May, 22, 2005 archives

if you have (or can get your hands on) those cool red/blue 3d glasses, you can enjoy the stereo photography at ari3d.com. it includes shots of things in and around los angeles, like library tower and the new caltrans building.

shadow of the hegemon by orson scott card is where the shark gets jumped, i think. but it is still a quite good book.

bean, our lead character and child military genius, goes on a bit about how he organizes his small army so that each platoon (and other level of organization) can operate independently — usually with full information, but that is so that they can have the confidence to act when they have incomplete information. later he talks about how he has learned to trust his instincts when something is wrong. the parallel between those two ideas is never made explicit in the book, but i think they really are two facets of the same idea.

and it brought me back to on intelligence and the notion of hierarchical memory and how the neocortex works (or may work). maybe a lesson to draw is to trust, and train, your instincts.

i broke my bed this weekend.

now i need to decide whether to try to fix the frame (a board broke), replace it with a similar frame, or get an all-new bed.

safari rss is sort of nifty, and i’ve been using it for my del.icio.us inbox and sploid.

one feature i really wish it had was some sort of visual indication of which items are the new ones.

in a posting about a comic strip by charles schultz featuring adults characters, mark frauenfelder wrote that peanuts never showed grown-ups, which i knew to be false thanks to the fantastic complete peanuts books.

i forgot to mention that the reason i ever got the books to know this is when mark blogged about the complete peanuts books last year.

in fact, i just ordered li’l beginnings after seeing that in the archives to dig up the other posting.

i got a new pair of shoes today, and the first pair i tried on shared a trait with the last pair i bought, with the right shoe being too tight. i found a pair of nike shoes that fit better, but i decided to measure my feet. it turns out my right foot is nearly ½" wider than my left.

so i guess that sideshow freak is now a career path that is open to me.