tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69529162011-04-21T16:41:52.594-07:00An occasional sputtering of literary output, rants and opinion. L.A. Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03397698285891246679noreply@blogger.comBlogger331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6952916.post-1138934298850402722006-02-02T18:38:00.000-08:002006-02-02T18:38:18.883-08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Your fundamental mouth, originally uploaded by Tatiana Cardeal. "Your Mouth, FundamentalAgainst Fundamentalism" One of the things I really appreciate about flickr is that it brings me into contact with very

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The redoubtable James Wolcott utterly demolishes one of the interns at the American Specter. It would be funny. Except that we know that another one of these skanky wingnuts will be along shortly to dish out more noxious idiocy. The tactic is fairly clear, to have disposable cannon fodder (does Fumento sound like a real name?) post personal attacks on the more effective progressive bloggers to

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Last year I made several predctions that now seem ridiculously waggish. But a few ideas were pretty close. I've got a feeling that 2006 will be a big year, and here are some of the reasons why: A Mt View startup is going to open our eyes to some new ways that secure inferencing can influence culture. The Economist will pick up on this and run several cover stories on the founders. Sergey

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } A Great Day to be a Penguin, originally uploaded by Aleutian Fox. Pictures like this make it hard not to anthropomorphise other animals. Do we recognize similar emotions in our fellow beings, or are we just

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } View across Hemel Hempstead Galley Hill, originally uploaded by completeoutdoors. Somehow flickr has become one of the places that I find out about news from the rest of the world. This picture is the

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } _21_0057, originally uploaded by semeur. Some call it the Railroad to the Stars, some the greatest Engineering Folly ever attempted. But there is no question that someone will attempt to build the Space

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We Make Money Not Art has a post up about a guy at Simon Frazer university who is building aggressive, cooperative autonomous robots that can learn to demand electricity from their "Mothers" and are designed to collaborate on tasks requiring planning...what could possibly go wrong.?It sounds too much like the set up for a cheesoid Robots-Run-Amok scifi flick to be for real. And yet, if I had

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } truckish reflectus, originally uploaded by pine red. to take a moment of ordinary evrydayness from a solitary viewpoint, and transmute it into an artifact that allows others to experience the miraculous

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Baby's First Thought, originally uploaded by CLASSYCLAWS. Yeah, all these poseurs are going around telling everyone they were punk rock back in the day. So you were lippy in junior high, so what? I was punk

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The Forests of the Pacific Northwest are temperate rainforests, but that doesn't tell you anything. The Oregon Forests are giant sponges, made to absorb water until it's dripping off everything, wetter than straight liquid would be, poised between solid organic matter and dissolved mulch floating in a halflit world between the forest canopy and the slightly denser ground. Does that tell you

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Reasonable people can disagree about the conduct of the war, but it is irresponsible for Democrats to now claim that we misled them and the American people. Leaders in my administration and members of the United States Congress from both political parties looked at the same intelligence on Iraq, and reached the same conclusion: Saddam Hussein was a threat.--George W. BushThe leader of the nation

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In a just world, Bill O'Reilly would right now be prepping himself for an interview, not with yet another blow-dried television personality, but with a pair of serious no nonsense FBI agents whose first question would be along the lines of "Mr. O'Reilly, would you agree that advocating terrorist acts against United States citizens on american soil is a crime?". And who would delve deeply into the

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If there is a world mind in the sense of a recognizable epiphenomena of millions of primates messaging each other on the shiny new networks they've just grown, it's just barely coming in to existence. By world mind, I mean something both less and more than Teilhard De Chardin's concept of the Noosphere, think of the sum total of all the thoughts and actions taking place in the biome that clings

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with apologies to The ClashIn the Streets of BrixtonThey rob you to buy crackThey Hide it in your GardenThinking they'll be back.Never thinking of the rodentsfeeding on their stashYou can chase, them, you can shoot thembut you'll have to answer to,Whooah Ho, Squirrels of Brixtoninspired by thisAnd I can just hear the bass line now.

