I suspended a large cotton ball on thread at nose level for training. I forgot I have two cats.

Namaste

Sometimes, socialism simply fails: http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/29/news/economy/neighborhood_stabilization_program/index.htm?section=money_realestate The Neighborhood Stabilization Program, passed by ( Read more... )

You could tell, some other hand besides Robert Jordan's touched the prologue.

But I don't care. It is Badass.

http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=11783

Namaste

"Boys who carry a particular variation of the gene Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA), sometimes called the "warrior gene," are more likely not only to join gangs but also to be among the most violent members and to use weapons, according to a new study from The Florida State University that is the first to confirm an MAOA link specifically to gangs and ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I was walking to my martial arts class when I decided to detour through a part of the neighborhood I had just discovered the day before. In this past week, I had been looking for inspirations for a new Mage: the Awakening campaign I am putting together, and I had been gathering setting for it and related stories for a while now ( Read more... )

I may have found something better than twitter that acts as a complement to Livejournal. FriendFeed lets you aggregate feeds from LiveJournal, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Though I'm still experimenting with it, it means I don't have to directly participate in certain social network (in particular, Facebook) and I get enhancements on what I normally do ( Read more... )

Ok all you tabi lovers and haters of heeled-shoes-for-martial-arts, check this out:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/05/07/vibram-five-fingers-shoes/

I had been looking at the Nike Free 5.0 but these look more compelling.

Namaste

Notes:

• Blackboard Systems / Blackboard Pattern
• I bet this is how Wolfram Alpha is implemented
• Drop-in processors (because they pattern-match tuples in the tuplespace). (Because of this ad-hoc nature, with proper versioning, multiple implementations can run simultenously and GA-like stuff can be applied).
• "Good enough", like word processing and ( Read more... )

Kyle Maynard, with no forearms/hands and shins/feet (congenital amputation below elbows and knees) is debuting an MMA fight in Auburn, AL ( Read more... )

Early-morning sprint-coding sometimes mean crashing at the foot of the bed with sticky bits of digital debris sliding noisily down the wall.

Namaste