clock — watching time, the only true currency

I won’t be filling any aggregators for a while. Back in a while.

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Reuters gives the article a less provocative title, but “Gene Blocker Turns Monkeys Into Workaholics - Study” is really about procrastination.
“The gene knockdown triggered a remarkable transformation in the simian work ethic. Like many of us, monkeys normally slack off initially in working toward a distant goal,” he added.
I know we’re 97% the same genetically [...]

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After reviewing a political map presented proportionally to electoral votes, I can only think a few thoughts. First, California is so damn big, in so many ways. Second, I do hope that predictions of “blue” victory work out. Third, my vote might “count” for more if it were not in California. Fourth, applying maps to [...]

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(to the tune of “I want my TV” … think Sting pitching in for Mark Knopfler and the rest of Dire Straits)
Robert Andrews weighs in on the vigorous debate (hope that link works… the online-news mailing list archive is not easily linkable) with his thoughts on registration frustration.
My response? He’s proposing something that goes against [...]

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Testing something… sorry about the nonsense.

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…but I’ll hope that my credit cards are not yet among the public. With a name like John Roberts, I’m a ripe enough target for identity theft as it is. Article is at CNET News.com, by Rob Lemos.

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Looks like a doozy of a map collection, especially since it needs specialized viewers… GIS is a whole technology subset I know very little about, but the end product is fascinating. The ever-increasing detail in which we think we can represent something is fractal; the deeper you dive, the more you realize you can never [...]

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