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From my current Twitter stream:
Yesterday I accomplished -- well, not much of note, aside from an entry into a Worth1000 contest. (I need to keep up my Photoshop, etc. skills, so getting an Assignment instead of faffing around with computer solitaire games is worthwhile.)
My Tweets from Monday didn't even include the rather nice time I had viewing Coraline for the second time in the company of Readaslot and Batwrangler, which was a nice semi-extension of Boskone, what with having late lunch at Macaroni Grill (my favorite chain restaurant ever) and having fun peeps to revisit con ideas and experiences with.
I didn't even update here. In fact, I pretty much didn't read LJ at all. (Lest you think I just update from Twitter -- no, I usually go through the boards two or three times a day, minimum.)
At least I got out to the grocery store! And bought, um, frozen-non-dairy-dessert bars.
Tomorrow... visiting PA for a long long weekend of Mom-herding, which is pretty much light duty. In class, we're starting our final project tonight, which the teacher says is designed to be completed in the remaining class time exclusive of outside time (we're free to work more on it on our own.) Alas, I'm kind of going to have to depend on that, since I won't have my Windows computer along, just the iBook running the wrong OS and all. But I should have enough time to make up for that in the coming week and a half....
Above, I recommend the Andrew Sullivan note, which is short but entirely to the point about the usefulness of torture as a interrogation method -- it points out that severe pain and stress has been proven by psychologists to DEGRADE accurate memory recall. So, presuming a torture candidate actually does have some useful information, how much more likely is it that they'd be able to spit it out IF THEY CAN'T ACTUALLY RECALL IT ACCURATELY?
Sometimes I think I'm just yelling about this because it's such an affront to, LOGIC as well, as, you know, human rights and human decency.
- 07:41 consciousness doen't seem enough reward for getting up #
- 11:26 shoudl be in the car already. ::vanishes:: #
- 16:47 Looking at: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (February 16, 2009) - Torture And Memory tinyurl.com/dyoh5g #
- 17:42 Getting ready to go to class, tral la. Have to change back into my Outside Clothes #
- 19:52 Making session-enabled Web service tonight in class. Whoo! #
- 22:03 all done! #
- 07:17 remember all the things I didn't get done yesterday? ::looks fierce and determined:: #
Yesterday I accomplished -- well, not much of note, aside from an entry into a Worth1000 contest. (I need to keep up my Photoshop, etc. skills, so getting an Assignment instead of faffing around with computer solitaire games is worthwhile.)
My Tweets from Monday didn't even include the rather nice time I had viewing Coraline for the second time in the company of Readaslot and Batwrangler, which was a nice semi-extension of Boskone, what with having late lunch at Macaroni Grill (my favorite chain restaurant ever) and having fun peeps to revisit con ideas and experiences with.
I didn't even update here. In fact, I pretty much didn't read LJ at all. (Lest you think I just update from Twitter -- no, I usually go through the boards two or three times a day, minimum.)
At least I got out to the grocery store! And bought, um, frozen-non-dairy-dessert bars.
Tomorrow... visiting PA for a long long weekend of Mom-herding, which is pretty much light duty. In class, we're starting our final project tonight, which the teacher says is designed to be completed in the remaining class time exclusive of outside time (we're free to work more on it on our own.) Alas, I'm kind of going to have to depend on that, since I won't have my Windows computer along, just the iBook running the wrong OS and all. But I should have enough time to make up for that in the coming week and a half....
Above, I recommend the Andrew Sullivan note, which is short but entirely to the point about the usefulness of torture as a interrogation method -- it points out that severe pain and stress has been proven by psychologists to DEGRADE accurate memory recall. So, presuming a torture candidate actually does have some useful information, how much more likely is it that they'd be able to spit it out IF THEY CAN'T ACTUALLY RECALL IT ACCURATELY?
Sometimes I think I'm just yelling about this because it's such an affront to, LOGIC as well, as, you know, human rights and human decency.
