Ponderances, Inanities, and other Nonsense
Travel
My travels domestic and abroad.
Twitter Widget
May 21st
Well, I still don’t use Twitter much, but at least it shows up in the widget. Seems they are on version 2.3.1 and I was on 1.6.2.
Addendum
Apr 28th
I was a little disappointed in the “solution.” I agree with the problems of a monetary based system, and like the idea of a resource-based system, but there are some questions I still have about it.
1) If technology is king, but people don’t do jobs, then where do scientists come from to further the improved technology that would further and perpetuate the system.
2) Resource-based equality demand infinite resources, which isn’t reality: enter back in the problem of scarcity.
3) How do you get from the monetary-based system to a resource-based system? A roadmap would be, um, useful here. I think that is the largest obstacle…can’t get there from here. They give some nebulous, rebellious steps that are too vague and too dangerous to implement. The other stuff is idealistic: should the system go bankrupt. Do you think this will ever happen? Probably not.
4) Who decides which direction the technology goes? That person would be a dictator. Enter special interest and the flawed human nature to fuel it. Enter the sheeple to propogate it and allow it to happen.
5) Similarly, since resources are not limitless, as they would have you believe, who directs who gets resources that are not plentiful to all? Enter special interest and favoritism, and social status.
Didn’t stuff like this fail in The Demolition Man?
Link goes to site…let me know if I overlooked the answers to any of these questions.
The Revolution is Now
Apr 27th
Our Sesquiannual trip to Italy – Part I
Apr 7th
The trip got off to a bit of a bad start, as Sophia started showing signs of a virus or something. Yeah, the signs were she puked all over me somewhere aloft between San Antonio and Chicago. Of course, we packed plenty of changes of clothing for the little darlings, but none for the adults, so I was sporting a white T-shirt sporting a Rorschach drawing under a coat, after I stuffed the dress shirt I was wearing into a Ziploc baggie. We were delayed on our initial flight out of San Antonio due to excessive wind in the “Windy City,” (imagine that) and having run to the gate just at final call to board, Sophia decided to adorn my jacket and the floor by the gate. The net result was that we were not allowed to get onto the plane and had to wait for the same flight the following evening. So, we stayed at the Hilton at O’Hare and caught the next night’s flight with the excitement that you would expect having been on a 24 hour layover.
Sophia did get mildly sick on the flight to Munich, but it wasn’t near the volume of the previous night (as she didn’t feel like eating the following day) so it was tolerable. She stayed sick for the better part of 6 days, but kept her usual sunny disposition after the first two.
Antonella got the same bug for a few days starting the second day we arrived in Italy. Julian was sick, too.
OLEDs
Mar 10th
This is pretty snazzy.
I am pretty lazy and cheap about technology, therefore a late adopter of most things. I tell you all so that you can buy them up and get the price down for me. 
Some neat things
Mar 8th
The Lost Symbol
Nov 11th
I haven’t read Dan Brown’s latest book, The Lost Symbol, as I am waiting for it to come out on paperback. Every time I go into B&N, I see a huge pile of his new book. I am wondering: has anyone read it? Your thoughts.
I found I was more interested in the story behind the story in The DaVinci Code. I liked the book, but after reading the rest of his books, I found they were too similar in structure. If the book is good, I’ll take a gander at it, but if it sucks I don’t want to waste my oh-so-valuable free time.
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