Category: General

Nose-stuffing, a new fad or old tradition?

Adam's episode reminded me of my son doing the same with a bean four years ago.  One evening, my son told us that he had a bean up his nose that won't come out.  Apparently, he was playing with beans and then suddenly found a bean up there.  UFO, crop circles, and now beans that move up noses like salmons!  My son also waited until the bean had swollen with all the 'moisture' up there.  Thanks, son.  So we rushed to ER and went through the same ritual Adam's family went through.  Through it all, the engineer side of me was thinking about Safety Noseplugs for Kids, Beans with Safety Strings…

pea. Willow: "Mom, I put a pea up my nose…"
[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

Buy When?

Dave and I are in agreement.  If my stocket market-related posts are gloomy, its because I am waiting to start buying again.  But, if you look at the P/E across the board, valuations ain't too attract at this time.  Yes, I am looking for a move below 7000.

Don Park says the Dow will soon test 7500. Maybe so. But the day the war with Iraq is behind us the market will go up 2500 points. The market bearing a heavy weight of uncertainty due to the looming war. Alternate theory. The market, anticipating a resolution, will creep up, and go down by 1000 points when peace is achieved. Yeah that's probably what'll happen. Either way, I'm getting a feeling it's time to start buying again, soon. [Scripting News]

Space Idiots

Apparently, NASA was aware of the possible tile damage caused by 20 inch long fuel tank insulation foam during launch.  So what did they do?  They ran computer analysis and concluded that the damage wasn't a danger.  Why didn't they send an astronaut out to inspect the left wing directly?  If I hear funny noises while I am driving, I stop the car and take a walk around the car.  Its common sense.  Apparently, NASA prefers to look at the dashboard.

Fantasy Evil Axis Rumble

While replying to Russell Beattie's kind thoughts about Bush's role in Columbia's demise, I had a funny thought.

[These are my words, not Russell's]
Bush is too much of an idiot to pull this tragedy off. I know why I dislike Bush. He is the perfect vision of how I would have turned out if I ate up everything my ultra conservative father told me as I was growing up. He gives me the shivers.

As to Saddam Hussein, I am trying to dream up some scheme to make North Korea attack Iraq: Saddam Hussein versus Kim Jong-Il. A Fantasy Evil Axis Rumble!

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p dir=”ltr”>On a similar track of thought, I don't see why we have to destroy North Korea's nuclear facilities when there are two major military powers in the neighborhood: China and Russia.  With all of North Korean arsenals pointed south, it should be easy for either China or Russia to bomb or invade North Korea without fearing destruction of Seoul.

Everyday Not Just Another Day

Internet bubble, Recession, 9.11, Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, North Korea, and now Columbia.  Is it just me?  Is this part of life on the other side of 40?  I don't know when it happened, but I no longer feel that everyday is just another day and I don't mean that in a shiny and bright way.  I spent a whole month after 9.11 shocked.  Today, I am less shocked, as if I was half expecting it.  After all, everyday is no longer just another day.  What a crappy day this is.  Somebody please turn this burning flapjack over.

Finding Hub Blogs

Blogspace needs a directory of hub blogs organized by topics.  Recognizing a hub blog is easy enough.  A hub blog has a large number of subscribers and links to other blogs.  A hub blog's topics can be either inferenced by content and links or specified explicitly.

Using People as Blog Filter

One of the reason I visit certain blogs daily is because I use them as moderated blog filters to blogs I subscribe to indirectly.  I don't know how many blog feeds "Dave" subscribes to, but by subscribing to "Dave"'s Scripting News blog feed, I am in-effect subscribing to all the blogs he is subscribing to except I rely on him to filter out uninteresting stuff like a client-side news editor.  By subscribing to these hub blogs, I can keep abreast of what many thousands of people are thinking and doing daily.  Isn't that great or what?  I predict that we'll soon think nothing of paying money to subscribe to those hub blogs.

Working at home

Mark Pilgrim is finding home office unbearable.  I know how bad working at home all the time can be.  One minute you think you have it all, commuting to work just a matter of walking from your bedroom to the office downstairs.  Next minute, you feel like a squirrel running inside a turning wheel.  Still, you can't beat the hours.  Your nights and weekends aren't gone.  They are just uprooted so you can have them any time you want.  As to avoiding unnecessary intrusions, interruptions, and 'on call 24×7' paranoia, you just have to draw the line thick enough for people to notice.  As for me, my clients don't usually call me unless its an emergency because they don't know when I am going to be awake.  Even I don't know when I'll be awake.  Well, I know I am awake now.  <g>