Einsteinification (n): deifying a great performer or master of a field into a simile/icon while near-ignoring the actual person
You can try but your personal firing patterns will be mostly illegible to anyone else’s brain. Perfect end-to-end DRM will be solved then.
Afterwards, it’s sent back with fresh memories. Repeat for a while, and a shared personality should emerge, something that is both of you.
“Great power comes at great cost” - like being the equivalent of a leper.↵↵Children aren’t considered persons until they’ve consumed flesh:
Wanted criminals and dissidents turn in their entire personalities, keep only one memory. The location of the loot, the smile of a loved one
^ Be like this guy, be a bore. ^↵Last person to find one made it a kaleidoscope. Created at least twelve infinities. Oh god the paperwork.
Get yourself an alternate personality to store your passwords in, triggered by the view of your login screen or your sigil hidden therein
everybody you’ve never seen in the same room together is actually the same person↵saves resources↵(also, you’re everybody you’ve never seen)
Annoying writer emotion: “Nah, I did that already”, even when maybe one other person would notice. It’s worse when you see the abstractions.
It’s done the same to sleeping persons but the screaming puts me off.
@kas@enotty.dk, @mian@miangraham.com twxt: The only social network where you’re welcomed personally.
New repository: aquilax/merki - Command line personal health tracker
Mind you he was a sweet person and very intelligent. But a dog. (You wouldn’t have been able to tell at a glance)
I have many stories of working with that person. We counted many of the super rich among our clients - super rich but not in money.
Good office slave manual
Yegor Bugayenko has a few tips—a short manual, per se—to help us be good office slaves.
Don’t Nag. No matter what is happening, you should never criticize your direct manager. The boss is always right. Everything else may be wrong — the situation, colleagues, suppliers, computers, the CEO, investors, the market, or the weather, but not the boss you directly report to. The word of this person is the law. The boss is the god. … ⌘ Read more
Disappointing
Pope Francis “thanked her for her courage” and told her to “stay strong”, Mr. Stavers said.
— BBC News
If this truly happened, it is disappointing. A person as charismatic as Pope Francis, who has been so politically careful, should have known better. She is a government employee, fulfilling an official task. She must abide the law, or simply le … ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading The Philosopher’s Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room by Patrick Grim
📚 Finished reading The Philosopher’s Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room by Patrick Grim
The joy of reading Hemingway
Recently, Kent had the misfortune of picking “ A Moveable Feast”, by Ernest Hemingway, for a school assignment. I know I am not the right person1 to judge anyone’s writing style, I am simply recollecting the comments Kent has made while reading the book.
So far, other than finding the book boring — mind it, he is barely 13 — he is puzzled at the use of French terms that he … ⌘ Read more
Hello world, or hello again!
This is the first post. It seems I have started writing occasionally again. I still conserve the old posts, from the previous weblog. Not sure many of them were worth of keeping, but I might browse through them and pick one or two to bring back here.
This time I will keep this simple. Well, as simple as a person with slight OCD can keep it. I promise, I think. This little site is generated by [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.c … ⌘ Read more
From today’s Barack’s email
News broke this morning that Senator Clinton made three separate loans to her campaign in the past 30 days —including one as recently as Monday.
These loans total more than $6.4 million, which combined with her previous personal loans, add up to at least $11.4 million she’s loaned her campaign since February.
A spokesman said she may continue to “loan the campaign additional money out of her jointly-held assets” —which include more than $100 million in … ⌘ Read more
John McCain on religion
John McCain on religion.
“I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles…personally, I prefer someone who I know who has a solid grounding in my faith…I think the number one issue people should make [in the] selection of the President of the United States is, ‘Will this person carry on in the Judeo Christian principled tradition that … ⌘ Read more
The truth is useless
On Digg, someone submitted, Jeb Bush, the truth is useless, to which a reader commented:
Digg - Jeb Bush: ‘The truth is useless’
[…] This is not just the Bushes, though. This is human nature. This sort of thing develops when you elevate yourself to stratospheric heights and start to believe your own hype. It happens to Ho … ⌘ Read more
The Chocolate Imbecile
I can’t get it out of mind. How a person can be so idiotic? The major of New Orleans, Ray Nagin said, among other things:
“Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it’s destroyed and put stress on this country”
[…]
“Surely he doesn’t approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses.”
[…]
“But sur … ⌘ Read more
Happy Birthday!
Today, a few years ago, a wonderful person –at least very wonderful to me– was born. A few years later I was lucky enough to meet her and become her husband.
Today Kim reaches a new milestone and it is with love that Kent I have to say: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! ⌘ Read more
I am still here
It has been a while since I came to talk. I am afraid this time I will not talk much either. Between work, family, a game (I used not to play any game at all. Now the whole family has been playing Toon Town for almost 5 months. Give it a try, it is addictive! :-) ) and a few personal projects I had had little time to come here and chatter. But I am still here, I will come back. I want to upgrade to the latest Wordpress, I want to change a few things around. Davi … ⌘ Read more
Shredder and Eggroll
Kent assumes the personality of a different cartoon character — or hero — every day. He seems to shuffle between Ninja Turtles, Batman, Danny Phantom, Robin (from “Teen Titans”), Jackie Chang and others. He has even been Spongebob Squarepants! Needless is to say we — Kim and I — are always the bad guys.
Today he decided he was a Ninja Turtle … ⌘ Read more
Why do they even bother?
State institutions have a different way of doing things. Different from Corporate America, that is. For example let’s say, hypothetically, that a position opens on certain department on a state institution. A person already working for the department, a person which everyone is happy with about the job being done – by the person, that is – applies for the position. Odds of that person getting the job are very high, right? I mean, it makes perfect sense.
Now, what do they do … ⌘ Read more
Just suppose
Suppose you have a friend, a friend like the whole meaning of the word friend “somebody who has a close personal relationship of mutual affection and trust with you.” It is the person you talk to when happy or when sad, when calm or stressed, when tired or rested. That person is your very good friend.
Now suppose that person wants a job that you think it is not appropriated. It is a job that might require more maturity than what you think your friend has. You do not think your friend is ready for i … ⌘ Read more
It is friday for me
Tomorrow I will not be going to work. There are personal matters I need to take care of. Weird that I started this entry talking about tomorrow, but sometimes I think tomorrow is always more important. That is, if there is a tomorrow…
Today was great. Work was all right. We — John, George, Gee, Yanyan and I — went for lunch out of Campus, since I needed to take a letter to the post office to get it postmarked and the whole gang decided to join me. We had a good time.
I meant to … ⌘ Read more