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Nat has chaired the O'Reilly Open Source Convention and other O'Reilly conferences for over a decade. He ran the first web server in New Zealand, co-wrote the best-selling Perl Cookbook, and was one of the founding Radar bloggers. He lives in New Zealand and consults in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Four short links: 12 June 2014
June 12 2014Norbert Weiner (The Atlantic) — His fears for the future stemmed from two fundamental convictions: We humans can't resist selfishly misusing the powers our machines give us, to the detriment of our fellow humans and the planet; and there's a … read more
Four short links: 11 June 2014
June 11 2014UK Copyright Law Permits Researchers to Data Mine — changes mean Copyright holders can require researchers to pay to access their content but cannot then restrict text or data mining for non-commercial purposes thereafter, under the new rules. However, researchers … read more
Four short links: 10 June 2014
June 10 2014Trusting Browser Code (Tim Bray) — on the fundamental weakness of the 'net as manifest in the browser. Deep Learning in the Raspberry Pi (Pete Warden) — $30 now gets you a computer you can run deep learning algorithms on. … read more
June 09 2014textql — execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV. Social Network Structure of Fake Friends — author bought 4,000 Twitter followers and studied their relationships. Hidden Biases in Big Data — with every big data set, we need … read more
June 06 2014Ethics and UX Design (Slideshare) –We are the thieves of time. This excellent talk challenges you (via Aristotle) to understand what a good life is, and whether you're designing to bring it about. (via Keith Bolland) Pepper Personal Robot — … read more
June 05 2014beaglepilot (Github) — open source open hardware autopilot for Beagleboard. (via DIY Drones) IFR Robot Sales Charts (PDF) — 2013: all-time high of 179,000 industrial robots sold and growth continues in 2014. (via Robohub) The Top 5 Claims That Defenders … read more
June 04 2014Swift on GitHub — watch a thousand projects launch. HTTP API Design Guide — extracted from work on the Heroku Platform API. End-to-End PGP in Gmail — Google releases an open source Chrome extension to enable end-to-end OpenPGP on top … read more
June 03 2014Machine Learning Done Wrong — [M]ost practitioners pick the modeling algorithm they are most familiar with rather than pick the one which best suits the data. In this post, I would like to share some common mistakes (the don't-s). Bandits … read more
June 02 2014PirateBox 1.0 — turns a wireless router into a filesharing joy. v1.0 has a responsive ui, among other things for use on tablets and phones. Dystopia Tracker — keep on top of which scifi dystopic predictions have been realised. I'd … read more
May 30 2014Video Quality Report — transparency is a great way to indirectly exert leverage. Control Your Traffic Flows with Software — using BGP to balance traffic. Will be interesting to see how the more extreme traffic managers deploy SDN in the … read more
May 29 2014Beyond the Stack (Mike Loukides) — tools and processes to support software developers who are as massively distributed as the code they build. Mary Meeker's Internet Trends 2014 (PDF) — the changes on slide 34 are interesting: usage moving away … read more
May 28 2014Maciej Ceglowski on Our Internet — If you haven't already read this because someone pushed it into your hands, read it now. If these vast databases are valuable enough, it doesn't matter who they belong to. The government will always … read more
May 23 2014Car Alarms and Smoke Alarms (Slideshare) — how to think about and draw the line between sensitivity and specificity. 101 Uses for Content Mining — between the list in the post and the comments from readers, it's a good introduction … read more
May 23 2014How to Educate Users (Luke Wroblewski) — help new users in your app, not in a video. Hardware By The Numbers (Renee DiResta) — slides from her keynote at the Solid conference. The mean success rate across all sectors is … read more
May 22 2014Ferry — helps you create big data clusters on your local machine. Define your big data stack using YAML and share your application with Dockerfiles. Ferry supports Hadoop, Cassandra, Spark, GlusterFS, and Open MPI. What Google Told SEC — For … read more
May 21 2014EventHub — open source funnel/cohort/a-b analysis tool. Mantra — a collection of free/open source security tools, integrated into a browser (Firefox or Chromium). Reverse Engineering Mac Malware (PDF) — fascinating to see how it's shipped, bundled, packaged, and distributed. Everything … read more
May 20 2014Basics of Machine Learning Course Notes — slides and audio from university course. Watch along on YouTube. A Primer on Deep Learning — a very quick catch-up on WTF this is all about. 3D Printers Have a Lot to Learn … read more
May 19 2014Your Coffee Machine is Watching You (Mary Beard) — the future of surveillance isn't more CCTV cameras, it's every device ratting you out, all the time. Economics of Apologies — apologies work to restore relationships but are costly for the … read more
May 16 2014Mozilla's Winter of Security — Students who have to perform a semester project as part of their university curriculum can apply to one of the MWOS project. Projects are guided by a Mozilla Adviser, and a University Professor. Students are … read more
May 15 2014Pervasive Monitoring is an Attack (Tim Bray) — if your ap�pli�ca�tion doesn't sup�port pri�va�cy, that's prob�a�bly a bug in your ap�pli�ca�tion. Reconciling Mozilla's Mission and the W3C EME — essentially, "we don't want to put a closed source bolus of … read more
May 13 2014Data Jujitsu — new O'Reilly Radar report by the wonderful DJ Patil about the exploration and problem solving part of data science. Me gusta. Style Finder: Fine-Grained Clothing Style Recognition and Retrieval (PDF) — eBay labs machine learning, featuring the … read more
May 11 2014Reverse Engineering for Beginners (GitHub) — from assembly language through stack overflows, dongles, and more. Incident Response at Heroku — the difference between good and bad shops is that good shops have a routine for exceptions. 3D Petrie Museum — … read more
May 11 2014Questions I Ask When Reviewing a Design (Jason Fried) — a good list of questions to frown and stroke one's chin while asking. Bro — open source network security monitor/IDS. Seven Deadly Myths of Autonomy (PDF) — it's easy to … read more
May 08 2014Hardening Android for Security and Privacy — a brilliant project! prototype of a secure, full-featured, Android telecommunications device with full Tor support, individual application firewalling, true cell network baseband isolation, and optional ZRTP encrypted voice and video support. ZRTP does … read more
May 07 2014OpenStack: A Plea — critical take on OpenStack, also in this presentation. Notes the proliferation of inefficiency, devops bolted onto the side, and the long feedback cycle. You code differently when you have a pager. (via Sam Ramji) What Could … read more
May 07 2014Observations of an Internet Middleman — Five of those congested peers are in the United States and one is in Europe. There are none in any other part of the world. All six are large Broadband consumer networks with a … read more
May 05 2014Letter to Google from CEO of Axel Springer — very well-written and articulate challenge to the positive Google frame: your company will play a leading role in the various areas of our professional and private lives–in the house, in the … read more
May 04 2014This is What Comes After Search (Quartz) — it's "context", aka knowing what you're doing and thinking to the point where the device can tell you what you need to know before you search for it. Also known as the … read more
May 02 2014NewsPad: Designing for Collaborative Storytelling in Neighborhoods (PDF) — Microsoft Research report about tests of a tool to address needs in community reporting. Burying the URL — makes you suspect that "users interact with the web directly instead of via … read more
April 30 2014US Providers Must Divulge from Offshore Servers (Gigaom) — A U.S. magistrate judge ruled that U.S. cloud vendors must fork over customer data even if that data resides in data centers outside the country. (via Alistair Croll) Inside Google's Self-Driving … read more
Four short links: 30 April 2014
April 30 2014Critical Making — essays from 70 contributors looking at the politics, choices, and ethics of a lot of the makery going on. torrent-mount — mount a torrent as a filesystem in real time using Javascript. (via Joe McCann) Continuous Integration … read more
Four short links: 29 April 2014
