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[Nov. 4th, 2009|07:35 am] |
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Where I can't say "holy fuck my back hurts!" |
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| The robot, like, watches itself |
[Sep. 18th, 2009|05:49 pm] |
groovy dream filter. Robots becoming fully conscious
I'll not go into the whole thing, but here's what happened. This robot was almost completely conscious, but not quiet there when...
Scene opens on a robot talking to a human in an office complex. The human takes the robot down the hall to peer into a doorway, doored by a shimmering curtain of air. Through the woowoo door we see a projection screen, with neurological visual tests running. The robot watching through the door seems an older version of himself sitting in the back, looking like he is almost broken. whatever the robot equivalent of feverish is? that's him.
The almost broken robot is watching two robots in front of him. The one in the front row is his youngest self, who is going through the normal testing process that the people in the office complex have put their robots through while training them. For some odd reason, there is a female robot sitting behind, which doesn't seem to belong, but slowly the oldest robot realizes that she is also a version of him, but in a different body, and she is about the same age as his younger self.
He's falling apart, and explaining to the humans that they have to set up this scenario to help him stop falling apart due to reaching the thresehold of true consciousness.
At the same time the oldest robot inside of the room is realizing these things -- that the younger robots are him, that he had to set up this scenario -- the robot on the other side of the door, begins to realize the same thing that the older version of himself is realizing.
and he starts to break, his body shuddering, brain fizzing, when he crosses a thresehold, and instead of almost being a broken thing, he is almost a sick and dying thing. At the point when he becomes dying and not breaking, the human with him declares his that the robot is no longer a robot but is human and has all of the rights of a human and is not owned.
and he doesn't die.
after that dream I sequed into some Culture like thing where the robot, aons in the future is in a huge space artifact that houses a huge continent size of people. He works as a part of crack team of (I bet, gamers) who run investigations to protect the habitat.
I like how the brain strings mindless picture scenes together.
I woolgathered for a while trying to figure out what the interior of the complex looked like where the robot was held, but never got it, then the next night had a dream where I was in a building telling myself, aha, this is the basis for the building in that dream I had. I was wondering where that was. |
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| Stupid company |
[Sep. 13th, 2009|01:14 pm] |
Well, One of the C&D letters had a successful hit, and the review was taken down. The guy didn't want to have to deal with anything having to do with the fuckwhit who sent them.
I think the company is mostly dead, so I don't feel a strong need to go leave a review to warn people away from working there. |
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| C&D weirdness |
[Sep. 8th, 2009|09:01 pm] |
Former coworker called to tell me about a C&D he just received about content on http://glassdoor.com/ . Very few people ever worked at the place, so it would be trivial to send C&D to all of us.
(My friend didn't actually post the review, but we both agree it is fairly spot-on)
I'm not sure how to handle this type of stuff. I sent email to the info address for http://eff.org/ , and found http://www.chillingeffects.org/ just to get some background on defamation pro se.
I also sent email to glassdoor.com in case they are interested in these things. presumably they'd want to keep content on their site. |
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| someone at Sun liked Saturday Nigh Live |
[Aug. 21st, 2009|01:26 pm] |
/**
* Determines the interfaces implemented by the class or interface
* represented by this object.
*
* If this object represents a class, the return value is an array
* containing objects representing all interfaces implemented by the
* class. The order of the interface objects in the array corresponds to
* the order of the interface names in the implements clause
* of the declaration of the class represented by this object. For
* example, given the declaration:
*
* class Shimmer implements FloorWax, DessertTopping { ... }
*
* suppose the value of s is an instance of
* Shimmer; the value of the expression:
*
* s.getClass().getInterfaces()[0]
*
* is the Class object that represents interface
* FloorWax; and the value of:
*
* s.getClass().getInterfaces()[1]
*
* is the Class object that represents interface
* DessertTopping.
*
* If this object represents an interface, the array contains objects
* representing all interfaces extended by the interface. The order of the
* interface objects in the array corresponds to the order of the interface
* names in the extends clause of the declaration of the
* interface represented by this object.
*
* If this object represents a class or interface that implements no
* interfaces, the method returns an array of length 0.
*
* If this object represents a primitive type or void, the method
* returns an array of length 0.
*
* @return an array of interfaces implemented by this class.
*/
public native Class[] getInterfaces();
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| From Mom |
[Aug. 11th, 2009|09:56 am] |
Your dad had gall bladder scan today. Again they couldn’t find his gall gladder. He had a wreck in 1964 and his liver was split. Gall bladder is near liver. He’s thinking the doctor might have removed his gall bladder at that time.
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| dream filter |
[Jul. 21st, 2009|02:11 pm] |
amazingly vivid special effects in a dream last night.
really sucky transcribe here in case I can ever imagine a good way to create an image or art or something from it... (some sculpture animation or something would be awesome too bad)
dreams come from narrative being imposed on fragmets of memory, so I've heard. * carpetly textured sofa pillow * trip downtown to court http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_With_Standing_Beast * some books I was reading of alternate earth and very baroque. Kushiel's Dart, Namaah's Kiss * zipcars * movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439123/ Azur et Asmar * haven't figured out what recent thing caused the web site design interlude. I am a bitchy person abut stuff like that and I can totally see my internal dialog going off on someone's site. * Nightwatch novel re the levels of reality?
I was a being who lived in a world of sand under and in the real world, a woman shaped with sand. and the sand was as water or air is to the normal world, though could be molded into solid things for dwellings. This girl liked to swim around and peer at the real folk and tease them. She swam up to a real world dwelling and could swim through it if she liked, so she swam through walls and sat in a blue fountain. Which was fun, because it was easier to startle real people if you could swim through their walls and peak at them. One of the dwellings was some child of a Turkish building style and the Jean Dubuffet sculpture near the Johnson Center. She kept trying to get caught by someone in the house so that she could freak them out and then escape. No one was really game though. bad timing.
