Used to be an NPR junkie until we invaded Iraq.

Now I can't listen and enjoy it because it doesn't even seem like news any more.

blah blew up blah .... this is news? It's news when that doesn't happen. Read more »

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What if Humans Could Process Like Computers ?

If computers can't handle the object graph, then humans can't handle the data sets and dynamic object graphs. Over-generalization on both parts, but largely true. Read more »

This is a conceptual what if, please dismiss this immediately as even being remotely possible.

But I did it myself for a month, and it was more fun than at least 1 1/2 barrels of monkeys.

Just sat down with a fresh page of paper in my little notebook and wrote out six impossible things, and tried to believe each of them at least for a nanosecond or two. Read more »

What if Computers Could Process Like Humans ? Forget that, just get them up to the lizard level.

Computers are the dumbest of the dumb, so let's really talk about software. What if we could write software that processed as well as even the dumbest animals, even sometimes plants.

To Be Specific:

To be specific what makes software insanely incapable, at least compared to humans or even lizards, is that it constantly has to be taught a very specific "object graph". Humans, even lizards, just kind of "get" the object graph. Read more »

What if dumb meant smart?

This is not a hypothetical in my particular case, I've been mis-using the word "dumb" and "stupid" as slang for the last 20+ years. Read more »

From the comic movie Mars Attacks: "Can't we all just get along?"

Right after the guy poses the question, he gets massacred, as if to make the question seem humorous.

What follows in this blog is a personal lament.

Some of my best friends call themselves conservatives.

The feeling isn't mutual. I mean, they wouldn't call me a best freind, sometimes not even a friend.  Just some buddy from work.

I may never be a friend to them, because I am "Bad People" Read more »

It's been almost 5 years now since I started taking an apartment within walking distance of my current contract.

Started on a fluke, I "lived" 50 miles from my contract so I just spent my commuting money on a second place to live, in this case an apartment next to the office building where I worked. In many ways it was like heaven, I drove there late Sunday night, worked the following schedule and then spent a very long weekend in my real home. Read more »