April 29 2014Bionic Legs Let Patients Walk Again — The Ekso costs about $100,000 and was purchased with a grant from Baptist Health Foundation. Chara Rodriguez, a physical therapist and neurologic clinical specialist at University Health System, called the machine "the Maserati … read more
Four short links: 28 April 2014
April 28 2014UK Government to Sell Its Students' Data (Wired UK) — The National Pupil Database (NPD) contains detailed information about pupils in schools and colleges in England, including test and exam results, progression at each key stage, gender, ethnicity, pupil absence … read more
Four short links: 25 April 2014
April 26 2014UX of the Internet of Things — a Pinterest board of IoT designs and experience. parallax.js — Javascript library for tilt, shake, etc. interactivity on iPad. NICE demo. Gov.UK Local Government Dashboard Prototype is Live — not glorious, but making … read more
Four short links: 24 April 2014
April 24 2014Depthy — new Google Camera app lets you capture some depth information, stored in metadata in the image. Nifty effects become possible. Coping with Stress and Burnout: Explanatory Power of Different Coping Strategies (PLoSone)– interesting taxonomy of burnout (overload, lack … read more
Four short links: 23 April 2014
April 23 2014Samsung UX (Scribd) — little shop of self-catalogued UX horrors, courtesy discovery in a lawsuit. Dated (Android G1 as competition) but rewarding to see there are signs of self-awareness in the companies that inflict unusability on the world. Tools for … read more
Four short links: 22 April 2014
Four short links: 18 April 2014
April 18 201416 Interviewing Tips for User Studies — these apply to many situations beyond user interviews, too. The Backlash Against Big Data contd. (Mike Loukides) — Learn to be a data skeptic. That doesn't mean becoming skeptical about the value of … read more
Four short links: 17 April 2014
April 17 2014Playbook for Strategic Foresight & Innovation — MANY pages of framework and exercises. Good for what it is, but also as a model for how to disseminate your ideas and frame for the world to consume. Why I'm a Crabby … read more
Four short links: 16 April 2014
April 17 2014morris.js — pretty time-series line graphs. Open Source CT Scanner — all the awesome. Alan Kay's Reading List — in case you're wondering what to add to the pile beside your bed. (via Alex Dong) Foldscope — origami optical microscope, … read more
Four short links: 15 April 2014
April 15 2014Funders Punish Open Access Dodgers (Nature) — US's NIH and UK's Wellcome Trust are withholding funding from academics who haven't released their data despite it being a condition of past funding. It's open access's grab twist and pull move. Digitize … read more
Four short links: 14 April 2014
April 14 2014dategrep — print lines matching ranges of dates. Genius! Business Case Guidance in Agile Projects (gov.uk) — how the UK govt signs off on Agile projects, which normally governments have no clue over how to handle properly. Hyper Growth Done … read more
Four short links: 10 April 2014
April 10 2014Rise of the Patent Troll: Everything is a Remix (YouTube) — primer on patent trolls, in language anyone can follow. Part of the fixpatents.org campaign. (via BoingBoing) Petabytes of Field Data (GigaOm) — Farm Intelligence using sensors and computer vision … read more
Four short links: 9 April 2014
April 09 2014Jasper Project — an open source platform for developing always-on, voice-controlled applications. Shouting is the new swiping—I eagerly await Gartner touting the Internet-of-things-that-misunderstand-you. DeepBeliefSDK — deep neural network library for iOS. (via Pete Warden) Microsoft Spectrum Observatory — crowdsourcing spectrum … read more
Four short links: 8 April 2014
April 08 2014Next Five Years for Robots — plausible summary of the near future progression, taken from Helen Greiner's DEMOlabs talk. Raspberry Pi Compute Module — a Raspberry Pi shrunk down to fit on a SODIMM with onboard memory, whose connectors you … read more
Four short links: 7 April 2014
April 07 2014Can We Design Systems to Automate Ethics — code in self-driving cars will implement a solution to the trolley problem. But which solution? My First Post on Medium (Andy Baio) — one or two glitches but otherwise fine demonstration of … read more
Four short links: 4 April 2014
April 04 2014C# Compiler Open Sourced — bit by the bit, the ship of Microsoft turns. The Web's Declarative Composable Future — this. For the first time since 1993, I feel like the web platform is taking a step towards being a … read more
Four short links: 3 April 2014
April 03 2014dat — github-like tool for data, still v. early. It's overdue. (via Nelson Minar) Novena Open Laptop — Bunnie Huang's laptop goes on sale. Crowd Forecasting (NPR) — How is it possible that a group of average citizens doing Google … read more
Four short links: 2 April 2014
April 02 2014Resilient Distributed Datasets: A Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-Memory Cluster Computing (PDF) — Berkeley research paper behind Apache Spark. (via Nelson Minar) Angular Tour — trivially add tour tips ("This is the widget basket, drag and drop for widget goodness!" type … read more
Four short links: 1 April 2014
April 01 2014Connected for a Purpose (Jim Stogdill) — At a recent conference, an executive at a major auto manufacturer described his company's efforts to digitize their line-up like this: "We're basically wrapping a two-ton car around an iPad. Eloquent critique of … read more
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I used to be a complete neat freak. I was soooooo organized. When I think back to some of the places I lived years ago, the memory is of a totally spotless home.
And then it all changed. I made major changes in many areas of my life, and I was feeling like I wanted to let go of so many things. Among other things, I felt restricted by my extreme neatness and my super organized lifestyle.
So I let it go. And made the move to disorder and disorganization. People who knew me years ago will probably never believe that last statement, but that's what happened. Ever since then, I've been on a rocky road to finding a balance that works for me. I've developed this tendency to accumulate stuff, and then go on a decluttering rampage and get rid of it.
My desk used to be spotless. Even last year, when I had a job in town, my desk was immaculate. It was the most organized desk in the office: computer, pens, filing rack to organize papers, and a vast stretch of empty desktop.
I can't say the same for my desk today. It's cluttered. I have my computer, papers to the left of it. Pens in a cup and paper for jotting down notes behind my computer, mug of tea and hand cream to the right. And to the far right, I've got a plant and another stack of papers that seem to reappear no matter how often I get rid of them. Oh, and iPhone and iPad on the right side of my desk as well (it's a small L-shaped desk). As if that's not enough, my desk has built-in shelves, so I've got all sorts of things piled on my shelves.
Oh, and a chair to the right of my desk which serves to collect any number of items I choose to pile up on top of it. To the left of my desk, I have a bookcase, which is not only filled with books, but random papers and junk. Unfortunately, the shelves are so deep, that the books go near the back of the shelves, leaving me all sorts of space to pile into the area in front of the books. I'd take a photo to give you a clear idea of what this mess is all about, but I'm too embarrassed.
Or should I say…that's what my desk looked like this morning. Today, I deep cleaned my entire office, walked downstairs to get a mug of tea, and freaked out at what appeared to be a blanket of leaves in our back garden. I spent about 15 minutes raking leaves and piling them into our compost bin.
And I felt fantastic afterward. I had decluttered my office, and I had decluttered my garden. No more random junk, no more leaves.
The thing is, clutter can be distracting, and it can become overwhelming. It's important to let go of the things that we no longer need, and getting rid of these things can actually leave us feeling lighter, more energized. You've probably noticed this feeling after a deep spring cleaning of your house.
Or perhaps you're not bothered by the clutter in your life, but you do feel drained, overwhelmed, disorganized. Try decluttering. Start with one area, and see how different you feel after a deep cleaning.
Take a look at your spaces: your desk, your office, your closet, and other parts of your life. What needs to be decluttered? What things do you no longer need? How can you reorganize the things that you do need? Sometimes when things get out of hand, it can be overwhelming to restore order to our personal space.
