The December meeting of the New Mexico Oracle Users Group will feature a
talk on Oracle's RDF / Semantic Web technology, how it works, it's
implementation, and what it can do. NCGR is hosting the meeting, and
we'd like to have a full house. The link to the meeting information is
at
Owen's comic strip on chaos made me think of a photo I took a few
years back in Artesia, New Mexico, which I offer for your amusement.
;; Gary
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Hi Ted, and welcome to the list. Okay, I'll be the first to admit that
I don't know what CAS is. Computer Aided Simulation perhaps? I assumed
that it was just me, but a trip to the disambiguation page for
en.wikipedia.org didn't turn up anything promising, nor did a generic
Google search
On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:07 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
For some while I've been kind of surprised, in a detached sort of
way, at the general disregard that the FRIAMers I talk with hold for
C++. [...]
Hi Doug,
Interesting topic! I don't know if I'm a typical FRIAMer (there is
probably no
Thanks to Owen for introducing those of us who were unfamiliar with
Steve Yegge to his blog (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com). I found the
guy sufficiently entertaining (as well as insightful) to follow the
link from the blog to Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants (what a great
name!). In one of
You haven't lived until you've eaten a pasty (pronounced PAST EE, and
not to be confused withthe minimalist apparel worn by certain
entertainers, so I've been told) on a -20 degree winter day in the
upper great lakes region. One of the main ingredients is, of course,
rutabaga. A pasty is
At the risk of sounding like an ivory tower, anti-capitalist prig (I'm
not in academia, and worked in industry for more than 20 years), I
doubt I would support the motives of a university whose internet
presence has a .com suffix. What were they thinking?
;; Gary
On May 8, 2009, at 2:29
All three links are interesting, but I notice that the IBM article is
almost seven years old - surely it must be ancient technology now? On
the other hand, I'm really looking forward to that new MacBook Pro
complete with focused ion beam microscope based HD-ROSETTA drive :-)
;; Gary
On
Maybe a failure of content negotion of my browser or something, but
the link gave my Safari a 404 Not Found error. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/bono_s_call_to_action_for_africa.html
worked for me.
Being only a remote admirer of sfComplex (Ecuador is too far from
Santa Fe for
Having lived most of my 50 years in the USA and having just completed
my first year in another country (Ecuador, which does have
roundabouts), I think I am beginning to understand why. Note that I'm
not trying to defend what it is to be American, let alone its
consequences as played out on
Unfortunately, a glaring hole in SPARQL is lack of add or update
capability. Jena (http://jena.sourceforge.net), the framework
sponsored by HP Labs, includes an implementation of a proposed update
language for SPARQL - see http://jena.sourceforge.net/ARQ/update.html.
The other major
I get unduly hung up on unparsable grammar, where probably my brain
just needs to fill in one missing word, so help me here: did you mean
virtually *any* object. Or, did you mean that the software is able
to object (Your honor, I object!), and do so virtually? Assuming the
first, I would
The Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard that Tom Carter pointed out
the other day got me sufficiently excited to order it, and a friend
who is returning from the states next week can bring it to me here in
Ecuador. While I'm waiting, I am looking into how best to install it
on a separate
The construction sounds nice, but what's with that whole glob of keys
on the right side, making you reach several inches further to get to
the mouse? You know, the ones with numbers on them? I ain't no
freekin' accountant, I want my numbers on the top row, above the Q W
E R T Y keys just
Having been a Java hacker on a multimillion dollar Y2K remediation
project for two years from 1997-1999, I've often wondered how much of
the whole thing was hyperbole, and how much was real. According to
Wikipedia's article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y2K), about $300
billion US was
Peter is quite a good writer. I worked through most of his online book
Practical Common Lisp and really enjoyed it - see www.gigamonkeys.com/book
.
;; Gary
On Sep 24, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Fred Seibel wrote:
My son Peter's book Coders at Work is out and currently #7 overall
at Amazon.
On Oct 2, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Russ Abbott wrote:
I agree strongly with Roger and Nick. The point of doing research is
to advance the field -- among other things by sharing one's results
with others.
