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Photos: Cooking at the Aspen Ideas Festival
By Marcus Samuelsson | July 1, 2013
I was invited to cook the "Meal of a Lifetime" for the Booz Allen Hamilton dinner at the Aspen Ideas Festival, a solid week devoted to gathering some of the greatest minds across the world and listening to them discuss topics related to the economy, energy, citizenship, design, innovation and so much more. Fresh off my trip to Aspen for the Food & Wine Festival, I was happy to be back in town. Although I was only there for less than 24 hours, I was thrilled to meet the great people who came out to the dinner and share a little taste of Red Rooster in Colorado. Here's what we served: Read More

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Hollywood Museum
Hollywood Museum
For decades, Fire Station 27 served Hollywood, the motion picture studios, the stars who lived in the hills and along Sunset Boulevard, and during major emergencies, the entire city at large. The Northridge earthquake nearly brought an end to the magnificent old building, but it was saved from the wrecking ball and rebuilt. For the past decade, a new Fire Station 27 sits next door and continues the tradition established by the ornate and long-lived building.
Today, Old Fire Station 27 is a completely restored facility, and represents what the station was like when it was in operation. Three apparatus bays are filled with equipment, some dating back to the early 1900s and not to be found anywhere else. In addition, artifacts and equipment of all types are on display, dating from the 1880s through the present day. There are existing and under-development exhibits upstairs as well.
Old Station 27 also includes a Fire Service Research Library and a learning center where fire and life safety lessons are shared with both children and adults.
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First appearing as a prototype kit-bash studio model in the debris field of Star Trek: The Next Generation's episode "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II", the design of the Nebula-class was upgraded to a full-fledged studio model, to represent a major class of starship in "The Wounded". As Michael Okuda explained on Doug Drexler's blog, "The original concept for the Nebula-class ship was to develop a design that was in the style that Andy Probert had so brilliantly established for the Enterprise-D. (You may recall that every other Federation starship in early TNG episodes was made with recycled movie ships.) Our initial hope was that Greg could use the same molds from the 4' Enterprise-D, but that he could add a bigger bridge and give it bigger windows. The idea was to suggest that this ship was a contemporary of the E-D, but it was a smaller vessel." [X]wbm
The BoBW kit-bash models
Ed Miarecki designed and built two Nebula-class vessels to appear in the debris field of the "The Best of Both Worlds"-episode. Okuda remembered, "Nebula-class USS Melbourne. The original version of the Nebula. Ed made us two nearly-identical Melbourne models. I destroyed one of them to create a battle-damaged ship for BOBW2. (I recall being up in the art department one evening, Dremel tool in hand, cutting up the ship, while Patrick Stewart, in Borg costume, came upstairs to use the Xerox machine. He asked me what I was doing. I showed him the model and said something like, "See what you did!") Rick Sternbach helped with the battle damage, too. And Greg Jein contributed quite a bit of wreckage as well. The other Nebula model ended up on one of the side tables in Sisko's office in DS9. I think it was labeled "Melbourne," too."[1]
The models, built from parts of Galaxy-class AMT Star Trek model kits, No's 6618 and 6619, differed from its later definitive appearance in that they sported two smaller warp nacelles where the sensor pod was to be positioned and that the secondary hull was more elongated. Sisko's desk top model (having made two early appearances as desktop model in TNG: "Future Imperfect", "The Wounded"), representing the destroyed Melbourne was refitted with a sensor pod after its first few appearances in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
For "Emissary", the producers decided to use the more detailed Excelsior-class studio model to represent the USS Melbourne, thus robbing the proto-Nebula from its name and registry. Stock footage of the now nameless distressed model is present in the episode (seen in the window of Benjamin Sisko's escape pod, just as it leaves the doomed USS Saratoga), making it the only studio model, besides the Borg cube model, to appear in both depictions of the Battle of Wolf 359 and its aftermath.