If the decluttering task that you face seems daunting, split your personal space up into smaller chunks: desk, bookshelves, bathroom, bedroom closet, etc. Make a written list of all that needs decluttering. Prioritize your list: some areas are clearly more important to declutter than others. Set yourself a reasonable deadline for cleaning out each area. Get started.
As I was writing this, things started to sound familiar to me. That's right, I'd already written a post on decluttering early last year. Unfortunately, things get out of hand from time to time, and as my husband says, I need to read my own blog. Fortunately, I'm lucky in that I tend to move a lot, which means that I do an intensive decluttering each time I move. In fact, between the time I wrote last year's blog post and now, we've moved home…so we'd already gotten rid of many things.
But decluttering still needs to happen on a regular basis.
Which areas of your life do you find more challenging to keep clutter-free?


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Metal-Stamping OverviewThe metal-stamping process is described in general, focusing on types of stamping presses and tooling, as well as other equipment that comprises a com...
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Metal-Stamping PressesMetal-stamping presses can be classified according to drive mechanism—mechanical, hydraulic, servo--and press-frame construction—gap-frame, c-frame, s...
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This article describes the essential components of a stamping-press line, including the stamping press; coil-handling equipment; feed equipment for coil, strip and blanks; part-transfer machinery; delivery systems for stamping lubricants, die-change equipment including QDC apparatus; and more. Also described is the typical layout of a stamping-press line.
For a metal-stamping business to remain competitive, stamping presses, related equipment and the people that tend them must perform to their full potential. A stamping press, surrounded by the right complementary equipment, will stamp quality parts efficiently. That means less scrap, fewer bad parts and more productive use of manpower. Here's a rundown of what you'll find in a stamping-press line, and what considerations are made when putting one together.
This robotic destacker and blankloader automatically feeds blanks into stamping presses, with safeguards installed to prevent blank misfeeds.Photo courtesy of Shuler Inc., Canton, MI.
Coil, strip and blank handling
A stamping-press line typically begins with apparatus designed to feed sheetmetal, in the form of coil, strip or individual pieces, into a press. The material must be fed steadily and at a rate that matches the production speed of a particular stamping job. Besides matching feed speed to press speed, the material must enter the press in the correct orientation and must be of sufficient flatness. Various types of equipment are available to ensure such requirements.
Coil, strip and blanks are delivered to the stamping press by some form of material-handling equipment. Blank feeding may be as simple as a shopfloor worker loading a blank, an individual piece of sheetmetal, into the press by hand. For high-volume jobs or those involving large-sized blanks, robotic destackers stage blanks, and then pick them up and place them into the press. Related equipment such as fanners separate blanks to prevent double-blank feeding, which can harm the stamping press and its tooling, or at the very least create scrap and waste production time as the offending material is cleared. Sensors can be placed to detect blank misfeeds.
A plethora of equipment is available to hold strip and coil in place at the front of the line, and successfully deliver it into the press. Coil-handling equipment such as coil reels hold the coil and strip. Strip is regarded as coil with a narrower width, typically less 12 in. or less, while coil can be as wide as 72 in. and weigh 6,000 lb. or more. Coil- and strip-handling equipment is selected based on the width of the material. A coil reel may be powered to unwind the coil or strip, or power may be provided by a feed unit, powered material straightener or by the stamping press itself. In many cases the feeder, which provides power and guiding for material delivery into the press, is combined with a straightener. The straightener removes imperfections from the material after it unwinds from the coil and before it enters the press. Recent years have seen the advent of servo feeds, which power material movement via servo drives. Servo drives permit more accurate feed lengths (the length of material fed into the press for each press hit) and quicker starts and stops than previous powered-feed methods. Coil-handling equipment may also include coil-end welders that attach the end of one coil to the next, and stations that apply forming lubricant—via rollers or spray nozzles—to the material.
As space is at a premium on many stamping-plant shopfloors, a compact coil line may be specified. Such lines typically are at least 50 percent shorter than standard lines. Compactness is accomplished by combining coil-handling equipment such as the feeder and straightener, and by eliminating a long coil loop that traditionally has handled sheet slackness and tautness after coil unwind and prior to its entry into the press.
A typical small-part metal-stamping line includes, from left, a coil unreeler, a straightener and the stamping press. The control panel in foreground manages the entire operation, including monitoring of in-die sensors that ensure part presence and proper part orientation.
Multiple-press lines
A press line may contain one or more stamping presses. Should a line contain multiple presses, the parts must be passed from press to press. Robots or special automated machinery are placed between the stamping presses to accomplish this. Sometimes parts must be moved from station to station in a press. With progressive dies, the carrier strip holds the parts and provides the means of support and movement throughout the press stations. In the case of transfer dies, apparatus attached to the press raises, indexes and loads parts into successive stations.
Die-change capability
Stamping-press lines may incorporate the means to quickly place dies for a job and remove them promptly upon completion to make room for tooling for the next job. In such quick-die-change (QDC) environments, die carts or towmotors retrieve tooling for a job, staging it next to the press. Rolling bolsters quickly move tooling into and out of the press, making way for quick insertion of staged dies. A control system sets up parameters for an upcoming job to help ensure rapid job changeover. Without QDC capability, job changeover may take as long as half a shift. QDC capability can cut that wasted time—when the press idles—to less than half an hour.
Plenty of work performed in the tooling
To save on costly secondary processes that require material to be transported from the press to another area of the plant or even to an outside source, stampers try to perform as many part-making tasks within the press line. Some actions, such as tapping and welding, may take place within the tooling itself, or at least via machinery attached to the tooling or stamping press. Sometimes nuts or other hardware must be attached to parts. Here, specialized machinery feeds these items into a location where stamping-press action then provides the means of attachment. To ensure proper item placement and orientation, and to ensure that attachment has occurred, sensors may be placed into the press or onto the tooling, a setup referred to as in-die sensing. The sensors relay information to a press-control unit that monitors the part job and if need, be, stops the press should a sensor detect a problem.
Forming lubricant may also be applied within the press bed. Here, lubricant-storage tanks—located remotely or adjacent to the press, feed spray nozzles that apply stamping fluid in a mist to parts and tooling to ease forming and reduce heat and friction. In some cases, the press bed is enclosed to allow forming fluids to flood the work area. In any case, barriers, doors and other apparatus prevent lubricant from reaching the shopfloor environment. For economic and environmental reasons, stampers may employ equipment to capture and reclaim forming fluids for proper disposal or reuse.
Metal stampers must evacuate scrap efficiently from the stamping-press work area to prevent damage to the press, parts and tooling. One method is the use of a press-mounted conveyor that agitates to collect and move scrap out of the way.Photo courtesy of Mayfran International Inc., Cleveland, OH
Scrap handling
Press operation creates scrap, though much thought goes into tooling design to minimize costly scrap generation. Scrap, such as slugs from punching operations, must be evacuated from the stamping-press work area to avoid jamming and damage to the tooling or press. Tooling may be designed to eject scrap from a punch head as the press ram lifts. In any case, scrap collects in the work area and must be discharged. Stamping presses and tooling are designed to help clear scrap to trays or collection areas outside of the work area or underneath the press. This scrap may be transported via conveyance to hoppers. Some stamping-press lines include automated scrap-handling systems that collect scrap and transport it to dumpsters outside of the pressroom. Press lines may make use of technology that senses creation of a bad part, then ejects it into the scrap stream.
End-of-line part capture
Once parts complete the stamping process, they must be collected. In some cases, parts are manually removed and placed in trays, bins or special packaging. Large parts may require end-of-line automation such as robots that grasp parts and place them on racks. Material-handling equipment such as conveyors inhabit the end of press lines to evacuate finished parts.
