Top 10 Reasons Why Life is Infinitely Better Reading Books
…and not watching movies. (This is in reference to non-fiction books, btw — and quality reads, not crap).
Movies leave you under a spell; an illusory haze so you cannot see. Books give control of the haze others are under.
Movies manufacture illusion without you knowing it, while books allow you to choose experience illusion, without decoupling [...]
I am not you, and you are not me — Transcending the Limitation of “Universal One”
I am not you, and you are not me. That is the way things are. I like that. As you ponder that, let me explain to you why I find tremendous value in that distinction.
Distinctions create boundaries. Without distinctions, everything would be porous and absorbing this information or that information would generate confusion. But that [...]
SEO: Google God, Yahoo Yogi, and Live Leader
Thank the Google God, the Yahoo Yogi, and the Live Leader that this site exists.
It’s truly awesome and has answered many of my SEO questions.
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Chess Notes and Openings
General Chess Strategy Guidelines
Useful Jargon~”Bishop pair”= You possess two bishops and your opponent does not.Cliffs NotesDetailed GuidelinesAnywhere1. Calculate the value of each piece for you and your style of play. If you use a lot of back-rank mating combinations frequently, for example, a rook might be worth 5.75 or 6 to you. [...]
Tuesday News Blip: Phoenix Lander!
Astronomy: The Phoenix craft of the “Mars Scout Program” to mars is a $475 million mission to launch and land the Phoenix spacecraft on the surface of Mars and explore it. When you consider the massive undertaking of such a project, NASA’s slim budget of $475 million is extremely frugal, pennies really, but [...]
Science: The journal of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Science: The journal of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion just announced a possible breakthrough for astronauts enduring long-distance space travel. The earth is protected from meteorites, high velocity cosmic rays, and other space debris from its surrounding “magnetosphere”. Cutting edge physicists aim to simulate this magnetosphere around a space craft. Scientists [...]
Tuesday News Blip: Crappy News, Genetic Mutations, and Greenhouse Auspiciousness
Legal Crap and Frightening News: There’s a lot of lame crap going on in the legal world. The attorney general of California sued three small trucking companies for violating labors to avoid paying payroll taxes. Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was convicted on 7 counts of corruption and should serve 5 years for each [...]
News Blip: Marathon, Apple Tech, and Felines
Athletics: Roger Bannister, born almost 80 years ago, in 1929, was the first human ever to run a mile in under four-minutes. He accomplished this amazing feat in 1954 during a track meet in Oxford, UK. The winds were high at first, died down, Bannister ran, and when the announcer announced his time of “3…” [...]
POP Suite Part 5: Email Organization
Welcome back to the Productivity and Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Today we’re talking about Email Organization.
Here’s my two cents on email productivity.
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Tuesday News Blip
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Transportation: Interestingly enough, local Californians and many other commuters have grown a liking to the public transportation method of commuting they adopted to deal with outrageous gas prices not too long ago. Now that gas prices have dropped, many commuters still prefer the public transportation method. Hey, better for the [...]
PBS "How A Computer Works" (Circa 1990)
As a closer note…here’s the best collection of old school cheesy computer nerds possible ever created: I think keywords for this vid are “pascal” and “floppy disk” serve as a blurb.
This also serves as a testament to how outrageously lax television production rights were back in the 90s. haha! But that blonde nerd [...]
Bill Gates’s Last Day and Vision of Apple and Microsoft
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Very impressed with the diverse collaboration of so many well known people for this humorous anecdote of Billy boy’s last day. Also, it’s always amusing and cool to see so many well-known people [...]
The Woz
Woz. He’s so brilliant. But he just appears so gypped in the business world. Trampled on by cutthroat business sharks. But ironically he’s the smartest person with apple. The mind behind the first apple computer.
Jobs definitely always pushed the sales. Woz is just a curious. He just [...]
eReader Thumbs Down
Just a recent update on eReader. So far this app has crashed multiple times and failed to download the book on my electronic bookshelf. With signing up for an annoying web-based account, the vexing crashes, and the books that never download, don’t get the eReader app; it’s just way too bug-infested, cumbersome, and [...]