The physical studio model
The design upgrades for the Nebula-class were done by Mike Okuda and Rick Sternbach and the model was built by Greg Jein. In Drexler's blog, Okada elaborated further: "As so often happens with this kind of project, we didn't give Greg enough time to accomplish this, so we decided to retain the original scale of the Galaxy-class ship saucer. I suggested the original 'AWACS' pod in response to a producer's observation that the ship might otherwise appear unbalanced. Unfortunately, the AWACS pod didn't look as elegant as we had hoped in "The Wounded". Rick Sternbach came to the rescue with the cool triangular pod that we used in later episodes." The time constraints could also explain why the USS Phoenix is not equipped with reaction control thruster assemblies. Fortunately, Jein was able to save time by using the molds of the recently constructed 4-foot Galaxy-class to cast the saucer section and the nacelles.
As to the apparent lack of impulse thruster on the model Sternbach commented in the same blog, "One of the rationalizations I imagined ages ago for having no obvious impulse grilles involved capturing and compressing the impulse fusion reaction exhaust and later releasing it from special non-propulsive ports. If the Nebula-class was employed in a stealthy surveillance mode, it would be smart to minimize all overboard emissions. Since most all 'modern' impulse engines involve little or no pure rocket thrust, but more of a sub-warp drive, one could say that the familiar orange Starfleet glowy exhausts could be modified or eliminated."[X]wbm
The model was used extensively, redressed (mostly done by Drexler and Okuda) several times to represent other class vessels in later seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the first three seasons of Deep Space Nine. [X]wbm
When the shape of the sensor pod was reconsidered, Doug Drexler was also asked to come up with an alternative, "At one point, Dan Curry called Mike indicating that we may need an AWAC pod variant. We obliged by kludging one together. We ultimately did not use it.", Drexler remembered, who used amongst others, parts of a Miranda class model kit and computer keyboards.[X]wbm Instead the producers followed Sternbach's re-design. Drexler's part, measuring 12"x11"x6", turned up on 8 August 2010 as Lot #76 in the Propworx' "Star Trek Prop and Costume Auction", estimated at US$600-$800, where it sold for US$350 (including buyer's premium).[2]
In 1994 the model underwent extensive refurbishment done at the Industrial Light & Magic workshop supervised by modeler John Goodson for Star Trek Generations. The model was totally stripped from its original paint scheme (white with duck-egg blue highlights) and a new more detailed paint scheme, necessary to meet big screen requirements, was applied (blue-gray with metallic blue highlights) to represent the USS Farragut (Cinefex, No.61, 1994, page 69). In its new livery the model was used to represent the USS Leeds, for the upgraded opening title sequence of the last four seasons of DS9. Since no dorsal shots were made for this sequence, the Farragut decals on top of the saucer were not replaced. The last time the model was shot, was for a battle scene in Star Trek: First Contact as an unnamed vessel (although the model was still wearing the Farragut/Leeds decals, the shot was composed in a way that name and registry were not discernible).
The physical studio model itself, worn and showing its age[3] has escaped the 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection and It's A Wrap! sale and auctions, and is still in the possession of Paramount Television, having been on tour as late as 2011. After closure of the Star Trek The Exhibition tour at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 31 October 2011, the model was pulled from the tour circuit and remanded in temporary custody of Alec Peters of Propworx, Inc.. [4] Damaged from years of intensive handling on the tour circuit, Peters stated in private correspondence with Ex Astris Scientia that, "It will be restored and then who knows where it will wind up, but won't be sold. It is part of the CBS archive now! I have already contacted Greg Jein about restoring it."
The CGI model
For appearances in the later seasons of Deep Space Nine and Voyager a CGI model was built at Foundation Imaging in 1997 by Robert Bonchune, making its debut in VOY: "Message in a Bottle". In a ploy that was reminiscent of what Jein had done, constructing the physical model, Bonchune said, "I got to have as reference, sitting at the front of my desk, the actual filming miniature! It was a good 4 feet across. In the effort to be expedient, I did "kitbash" existing parts of the CG USS Enterprise-D, but it still needed completely new parts and major changes to existing maps to match the miniature,". (Sci-Fi & Fantasy Models, issue 32, 1998, p.54) The utilization of the parts of the Galaxy model went a long way explaining why the CGI Nebula differed slightly in appearance from its physical counterpart in that both the center line section of the secondary hull and the saucer rim were slimmer, suggesting, on screen at least, one deck less each. The most significant difference was the change of the shape of the deflector dish housing to an oval shape akin to the Galaxy-class. Also, the CGI Enterprise-D sported the original gray-blue/duck-egg blue paint scheme, mapped onto that model from high resolution pictures taken from her four-foot physical counterpart, which was also transferred onto the Nebula model instead of the new paint scheme applied at ILM. [X]wbm
Bonchune's model went on to make several appearances in and onto licensed Star Trek publications, most notably in the Star Trek: Ships of the Line calendars and their book derivative.