Press controls tie the line together
As we can see, stamping-press lines contain multiple pieces of equipment, each with a specific function. Press controls tie this myriad equipment together, setting up a line and identifying the correct tooling based on a job number, then managing the processes and providing warnings or even stopping production should faults be detected.
Thought goes into pressline placement
Full stamping-press lines are ideal for production of a similar family of parts or when high part volumes are required. Many large stamping operations employ rows of press lines. For maximum productivity, press lines are arranged so that entry ends are located near part-material storage areas and exit ends are near packaging and shipping areas.
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The Story: It is winter and Bear is sleeping in his cave. One by one a succession of birds and animals come into the cave to get warm and soon a fire is lit. The animals start to share their food, chat and party and Bear snores on! There is a moment of tension when Bear wakes up and growls but he joins the party and at the end of the story it is the animals who are sleeping and Bear who is wide awake.
Bear Snores On is the perfect story to read in winter and it introduces young children to the concept of hibernation, something I had to explain to my daughter after a visit to the zoo last month when the bears weren't in their usual spot. The story introduces a wide range of animals including a hare, a badger, a gopher and a mole. Illustrator Jane Chapman's animals are very cute and she has used muted, earthy colours throughout the book which give a warm cosiness to the cave. Despite the fact that all the action in this book takes place in the cave the easy to read rhyming text and the animal action in each picture move the story along beautifully.
This is a perfect bedtime story and a great book to stimulate discussion about sharing.
Quote from Jessica (age four): "The bear needs to wake up to have a drink!"
Author: Karma Wilson / Illustrator: Jane Chapman
There are other Bear stories which we haven't read yet and some of them are translated into German. We'd love to know if there are any you would recommend.


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I know, I know… they aren't all mokeys and we have chimps, apes and whatever else. But Monkey Business seemed to sum up this collection of pictures best. Just crack on and enjoy the gallery and have a chuckle to yourself at the antics of this lot…
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Post Mortem 2013, Predictions 2014Submitted by jpark on Wed, 01/01/2014 - 10:47
Post Mortem on 2013 predictions and thoughts into 2014
Here's what I wrote this time last year, and how well my forecasts held up against reality:
Predictions for 2013
My guess is at least one country will abandon its attempt to join the EU. I'm not saying that a country will leave the EU, Greece would be my guess on that. Rather, a Poland or other eastern European country will look at the mess in western Europe, and decide that their citizenry shouldn't bail out a Greece/Spain/Italy or other more 'prosperous' country.
You're EntertainmentSubmitted by jpark on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 22:43
One thing few entrepreneurs realize when they receive angel funding is that the role has changed from salesperson to entertainer.
Post mortem 2012, predictions 2013Submitted by jpark on Mon, 12/31/2012 - 14:59
Post mortem on 2012 predictions:
Here's what I wrote this time last year, and how well my forecasts held up against reality:
Inc crystal ballSubmitted by jpark on Mon, 12/31/2012 - 09:43
Question I don't answer - Who are my Customers?Submitted by jpark on Mon, 09/17/2012 - 23:54
I was going over the questions I've been asked as an investor, and questions that I hope/wish new entrepreneurs would ask. And then I considered if there are any questions I would not answer.
There is one question I won't answer.
"Who are my customers?"
Sometimes I know the answer, often times I will have no idea.
But that's not the rationale for not answering.
The reason is the title of this blog.
If an entrepreneur doesn't understand his industry/business well enough to identify the customer, then there's no business to work with/save.
Euro breakup finallySubmitted by jpark on Tue, 07/24/2012 - 21:24
It finally happened.
We are seeing Germany finally decide that they don't want to keep funding the southern europe lifestyle. Spain, Italy,Greace. all the PIIGS and others are being left out. The euro might become a defacto mark within a short time.
Germany and its population has no desire to carry the weight any longer. The Euro existed because countries like Germany and France were willing to let some others slide. The time for that to stop has come.
Post Mortem on 2011 predictions and 2012 predictionsSubmitted by jpark on Mon, 12/26/2011 - 01:17
Here is what I wrote at the end of 2010:
HubrisSubmitted by jpark on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 08:54
At some point every entrepreneur feels this way about investors and other folks who say no.
This is going to happen, and how the entrepreneur feels about this and how the investor reacts are part of the kabuki dance between the two.
Americans won't buy electric carsSubmitted by jpark on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 09:22
USA Today poll shows most folks won't buy an electric vehicle.
There are fears that folks have on buying electric cars. Valid or not, addressable or not, these are fears people have.
Why can't entrepreneurs exitSubmitted by jpark on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 14:04
Why can't entrepreneurs exit.
From the NY Times
A couple of elements I noted were:
The entrepreneur realized that selling to investors, meant that they'd be selling to someone else down the road. And he would lose control over the company.
The investors gave some strategic advice, that the entrepreneur decided to implement.


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- Your camera should be in Normal mode or Manual mode
- In daylight, adjust your Exposure to the lowest possible. Increase Exposure as you go into a dimmer light. Over-exposure will make your makeup look washed-out
- More light will be absorbed from the camera to your image if the ISO is too high, also causing washed-out pictures. The flash will provide you with more than enough light. Therefore, the ISO should be set to the lowest possible
- Auto White Balance is the most practical to have it adapt to the type of lighting you're in. However, you may play around with it to see what works best for you
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Willard Mitt Romney
The Real Romney
Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics
George Wilcken Romney, the former automobile executive who became the centrist Republican governor of Michigan in 1963, was considered a presidential possibility leading up to the 1964 election. Moderate Republicans around the country were getting awfully nervous about this Goldwater fellow and seeking out plausible alternatives. But Romney, a tall and square-jawed man with impressive hair, had made a commitment to the voters of his state that he would serve four years, and Romney was a man who meant what he said, so a 1964 run was out of the question. The task of opposing Barry Goldwater fell to other moderates—Nelson Rockefeller and Pennsylvania's William Scranton. Romney did, however, leave his mark on the campaign: having deemed Goldwater an enemy of civil rights, which he backed ardently, he walked out of the party's convention at San Francisco's Cow Palace. He had his seventeen-year-old youngest son, Mitt, in tow, and thus Mitt, too, occasionally gets credit (at www .aboutmittromney.com, for starters) for stalking away from his party on a matter of the highest principle.1
Today, as the younger Romney struggles to secure the GOP nomination that seemed his for the taking until his crushing loss to Newt Gingrich in South Carolina, to think about that anecdote and his father's towering influence on him, to read these two balanced but essentially unflattering books, and to watch Willard Mitt Romney run a campaign in which he has charged as hard and fast to the right as he could on almost every issue you can think of lead inevitably to comparisons between the two Romneys, comparisons in which the younger Romney comes up dramatically short.
Mitt Romney, as the Massachusetts governor who passed health care legislation, had been a leader, just a few years ago, of the GOP's now much-diminished moderate wing. At the 2008 GOP convention in St. Paul, Romney's party took a number of positions completely at odds with those he had taken as governor, on abortion, gay rights, stem-cell research, and other matters, and adopted other extremist rallying cries, like the infamous "Drill, Baby, Drill!" chant, which thundered maniacally (I was there) through the hall when Sarah Palin spoke, as if the assembled were packing decades' worth of rage at the liberal establishment into those three words.
But does anyone think for a second that Romney fils would have walked out on his party, or even worked to moderate certain platform planks? It's beyond comprehension. We've seen plenty enough now to know that that isn't who Mitt Romney is. Instead, this self-selected member of the East Coast elite opened his convention speech this way:
For decades now, the Washington sun has been rising in the east. You see, Washington has been looking to the eastern elites, to the editorial pages of the Times and the Post, and to the broadcasters from the coast.