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I read this post in the Australian about the correlation between religiosity and crime, STD's and other indicators of societal dysfunction; and was both intrigued and appalled. Intrigued because it matched a suspicion I have long held about religion being an indicator of social illhealth, appalled because, at least as presented in the article the drawing of conclusions was shoddy science. Mostly

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This is one of those predictable, and yet shameful outcomes of war. Yes we know there is war porn, and that there will always be some people who find that sort of thing stimulating, and the fact that there was a certain amount of public outrage generated by the torture pornography of Abu Ghraib shows that there is some hope left, but the veneer of civilization is showing it's wear and tear,

L.A. Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03397698285891246679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6952916.post-1126566501784922572005-09-12T16:08:00.000-07:002005-09-12T16:08:21.803-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 2 egrets in swamp w/ hill, originally uploaded by L. A. Price. A Friend asked me to explain how thisis Bush's doing.The euthanasia of patients who could not be evacuated is an act that will weigh heavily on

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Since there does not appear to be anything rational or even sane about american politics, it seems likely that the many people who are not even remotely qualified will be contending for the 2008 democratic candidate slot.In the spirit of getting way out ahead of most mainstream political pundits, let me offer this thought for the consideration of the panjandrums of the DLC (the L is silent); run

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Our Glorious Leader has given us a new reason to stay in Iraq. I laughed with disbelief when I saw this. I stopped laughing when I realised he was most likely serious, and expected this to become the new 'official line'.How did we elect this clown to any position that carries more responsibility than hall monitor? Oh right.

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Bruce Sterlingwrites about his visit to Singapore and mentions in passing the contrast between the competent technocracy of the City Of Lions and the squalidly self-justifying incompetence of our own in relation to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.Bruce's novels Heavy Weather and Distraction foretold the social backdrop of the drowning of New Orleans. The omnivorous network, the certain

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lights in the dusk, originally uploaded by L. A. Price. The drowning of New Orleans feels like yet another turning point of history. Where 9/11 was a convulsive wakeup call of our vulnerability, the

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Buzzards are beautiful., originally uploaded by L. A. Price. For anyone living in Eugene for any length of time Spencer's Butte is one of those sights that becomes so familiar as to be invisible. It makes a

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I recently came across this essay on Theory and it gave me an instant flashback to my junior and senior years of college, where I was trying hard to be the Alpha-Theorist of my peer group even as I began to question the unstated premises that gave 'Theory' it's vitality. The ascendance of theory in academia can be described either as a language game in which the aim is to out-obfuscate one's

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } leaves lit by the setting sun, originally uploaded by L. A. Price. Went hiking on mount Pisgah the other day, lovely day, saw various wildlife and civil life (other people).There's something about an urban

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Hashbow, originally uploaded by L. A. Price. So I had an idea this afternoon, about making visually distinct representations of files based on their sha-1 hashesIt took me about 20 minutes of fooling around

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sun Flare, clouds and Spencers Butte, originally uploaded by L. A. Price. For some reason this has been one of my most popular photos ever. It's good, but I don't think it's anywhere near the best...

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Unreflected Hawk, originally uploaded by L. A. Price. Went out to Dorena Lake this weekend and took pictures of covered bridges and the lake and such.While walking out on the dam, we saw these hawks flying

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } cat_warhol, originally uploaded by L. A. Price. I think flickr may have a bug, I just uploaded this and there are two copies, to make it even more fun, it's a screen grab of last nights exercise in computer

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I've been using temporary operating systems for a few days, while I am in the process of updating my X server. After getting annoyed with Knoppix KDE desktop, I went ahead and fired up bittorrent and aimed it at Gnoppix. After an afternoon's using it, I am heavily impressed. It's smooth, and easy, desktop linux is here folks, and it works nicely. Comes with a full set of of user tools and a fine

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Well, the new year has already gotten a kickstart, with a call out to the colocation facility even before it was fully underway. I guess it's nice to be needed.

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Herewith my resolutions for the new year. quit smoking post more often do more than 50,000 USD in business accept myself take lots of great photos and post them All of these goals are achievable.

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In the DreamTime before we began capturing the world in little spots of ink and light and magnetic spin and making it all flat, sterile and contained; we used to imagine totem animals to help us remember the virtues we needed to enact and the pitfalls we needed to avoid. Today we must find substitutes in media figures. To some extent much of pop culture is the redirection of the energies that

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After a morning engaged in the tedious trivium of business, I spent fifteen minutes cleaning the apartment to a burst of 80's music, OH Yeah! And now I'm putting on my sunglasses and I'm headed out to enjoy a sunny afternoon in Eugene. Mood of the day is Subversive Optimism. Yes the news is horrid, and people are mean; but there is hope. H A V E A N I C E D A Y

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