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| Saturday, May 17th, 2008 | | 11:15 pm |
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| | Friday, May 16th, 2008 | | 9:00 am |
| | Thursday, May 8th, 2008 | | 1:00 pm |
Television = Gin? http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.htmlFrom a fantastic speech which is making the rounds.By Clay Shirky I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin.
The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing-- there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets of London.
And it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we actually started to get the institutional structures that we associate with the industrial revolution today. Things like public libraries and museums, increasingly broad education for children, elected leaders--a lot of things we like--didn't happen until having all of those people together stopped seeming like a crisis and started seeming like an asset.
It wasn't until people started thinking of this as a vast civic surplus, one they could design for rather than just dissipate, that we started to get what we think of now as an industrial society. | | Monday, April 21st, 2008 | | 9:55 am |
Seeking a Python tutor.
I am looking for a Python tutor. Someone with C++ experience who can walk me through understanding how to read an API. Even better would be a Maya plugin developer with both C++ and Python experience.
I have an Autodesk Maya plugin that I need to build. It is very basic, and is possible to do what is needed using scripted commands within Maya through either Maya's embeded language (MEL), or Python scripting - but the results take prohibitively long to calculate and return through this method more than once. Essentially I need to sample the luminance of every pixel in a given bitmap and return the result as an array of floats. The output of which can be index compared to UV coordinates of a simple, rectangular planar surface.
Face to face preferred in the Wellington, New Zealand. | | Friday, April 18th, 2008 | | 8:06 am |
The Space Mountain of Economics. Global financial crisis – Savers and investors trapped into USD 10,000-billion worth of « ghost-assets »If your banker managed to convince you to invest in the USD 10,000-billion worth of ghost-assets currently haunting the financial planet, then you have most probably lost everything even if you do not know it yet (2). And I thought watching 80's era horror movies was exciting! Scarier that The Fog or Alien combined! Aiiiie! The LEAP e2020 GEAB report is one of the most sobering of the think tank outputs that can be found for free on the 'net. There are others like the work of some crazy Time Monks in the PNW and you can see their machine-generated output of the Global Fora (George Ure of UrbanSurvivial.com posts the noteworthy bits for free). In a manner which reads like Barton Biggs writings on how Markets can anticipate significant changes in social conditions and politics, the bazillions of posts on to various forums are reportedly able to be sifted for various word relationships and out of the seemingly random bouillabaisse pop discrete concepts which can be tracked as they evolve through time. These concepts are apparently future echoes of things our monkey minds are likely to find interesting. The digital equivalent of a pigeons entrails? Probably. It is valid? Like any predictions, it certainly could be. It makes for interesting ponderings as I aquajog in one end of a pool that I share with a dozen or so new mothers and their infants while the instructor sings about "you're a little starfish, wide and flat...". Ooh - sorry for hogging, here's the popcorn... | | Thursday, April 17th, 2008 | | 5:53 am |
Nothing like a stomach bug generate perspective. Between a stomach bug and a bit of diverticulitis life has been heaps of gastric fun this past month. The symphonic gurglings which my guts have been producing not very social tendencies. Much of my free time has continued to go into studying the approaching financial train in the tunnel of life which seems to be somewhat less-invisibly bearing down on most of the world. Of particular interest has been how other countries have survived economic collapse. In particular places like the USSR, Cuba, Zimbabwe, North Korea, etc... Today I offer a link to a rather clear set of power point slides discussing the " Closing Collapse Gap" between Russia and the USA. Coupled with the fine work of James Howard Kunstler and his like it gives a good outline of the nature of the possible nature of the doom. And no, it is not an 8-story tall marshmallow man. http://www.energybulletin.net/23259.html( Article behind the cut... ) | | Friday, April 4th, 2008 | | 10:54 pm |
Solar Nanoantennas with possible 80% efficency! Check this out!They even work at night. | | Monday, March 31st, 2008 | | 9:51 pm |
Bikes on Trains in Wellington Take this survey if you live around Wellington would like to offer comments on being able to take your bicycle on the train. | | Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 | | 6:11 pm |
Sir Arthur C Clarke: RIP
Another sci-fi legend has shuffled off this mortal coil. | | Thursday, March 13th, 2008 | | 6:46 pm |
USDX = 72.00 The USDX hit another all time low. The USD is headed much lower and this happy bit of reading from the LEAPE2020/GEAB makes for some sober pondering. I would love to read the GEAB as it is published, but can't bring myself to pay NZ$400 to be told what I already know. How to survive with a euro worth 1,50 USD and an oil-barrel worth 150 USD? - Abstract GEAB N°5 (May 16, 2006) -
| | Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 | | 1:18 pm |
The one person who could stop an attack on Iran has resigned. US Admiral William Fallon, the top US military commander in the Middle East, resigned abruptly on Tuesday following the publication of a controversial magazine article that appeared to pit him against the president. Al-JazeeraBBC | | Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 | | 10:41 am |
Not the Teletubbies.  The Pentagon has assured residents of Crystal City, Virginia, that the gases they will release downtown on Thursday are completely harmless, while on the other hand secretly hoping that the fearmongering about imminent biological terror attacks the tests are set to generate is contagious. "The Pentagon is scheduled to release an odorless, invisible, and yes, harmless, gases into the city Thursday to test how quickly they spread through buildings, officials said." "The test is part of the military's national security preparation for the capital area," reports The Examiner. The Pentagon will release perfluorocarbon tracers as well as sulfur hexafluoride amongst the general public without their consent, a practice that would otherwise be illegal in a free society. | | Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 | | 8:05 am |
Nephew = Rowan
We have a name, and it's not Sputnik. | | Saturday, March 1st, 2008 | | 10:57 am |
Uncle.
I am an uncle. My sister has just given birth to a boy. Details to follow. Probably also pictures to follow as well. This has happened in the US so the birthday is 29th February, 2008. I am very excited to be an uncle. | | Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 | | 4:14 pm |
Safari hat!
I was walking to the shops this afternoon and it was "schoolgirl o'clock". I walked past a bunch of them and they called after me "Safari hat!" | | Saturday, February 16th, 2008 | | 11:55 pm |
| | Thursday, February 7th, 2008 | | 5:41 pm |
Partial Solar Eclipse!  Going on right now! | | 9:05 am |
Reaction Engines Limited http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/index.htmlSpace planes on the books for New York to Auckland flights 5 hours in duration. Check out the LAPCAT and SKYLON projects. These look like hybrid air-breathing rocket motors. The idea being that they are 'green' technology. I am under the impression that nitrous oxide is not all that good for the environment either, but the designs are great. Mach 5 plus! | | Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 | | 10:05 pm |
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