If America really wants to change, it's time to look for the sun in the west, 'cause it's about to rise and shine from Arizona and Alaska!
On the evidence offered in these books, Romney seems in certain ways a fine and even rare person. He is diligent, industrious, and appears to be honest; he applies himself to problems, earnestly studying and following the lead of the data. He is a man of apparently deep personal virtue, generous with his money and time. He is very intelligent and has typically succeeded, wildly so, at nearly everything he's done (except, interestingly, politics—he's lost two races and won just one). Bill Bain, who in 1977 hired Romney into the venture capital and private equity firm we've been hearing so much about lately, had "seen something special" in Romney in their first meeting, write Michael Kranish and Scott Helman, veteran and well-regarded reporters for The Boston Globe, in The Real Romney: "All of the partners were impressed, and some were jealous. More than one partner told Bain, 'This guy is going to be president of the United States someday.'"
But with all that, there still seems something missing in the man. Even R.B. Scott, a longtime magazine and newspaper journalist who is a fellow Mormon and former occasional Romney adviser who tried to enlist Romney's cooperation in his book, Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics, cannot escape (and to his credit does not shy away from) pursuing certain dark corners of Romney's character and identifying his weaker points:
His inability to empathize with common folk had long been his hoary hoodoo. His father had warned him about it. As a Mormon stake [roughly, a diocese] president, he was kind if often impatient and patronizing with members who didn't measure up or were beneath him in rank and in intellectual and spiritual prowess. And on and on it went.
"His father had warned him…" For men like Romney, everything comes back in one way or another to father. Mitt was the "miracle baby," the fourth child born nearly six years after the last of the other three, and named in part after J. Willard Marriott—like George, a nationally prominent and respected Mormon. He "grew up idolizing" his father, write Kranish and Helman. He walked the factory floor with him at the American Motors Corporation, which the elder Romney made profitable; he listened closely to his father's religious and civic lectures; he wanted to become his father. His pursuit of the presidency surely has much to do with the fact that his father didn't make it there, torpedoed by his famous comment about having been "brainwashed" about American progress in the war by generals on a visit to Vietnam.
George Romney didn't back down from that remark, made to a Detroit television interviewer in 1967. He never backed down, not even to Nixon, with whom, as HUD secretary, he had numerous skirmishes. The son—unable even to view the "brainwashed" clip, Kranish and Helman write, until thirty-nine years later—seems to have decided that backing down is often a pretty good idea. Commentators have spent countless hours speculating whether Romney is "really" moderate or conservative. The answer is that he is neither, and both. The lessons he learned from watching his father fail to make it to the White House are: don't stick to your guns; be flexible; suit the needs of the moment. And so, in order to complete his father's unfulfilled destiny, he has decided to become his father's opposite.
The Romney family's history is, because of the religious question, pretty far from being a typical American success story. They were a prominent Mormon family going way back who got caught up in the intense ill will between Abraham Lincoln and Brigham Young. Lincoln signed an anti-bigamy law in 1862, aimed specifically at Young and his tribe, and Mitt Romney's great-grandfather had been pursued by armed US marshals on bigamy charges. Miles Romney ended up in Mexico, as did many Mormons of the period, fleeing what the Church of Latter-Day Saints still thinks of as a great persecution of its people.
Miles's son and Mitt's grandfather, Gaskell, flourished there, at least until 1912, when during the civil war Mexican revolutionaries suspected (probably incorrectly) that these Yanqui interlopers would take up arms against them. Gaskell's land was seized, and he became nearly penniless. He returned to the United States and, his grandson might do well to remember, got back on his feet partly because of assistance from the federal government, which had established a $100,000 relief fund for Mormons fleeing Mexico. The Romneys ended up in Salt Lake City, where Gaskell made a handsome living in home construction. George was five.
George moved to Washington, D.C., in the early 1930s. His betrothed, Lenore LaFount, whom he had met in Utah, had her eye on a Hollywood career, and even landed a few parts and seemed on her way. But the unstoppable George persuaded her to marry him. Even though he never managed to finish college, he became a lobbyist—there weren't many in those days—for the aluminum industry. They moved later to Detroit, where he became head of the Detroit office of the Automobile Manufacturers Association, eventually overseeing the industry's war effort. The war ended, and in March 1947, after Lenore had been told by doctors that she could not possibly get pregnant again, the miracle baby arrived.
A beautiful house in exclusive Bloomfield Hills; the Cranbrook School, a private school with a lush campus; unimagined success, as George developed the AMC Rambler, a small car that he intended as competition to the hulking beasts Detroit was producing at the time ("compact car" and "gas guzzler" are among the elder Romney's contributions to our automotive lexicon)—this was the milieu in which Mitt Romney was raised, apparently never getting into a whit of mischief. When he was seventeen, he met Ann Davies—fifteen, beautiful, but not a Mormon—at a party. He announced straightaway his intention to marry her, and she agreed that they would do so at the right time. But first, college beckoned, and Mitt's obligatory missionary service.
He started at Stanford in the fall of 1965. It was a comparatively conservative campus in that age when Mario Savio was rabble-rousing across the bay up in Berkeley, but even Palo Alto provided Romney with a measure of culture shock. One of the resident assistants in his dorm was David Harris, the radical activist who would later marry Joan Baez. Romney attended one antiwar rally, Scott reports, wearing "his signature blazer and tie." But by and large, he stuck to the company of his fellow young conservatives, challenged students on the issues of the day at parties (where he did not smoke or drink), and spent many weekends secretly (even from his parents) flying back to Michigan on weekends to see Ann.
Next came the missionary period, and here we begin to reach the part of the biography that the newspapers have already filled in. Romney went to France, finally ending up in Paris (in 1968, no less). He was driving a car one night in the French countryside, with passengers including the Mormon mission leader in France and his wife, and it was hit headlong by an apparently drunk French priest. The mission leader's wife was killed; Romney was pronounced dead at the scene by one jumpy gendarme, although it turned out that his injuries were comparatively minor. He was—as was his custom—the most energetic young man in the mission, although he found that after knocking on French doors to expound the Mormon faith he ended up spending more time defending Richard Nixon than winning any converts.
He returned to America, and to school—although at the more convivial Brigham Young University now, not Stanford. Ann had already enrolled, and Mitt upon his return was surprised to find that he had to bat away one competing suitor. They married while still undergraduates, which is not unusual there, and began producing the progeny that the Book of Mormon commanded of them (they have five sons, all now grown and married, who have produced sixteen children of their own). He went to Harvard, gaining acceptance to a joint MBA and law program and graduating with honors. He found a job with the Boston Consulting Group, an early business consultancy, and he and Ann bought a home in the solid suburb of Belmont, just beyond Cambridge. He ascended the corporate ladder and the religious one, rising in the local Mormon hierarchy, becoming first a bishop and eventually the president of the Boston "stake."
1 On the page on his website devoted to his father, a Daily News article is cited that pointedly says "both father and son walked out" of the convention. See www.aboutmittromney.com/georgeromney.htm. ↩
On the page on his website devoted to his father, a Daily News article is cited that pointedly says "both father and son walked out" of the convention. See www.aboutmittromney.com/georgeromney.htm. ↩


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On this week's episode of House, James Earl Jones guest-stars as a merciless African dictator who is brought to Princeton-Plainsboro after falling ill. The team must decide if they should help him, despite his crimes against humanity. Meanwhile, Wilson wants to end a feud with a neighbor, but a prying House gets in the way.