Most scientific publishers don't add much value to what they
publish. The reviewing is
I just don't understand this Web 2.0 culture. Heck, I can't even bring myself
to send a text message. Must be getting old :-|
Gary
On Nov 22, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Thanks for the help, good examples.
One question has popped up for me: You can link twitter to facebook, so
On Nov 25, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
On Nov 25, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
snip
Nobody has a hundred friends, so the word, friend, is being extended in a
creepy Orwellian way to include strangers.
I disagree. I was surprised to find just how many work,
I don't personally think Doug's comments were all that cranky, but then I've
been on this list for a long time - it seems to me more like he was playing
Devil's Advocate. But to John's sincere question, I also wonder what generally
happens to uninsured people who come to a hospital emergency
On Apr 27, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
How about whale piss from Moby Dick? Any of that in the glass of water (a
little harder to detect)?
It should be easy to detect, since whale piss is made of the radioactive
element Urineium :-)
Some of my personal favorites:
As of when I left the states three years ago, Toyota still proudly wrote on
some of their pickups the acronym for Toyota Racing Development (TRD, just
pronounce it :-)
Maybe urban legend, but General Motors had to quickly change the name of one of
their early
Interesting idea. Most Common Lisp implementations compile to native machine
code, so it might not be too hard to instrument the generated code to do some
kind of bookeeping. There are quite a few open source implementations out
there, e.g. Steel Bank Common Lisp (www.sbcl.org) or Clozure
I fear that this sounds like blaming the victims (i.e. the Libyan people), but
I haven't heard discussion of the difference between how Egypt managed its
overthrow of its dictator versus how Libya has attempted to do so. At least
from just watching the two situations unfold on network TV (CNN
I don't know if the device is real or not, but I can't find any way of
attributing good motives to these guys: if they are simply trying to put one
over on the world for fame and fortune, they shame on them (and on us for
falling for it). If they truly have produced cold fusion, then witholding
For the record, and the millions who will read the FRIAM archives in the next
centuries, of course Doug is referring to the death of bin Laden, and not
saying that the world is a better place without MLK. Amazing to see the
collective conscious at work in that mini exchange. Of course, one
Thanks Nick, someone needed to say that.
Sure there are tangents, but as mailing lists go, FRIAM has a pretty high
signal to noise ratio.
It also has a quite diverse group of participants and lurkers. Sometimes we
agree, sometimes we don't; sometimes we like to jump on the unpopular side of a
I've been using gmail via IMAP for at least five years, and haven't found it to
be bad at all, though I'm not that fond of its web interface either. I started
using gmail with Thunderbird under Windows XP, and switched to using it with
Mail.app on OS X about three years ago. I haven't had any
Actually, I was thinking priceless.
;; Gary
On Jul 26, 2011, at 7:11 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
Either that, or precious. Sort of like FRIAM, come to think of it.
On Jul 26, 2011 5:58 PM, Robert Holmes rob...@holmesacosta.com wrote:
Is that special or special?
—Robert
On Tue,
If you're willing to drink the RDF koolaid, there is also SPARQL
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL).
Gary
On Jul 30, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Re: our Friam chat yesterday about the new databases that are not
relational i.e. do not store data as tables of independent
Looks like Apple is doing pretty well for itself:
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/10/apple-closes-as-the-most-valuable-company-in-the-world/
;; Gary
On Aug 10, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Joshua Thorp wrote:
Don't you think Apple has been rewarded for all of these things? What more
do they need?
journalz.com ?
On Sep 17, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Sarbajit Roy wrote:
Thanks for saying this.
As a non-academic without access to JSTOR, its so frustrating when a google
search throws up relevant academic papers in JSTOR or similar databases, and
I can't read them.
H.. as an Indian
I'm going to be in the Santa Fe area from 12/27 until 1/3 (first visit to the
states since I left in 2008), and would love to get together with FRIAM
friends, old and new. I know this is probably the time of least activity, but I
was wondering if there will be a WedTech on the 28th? I certainly
I've forgotten the message that spawned the thread, but I'll expose my
incompetence in math to say that I was also thinking that 1 is prime. The
informal definition that I remember says that a number is prime if it is an
integer evenly divisible only by itself and 1. Well, 1 clearly is
I'm in town (actually in Pecos) this week, and wonder if there will be any
complexity-related activities this week? WedTech tomorrow? FRIAM friday?