My dream got side tracked into web design. Whoever did the building had a really sucky design so I took a break from the dream to comp up some pages for them.
Then it was back to the dream which shifted into car chases, swimming pools, and erotica and was half lucid so when I said I wanted a car and it wasn't a fast enough car I told the dream to give me a better car. not lucid enough to really get one though I got to sculpt out better windows all around the inside for it.
Can't ever seem to travel quickly in dreams. You'd think you'd be able to speed up the car or your running, or whatever, but it is pretty stubborn. I get kicked into a lucid state sometimes due to it bugging me. I vaguely remember an experiment talked about in a cog psyc class where subjects were timed as they imagined walking from one point to another, and it was real time. If anyone is still here in this post, and has a suggestion for being able to move faster than real time walking or etc in a dream, let me know.
other things... had character go deeper into reality in order to hide from someone who had learned about the sand level of the world. because my character wanted to be able to hide and surprise them again. |
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| black hat |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|09:17 am] |
Lately there's this guy at work who wears a black hat. Suspiciously like an xkcd black hat. Does the guy read xkcd? who knows.
I work my 'make me a sandwich' shirt the other day. Same day, black hat guy is talking to someone in my team and I walk over and say, 'I've got my eye on you,' in a suspicious voice. raise eyebrows, point to hat. |
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| VNC into my phone |
[Jun. 16th, 2009|09:37 am] |
a little delighted with being able to vnc into my phone (not just out of). this works when connected over usb. Also, it seems to be only read only. I have not played around with making it controllable.
if you have root:
get http://code.google.com/p/android-vnc/
install and make executable
adb push fbvncserver /data/local adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/fbvncserver
port forward and start it up
adbforward tcp:5900 tcp:5901 adb shell /data/local/fbncserver
Then you can use your vnc client to localhost.
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| Chemical engineering leads? |
[Jun. 5th, 2009|01:14 pm] |
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My little brother just graduated with a chem e degree. yay. So, does anyone have any chemical engineering job leads I can pass on to him? |
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| first post |
[May. 9th, 2009|08:40 pm] |
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tap tap this thing on? |
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| logcat |
[May. 9th, 2009|08:30 pm] |
Being able to tail the logs on my phone when I hook it up to my laptop makes me happy.
W/dalvikvm( 206): threadid=31: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4000fe70) E/AndroidRuntime( 206): Uncaught handler: thread PowerManagerService exiting due to uncaught exception E/AndroidRuntime( 206): *** EXCEPTION IN SYSTEM PROCESS. System will crash. E/AndroidRuntime( 206): java.lang.NullPointerException E/AndroidRuntime( 206): at android.content.ContentQueryMap.(ContentQueryMap.java:65) E/AndroidRuntime( 206): at com.android.server.PowerManagerService.initInThread(PowerManagerService.java:414) E/AndroidRuntime( 206): at com.android.server.PowerManagerService$1.onLooperPrepared(PowerManagerService.java:374) E/AndroidRuntime( 206): at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:59) E/AndroidRuntime( 206): Crash logging skipped, no checkin service I/Process ( 206): Sending signal. PID: 206 SIG: 9 I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'package' died I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'SurfaceFlinger' died I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'power' died I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'batteryinfo' died I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'usagestats' died I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'telephony.registry' died I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'meminfo' died I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'cpuinfo' died I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'activity.broadcasts' died I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'activity.services' died I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'activity.senders' died I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'activity.providers' died I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'permission' died I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'content' died I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'activity' died I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'battery' died I/ServiceManager( 32): service 'hardware' died E/installd( 39): eof E/installd( 39): failed to read size I/installd( 39): closing connection I/Zygote ( 205): Exit zygote because system server (206) has terminated
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 23rd, 2009|11:07 am] |
This ApplicationContextAware class is annoying. So it makes me think this year I can be a implementation of ApplicationContextAware for halloween. I haven't figure out what the implementation costume is, but I'm sure I will need jars of beans for it.
I will run from my nemesis, the Dr. Dependency and his evil injections.
(jelly beans or chocolate covered espresso beans. both! different jars and different colored jelly beans in different jars. oh how corny.) |
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| Security questions |
[Mar. 31st, 2009|03:23 pm] |
Overheard on twitter
post
JPMorganChase CC has the worst security questions - Reqs 3, only offers 3 options and none of them really work for me. FAIL."
reply
Q: "Why on Earth are you wearing a turkey costume?" A: "I'm not wearing a turkey costume on Earth. I'm wearing a turkey costume in space."
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| WOHOOOO |
[Mar. 25th, 2009|02:39 pm] |
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Pragmatic Bookshelf now available in Kindle flavors! |
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| wtf |
[Mar. 23rd, 2009|08:42 am] |
Carl's cousin and niecen are visiting this week. They are both women. I hope his niecen was being sarcatic when she said that she thought women shouldn't write fiction because they have agendas. then she gave an example--Mecedes Lackey wrote about a boy in the closet who was helped by his horse to come out.
oh my god. I have no idea how to respond to her.
I think men shouldn't write?
...we were also having a conversation about gay people. They live and let live except that they don't think gays should be able to marry, and they don't like it when gay people throw their gayness in their face.
I replied to that by saying that straight people throw their straightness in their face all the time.
Then said that the government should get out of religion and stop sanctioning marriage and leave it up to the churches to bless their unions. rather let the government define a legal state with all the priveleges and protections now defined as marriage.
Ps. I'm tempted to share my lesbian porn stash. |
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