At the start of the episode, we meet this week's patient, President Dibala, who is served a civil subpoena for genocide, crimes against humanity and torture. But within seconds of receiving the documents, he begins to vomit blood everywhere and is brought to Princeton-Plainsboro. We soon learn that Dibala is a merciless African leader. Cameron and Chase are called in to temporarily help in the absence of Taub and Thirteen, but Cameron is reluctant to help one of the most repressive dictators in the world.The Old Team ReunitesForeman, Chase and Cameron walk into their think-tank room to find House sitting there reading Dibala's file. House delivers the best line of the night: "Oh my God, it's three years ago. Does that mean I'm still crazy?" He tells Foreman he's still in charge, but is just there to lend a hand. Of course, he chimes in when Foreman jumps to the malaria conclusion.The two go to see Cuddy, and Foreman is pissed House is back considering he just fired his girlfriend when he thought he was going to be boss. Cuddy says House can't take charge since he doesn't have his license, but she still wants him involved.Foreman goes running to Thirteen's apartment with his tail between his legs and offers her back her job. And, of course, she shuts the door in his face. She does, however, come around when he uses his pull to get her an interview at another hospital and the two have dinner. But Foreman puts his foot in his mouth yet again when he says if given a redo on the situation, he'd still make the same decision (as opposed to step aside himself). He's really good at this game.The Treatment and Moral DilemmaRight off the bat, Cameron is very curt with Dibala, but still does as she's told and participates in the brainstorming sessions. House brings up Lassa fever and uses his charming sarcasm to make his point. They begin treatment. Cameron is called in to Dibala's room where she finds a young woman from Dibala's country. She says she will donate her blood to Dibala since she is a survivor of Lassa fever and thus her blood would effectively treat the condition. Cameron says she won't use the blood because she believes the woman is being coerced into doing it. But there's nothing she can do since the woman signed a consent form. Chase is paid a visit by a man posing as a patient and begs him not to save Dibala's life because of the impending genocide he is planning. Chase tells him he's not at liberty to discuss other patients and leaves. Chase later sees the man in scrubs going towards Dibala's room where he tries to shoot the president. He runs after him and finds the man getting his head bashed in by Dibala's security. The team gets back to brainstorming after a new symptom arises and Foreman comes up lymphoma. House begins to play devil's advocate — charades style. But when Foreman tells him it's not up for debate, House admits defeat and mentions to Foreman to shut the blinds on his way out. But wouldn't you know that on the other side of the blinds are the words "Lymphoma, Tada!!" written in big bold letters. He knew all along, but just enjoys making Foreman suffer. Chase talks to Dibala about rumors of his planned massacre. Dibala says he's not causing a genocide, but is trying to prevent it by imposing order. He also admits that his youngest son, who is attending school in America, hasn't spoken to him in years because of what he read in the American papers. Dibala does take blame for creating a league of young men to become abusive killers who know no boundaries. But he also adds that it will never happen again. The team has another brainstorm session after Dibala starts to exhibit memory loss. Foreman wants to treat him for blastomycosis. House says it's scleroderma. But House says if they treat wrong, it will send the disease into hyper-overdrive. House says he'll get Cuddy to make the call, but Foreman shuts him down and says it's his department, his decision.Cameron is about to give Dibala an injection and he grabs her for suggesting she was trying to inject an air bubble into him. Obviously she doesn't, but Chase is not happy he grabbed his wife. Chase asks again if he's planning a massacre, and Dibala tells him not to ask questions he doesn't want the answer to. But when Chase says he saved his life and deserves to know, Dibala says, "Whatever it takes to protect my country." The answer is now clear for Chase.
Somehow, Cameron has changed her tune about saving Dibala and wants to prove House is right about scleroderma. Cameron convinces Foreman to switch his diagnosis based on a new test and treat with steroids. They being to treat, but Dibala flatlines. They try to bring him back but it's no use.House vs. The Cranky NeighborHouse notices Wilson is not using garlic in is Chicken Florentine, nor is he wearing shoes. He beats the floor with his cane, only to hear the neighbor beneath beat on the ceiling right back. Wilson admits the neighbor, who's on the building's board and is a scary, one-armed vet, was complaining of excess noise and smells since House moved in.
House tries to pry, and snoops around to figure out who the man is. He sees him at the mailboxes and the man turns out to be a total jerk (even unprovoked by House's smart mouth). House does some research and is convinced he's not a war vet and confronts him after he sees a Canadian flag hanging on his the wall. The man is livid and not only threatens to press charges for House entering his home, but he also tells him he's not lying about being a vet because for the past 36 years, he still has the same pain he felt when he was holding onto the young boy he was trying to save from a land mine before his arm was blown off. The man tells Wilson he's pressing charges unless House leaves and House takes matters into his own hands. He breaks into the neighbor's home, drugs him and ties him up. House pulls out a box with two holes and divided by a mirror which makes it appear as though both arms are there. House tells the man to clench his fist, and after some time, he tells him to release. Somehow this mental trick releases the man from the pain he felt from holding on for 36 years. The vet calls Wilson and says he will no longer press charges if House stays.The KickerForeman is distraught about losing a patient and goes to morgue to rerun the antibody test to see if he was right in the first place, or just too late. He can't get by the armed guard, but does find Chase's name on the morgue sign-in sheet just before he ran the test on Dibala early that morning. Foreman confronts Chase, saying there was a woman in there who died from scleroderma and suggests Chase took her blood to mess up Dibala's test and thus forced them to treat for the wrong disease. Chase fesses up and says Dibala was going to kill a hundreds of thousands of people. He also adds that if Foreman rats him out, Dibala becomes a martyr and the massacres begin. But all Foreman can say is, "Do you really think you could kill another human being without any consequences for yourself?" "No," says Chase.The final scene shows Dibala's son crying over his father's body, a visibly distraught Chase lying down next to Cameron and Foreman lighting the sign-in sheet on fire. Now that's a heavy episode. What did you think?
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5. Replacing Tristan & Rachel5: 'REPLACING X' Form
Genre of Story: Semi-realistic sci-fi?
Time Period/Location: Modern day, Washington, D.C.
Brief Plot: A teen accidentally invents a mind-control device out of a HAM radio. In his experimenting, he involves three other people. One of these works for the government, and indirectly gets all five of them taken in for questioning. Then, a wild chase ensues after the five escape that ultimately leads the young inventor to make a big decision.
Unchanged Characters: William "Bill" Parker, Clark Gordon, and Marcia "Marcy" Holloway, the three adults whose lives are disrupted by the teens. But I can be persuaded out of almost anything except the plot at this point, which I swear is better than it sounds.
Character 1:
Current Name: Rachel Veronica Wynn.
Reason for Change: This character used to be a minor one, but I switched her to the narrator, and I feel this promotion deserves a name change.
Character Description: In sharp contrast to her boyfriend (see below), she was born to an upper-middle class couple and is their only child. She's a goody-goody, and wears rose-colored glasses until she's taken in for questioning, where they are basically shattered. She's sheltered, to put it simply. She's a happy person until the end, when she becomes indecisive and a tad panicky. On top of all this, she's bossy and pushy, but has good intentions (isn't that always the case?).
She looks like this.
Immediate Family (if relevant): Not relevant. But if you've got any ideas, throw 'em at me!
Already Considered (if relevant): Rebecca, Julia, and Samantha "Sam."
Don't Suggest These Names: Anything that's too unique, since she's supposed to be very normal. Or too Southern, like Ada or Clementine or Georgia. But at the same time, I'm not looking for something so normal as Elizabeth, unless it's for the middle name.
Anything else?: I don't think so, but you can always ask me for elaboration on anything!
Character 2:
Current Name: Tristan Cole Young.
Reason for Change: It's just wrong for him. I can't explain it. This guy is not a Tristan. Besides, I hear Tristan all over the place, it seems.
Character Description: He's a very teenagery teenager. Sarcastic smart aleck. A bit bitter. Has less than stellar self-confidence. But boy, is he a smart cookie. He's smart enough to question everything he's told, and always prefers to figure things out on his own. Very introverted.
