Yummy cough medicine
Monday, November 29th, 2004According to the BBC, Chocolate could be cough medicine. Nothing proven yet, but its so tempting to “treat” my on-off coughing.
Archive for November, 2004
bees everywhere
Saturday, November 27th, 2004Lots of bees flying around the loquat tree in my backyard today. Not enough to disrupt a day of tree-trimming, but enough for one of them to be “friendly” for my camera :p
The other “interesting” thing that happenned today was that Gigi escaped. Again. Just as I got back to Westwood to feed her and clean her cage and stuff, I heard a “click” from her cage and saw her waddle across the floor into my room. I always thought she liked Ray more, but no, she ended up in Julian’s side of the closet, where she sat up and begged for food. So, I guess its now “Gigi likes Julian.” /me ducks
Makes ya wonder …
Friday, November 26th, 2004Some researchers at UC Berkeley have run statistical analyses of the Florida voting data with regards to E-voting and have come up with some interesting findings:
Irregularities associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000 excess votes or more to President George W. Bush in Florida. - Compared to counties with paper ballots, counties with electronic voting machines were significantly more likely to show increases in support for President Bush between 2000 and 2004. This effect cannot be explained by differences between counties in income, number of voters, change in voter turnout, or size of Hispanic/Latino population. - In Broward County alone, President Bush appears to have received approximately 72,000 excess votes. - We can be 99.9% sure that these effects are not attributable to chance.
Even supposing that none of the “excess” voters exist, Florida still wouldn’t have gone blue. But it doesn’t do squat to ease my suspicion of voting without a paper trail.
And … the world accepts our apologies.
“late”
Friday, November 26th, 2004Something’s wrong when getting into work after 07:00 feels late. Good thing that the past few days have all felt like Fridays.quick links:Disrupted sleep causes worker ‘burnout’ Cells from babies help heal their mothersan article on sensory substitution devicesars technica’s review of the Nintendo DS
shattered dreams
Monday, November 22nd, 2004At one point or another, a lot of geeks must’ve said “I want to make video games!” What can be so bad about working on something thats supposed to be *fun*? Apparently, a hell of a lot, since the New York Times describes the workers at EA as galley slaves chained to their benches. 82 hour work weeks at a non-startup? No thanks.
Though I still have a flicker of a wish to join Bioware and make the next big Baldur’s Gate / Neverwinter Nights type of game.