;; Gary
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Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St.
Care to elaborate on 'we created small crises to create change.'?
Don't remember where I saw it (bumper sticker, email...), but I'll consider
thinking of a corporation as a person when Texas puts one to death.
Gary
On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:21 PM, Paul Paryski wrote:
And as long as corporations
Even as a geek, I have to marvel at technology: this American (me) sitting in
my house in the Ecuadorian cloud forest, watching the Super Bowl on ESPN Latino
being broadcast over a South American satellite, and rather than listen to the
Spanish commentary, listening on my laptop to streaming
Thanks for such a balanced and thoughtful message. Thank goodness for ramblings
and ramblers
Gary
On Feb 14, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
Some people say we never use nuclear weapons. The truth is we use nuclear
weapons every day to keep the world safe...
-The Honorable Andrew C.
Here is the core dump of the recently defunct Code Quarterly magazine (FRIAM
connection: this was started by Peter Seibel, who is Fred Seibel's son). Of
course, the target audience and contributers are geeks rather than scientists,
so I'm not sure if there is much to learn for science
I'm getting ready to buy a new MacBook Pro, as my 2007 pre-unibody 15 machine
is getting a little long in the tooth (I will fix it up a bit to serve as a
backup). I'm looking for opinions on which to get. It will be used my main
machine for software development, including Java, iOS, Lisp,
Way cool, Josh!
My only problem with it has been signing in from Chrome on OS X. A window pops
up, but before I can even read it, it is immediately closed. However, I seem to
already be signed in. Somehow it seems to be taking my credentials from a
cookie or something.
Gary
On Oct 3, 2012,
Nick,
Are you still in Santa Fe? I'm not, but if I was, I would help out in person at
the next WedTech (hint for those who are there in Santa Fe). Surely your
buddies wouldn't charge you $200 for a bit of hands-on help (I'd do it for a
cup of coffee :-)
Gary
On Feb 7, 2013, at 2:57 PM,
To me, it's debatable whether switching from hardcopy books to ebooks is a net
environmental plus. However, living down here in Ecuador makes it a real pain
in the butt to get hardcopies of technical books, especially in English. So
far, I've been reading PDFs on my laptop, but the screen is
themselves, at least for tech books,
they do not come in the multiple formats and have many silly errors that are
slowly being fixed. The kindle app is available everywhere, even as a webapp.
-- Owen
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Gary Schiltz g...@naturesvisualarts.com
wrote
I don't think you ever described your workflow. If you do, we could probably be
more helpful.
;; Gary
On Feb 21, 2013, at 11:40 AM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com wrote:
kicking the tires of skydrive like what I see so far. it could be useful as
part of my work flow-
I don't know
Chrome is nice, unless you need to run Java 7 applets or web start apps on a
Mac. Chrome for Mac is 32-bit only, and Java 7 for Mac is 64-bit only.
On Feb 26, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Where I think google does have identity is in the browser. Chrome is abs
How about altavista.digital.com?
On Feb 26, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone else remember when google was this small internet search engine that
hardly anyone had heard of because they were off using yahoo? (or possible
lycos?)
Owen, I've certainly been seeing some FRIAM messages out of order (especially
about two days ago), but I never got around to looking at the headers as you
suggested.
Gary
On Mar 10, 2013, at 9:42 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
OK, I presume this means I'm the only one seeing
Speaking of color, and humorous variations on WYSIWIG, my favorite is WYSIWIP,
which said that (pre-Windows, DOS) Microsoft programmers drink Coca Cola,
whereas Mac programmers drink Mountain Dew: Coca Cola goes in brown and comes
out yellow, whereas Mountain Dew goes in yellow and comes out
I don't have one, but plan to get one when it comes out with a higher
resolution display.
Gary
On Mar 17, 2013, at 9:43 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
There, that got your attention. [Doug sez: yawn!]
I'm thinking about my next phone, the contract is reaching an end.
the issue?
-- Owen
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Gary Schiltz g...@naturesvisualarts.com
wrote:
I don't have one, but plan to get one when it comes out with a higher
resolution display.
