Surprise. I"m 31 percent conservative.
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Saturday, July 30, 2016
A writer kept a blog for ten years. Google deleted it. Why?
"I was very naive not to back-up my work and to think that what I was doing would be safe," Cooper said. It’s worth noting, as Fusion editor Ethan Chiel did in the aforementioned episode of Press Play, that the practice of storing information in "the cloud" is a nebulous one. "The ‘cloud’ is just someone else’s hard drive," he said"
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Water Parks Are Filthy Cesspools of Despair
#firstworldproblems I happened to ride my bicycle down 800 south to go to the office. #slidethecity has a slide on 800 south today in Orem. The people in line told me it was overpriced and they were almost three hours late. I couldn't see a clear path to the sidewalk, so I sort of walked my bike down the hill next to the slide then slowly coasted down the hill. Nobody said anything. At the bottom of the hill Mr. Security-Polo-shirt stepped into the road and said, "Did you not see the cones?" I replied, "I'm just going to work." Polo, threateningly: "Don't come back this way again!" It's like I was trying to enter the Green zone in Baghdad. The good news is that if you didn't buy a pass for $20, you can pay $45 today! I recommend renting a tube from UVU for $6.00 and going down the Provo river, just below the Deer Creek dam. Somewhere out there is a security guard posting on Facebook about that entitled jerk on the bike who threatened the lives of innocent slide riders.
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Friday, July 29, 2016
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Joey and I played Pax Pamir today. When we ran into Ezra later, I said, "Hey Joey, tell Ezra about Pax Pamir." Joey replied, "There's no way he's going down that rabbit hole."
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Thursday, July 28, 2016
Technical Communication (14th Edition)
Requiring my students to use a textbook that can only be rented for $53 feels wrong.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016
The Freud Files: How Freud Engineered His Own Myth
I think I need to spend more time self-mythologizing. It worked for Ben Franklin too.
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WIRED
"William Pannapacker, an English professor at Hope College in Michigan, once spent a year watching Herzog’s entire oeuvre. “I started, almost beyond my control, doing imitations of things Herzog would say, in my daily life, in the voice, out loud,” he says. “I started thinking in Herzogian ways, and I felt like I needed an outlet for that.” Pannapacker set up a Twitter account, #twertzog. (A representative sample: “I do not plan my tweets. Very often they come at me with a great vehemence. They are remorseless, like beasts of the jungle.”)"
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$1 Billion for Dollar Shave Club: Why Every Company Should Worry
So Dollar Shave Club sold for a billion dollars after five years. They had a great commercial and resold razors made by the Korean company Dorco. They only have 190 employees. Their original investors are getting a 20x return. Who in their right mind would have stuck their retirement in Dollar Shave Club five years ago? On the other hand, I know of at least three incidents where a visionary husband took the family's retirement, invested it, and lost everything. Remember when Apple stock was projected to keep experiencing continual growth? Now they've lost 15 percent in the last year as their sales have flattened. Everybody who wants an iPad has one, and the Android market is nibbling away at the edges of the iphone market. "[T]he internet, mass transportation and globalization destroy everything. If you do not believe this change is about brand, experience and disruption, know that you can buy razors directly from Dorco, presumably the same brands sold by Dollar Shave Club." Currently the same forces that created Dollar Shave Club are attempting to similarly "disrupt" the university. They come in waves, but keep failing. What puzzles me is why an organization full of very smart people isn't able to organize effectively to resist these influences or come up with viable alternatives. There are times when I suspect that the University is a big box designed to hold potential troublemakers and keep them from using their mutant abilities for good. When someone interviews some of these billionaires and asks them what their life goals are, they don't have much to offer. For every Elon Musk who announces his master plan to cool the planet, you get brilliant people like Marc Andreessen, who apparently want to keep riding successive economic booms until one day they wake up and their youth and midlife is gone, and the battery status indicator on their mortality is down to 15 percent. Or you have Tim Ferriss, insanely popular and interesting podcaster and author who announced in a recent Google talk that his goal is not to be just an effective piece on the chess board, but to be a chess player who is controlling the action by creating an invisible army of super effective learners. That sounds like every armchair academic Marxist, ever. Or to look at another example, Malcolm Gladwell's recent podcast, revisionist history, is starting to address structural social issues that have not been as foregrounded in his many books. What is the point of a billion dollars? I know someone who sold his successful restaurant and opened a chain of 146 restaurants. He is making a ****-ton of money. Every time I have run across him in public he has been on his phone. He has gained weight and looks like hell. Maybe he's really happy. I know that being underemployed makes people miserable. Having a secure job you enjoy is a gift, and almost a fluke at this point in history. Letting yourself stagnate within that security blanket is a curse.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
John Oliver - What Kind Of Human Animal Would Do This? - Episode - Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee by Jerry Seinfeld
There are some deep relationship truths in this episode.
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Monday, July 25, 2016
New photo by Mark Crane (Craniac)
Can anyone identify this plant that is used to cover trellises at Nielsen's Grove Park in Orem?