He looks like this, but occasionally wears glasses when he's too lazy for contacts.
Immediate Family (if relevant): His father is a drunk named Michael Andres Young, and he owns a gas station. His mother was Helen Pickford Young, but she died in a car crash along with her other son Elliot Pickford Young (name change for bro, too?).
Already Considered (if relevant): Not relevant. I'm really stuck.
Don't Suggest These Names: Pretty much all of the same rules from his girlfriend's name apply here.
Anything else?: Ask me questions if you have any!
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EDIT: I have chosen Rachel Kore as the narrator's first and last name, but I still need a middle, and her boyfriends is still nameless!
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maepae - I'm looking for a middle name now (sorry--please see edit above), but I love Hailey and Emma! Maybe for friends-I've-yet-to-cast. The boys names, for some reason, just don't "fit" with him. Theo comes REALLY close, but doesn't quite hit the nail directly on the head.
renrose - See edit above. Alison, too, I think I'm going to add to the friends list. I like your suggestion of Danny best, but I can't see them on him.
Sorry, I sound really difficult to please, I know. It's only because I really like this story!
But thank you so much for your suggestions! They really are awesome, and they'll probably sneak in there, but not for these particular characters.
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I'm not sure what your idea of unusual is so I'm not sure if some of these are too unusual for you.
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I have not watched last night's Community yet, although I heard it was good. I really like and support that show and am glad that it has been picked up for a second season, although I do hope they make some changes next year. I'm not even sure what changes they should make, and it's not like Dan Harmon comes down to my work and slaps the whatever out of my whatever, but out of the four Thursday night shows, Community has gotten stuck at the bottom of my priorities list for some reason, and considering that The Office has run its course and makes no sense, Community should, at the very least, hold a solid third place. I'm thinking lose the Jeff-Britta romantic tension (because more like romantic tensioNOT, right you guys? Good turn of phrase! Why don't I have a TV show?!) and kill the weekly melodramatic meta-morals. This isn't Strangers with Candy, and the show already pokes enough holes in traditional sitcom structures and tropes without needing to do that every. single. week.
But like I said, I haven't watched this week's episode. Maybe the whole thing just got turned on its head and I don't even know it yet. What I do know about is this week's Parks and Recreation, The Office, and 30 Rock:
Parks and Recreation was good! Although, and I know I am a broken record about this, but why is Ann always at every event? Is a nurse really going to attend the parks and recreation department's Spring Catalog planning committee meeting in the middle of the day? Is she really going to stay up all night to help with a telethon? I guess she's friends with all those guys, but I have friends, I know what friendship is like, and an all-night telethon would almost certainly happen to fall on the night that I was busy doing stuff with my other friends. My nurse friends, for example! But if NBC decided to cancel all of the Thursday night shows and just have Chris Pratt sitting in a chair talking for two hours, I WOULD WATCH THOSE TWO HOURS.
The Office was fine! What is there to say?
30 Rock was both fine and great! It was not my favorite episode of all time or anything, but I will say that Liz Lemon and Buzz Aldrin yelling insults at the moon was one of the funniest things I have seen on TV in a long time. "I walked on your FACE!" And Elaine Stritch as Jack Donaghy's mom is always a treasure. Why doesn't Elaine Stritch host Saturday Night Live? She would be great! Oh, that's right. Because the Internet hasn't given her its so-inherently-ironic-in-everything-that-it-does-that-it-doesn't-even-realize-when-it's-being-ironic-anymore blessing. Sorry, Elaine Stritch. No absurdist nostalgia-throwback-half-prank-goof of a Facebook Fan Group, no late life, mildly condescending career resurrection.
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UPDATE: last night's episode of Community was great!
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Gabe, don't analyze Community too much. Just sit back and enjoy it for what it is.
This week's episode was all kinds of awesome. Abed's Matrix stunt was the best.
Everyone's all of their stunts was the best. I think this was my favorite episode of any comedy this year.
Oh my gosh, I haven't seen this episode yet but so far this GIF is the best thing I've seen in the last 24 hours.
what the heck is CityTV?
Yeah! Spaced remake! Don't hurt Me.
For any Monster that hasn't read this, Allison Brie's story about having sex with her gay friend in art school is well worth the price of admission (which is free).
Well who would have thought Allison Brie was a promiscuous lady? Not I sir, Not I.
Having sex with one gay dude does not necessarily promiscuity make.
That is true, but this does:
"I developed this (possibly misplaced) sexual pride, based solely on the quantity of penetrations of my vagina… and not necessarily the quality of the acts therein."
Nevermind, I hadn't read it just yet! I really need to have as much sex as her.
Yes, she also claims to have learned to breathe through her coccyx in that piece. It is fiction, folks.
my girlfriend hates it when I breathe through my coccyx.
I don't know, "you need to learn to breathe through your coccyx" sounds exactly like the kind of thing my non-fictional college theatre professor would have said. I completely believe her.
ha! this is the best thing I've read all week! two thumbs up.
That was spectacular.
I didn't think it was possible to want her more! But somehow I do. Also, I imagined the dude in this story was just Pete Campbell.
For a while, I didn't really see the appeal in Community. But last night was THE BEST, definitely my favorite.
Last night had it all! They parodied Die Hard, The Matrix, John Woo, Michael Bay,and countless other films! and SPOILER ALERT Britta and Jeff finally did it!
To that list I would add:
Boondock Saints
And I don't think it's fair to bag on Community for the Jeff/Britta thing. Anyone who has been watching knows they've laid low on that for quite a while now, until this episode. It's been genius lately.
Jambi | Posted on May 7th, 2010 +21
I thought when Jeff woke up from his nap was a 28 Days Later parody.
also Terminator 2 and 28 Days Later
"The refresh button is your friend. Use it."
–me, to me
The "students taking each other out until one remains" plot is from Battle Royale.
The two gold guns that Senor Chang pulls out are a nod to Face Off…i know John Woo is already up there, but I was proud of myself for getting a stupid action movie reference (I spent three hours watching it the other weekend: edited on USA)
And, if I am not mistaken, the "Medic!" line was a shout out to TF2? Maybe?
What?! Community has been so good lately! First the Chicken-Goodfellas parody episode and then last night's ten-kinds-of-awesome-action-movie-parody Paintball episode, it's becoming one of the most innovative comedy shows on television.
"The only thing taxing will be picking out the proper software to use."
As an accounting major, I appreciated this.
My Thursday night programming anticipation rankings are now as follows:
1. Parks & Rec
2. 30 Rock/Community (Tie)
3. HSN presents: Spanx on Parade
4. Re-runs of Walker: TX Ranger on the Hallmark Channel
5. The Office.
There are two kinds of diabetes, but only one kind of caring. Type 1 Caring.
Seriously, Gabe…stop being such a dick about Betty White.
Gabe | Posted on May 7th, 2010 +15
I'm not being a dick about Betty White. I'm being a dick about the Internet's relationship with Betty White. There's a huge difference.
Kind of a sophistry, I think. You're saying "the Internet" has created this ironic resurrection of someone you're basically characterizing as a has-been. But most people who are remotely familiar with her work recognize that A) those who are driving this "movement," and those who (like me) are just sort of enjoying it from the sidelines, are generally pretty sincere in their appreciation of her comedic talent and stunning career longevity; and (B) she's not undergoing a "career resurrection" because she has never left TV. Anyone who thinks her career started and ended with "Golden Girls" is not paying attention.
Look. I know this SNL thing is a little dicey, but I really think most of her stuff will be pre-taped. They're not dumb enough to put an 88-year-old woman through five costume changes. And maybe some of her talk-show appearances have been spotty, but a lot of them have been great. So why is it so wrong to just give her this moment? It may be brilliant or it may possibly be a disaster, but either way it'll be more memorable than anything Taylor Swift or January Jones could ever hope to pull off.