Gary
On Mar 17, 2013, at 9:43 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote
I don't do much web development, but it seems to me that it would be better to
treat HTML/CSS (and maybe even JavaScript) as the assembly language of the web.
Let the browser digest it, humans shouldn't have to look at that cruft. Write
your web content in whatever you're comfortable with
Quite a few of us on the list worked for Stu at BiosGroup a decade ago. I was
just a software geek there (not a scientist), so I'm not qualified to criticize
the veracity of his ideas, but I will say that he has an amazing charisma and
made many of us True Believers. Rock Star doesn't seem
http://digipen.edu, anyone?
:-)
On Mar 31, 2013, at 12:55 PM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote:
The rankings at http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings are
interesting, because I run out of non-US universities that I recognize in the
rankings long before I run out of US
Thanks a lot, dude. The second post that makes me feel incredibly old at 54 :-)
I certainly remember life without cell phones, trying to find a public phone
and the right change. Incredible how much things can change in such a short
time (including the differing perceptions of what constitutes
I haven't thought that much about it, but it just occurred to me that it might
be fun to build a distributed, RAID-inspired el cheapo cloud storage system.
Sign up for about ten services each offering 5 GB of free storage, and think of
each as a member of a RAID system, and stripe blocks of
Maybe just a pipe dream at this point, but maybe I can have my cake and eat it
too:
http://www.cuencahighlife.com/post/2013/03/31/Ecuadore28099s-ambitious-e28098City-of-Knowledgee28099-project-aims-at-attracting-the-worlde28099s-top-talent.aspx
Since I live a couple of hours from there, I'll be
I also spent 15 minutes or so perusing some of the more politically polarizing
topics, and it didn't take long to realize the site tilts pretty heavily toward
the right. It's easy to cherry pick just the facts that support one's own
position. Does anyone have suggestions for a site that
I dropped my previous MacBook air once and crashed the hard drive. Fortunately,
I had a Time Machine backup from only an hour before. I was either on Snow
Leopard or Lion, don't remember which. It went without a hitch and took around
three hours to restore the newly installed 500 GB drive with
As Russell and others have pointed out, TM provides a hybrid of version control
and backup. I wonder if it would be feasible to use SVN to manage an entire
operating system? You could in essence do hourly commits of '/' with periodic
pruning, but I'm sure it wouldn't be as simple as that. Would
I can't imagine doing any kind of work that evolves over time (even a few days'
time) without using some kind of revision control system. I don't know how much
people use git for purposes other than software, but it seems like a reasonable
means of backing up and tracking revisions of any type
Keep us informed on how you like the Galaxy Tab. I keep debating between an
iPad or an Android tablet (or maybe even a MS Surface). I want to do some
development for a tablet platform, but would like to actually use the platform
that I develop for. The idea of a single vendor specifying that
Okay, I'll bite. What is the inside joke about undefined is not a function?
Gary
On Apr 15, 2013, at 9:59 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Sorta an in-joke but:
https://twitter.com/txjs/status/323781055855337474/photo/1
-- Owen
Twitter: more info per sq in
In keeping with warez, you could have Journalz, Paperz, Resultz, Rezearch
:-)
On Apr 19, 2013, at 8:25 AM, Sarbajit Roy sroy...@gmail.com wrote:
Seconded.
If a resource is available it ought to be availed of. Its upto the copyright
holder to protect his work (and royalty stream).
I'm
I got one of the two that you received. I've never understood how (or if) only
subscribers can post lists can work. Can anyone post if the From: header of
their email is a valid user? That would be super easy to spoof. In the case of
the two spam messages, how would that apply? I.e. are
A big problem with teaching internet literacy is that it would amount to
teaching moving target: change is so hard to teach, since it keeps changing :-)
On a tangential note, I'm trying to come out of retirement (sabbatical :-)
after about five years, and whoa, it's incredible how much has
I'm starting to develop (as an unpaid volunteer) an application for the local
medical clinic, and I'd like to deploy it as a browser application (rich
internet app). Of course, I cold just use plain old HTML and CSS, but I'd like
it to be much more interactive, basically like a desktop
Point well taken about esoteric and cool versus pragmatic and well worn. The
most certain route in software, like in most undertakings, is usually the
familiar. The problem with the familiar is that many on the list, including
those of us who are ourselves well worn (at least worn), are
packages are already out
there that lead or support standards in EMR and for a successful project how
one would best align one's goals with theirs?
