You might think lack of postings means I'm a big old slacker. No, I wasn't out riding backwards on a motorcycle *all* weekend. I have something akin to a reasonable design cooking. Good things come to those who wait, my friends. So hold your horses. It's coming.
(I thought he was nuts when he said 'OK, now get on backwards.' I thought: Is this the Mr. Safety I know and love?! But he wasn't kidding, and he was right. It was fun!)
I just received an email petition, the kind you send to the originator if you're the 400th person on the list. I get them rarely, but when I do, I get the niggly feeling of 'how can this possibly work'. So finally I googled it and found this article about the flaws of email petitions. My guilt about the ones I never participated in is eased.
Ugh. I have so much work to do on the template for this log. *sigh* at least I'm posting and doing a little bit at a time. Even if nobody else cares :)
Mike May was totally blind from age 3 through 46. His journal (or here) recounts some things you'd expect to see ("trees are so green", etc.) but some really interesting things as well.
"I can't fathom how sighted people go around seeing each other's eyes without being flustered..."
"People come in so many shapes and sizes and I think I saw one of each on that bustling London street corner. High heels have a distinct sound and now I see they also cause women to walk differently; it looks painful."
"A leading museum has paid 240,000 pounds for a plate which shows a portrait of a man whose head is made up entirely of penises. It is thought to have been made by Italian Renaissance ceramicist Francesco Urbini in the 16th century. The head is framed by a garland carrying the inscription: Ogni homo me guarda come fosse una testa de cazi (Every man looks at me as if I were a dickhead)." They never showed us anything like that in *my* Art History classes.
"Attorney Martine Rottblatt, partner in Mahon Patusky Rothblatt & Fisher, filed a motion on Tuesday for preliminary injunction to prevent a corporation from disconnecting a conscious computer... The problem: computers are predicted to achieve human-level intelligence in the next 10-20 years..." A mock trial on kurzweilai.net
Mailinator: disposable email addresses, for that for-gods-sakes-just-let-me-see-the-damn-article feeling.
Thanks to Robert over at wombatnation I finally gathered the courage and time to set up movable type. Now I have a weblog that's pretty much just like all the other logs on the net... something missing though... Oh yeah, style and content. I never was a patient one...