For anyone who cares, here's a nice collection of Betty White moments since the '50s. Some of them are fucking hilarious.
Jeb | Posted on May 7th, 2010 +11
Stop wasting your time and get on the Elaine Stritch bandwagon. I just built it out of extinguished cigarettes, broken liquor bottles and feather boas. That's a an elderly woman who can share the stage with Jay Z and hold her own. (Weirdly, I just read she was considered for Bea Arthur's role on Golden Girls. For reals.)
LEAVE BETTY WHITE ALONE!!!!!!!! *sob*
I have a huge crush on Community. Hopefully it won't send me an email using "there" instead of "their" and wreck it all (looking at you, previous crush).
Ouch. A blackout pulling-its-pants-down episode would be OK, right?
It's a completely sitcomy thing to do but Mrs. Lutz being just Lutz in a wig was the absolute best.
What I enjoyed most was Community abandoning all pretense of reality, yet further a plot arc (even if that arc was full of romantic tensionot).
Agree! It reminded me of the one-off NewsRadios, like the one in space.
"What if instead of reporting the news, we reported … the space news?"
Holy shit. Best username/avatar ever. Well, played. I'm going downtown. To see you! I want my leads!
Tanis | Posted on May 7th, 2010 +14
I don't think it's becoming ironic. I think they very much know and love what they're parodying and paying homage to. I don't think Glee does. On Glee it's like "Here's some songs? They all have Hello in the title? Sort of?" Also, there's the matter of Glee being pretty terrible while Community is relatively strong.
"Come with me if you don't want to get paint on your clothes." Abed is the best.
I also loved Senor Chang's paintball gun. "I'm the kind of jerk who brings his own equipment!" His entrance was magnificent.
I believe the Glee/Community thing is that they are shot on the same set, so it's basically a big inside joke combined with a insanely self aware show making fun of whatever the hell Lea Michelle and Matthew Morrison are doing.
I had Detlef Schrempf's trading card in my trapper keeper surrounded by Lisa Frank heart stickers all throughout junior high. Parks and Rec left me feeling 13 and breathless.
who am I? is it Keith?
So many easter eggs for the supermonsters:
Liz Lemon's Mom: "I had just graduated from Secretary School and I got a job at Sterling Cooper."
Puppies on Parks & Rec (Hi, Birdie!)
Mrs. Paltrow-Delahaye on The Marriage Ref
don't forget trampoline accidents mentioned on 30 Rock!
Don't forget the Pajamaralls and Jenna's mom's trampoline accident!
I knew I missed something big. I should keep a TV viewing journal. Thanks for having my back, monsters.
Don't forget that the Bitch-Hunters was written by Matthew Weiner.
"I see you! I see what you're doing! Return to the night! You have no business here!"
I graduated from a crap school for old people who made terrible mistakes when young and thus Community is pretty much a documentary about me (yeah, I'm Britta and I married Senor Chang, spoiler alert).
I'm dying for an animated gif of Ron Swanson getting licked by that adorable puppy. Monsters, make my dream come true!
the intro to parks and rec with that puppy/aziz narration were so fantastic. i was pretty disappointed that the puppy didn't make an appearance at the telethon because that would have been adorable.
My only question is, What did they put on his mustache? I'm betting on peanut butter.
Community was fantastic. Prioritize, Delahaye.
And 28 Days Later. (very first scene)
All I know is, if we don't get a Modern Family open thread soon, I may have to shoot someone in the face with a paintball gun.
Last night was genius. Except for the Office, which I watch with my Mom, so there you go. But I still like it, because once I love something, it's HARD TO LET GO.
LET'S DIA-BEAT-THIS! 4 hours spent thinking of the slogan, 4 hours making the shirts. Time well spent.
There are things in this world you don't even realize you want, until they're there, standing in front of you asking you to yell at the moon with them.
Moment of the night – Pajamaralls:
I would like to know Yassir Qadhi take on Valentine.. I think this special day effects all of muslims, esp in arabia having calling it the Eid of Love. I dont know the history about valentines… but when have we cared when it came to looove. Automated Forex Trading
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A drug lord was going to be executed that dawn. In the stillness of that morning, we heard the volley of shots. They sounded like they were coming from my headboard. I learned later in the day that a man was sentenced to death by firing squad, and it happened in the target shooting range, a 15-minute walk from our house. No wonder.


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There's the influence described in formal organizational charts. Executives influence middle managers, who influence managers, who influence front-line employees. It's like the way a tree's roots affect the trunk, which affect the branches, which affect other branches, which affect the leaves. People rise in organizations depending on their political savvy and the way they handle situations. The influencer's relationship to the status quo is clear: managers might be good at keeping everything running smoothly (preserving the status quo), while leaders are good at inspiring people to change (seeking a new status quo). People have a mix of both traits, of course, but favour one or the other. The relationships are clear, and you can work with them.
This isn't the only way influence works. Social network analysis may show you that the most influential person isn't Bob, the manager, but Sally, the receptionist, who knows everyone and who can nudge people to support new initiatives. This is the influence of webs, where pulling on one strand affects the other. Change management initiatives take this kind of influence into account when they use social network analysis to find the key influencers and early adopters by asking people to identify who influences them in particular situations. Then they can work with those people to encourage change. These relationships may not be immediately obvious, but they can be determined from communication patterns or surveys. People can intentionally influence their social network, working to either support or resist change.
But there's another kind of influence that I don't quite understand, although I've had many experiences of it. People do things that influence strangers in ways they don't expect. I think of it as the influence of clouds . You could write a blog post that someone in Australia reads, enjoys, and thinks about, but you don't know about that potential relationship and you don't do it because you want to change other people's lives or help them stay the same. You do it just because it helps you think, and yet things happen. How do you plan for or measure that kind of influence?
What would it feel like to be able to go with the flow of improvisation, to be able to find the game and go with it?
It's hard to think that I'll get to that point. Today, I felt like a trembling 11-year-old rushing through my first speaking parts, thinking too much about the scene and the situation for me to fully enjoy. I found it hard to keep eye contact, to build the relationship, even to listen and recognize the games that we could play with each other.
Maybe after five more weeks, my classmates and I will have figured more of this out! Wouldn't that be fun? =)
One of my challenges is finding the game, then letting go. A scene doesn't have to be about conflict or about problem-solving. It can be just a day in the life. I don't have to consciously amp it up. What would this look like if we did this really well? We might stumble across something interesting, then recognize it and play off it throughout the scene. It's like the little jokes that W- and I have! We play word-games all the time, and we occasionally make up situations too. If I can figure out how to take that feeling and bring it to my classes, I think that would be pretty cool.
How can I grow in this? There are a few things I can do:
Another of my challenges is to not get distracted by the environment, activity, objects, or imaginary people outside the scene, but rather to focus on developing the relationship between the on-screen characters. What would doing that really well look like? I'd be able to listen hard, accept whatever reality my partner creates, figure out our game, and move the scene forward.
I'm still getting used to making up reality. Normal conversation doesn't usually include establishing other people's realities based on made-up assumptions.
It's useful to practice both strong initiations and great agreement. I can practice initiation and relationship development is by writing flash fiction. Agreement and finding the game, that's harder to practice on my own. It is, after all, a game. But maybe I can pick some of that up by watching other people, or even video.
<grin> This'll be fun!
Also, another interesting insight from today: playing a high-status person doesn't automatically mean putting other people down. It was obvious once our teacher pointed that out, but I think we'd all gone for the snobbish stereotype! <laugh> I'll be keeping an eye out for status (both high and low) in real life…


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