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5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win | MICHAEL MOORE
"You need to exit that bubble right now. You need to stop living in denial and face the truth which you know deep down is very, very real. Trying to soothe yourself with the facts – “77% of the electorate are women, people of color, young adults under 35 and Trump cant win a majority of any of them!” – or logic – “people aren’t going to vote for a buffoon or against their own best interests!” – is your brain’s way of trying to protect you from trauma. Like when you hear a loud noise on the street and you think, “oh, a tire just blew out,” or, “wow, who’s playing with firecrackers?” because you don’t want to think you just heard someone being shot with a gun."
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Sunday, July 24, 2016
Go and Bring Them In - Ensign Dec. 2006 - ensign
Happy pioneer day. James G. Willie's granddaughter was the mother of my Dad's mom, Helen Crane. According to http://ift.tt/Xb4IGt about 18 of my relatives were pioneers. I'm glad they made those sacrifices. http://ift.tt/2a2ffDM
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Saturday, July 23, 2016
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fast building prefab houses be built with economical lightweight building wall panels, View prefab houses, DAQUAN Product Details from Wuhan Daquan Energy Saving Board Co., Ltd. on Alibaba.com
Buy your next house for $5,000, shipped directly from China via Alibaba.
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Thursday, July 21, 2016
Writing Objectives Using Bloom's Taxonomy | The Center for Teaching and Learning | UNC Charlotte
Hello darkness, my old friend. Time to prepare objectives again
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Toast: Inside San Francisco's Controversial Bread Obsession
San Francisco's earnest, $4.00 toast.
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George Pullman: Digital Rhetoric
I just came across George Pullman's book "Digital Rhetoric" at the new book section of the Provo Library, then came across his online syllabus. I wish I had written this book and taught this class. Spring 2017, I think. "This is an immensely time-consuming and frustrating class. You need to be willing to spend hours and hours in front of a computer while everyone you know is doing more pleasant things like sleeping and having a life. "
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016
The Return of American Hunger
These are numbers from the government, not hunger activists. "The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines food security as "access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life,” and in 2006, the year before the housing market stumbled, the USDA estimated that fewer than 10.9 percent of American households were food insecure. By 2009, that figure had spiked to 14.7 percent. And now? As of 2014, the most recent year on record, 14 percent of all American households are not food secure. That’s approximately 17.4 million homes across the United States, populated with more than 48 million hungry people. By the time the USDA reports its 2016 figures in September 2017, new food-stamp restrictions could make that number higher."
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Monday, July 18, 2016
Friday, July 15, 2016
Utah Lake closed due to health concerns from large algal bloom
Utah lake is now officially toxic. I guess we'll go kayaking somewhere else.
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Watching the Attempted Turkish Coup Unfold on Twitter
Has anyone heard anything about the supposed coup in Turkey?
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Robertson Said He Had Vision of Trump Seated ‘At the Right Hand of the Lord’
It's no wonder that atheism is spreading like wildfire.
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Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What?
"Dada is often viewed as Western culture’s autoimmune response to the cancer of World War I, and that’s so. An aesthetic impulse, it sent antibodies into what was left of a ruined 19th-century moral system, and gave those antibodies names: antiwar, anti-empire, anticapitalism, anti-authority, anti-logic, antinormality. But before Dada there was already a force of healthy resistance in play, and it too had a name: Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven."
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
Xenakis Concret PH
My wife has to write five pages about this Xenakis composition.
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Top 10 list to live for me: Chile, Argentina, Finland, Falkland Islands (UK), Brazil, United...
With the possible exception of Canada, most of these are pretty appealing.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Duplicate Detective - Find and Delete Duplicate Files on the Mac App Store
I just cleared 2 GB using Duplicate Detective for Mac. Check it out here:
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Added to Wish List: 'Damn Near Kilt 'Em Men's Tactical Kilt Medium-Large Black' by Damn Near Kilt 'E
I don't think I have the legs to pull this off, but my 50th birthday is coming up soon.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
My Vocabulary Size is about: 【30500】! What about you?
My only goal was to beat C Vegor Pedersen I cheated on one word.
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Instant Pot IP-DUO60 7-in-1 Multi-Functional Pressure Cooker, 6Qt/1000W
If I didn't already have a conventional pressure cooker I'd snag one of these. This is almost 50 percent off, and it has almost 9,000 five star reviews.
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Sunday, July 10, 2016
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Thursday, July 7, 2016
Trikke Riding Tips for Beginners
If anyone wants one of those three-wheeled Trikke things, you get the Facebook friend discount. Only $70!
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016
How To Become Batman
Listened to this on the ride to work. It was great, and really made me think about our self-imposed limitations.
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Iraq bombing: Baghdad death toll rises to 250
I can't really comprehend this much death. Imagine if this had happened in Paris, or Salt Lake City, or Provo.
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Wedding Announcement
Distrust will fester in the years that follow. The groom will spend longer hours in the city, where he works as a financial analyst at Rowe & Barnes. It is there that he will meet Kate, a young Yale grad whose smile will remind him of the bride’s in the days before she started wearing a night guard.
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Monday, July 4, 2016
Saturday, July 2, 2016
I Still Use Plain Text for Everything, and I Love It
Evernote users: using plain text is one way to stick it to The Man, who wants to commodify your personal data.
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Amazon.com: Buying Choices: Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
I can't believe how cheaply Tufte is selling for on the used market.
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