Robert C
On 7/2/13 8:39 AM, Gary Schiltz wrote:
Point well taken about esoteric and cool versus pragmatic and well worn. The
most certain route
Steve, I think your experience is in line with mine. My mid-2012 retina MBP
(with an obscene 16GB of RAM) occasionally gets in a nearly zero free memory
state. My only really big RAM user is VMWare Fusion running Windows 7 (I
usually only give it 2GB of RAM, and it runs fine). By the time it
Forgot to mention that I'm on Mountain Lion, so no, it doesn't do any better :-(
;; Gary
On Jul 5, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
On my non-SSD mini, before the change to SSD, I often had the experience you
mention. Since then, no. But likely the behavior is
On Jul 5, 2013, at 3:57 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
Gary/Owen -
Thanks for the quick response from both of you.
I forgot about Purge... it seemed like such a kludge I guess I dropped it
from my memory soon after learning about it.My analytic approach to some
things has
On Jul 5, 2013, at 4:26 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
I have a copy of W7 to put on my PBpro and am sorting out how to manage that
now... Fusion, Parallels, WINE, BootCamp? Sounds like you are happy with
Fusion?
I've been happy with Fusion since v2 (I'm at 5 now, and have paid
What I don't understand is why Snowden went public using his real identity. Why
not just be the Deep Throat of the intelligence community? Surely he could
have divulged just enough to whet the appetite of the some select journalists
without being the only one to have access to the information,
I'm starting to do a bit of dabbling in mobile development, and have been
looking at PhoneGap, which uses HTML/CSS/JavaScript. To get an idea how
performant JavaScript is, I looked for a JS web app that would be processor
intensive. I found a web app that does ray tracing directly in JavaScript
Proprietary Code (PC :-) has a place if people are willing to put up with it,
but then most people don't realize there are alternatives. That old Freedom vs.
Security thing seems apropos here. Many people are quite willing to put up with
a little less freedom for a little more security. I'm not
Regardless of the wisdom of their choices for software stack, I'm really
impressed to see a government agency using open source, and moreover,
publishing it. I guess I won't hold my breath for NSA to publish their
algorithms on GitHub, though...
Gary
On Oct 4, 2013, at 7:06 PM, Russell
Wow, obviously not one of the Good Parts that Crockford refers to:-)
Gary
On Oct 5, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
This series on numerics is both useful and entertaining! Believe it or not,
JS has +/- 0.
http://www.2ality.com/2012/03/signedzero.html
It may
Wow, that’s cool. It’s a shame that so much software will never see the light
of day. Many billions of dollars were spent developing software in the 80s for
the DOD as well as Soviet agencies. I’ve heard it argued that the USSR lost the
cold war mainly because the USA made them spend so much on
I jumped on board too, and have been happy. Since my hard drive was less than
half full, I first created a new partition and installed Mavericks on it. Once
I had convinced myself I liked it, I copied data and applications from the old
partition to the new, leaving behind whatever cruft I felt
It’s been quite a while since I’ve used Snow Leopard, but under later OS X
incantations, it’s under the Apple menu. A quick Google search shows that you
need to be updated to 10.6.6 or later in order to have the App Store (I’m
assuming you can update to 10.6.6 from an earlier 10.6 version by
This is for me, almost too funny. I actually worked with Marcial Losada back in
1986-1987. He was a psychologist in the AI RD group I was in. This is the
first I had heard of him since then. I hope most of my other colleagues from
over the years have fared better.
Gary
On Oct 31, 2013, at
Whose writing is not colored by their cultural biases? I didn't find it to be
so slanted that I'd consider it to be “tainted, but maybe that's my own
cultural bias in play. It seemed pretty reasonable to me. But then, I haven't
read the book itself.
Gary
On Nov 9, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Parks,
If you send it to me, I’ll gladly tell you that you shouldn’t bother your
pretty little head about it.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist!