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Primate Robin Dunbar talks language, politics, and cyborgs
Evolutionary anthropologist, biologist and psychologist Robin Dunbar is most famous for comparing primate brain mass and troupe size to find the social limits imposed by the human brain. Dunbar's number (about 150) can be seen limiting the populations of indigenous tribes, army units, corporate offices and other social groups worldwide. Ian Murphy called Dunbar at his office at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
Thanks for taking the time. Let's start with language. Your idea of language is that it's—what is your idea of language?
Um… I guess it's that language primarily serves a social function, rather than—
It's not always about communicating?
Well, it is about communication, but the traditional view of language is that—what I call the Einstein and Shakespeare idea of language. It's very highfalutin and it's all about how you make things and, you know, how to arrange going hunting and things like that—technical information exchange. And I guess my view is simply that that is secondary to the primary function, which has to do with social bonding.
Yeah, you've drawn the parallel to grooming.
Yes. So it replaces—it doesn't replace grooming, it adds to grooming in a very efficient way in humans, because we simply wouldn't have enough time to bond our social groups by grooming in the way monkeys and apes do.
And we have showers.
Yes. We do lots of other things that also have the same effect as grooming. That is to say the reason grooming seems to work is that it triggers an endorphin release, so you get this sort of light opiate high when you—we still do when you're sort of cuddled and petted by somebody it produces the same effect. But we've also discovered, if you like, other ways to produce that effect that doesn't require direct physical contact. And one of them is laughter, so joking. You can therefore get lots of people bonded at the same time. Whereas the problem with grooming is that it's a one-on-one activity; you can only do it to one person at a time. But by getting people to laugh, you can get a whole group kind of jelled together. Religious rituals are very good at having the same effect—and singing and dancing.
What do you think repetition has to do with religious ritual?
There's something peculiar about repetitive movements, which seems to be particularly good at triggering trance states. And these trance states seem to be tied up with the release of these neurochemicals that are deeply involved in bonding—including both endorphins, the brain's own painkiller, and also oxytocin—the so called love drug.
Are we the only species that does that?
On the scale that we do, I think we are. Primates do it using—these same mechanisms are involved. Both these neurochemicals are heavily involved in social bonding in all mammals in fact, but it's really confined to the few species which have pair-bonded mating systems. But primates are different in that they have more intensely deep-bonded groups where individuals have these pair-bond-like relationships with several individuals, and they're not necessarily reproductive. What we've done is taken a kind of pair-bond mating relationship and generalized it to create a class of friends, in relationships which are not sexual in that sense, but are intensely social and create this same sense of, if you like, obligation and so on that you get in pair-bonded relationships in other species.
So, while a group of people are creating their social bond, are they also excluding the other?
Um, that is probably almost inevitable, so I think yes. The lot of these, these mechanisms are designed to create intensely well-bonded communities. But in a traditional kind of context, in an evolutionary context, that is, in much smaller scale societies than—of course we are way beyond small scale societies! [Laughs]
You're probably best known for your number of approximately 150, which is uh—
That's a small scale society, yes! But the interesting thing is: that these, these mechanisms very easily capture, um, on a grander scale, so that comedians, but also preachers can appeal to very large number of individuals, far beyond 150.
Uh huh…
What seems to happen is that these kind of people, preachers ands comedians, kind of share qualities in terms of their performance, their ability to—I mean, if you think of a kind of classic Baptist-type, you know, charismatic-type, church service where there are lots of, you know, 'hallelujahs' and 'yes brother,' and all this kind of stuff, you know, the way the preacher works the audience and builds them up into this sort of state of intense excitement is very, very similar to the way a comedian works the audience. And it probably requires the same kinds of social skills to be able to do it. Hopefully, the purpose is very different, but it's exploiting the same kind of bonding mechanism, which kind of makes us feel, you know, very happy with the world and with everybody—'We're doing it!' when we come out of Ives' fifth, or the church, according to which way you've gone.
