You are looking at posts that were written in the month of October in the year 2003.
Posted on October 28th, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: indescribable.
Candidates seem to feel such a great need to express love for other races and religions — that fervent desire to be smiled at or noticed that is so repulsive in high school kids and candidates alike. I suppose back in middle school, when you might carry gum around just so that people could ask you for a piece, it didn’t grate as much. Hearing Lieberman or Clark send glowing regards to all celebrating Ramadan only makes me feel…cheated of real conversation. Even if sometimes I dearly hope they mean what their speechwriters have them say.
Posted on October 26th, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: chain-gang.
Get to know your local candidates, all ye Cantabridgians. Elections are coming up on Nov 4.
Posted on October 26th, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: chain-gang.
Old men crying — the subject matter is most compelling; articles thankfully accompany most images.
Airtoons — more than just Fight Club versions, though it’s hard to improve on a perfect execution.
Then there are the copycats of glory, like Nothoo. And even Harpers liked the J-Dogg transcripts enough to publish a few last month.
Posted on October 20th, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: metrics.
There are few good metrics for how well-developed one’s academic, physical, spiritual, or career plans are. At least, according to university educators at large, and those at Harvard in particular.
On the other hand, career and life counselors the world over have developed their own idiosyncratic collections of metrics, many quite elaborate and detailed. Some may be better than others, but all are better than none — and most are better than that lone career-office standby, the Myers-Briggs test.
Let’s take a look at how Harvard counsels its undergraduates in various facets of life… [read more]
Posted on October 20th, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: chain-gang.
Of course, now someone has to come up with metrics for how much coordination synergy and productivity are lost as the number of available tools increases, how much time it takes to become fluent with a toolbox of a given size, how these things break down with fatigue, debility, and stress, etc.
We don’t want any “massive Ginger recall initiated due to injuries when it runs out of power” oversights for brainstem implants, do we?
Posted on October 20th, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: popular demand.
Intersting. If only “school district” could come to mean “local power base” and source for political mobilization and change. Education is such a natural center for communities to rally around, though right now it only applies to K-12 education… if it expanded to cover all of life, and to include community education such as tutoring, social dancing, skilled public service and shared games have for the longest time, it would make sense for people to think locally of themselves in terms of their school district. Return of the polis! What a cute way that would be to return to democracy.
Posted on October 20th, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: null.
Before a good watch stops ticking? Two of mine are sitting alone in a corner. Stats for the month:
Toolchain items destroyed: 4 ...with replacement: 1
Former links still broken: 5 ...and partially: 2 + 1
Weekends that have sucked: 2 ...with redemption: 1
Cancelled events: 2 [I hate people.] ...trips: 1 [Yes, you.]
...dates: 3 [And you.] ...and lips: 7 [Even you.]
Dormant projects: 3 Merely needy and understaffed: 2
Mentors located: -1 Advising satisfaction [0-5]: 0.5
Official requests ignored: 5+
Classes of [t]ots unmeshed: 4+ ...merely unacquired: 6
“Dead” lines: 3. Time for another Timex.
Posted on October 17th, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: chain-gang.
Dies age 90. Wrote memoirs of his time in the secret service during WWII (some of it under Ian Fleming’s command).
Posted on October 17th, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: international.
I’ll say one thing for General Clark — by the time a man gets to be his age, he’s responsible for his face. As my father would say, Clark has a good face… [read more]
Posted on October 17th, 2003 by longestnow.
Categories: indescribable.
Compare the official draft-Clark movement to the unofficial, exuberant one. Which was shifty, evasive, and dishonest? Which was wildly successful in mobilizing interested voters? Compare hispanosconclark.com with latinos4clark … which one is obviously genuine, after a split-second’s viewing? which one is depressing and lifeless? There is *nothing* about modern technology that should make campaigns any harder; generating the images and text that make up latinos4clark in-house would mean the hard part of real hispanic collateral was done, in any media. If a 5-person team with 3000 active users to deal with (and meticulously outwit) can put together something as seamless as the online mystery hunt associated with AI in a couple months, complete with tens of distinct immersive websites and polished down to the owner-names and -dates on the domain-name registration for said sites, a serious campaign should be able to at least approximate the right tone and feel for each new audience.
