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[Jul. 11th, 2009|12:59 pm] |
okay i am a slowpoke was re: image
on another note, it's fucking egregious when websites have embedded video that has a commercial that precedes the content.
fuck you, advertisers.
go to hell and you fucking die. |
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[Jul. 8th, 2009|10:44 pm] |
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I do not believe I shall ever understand the fascination females have for G.G. Allin. |
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[Jul. 8th, 2009|09:09 pm] |
Last night I finished reading Consider Phlebas again and appreciated it a bit more than the first time. September 2007 I sped through it wanting to read it for the sake of reading it which only detracted from the story.
Now I know why I like Bora Horza Gobuchul as character rather than closing the book and thinking "There's something about him." Also I kept imagining it being made into a film or miniseries. |
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| http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0455 |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|07:22 pm] |
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"In the late sixties the Canadian psychologist Laurence J. Peter advanced the apparently paradoxical principle, named since then after him, which can be summarized as follows: "Every new member in a hierarchical organization climbs the hierarchy until he/she reaches his/her level of maximum incompetence". Despite its apparent unreasonableness, such a principle would realistically act in any organization where the way of promotion rewards the best members and where the competence at their new level in the hierarchical structure does not depend on the competence they had at the previous level, usually because the tasks of the levels are very different between each other. Here we show, by means of agent based simulations, that if the latter two features actually hold in a given model of an organization with a hierarchical structure, then not only the "Peter principle" is unavoidable, but it yields in turn a significant reduction of the global efficiency of the organization. Within a game theory-like approach, we explore different promotion strategies and we find, counter intuitively, that in order to avoid such an effect the best ways for improving the efficiency of a given organization are either to promote each time an agent at random or to promote randomly the best and the worst members in terms of competence." |
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[Jul. 6th, 2009|07:09 pm] |
So Barack Obama is sitting in his office, mulling over his first hundred days when he realizes the stimulus money isn't doing the job it's supposed to do which is ensure liquidity so the economy can right itself. Our august leader is grumbling over the fact that after a particularly profitable quarter on Wall Street things are beginning to collapse again and his mantra of "Things will get worse before they get better" is beginning to fall flat as citizens continue to believe things aren't going to be getting better anytime soon.
What does he do? The news focuses away from the economy in the same measure it focused on George W. Bush's vendetta war against former CIA operative Saddam Hussein. All of a sudden celebrities are the biggest and bestest story in the land. Still the sun is not shining brightly upon the Republic and those clouds are just growing darker and darker with each passing day. Obama has Michael Jackson killed.
Media outlets shit themselves, self-important celebrities provide sound bites which are easier to swallow than unemployment figures, people are legitimately besides themselves with grief over a reclusive human being of indeterminate race, sexuality and other societal constructs who maintained a questionable lifestyle rather than accepting the reality of failing economies with the ensuing famine, pestilence, death and the other one.
Yes, I am batshit insane. |
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| good heavens |
[Jul. 5th, 2009|12:06 am] |
Being all keyed up from physical activity has spurred what little remains of my thinker forcing me to write up a storm.
Okay Mr. Capote I typed, not wrote, up a storm. Accept my humble apologies.
Long story short (too late!) Monday's edition of heptapod.org will be of the rip-snortingly offensive variety and I can not wait for 8 p.m. MDT on Sunday to roll around so I may upload it to my website.
Excelsior, gentle reader!
raisinbottom |
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[Jul. 4th, 2009|11:06 pm] |
42 km on Saturday night. Maxed out doing a little over 60 kph.
Kilometers make it sound more impressive.
Not too shabby for a fat old man who hasn't exercised in more than six months and walking around with unattended muscle and joint injuries from a hectic tire change one recent February morning. |
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[Jun. 28th, 2009|01:43 pm] |
"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."
- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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[Jun. 28th, 2009|01:35 pm] |
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Right now I don't believe that America will ever hit bottom. Instead things will continue to get worse and worse until balkanization, interstate wars and then the arrival of peacekeeping forces on our shores. |
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| wow |
[Jun. 27th, 2009|12:12 pm] |
The WWE put out a Randy Savage DVD.
I guess the rumors were untrue that he didn't deflower Stephanie McMahon.
Dude. |
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[Jun. 26th, 2009|07:24 pm] |
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So sad and ronery, have to play L4D with strangers. Black guys on XBox Live are hilarious. |
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[Jun. 26th, 2009|05:08 pm] |
Thunderstorm hit Colorado Springs around 2:30 p.m..
Power went out shortly afterwards and it's not back on.
Funny thing is that my employer is the only one without power. The street lights a block away were in working order and the liquor store two blocks away had its lit beer signs.
My employer is most likely riddled with incompetence.
Even sadder, one of the women who works for the property but not for the company was having a hysterical fit that she wasn't able to get fresh water. So one of the girls in my office turned on the sink showing the issue was only with the electricity.
Golly, everyone was acting like we were in a pocket of an apocalypse. |
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[Jun. 21st, 2009|07:55 pm] |
lleahlove tells me that I'm intelligent and the only reason why I haven't made the world my subject is my lack of self-confidence. She's probably the only person I know who says that I'm smart and actually means it.
I do not want to hear anything about raddidge nor receive any questions regarding raddidge at this juncture of my life. I wish her the best in her future endeavors.
Right now I need perspective regarding life and my job. Last week I got a bit too involved with my crappy day job, ended up bringing it home and basically being miserable. Also a hiccup regarding The Situation exascerbated my mood leaving me feeling alone and without any recourse for maintaining control in my life.
Eventually I'll get around to writing about last week but don't fucking rush me. I'll only resent you for it. |
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[Jun. 21st, 2009|05:12 pm] |
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[Jun. 19th, 2009|11:44 pm] |
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I am disappointed with the choice I made back in November. Our President is a celebrity not a politician. Sadly I have no idea who is Cheney to Obama's GWB. |
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[Jun. 19th, 2009|02:29 pm] |
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William Shatner could not be Jewish with all that hammy acting. |
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