So, the means are different, but the end is the same.
Well, the end that it creates is a sense of belonging to a community. And I think the point is then that you can use that, in principle, to create a very large scale community, on a bigger scale, in the way big religions do, you know, in that they create this sense of belonging. I don't think comedians don't work quite so well at that. There's seems to be something kind of slightly peculiar about religion that really makes you feel that if you're part of this small community, then another community down the road which signs up to the same set of beliefs, belongs to the same church, you know, is also part of your extended community and therefore you know you should be nice to them. It offers the opportunity of political power to create enormous…social groupings, in effect, far beyond the level of tradition societies of 150.
Do you think that this kind of inclusion and exclusion that's caused by social binding, like, that results in, you know, racism, religious spats or tribalism—do you think it's endemic to the human condition?
I think it probably is. I mean this goes back. If you look at all tradition societies—all the hunter gatherer societies—they all have this distinction between us and them. And indeed it's in the very words they use. The words, most of these traditional societies—which are pretty much now confined to sort of the Amazon, South American jungles and bits of Africa and bits of Southeast Asia——the word nearly all of them use for themselves doesn't say, like, 'We are Americans' or 'We are British' or whatever, it just says we are human—human. And the big distinction is between us and our community, who speak the same language, and them out there, who don't count as human. And it doesn't make too much difference, as it happens, if they belong to a different human group, as it were, or if indeed they're animals. It's clearly—hunter gatherers of that kind are not confused! [Laughs] They don't confuse zebras with, you know, members of another tribe in a kind of ontological sense. You know: 'Those people over there, in that other tribe are human in the sense that we are, but they don't belong to our group and therefore they don't count as human!' And this is a very, very—almost universal feature of human society. And I think it goes back to the fact that, like all primates, our social, you know—our kind of evolutionary success hinges on solving the problem of survival and successful reproduction communally. We live in an implicit social contract. And to make an implicit—so you gain disproportionally by collaborating in the processes of successful survival and reproduction, in a way which is dependent on individuals being very committed to each other. But you can't do that with an unlimited number of individuals in the natural state, as it were. It only works up to a certain point, and that's why you get these limits on group sizes. And we're kind of stuck with that psychology, if you like. I mean, it's one argument for the fact that, you know, we have a stone-aged mind and a space-aged body. Here we are, the world has changed! What is it, 305 million in the US as of today? Going up to 450 by the middle of the century, I heard the predictions this morning.
That's just not sustainable, is it?
[Hearty laugh] Well, you know, I mean, that is another issue, I mean, whether it's sustainable or not. Let's be charitable and say it is. It's perfectly clear that you can maintain some sort of social cohesion—even on something at that scale, in that, you know, all you guys, you know, sign up to certain kinds of principles and beliefs, you know, as laid out in the Constitution and so on. And that's kind of reinforced every morning in school with the kids with the…uh…the…what's the thing with the flag and all this kind of stuff. So, you can create a sense of belonging to a community on that kind of enormous scale, but it's never going to have the same feel to it.
It's a more tenuous bond—
Well, it is. It's never going to be on the scale that you'll get in a small rural community in the Appalachians or Quintana or somewhere, where people's roots go back many generations in that community and many people are kind of interrelated with each other. That sense of small scale community can be very, very deep and very committed. You know, if you threaten one of my second cousins twice-removed, you're threatening me. Whereas, you know, on the east coast you may look askance at what happens in California. "Let 'em!" If California falls off the edge of the continent, who cares?
Yeah, Lex Luthor had it right.
But nonetheless, you know, you see it in the context of war and stuff, you know, if there's a national atmosphere, then people kind of pull together. They will never pull together in the way a small community will pull together. But it's still there—this sort of aegis. And you can whip it up, you know, by exploiting these same sorts of psychological mechanisms that create bonding in small communities. They can be whipped up on the large scale, as is clear from many, many examples. I guess the Nazis onwards and backward, really.
US society is still rather fractured, though…
Of course, because it's so big! [Chuckling]
Yes. That said, how do you think this fractured tribalism will factor into the upcoming US elections?
