20110310
20110306
"Infographic: Tax Breaks vs. Budget Cuts"
Sources are at the bottom of the source page which can be reached by clicking on the title of this post
20110228
My tornado alert system
So I bought one of these several years ago and I bought the separate AC adapter. It beeps a lot during setup but once done with setup it will just alarm for only Tornado warnings in your county. You can set it up to alert to every type of warning but you won't sleep much!
Over the last couple of years this setup has performed exceptionally well. It typically alerts 5 to 10 MINUTES before the sirens go off in our area. There have been times we were alerted by the SAME radio watched the tornadic cell pass by and then heard the sirens. I wish I was kidding but trusting the siren system is a bad idea.
20110221
Separation from racing
So on my 211 trip through the racecourse at Paoli Peaks randomness caught up to me... I clipped a gate and plowed the mountain with my right shoulder. Acromioclavicular joint injury (Type 3 shoulder separation). So my season is over and now you know why if you see me with my arm in a sling for the next week or so.
I'll be fine... starting PT in two weeks.
I'll be fine... starting PT in two weeks.
20110219
NASTAR 2010-2011 Season
203 timed runs through the NASTAR courses this season. I didn't set out with a goal in mind but I'm happy I made 200. Who says you can't snowboard/ski in Southern Indiana. w00t!
My race record:
http://skiracing.nastar.com/index.jsp?pagename=results&page=comp&compid=690880&year=2011
My race record:
http://skiracing.nastar.com/index.jsp?pagename=results&page=comp&compid=690880&year=2011
20110216
Wild weather at Paoli
Went to Paoli for Wednesday night NASTAR expecting it to be very soft. Bank sign in Paoli was showing 66F!!! But the snowpack wasn't hearing any of it... there was a glaze on top and the runs were quite firm. The course was F A S T. Mike P. thank you for yet another great NASTAR night!
20110214
Monday night at Paoli
Went to Paoli tonight with my son to just free "ski". It was soft but later firmed up. I took the Donek 169 and it preformed admirably. Got a few ole' skool' comments, sigh.
Had a blast. You could almost feel the end of the season in the air. It goes by so fast.
Had a blast. You could almost feel the end of the season in the air. It goes by so fast.
20110210
Not so fast..
Took the slalom (SL) board out for Wednesday night NASTAR. While it provided a lot of control the speed wasn't there. Swapped up for the GS board and dropped 2.75 seconds on the first run.
Ahhhhh... SPEED. :D
Ahhhhh... SPEED. :D
20110208
RAB modification
Sometimes you come late to the party... No reason you can't enjoy yourself!
I Googled around for RAB mods and came across carver.cc's Spring system modification. I wanted to do a similar thing but simpler with off the shelf parts.
Well I did. One properly sized bearing race, removal of the brass tubing nut and presto! A boot that stands up straighter with the same flex pattern which was essential due to my size (6'4" 245lbs) and that I race a good percentage of the time. (Yes I do use the slightly softer spring set that comes with the Dee Luxe Indys).
It feels soooo much better. W00t!
20110207
20110206
Nice wrap up of the Google Bing Sting
Ah Micro$oft... outsmarted again.
http://inventorspot.com/articles/social_media_slow_define_hiybbprqag_googles_bing_sting_unfolds
http://inventorspot.com/articles/social_media_slow_define_hiybbprqag_googles_bing_sting_unfolds
20110202
Morning After
20110201
20110131
No more ISPs in Egypt
What Googles doing about this (in ONE weekend!!!):
We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company weacquired last week, to make this idea a reality. It’s already live and anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt. No Internet connection is required. People can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or going to twitter.com/speak2tweet.
We hope that this will go some way to helping people in Egypt stay connected at this very difficult time. Our thoughts are with everyone there.
Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard
1/31/2011 02:27:00 PM
Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service—the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection.We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company weacquired last week, to make this idea a reality. It’s already live and anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt. No Internet connection is required. People can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or going to twitter.com/speak2tweet.
We hope that this will go some way to helping people in Egypt stay connected at this very difficult time. Our thoughts are with everyone there.
Really... he could have done something with his life...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
OK fine... he's my hero.
OK fine... he's my hero.
Biography
John Stuart Mill was born on Rodney Street in the Pentonville area of London, the eldest son of the Scottish philosopher, historian and economist James Mill, and Harriet Burrow. John Stuart was educated by his father, with the advice and assistance of Jeremy Bentham and Francis Place. He was given an extremely rigorous upbringing, and was deliberately shielded from association with children his own age other than his siblings. His father, a follower of Bentham and an adherent ofassociationism, had as his explicit aim to create a genius intellect that would carry on the cause of utilitarianism and its implementation after he and Bentham had died.[citation needed]
Mill was a notably precocious child. He describes his education in his autobiography. At the age of three he was taught Greek.[4] By the age of eight he had read Aesop's Fables, Xenophon's Anabasis,[4] the whole of Herodotus,[4] and was acquainted with Lucian, Diogenes Laërtius, Isocrates and six dialogues of Plato.[4] He had also read a great deal of history in English and had been taught arithmetic.
