I just read Steve Pavlina’s article “You Are Self Employed.” Steve always does a great job of communicating ideas like the one in this article in a way that is clear and motivating. What I really like about Steve’s articles is that he does not try to paint an unreal rose-colored-glasses view of his subject matter like many motivational writers often do. In fact, instead of screaming “You can do it!” Steve often seem to say something more like, “You’re stupid if you don’t and here’s why.” He obviously cares about the quality of his work and the well-being of his readers.
The idea of his article is that you are self-employed whether you work for someone else or not. If you work for someone else you are essentially a one-employee company selling 100% of your services to 1 client. Good luck with that.
So, I hate US bipartisan politics and what they have become. “You say this and I’ll say that” should be the motto or maybe something like, “Without logic. We are unbound.”
Something interesting about Democrats is that they believe big government should take care of the people because those people are too stupid to take care of themselves. On the other retarded hand are the Republicans who, though often are seen as hard-nosed and business-minded, believe the citizens can take of themselves pretty well if you give them space to figure it out. That is, Republicans believe the people of the United States are smart enough to take care of themselves.
Where political decisions are concerned, I believe the idea of “by the people” is gone and has little-to-zero chance of returning but there is still a chance to do things “for the people”. Which side do you think is “for the people”?
I am glad to be back to Gravity Unknown. Gravity Unknown is something I have dreamed up since way back in college. I had to let it go for a few months because I had too many professional obligations to tend to and since this site doesn’t really make any money I had to drop something.
Well, I have been trying a lot of new things during the last three or four months.
For one, I did not eat dairy products for about 4 months just to see what it is like - more about that later (I liked it but became slightly lactose intolerant in the process). I went hang gliding - more about that later. I am currently not eating potatoes - more about that later (not much to say). I recently took on the task of trying every smoothie at Smoothie King. There are about 85, of which I have tried 19 so far - and there will be more about that later, too (I have a grade scale).
Things to come include learning a language (Romanian), getting my six pack back, selling gluhwein, and many other things. I am constantly searching for the gravity of things and challenge you to do the same.
This guy - aka Christopher Johnson, aka the guy who owns my namesake URL - took my name and made a website out of it. Alright, his name is my name, too.
He has an impressive collection of ASCII art that is interesting to dig through. I am personally not a fan of it (mostly because Chris took my favorite URL) but am surprised at the detail in some of the pictures.
ASCII (ask’-ee) stands for “American Standard Code for Information Interchange.” This standard was developed by the American National Standards Institute. It’s basically a table of numbers and their corresponding symbols.
Please send him emails requesting that he sell me his (err, my) URL for the erroneous amount of $17 and not one penny more.
Wow, go America. I mean, go America. I mean… Forget it. This is evidence of the end. Where the closest country where basic freedoms are still allowed?
People who know me know well that I stay clear of politics and do not even have a solid affiliation with one side or the other - yes, there are only two sides to American politics at this moment in history - but this event bothers me to my core.
I don’t need to explain what happened as I am sure you have seen it by now but basically free speech was exercised and a young man who should have been thrown out (at worst) was thrown down and tasered for asking why he was being bullied.
The Cast
The student, 21 year old Andrew Meyer, is allegedly known as something of a trouble-maker but that is not grounds for being tasered. Escorted with force? Maybe. But, not tasered.
John Kerry should have done something instead of continuing to chatter away on stage like a blind wimp. His career was not at its highest point anyway but it is wrecked now, which I happen to think is excellent as we need to weed the spineless from our government.
The police should be reprimanded heavily - and possibly “released from duty.” I have heard people say they were just following the book. Sorry. I don’t buy it.
The people in the audience should be ashamed. No one expects anyone to jump in and fight but how about a little more yelling? That would not have hurt anyone…which brings me back to John Kerry. You couldn’t even yell “Stop!”?
Thank you to all of you who recorded the event.
Thank you to the thousands of other blogs giving coverage… (I cannot list them all)
Microsoft’s Surface has enormous potential for real-life applications. I think it will make a great communication device for interactive settings but when you look at Surface from a “what it really is” point of view it is, well, a big-ass table.
From the land of the Germans. Easy to see the benefits but… will it work? How much does it cost? And, will it freak people out?
I can’t help but imagine the look on campers’ faces when this giant freaking metal beetle crawls out of the dark bushes at night (freaky in itself) and puts out their camp fire (bummer). Which would you do first - change your pants or rebuild the fire?
Seriously, this is cool. First, props to Rob of LinkNotes where I found this article.
This is a giant space that is actually nothing - or, at least, less of something than we have ever seen before. It contains no stars, planets, rocks, gases, star destroyers, or even dark matter. Nothing, nada, zip, zilch.
“Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even expected to find one this size,” said Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota astronomy professor. Rudnick, along with grad student Shea Brown and associate professor Liliya Williams, also of the University of Minnesota, reported their findings in a paper accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal.
I always question the use of the words “space” or “void.” Why would there be a hole in the universe? Did Zeuss decide to dig a space hole? To me, it is more likely that this “hole” is made of something we have never seen before - like a door to Narnia.
This is brilliant if you ask me. I saw this post on Engadget a few minutes ago and they got it from Wired. A grad student at a University in Houston (probably University of Houston) did not want to pay the twelve hundred bucks to get his car’s A/C repaired so he bolted a home unit to the top of his car. Genius, crazy, cheap? Whatever - it’s funny. Yes, it looks like something you would see in some third world country (or Louisiana) but it’s funny.
If I saw this driving down the street (and I live in H-town) I would say, “awesome.” The only thing I thought was retarded were most of the comments on the Engadget and Wired posts. From insults to suggestions about he should have designed it…jeez people.