Yeah, that's kind of really interesting, isn't it? In some sense the, you know, the way national level politics works is kind of a…law unto itself, and often doesn't necessarily bear any relationship to what the communities are interested in. You know, there are small factions kind of that drive it. And there are all sorts of other strange effects which influence the way people vote, so people's perception of the physical traits of the candidates has a huge effect. Almost every US president elected in the last century was the taller of the two candidates. And my colleagues have looked at the facial symmetry of US presidents over the last century, and again, the candidate that was elected had the more symmetrical face of the two.
That's definitely not John McCain.
Ha! Well, it starts to make you wonder. I mean, in fact, on the facial symmetry stuff the predictions are so good that they—they were able to predict the UK, the last UK election, the voting split between left and right parties within half a percentage point.
It seems to be extraordinary. Well, you know, you kind of go: 'Democracy? What is this stuff?' I do think there's an issue about—that comes out of all this—about the kind of integration of society on the large scale, when you have these huge, you know, monolithic structures that we have now. Obviously, we're trying to create that in Europe with the European Union. But, you know, sort of—you're going to end up with a kind of, not quite dysfunctional, but, you know, these sort of stresses and strains within these very large units that are ultimately going to overwhelm them, unless we can find a way to kind of neutralize them. And I cannot see a way of doing that, short of something like, sort of, a mass religious experience. Religion is very weird stuff. Whether you believe in it or not.
I believe religion exists.
You know, it seems to have this hold on people. There's something odd about the kind of spirit world or whatever you want to call it that somehow fires people's imaginations. Now, it's irrelevant whether it's actually true or not. It just seems to be part of our psychology, and I think it goes back to the nature of ancestral religions in these small scale societies and how they kind of evolved right at the early beginnings. These mechanisms seem to be extremely powerful. They seem to be able to capture the sense of people, you know, and create this sense of community and commitment to the grand project. Somehow it creates—and I think the way you do it, in my view, for these big nation-states that we have now, is that you create a grand project for the nation-states. So you ask, what is the US's grand project?
So, we're looking for a kind of new New Deal—
Ha! Once you've got one—I kind of think that in the 19th century, Britain's was The Empire, and that created this sense of purpose in life. This is what we're doing, you know, this is why we're doing something that's good. And so, people then pull together and they go out and sort of commit themselves to this big project.
Don't you think we're going to have to do something like that in regards to the environment?
That's an interesting question, actually, as to whether, because clearly the environment is a big, big serious issue. Um, you know, we're heading for deep shit.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, you need something like 500 parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere to basically bake the planet, and we're at like 300 now, and it's just going through the roof—
And China recently surpassed the US in emissions. It's just not good. I'm not optimistic.
The question then is: Is the environment a big enough project, as it were, to have this effect? I mean, clearly it does with some people—the environmentalist lobby. They have that kind of missionary zeal about them. But is it a big enough missionary zeal, as it were, to virtually draw in everybody to create this sense of single purpose for the country as a whole?
Can we be like that as a species without having a kind of hive-mind—a bug-like existence?
Well, my problem with that is really that I think these neurohormone effects are actually creating that hive-mind kind of thing. But it's doing it on a scale which is only in the region of 150. And as you go beyond 150 into the successive layers out beyond that, the effect becomes smaller and smaller and smaller very rapidly. And it just doesn't have that kind of hive-mind effect. I think the problem in the end is, with all primates, is one reason they've got a big brain is to allow them to fine tune their behavior, so that you're constantly engaged in this kind of balancing act between doing what is good in the communal sense, because you know in the long run you'll benefit from that, and also doing what is in your own selfish interest right here and now. So there's this constant trade off between short term and long term benefits. And that always is the problem. This is the free rider effect and it's what destabilizes these communal effects. The hive effect, as you get in bees, for example, everybody is committed to the big project because they're unable to step back from it and say, "Hmm, I could do better for myself if I go this way and trade off everybody else's generosity." And our problem is we can do that, and therefore we have this temptation to constantly undermine the social contract. And, you know, our problem, as I see it anyway, is how to get the balance between those two right. Because in some sense progress depends on individuals being able to step back and say, "Hey maybe there's another way of doing it." If you don't have that ability you don't get science, you don't get—I suppose you get literature and all the rest of it that's part of human culture, as it were. But you don't have that ability to say, "Uh-oh, there's a problem here, let's find another way of doing it," because the hive effect will just have you in a rut.
