth. I am way too lazy to bother with anything other than using a tangent to change the subject. Simplicity also helps keep track of my life. I like understanding what is happening and why. Skills involved in deception also teach problem-solving,…

  • DDoS of Social Media

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    Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and other sites all admitted to suffering from a DDoS attack. It seem to me the purpose of a Denial-of-Service attack (DoS) against a web site is to flood it with so much traffic the site becomes unusable. The DDoS is where multiple other computers are coordinated into launching the attack. All…

  • Worldwide Photowalk Panorama

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    Worldwide Photowalk Panorama, originally uploaded by Ezra F.