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Monthly Archive for July, 2007
Sun
Jul
29
2007
Doc and his fox 0 cmts
Every time I see Doc around the Center, he’s wearing that same damn shirt. Happy birthday, old man. You still rock. As a young’n, I’ll follow the rules.
Joho the Blog: Older than Lennon 0 cmts
I know what the path to old age is supposed to be: You’re young, you marry, you work, you retire, you become small, cute, and certain, and you die. But [...] here I am, hanging out on the Internet where no one knows you’re an old dog, and where the pace on the treadmill has been turned up from cane-assisted to massively multiplayer intellectual marathon. The simple journey we’re supposed to take, one of ascent and descent, has been disrupted
"Older than Lennon" by David Weinberger in Joho: The Blog
Fri
Jul
27
2007
Tell everyone you know that you’ve quit 3 cmts
It is apparently an essential part of, say, quitting smoking. You announce to the world that you’re doing it, then the world supports you or, at least, you’re encouraged to follow through with it because otherwise you’re gonna feel really stupid in front of the world.
So here goes, *I’m going to run a 5K*. It’s a simple goal, its not an incredibly difficult goal, it is a good first-step to getting healthier and getting back into doing regular physical activity and losing some weight.
And I have the advantage that I’m following the Couch to 5K Running Plan, which is a gradual 9 week program, and I’ve already completed week 4. Oh, and this guy called Robert Ullrey made a great podcast that makes it that much easier to follow the program.
Perhaps its the frantic pace of the last couple weeks, perhaps its the travel to Chicago, or the heat, or maybe its just knowing that week 5 is where things really start getting harder, but for some reason I’ve started doing what I’d managed to avoid for the entire last month: putting off my runs.
!=/files/2007/07/run_week4_supp.png(Week 4 Supplemental Run Graph)!
So here it is, world. I’m going to run a 5K. I’m going to be in shape to do it five weeks from today. Because I’m going to finish this damn program. And now that I’ve announced it to the world, my only goal is to avoid looking stupid. 
Explosion at Scaled kills 3 0 cmts
An explosion at Scaled Composites in Mojave yesterday killed three and injured three. They were testing a propellant system for SpaceShipTwo at the time of the blast.
Thu
Jul
26
2007
Dying for Lifesaving Drugs 0 cmts
_Reason_’s highly ambivalent article about access by ineligible patients to potentially life-saving medical drug trials only scratches the surface of what is obviously an incredibly complex problem that needs some serious and considered debate.
Dispatches From the Hyperlocal Future 0 cmts
Bruce Sterling’s fictional future from last month’s _Wired_, “Dispatches From the Hyperlocal Future,” is pretty interesting in its explorations of a world full to brimming with location-aware network-connected devices. The read, though, is really confusing and seems utterly out of order. I figured out by the time I got through it that the best way to read it is to jump down to the July 10, 2017 entry, read from there to the bottom, then go to the top and keep reading. The dates don’t seem to line up but the connected narrative makes a lot more sense and seems to be in order. I don’t know if it is a structure problem or an editing mistake or what, but something is wonky about the entries as presented.
Wed
Jul
25
2007
Aaron talks about attending deaf church services 0 cmts
Aaron talks about attending deaf church services as part of his ASL training. Interesting look at something many of us will never see. When I was in high school I really wanted to learn ASL…
Sat
Jul
21
2007
Music in the air 0 cmts
I’m sitting here in Chicago’s Millennium Park listening to a free Leonard Bernstein concert. The venue is marvelous, the music is good, the weather is beautiful. And I’ve got Skype open and an audio call connected and I’m sharing the music I’m hearing in Chicago with Aaron in California using my cell phone’s EV-DO data plan over my Bluetooth connection. That’s pretty neat.
Fri
Jul
20
2007
A few datum points 0 cmts
A few datum points: “The word data is the plural of Latin datum, ’something given,’ but it is not always treated as a plural noun in English. The plural usage is still common, as this headline from the _New York Times_ attests: ‘Data Are Elusive on the Homeless.’ Sometimes scientists think of data as plural, as in _These data do not support the conclusions_. But more often scientists and researchers think of data as a singular mass entity like information, and most people now follow this in general usage. Sixty percent of the Usage Panel accepts the use of data with a singular verb and pronoun in the sentence _Once the data is in, we can begin to analyze it_. A still larger number, 77 percent, accepts the sentence _We have very little data on the efficacy of such programs_, where the quantifier very little, which is not used with similar plural nouns such as facts and results, implies that data here is indeed singular.”
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