Do you think that, we'll eventually merge with silicon-based life—and do a cool sort of cyborg thing?
[Giggles.] It's an interesting question, isn't it? There is an issue about what constrains the structures of our relationships, so, you know, is the constraint of the number of individuals you can have in your social network, this sort of 150, as it were, or a time constraint? In order to know people well enough to be able to work in this way, you have to spend time with them—socially that is. Or is it a purely cognitive constraint, because you know, your brain just isn't big enough to hold all the information and manipulate all the information about each individual for more than, let's say, 150 individuals. Now, if the second is the real problem, it's a cognitive constraint, a memory constraint partly, then you know an implanted silicon chip, which allowed you to call up info on more individuals, might cut through that and allow you to have a bigger circle of friends. If it's a time constraint, it's not going to help at all. For a time constraint, maybe a cell phone would cut through that, because you can reach more people more quickly, and therefore maintain—and things like Facebook and Myspace, the networking cites, might allow you to communicate with more people individually, because otherwise the problem is, you're back down to face-to-face things, you know, sitting down and having a beer together. And there's a limit to how much time, you know, you can afford to spend, ah…
Yeah. Is that a hint?
Well, he-he-he! Well, here's an interesting question, which is seriously concerning, not concerning, but involving the kind of mobile technology industry. Because, you know, it may be that having a cell phone or SMS, or what have you, is a way to maintain larger networks of people. I'm not entirely convinced, but I think it's actually quite good for servicing relationships—
And giving you brain cancer.
That's a disadvantage.
There's a key rule in biology: Namely, nothing comes for free. There's no such thing as a free lunch in real life. Anything you do, there's always a cost somewhere. So that may be the cost that offsets the benefits. But I actually think the problem is that you cannot maintain silicon relationships with people. Relationships come actually through direct physical intimacy and contact, as it were. And that's what in the end limits how many people you can have in your social circle.
But on Myspace I have like 3,000 friends.
We're all really close.
That is the question: How close are they in reality? The work that we and others have done suggest that most people's Facebook and Myspace networks mirror quite closely their everyday social relationships. And then you've got a few people who have very large numbers of individuals. It's clear that people are very, I mean, some people are just better at maintaining large numbers of relationships anyway. They can go above 150, easily. Some people are poorer than that, maybe they can only handle 100. So that's the natural range of variation. But also, what Myspace lends itself to is having very large numbers of people signed up there, which are kind of undifferentiated in terms of the quality of the relationship. If you ask people to—of both parties—to specify the quality of the relationship you'll find that they aren't equal. Because what you have to remember is that this number 150 is simply one in a series of circles. So if you think about it in this way, you're sitting in the center of a series of expanding circles of friendship or acquaintanceship with a very small inner core of about 5 best friends, and then there's a sort of layer outside that which include about 15 people, and another layer outside that of about 50, then you've got your 150. As you go down through those layers, the quality of the relationships is declining, but it seems 150 marks a real drop off. Now, there's at least two other layers we know about beyond that, one at about 500 and one at about 1500. There are suggestions for layers at about 5000 out beyond that, too.
What's up with that?
You kind of know these people, and you have some sort of relationship with them, in these outer layers, but they're not deeply personal relationships. They're kind of acquaintances and people you know for professional reasons that, you know, you want to have or maintain contact purely for professional reasons. But you probably wouldn't be too bothered if they passed by your town to have a—you'd be happy to have a beer Friday after work, but if they came along on Saturday they'd be a nuisance.
At Oxford you studied with Richard Dawkins, is that correct?
I was an undergraduate here, when he first started lecturing, so I did have lectures from him, but I wouldn't say I studied with him in that he physically taught me, but he certainly lectured to me.
What do you think about memes?
