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Deadly Force Policy

If you are carrying a gun in an international airport you had best be able tell Hispanics from Arabs without stopping to consult a training manual.

Koko the Gorilla

http://koko.org/world/
Koko has a tested IQ of between 70 and 95 on a human scale, where 100 is considered “normal.”

Eater of Futures

In tens of thousands of years, plate tectonics will have turned the entire face of the planet under, and some new species will walk in the world. We will likely be reduced to an archetype – the Eater of Futures, perhaps? The best we can hope for is that when we become a vague racial […]

Log Jam

Ever since I started my first web page back in 1995, I have been fascinated with the server logfiles. Laughing Squid provides access to my logs through the Plesk interface, so I get to scan them occasionally. It’s good for a laugh. Huh? She laughs over server logs? What a geekess! Well, duh! They’re, like, […]

Linear vs. Global

Manipulate the grey areas so that they seem to support your point of view.

On Madness and Identity

“I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity?” — William Saroyan (American writer, 1908-1981)

Why didn’t I think of this?

And in the “Why didn’t I think of this?” category: UPS CIO: Driving cost savings by eliminating left-hand turns | CNET News.com

No, It’s Not!

“‘E’s kicked the bucket, ‘e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain, and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PRINTER!”

My Politics, Apparently

You are a Social Liberal (76% permissive)and an… Economic Liberal (23% permissive)You are best described as a: Strong Democrat Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid Free Online DatingAlso: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test I resent being called a Democrat. I have a backbone, which is more than I can say about the post-9-11 Democratic party.

Extrapolated Salary

I graphed my salary from the Social Security Statement this morning. After diagnosis and meds, my salary increase faltered and I began to have steep drops in salary, usually corresponding to a period of unemployment, every three years. Just for giggles I’ve uploaded a gif of the graph. I let Excel do a logarithmic extrapolation […]

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