:-)
Gary
On Nov 18, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Nick Thompson nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Could anybody translate Owen’s message into ordinary language? Or
I think Steve’s suggestions were spot on. Additionally, instead of asking the
metaquestion (where do you go to ask said question) on this list, why not just
ask the question itself? That is, say a little about what you are thinking for
a career goal, and let us chime in.
Gary
On Nov 21, 2013,
Or, there in the land of eternal sunshine, there is nearly always solar
(daylight hours of course).
On Nov 26, 2013, at 7:48 PM, glen e. p. ropella g...@tempusdictum.com wrote:
A (small) generator is useful, too.
http://powerequipment.honda.com/generators/models/eu2000i
When your UPS
On Nov 29, 2013, at 10:04 AM, glen g...@ropella.name wrote:
I will give those who want to vilify Manning and Snowden
Just to be clear. I support both of them. I think their leaks have made the
world a better place. My own comments about whether or not _I_ would trust
Snowden should
Interesting, but sounds pretty boring. Probably more useful for studying how
our minds work than for as a practical tool for remembering passwords.
My preference lately is the “password vault” solution of LastPass, 1Password,
etc. I’d rather remember one really obscure phrase or made-up word
More to the point, our brains are too small and our years too few to fill with
mindless drivel. Better to use them writing poetry, creating a better world, or
even reading and writing FRIAM posts :-)
On Dec 4, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
My brain is too small.
guys
too, I guess. And depends on the apple ecology which I find too incomplete
compared with google.
-- Owen
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Gary Schiltz g...@naturesvisualarts.com
wrote:
More to the point, our brains are too small and our years too few to fill
with mindless
Here’s a new slogan off the top of my head: “If it isn’t virtual, it isn’t
real.” :-)
I use VMWare Fusion on my MacBook Pro, although I’ve generally been impressed
with VirtualBox (the price is certainly right).
Lately, I’ve been using a VM within a VM. I need to maintain an app on some
It sure would be a lot simpler if everyone (employers and employees alike)
simply had to pay into a single plan, like most of the developed world. But,
we’re the USA, and we know better :-)
On Dec 6, 2013, at 12:39 PM, glen e. p. ropella g...@tempusdictum.com wrote:
However, sometimes the
I especially give them the right to “publicly perform” something I say when I
am discussing inserting things, especially when it refers to places that don’t
receive a lot of solar radiation. They are very welcome to perform such things
in public.
Gary
On Dec 13, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Nick
IMHO (and I’m sure Steve was not trying to equate them), there is a huge
difference in the importance of what “real” police officers do and whoever is
enforcing arcane laws about copyrighted material. I’ve only been out of the USA
for a bit over five years now, and I find that my “new normal”
I’m so ambivalent about this and MOO in general. From the standpoint of
learning, it offers many advantages, including training many more people who
don’t have the resources to attend a college or university (notice I said
training, not educating). From a social standpoint, there are so many
You obviously have no future in politics, my friend (nor do most of us here,
I’m proud to say).
:-)
On Jan 26, 2014, at 6:16 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Well, if you were to read the content of the thread, it reminds me of an
occasional theme that also occurs here. It's
On Feb 17, 2014, at 9:39 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
On 2/17/14 10:39 AM, Parks, Raymond wrote:
What I think I'm hearing from Glen is that while it's nice to use
power-planers and router tables to shape wood, one should know how to use
the right type of hand-plane, chisels, and
While we’re on this subject, I wonder how much regional difference there is in
how differently “b” and “v” are pronounced in Spanish-speaking countries. Here
in Ecuador, at least the campesinos (less educated country folks) pronounce
them identically. For that reason, I very commonly see the
Knowing the limits of one’s own knowledge is an admirable trait, i.e. the more
you know, the more you realize how much you don’t know. What really gripes me
are people who seem to get some kind of perverse pleasure in their own
ignorance. “Oh, that’s way too complex for me to understand” is not
As one of the deserters myself, I really don’t have the right to comment, but
NM was a special place for me for the 9 years I was there (1999-2008). It
certainly wasn’t easy (5 jobs over 9 years), but in retrospect, it was worth
it. I admire those of you who are hanging in there and pulling on
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