At the age of eight he began learning Latin, Euclid, and algebra, and was appointed schoolmaster to the younger children of the family. His main reading was still history, but he went through all the commonly taught Latin and Greek authors and by the age of ten could read Plato and Demosthenes with ease. His father also thought that it was important for Mill to study and compose poetry. One of Mill's earliest poetry compositions was a continuation of the Iliad. In his spare time, he also enjoyed reading about natural sciences and popular novels, such as Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe.
His father's work, The History of British India was published in 1818; immediately thereafter, about the age of twelve, Mill began a thorough study of the scholastic logic, at the same time reading Aristotle's logical treatises in the original language. In the following year he was introduced to political economy and studied Adam Smith and David Ricardo with his father, ultimately completing their classical economic view of factors of production. Mill's comptes rendus of his daily economy lessons helped his father in writing Elements of Political Economy in 1821, as textbook to promote the ideas of Ricardian economics, however the book lacked popular support.[5] Ricardo, who was a close friend of his father, used to invite the young Mill to his house for a walk in order to talk about political economy.
At age fourteen, Mill stayed a year in France with the family of Sir Samuel Bentham, brother of Jeremy Bentham. The mountain scenery he saw led to a lifelong taste for mountain landscapes. The lively and friendly way of life of the French also left a deep impression on him. In Montpellier, he attended the winter courses on chemistry, zoology, logic of the Faculté des Sciences, as well as taking a course of the higher mathematics. While coming and going from France, he stayed in Paris for a few days in the house of the renowned economist Jean-Baptiste Say, a friend of Mill's father. There he met many leaders of the Liberal party, as well as other notable Parisians, including Henri Saint-Simon.
This intensive study however had injurious effects on Mill's mental health, and state of mind. At the age of twenty[6] he suffered a nervous breakdown. In chapter V of his Autobiography, he claims that this was caused by the great physical and mental arduousness of his studies which had suppressed any feelings he might have developed normally in childhood. Nevertheless, this depression eventually began to dissipate, as he began to find solace in the Mémoires of Jean-François Marmontel and the poetry of William Wordsworth.[7]
Mill had been engaged in a pen-friendship with Auguste Comte, the founder of positivism and sociology, since the two were both young men in the early 1820s. Comte's sociologie was more an early philosophy of science than we perhaps know it today, and the positive philosophy aided in Mill's broad rejection of Benthianism.[8]
Mill refused to study at the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge, because he refused to take Anglican orders.[9] Instead he followed his father to work for the East India Company until 1858.[10]
In 1851, Mill married Harriet Taylor after 21 years of an intimate friendship. Taylor was married when they met, and their relationship was close but generally believed to be chaste during the years before her first husband died. Brilliant in her own right, Taylor was a significant influence on Mill's work and ideas during both friendship and marriage. His relationship with Harriet Taylor reinforced Mill's advocacy of women's rights. He cites her influence in his final revision of On Liberty, which was published shortly after her death. Taylor died in 1858 after developing severe lung congestion, only seven years into their marriage.
Between the years 1865-1868 Mill served as Lord Rector of the University of St. Andrews. During the same period, 1865-8, he was a Member of Parliament for City and Westminster,[11] and was often associated with the Liberal Party. During his time as an MP, Mill advocated easing the burdens on Ireland, and in 1866 became the first person in Parliament to call for women to be given the right to vote. Mill became a strong advocate of women's rights and such social reforms as labor unions and farm cooperatives. In Considerations on Representative Government, Mill called for various reforms of Parliament and voting, especially proportional representation, the Single Transferable Vote, and the extension of suffrage. He was godfather to Bertrand Russell.
He died in Avignon, France, in 1873, where he is buried alongside his wife.
Love his music
Shawn Mullins--Light You Up
Lyrics:
i just want to light you up light you up like a fire
i just want to turn you on turn you on and take you higher
everybody wants a flat screen
everybody wanna be seen
everybody wanna be famous
aint nobody gonna blame us
everybody wants a real deal
everybody wants to cop a good feel
everybody want mo money
everybody wanna taste of yo honey
i just want to light you up light you up like a fire
i just want to turn you on turn you on and take you higher
everybody wants to pick at your guitar
everybody wanna ride in your fast car
everybody wants a puff of your pipe dream
everybody wanna a lick of your ice cream
the preacher wanna tell you how to live life
your mama and daddy got you uptight
your lover gonna go and pick another fight
i just wanna keep you up all night
i just want to light you up light you up like a fire
i just want to turn you on turn you on and take you higher
yeah this old world can bring you down
and turn your smile into a frown
and break your heart and make you sad
drive you stark raving mad
i just want to light you up light you up like a fire
i just want to turn you on turn you on and take you higher
i just want to light you up (light you up) light you up(light you up like a fire) like a fire
i just want to turn you on (turn you on) turn you on and take you higher
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