Oh, they're fine. I don't have a big problem with them. It's just a useful handle for referring—I mean, the problem is it's clear that there's stuff that gets passed on from one individual to another which is not genetic, right, which is cultural. We need a word just to refer to that, and memes, to be honest, is as good as anything. Any problem comes when people get to exercised about the exact relationship between memes and genes. But in terms of stuff that you learn, there's lot of parallels with the way genetics works. You don't want to get too bogged down in the details, because that's when you start to get silly objections to it. It's just the transmission of stuff you learn. That's good enough, that's fine. It allows us to at least know what we're talking about.
I'm just fascinated by the ideas of people like Daniel Dennett, who talk about memes and genes, and how these things both replicate in a Darwinian sense—and it's basically substrate neutral, is the way he puts it.
Yeah, sure. And I think this is true. It's true that memes operate in a memetic universe that is quite separate from the genetic universe, where the genes operate, and sometimes the relationship between the two can be quite loose. Things can evolve in this cultural universe in ways that are disadvantageous to the genes and the bodies transmitting the meme…to be honest we're still a long way from really understanding all the ins and outs of how these things function, but as a principle I don't really have a problem with it.
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Major Fashion Changes
There are a few things I would like to get. The first is a new pair of pants. I usually wear the same pair every day because they are comfortable and you get that pair and you never want to change. But as long as I"m discussing this, I would also like to get some contacts. But I want the kind that will make your irises different. Basically I am talking about the gambit contacts because they have appeared pretty cool. I think that I might have to get some close to those because I really want to do something I haven't tried before.
I am always the person who plays it easy and doesn't really do anything away from what I know, so I figure that by doing something like that I might be bale to get myself to place where I am wanting to do even more and I think that would be amazing. You see, a lot of people tend to do things that are pretty easy for them which causes them to wonder if there is more stuff they could do. I am like that bu I really don't want to be. So I think that in order to try more things I should probably just do it and see what happens. It's like the kind of thing where you are trying to do more things and thinking that you should but not knowing exactly what you should do. Looking at it another way, though, it's like one of those things you have to do to develop as a person. And I think that if I am going to do this I am going to have to actually make myself. But I want to be sure that the steps I 'm taking are the ones that are going to be beneficial for what I am trying to do
But really though I need to start this because I want to get to a place where I feel confident about the fashion choices I am making and will be able to really get out and get some things that are going to work for me. And I think that by doing that it will have a carryover into other aspects of my life as well. Most of the people I know are really just kind of letting other people say what they should and shouldn't do so that is why I think that I am going to do some of this stuff for myself.
My objectives
Getting all my stuff set up for some of the things I want to do doesn't really seem like it would be something I would do after work but recently I have been coming home and trying to arrange ll my stuff the way I want. The thing is, though, it has a lot to do with where I think I am going to be working soon. My company has been talking about changes and it's not something that I really want to do which is why I think I might be applying for other jobs. The best thing though is that I was looking at many of the position that are available and I thistle to consider that I might be working there. The only other thing about all of this is that when I cam going to be getting ready to leave my job I will have to be sure that I finish the projects I am working on.
Aside from that, I was looking at some of the options online for some of the thimble ideas I have been looking at. I want to get some stuff stet up so that I can market myself online better. I guess that is something weird that you might not know about but I've been looking into it. So that is what I want to do. There are a few other things I should find, too.
When I was thinking about the other things I want to do it mostly had to do with the fact that I am trying to get into virtual bookkeeping so that I can have some of that done for me. I was doing everything manually but I think that by using a service like that I might be able to go to a better place with regard to all of that. So wen I am trying to find that I tend to get something that I think would be cool and make sure that I discuss what I will need with the people who are going to be performing. And then in addition to all of this I need to find a place to do my taxes this year because I just don't want to do them here. Because of that the only other thing I was considering is that I may need to look into some of the other aspects of all of that since the side income I had this year should be factored.
Things to do
Perhaps the place I really want to go most is some place with great snow. I like the cold and although a lot of other people don't, I don't really let what they think play a role in what I like. The thing that I like about it is that you can go outside and see all the stuff and it just looks good actually. Well, there are a few other things that are cool, too. However, the thing I like most is when you can go for a bit and actually ski and if you're having a nice term it's really just something that is cool. So for that reason I have been wanting to go to Denver because that is by a place that I really like. That place is Breckenridge. Mainly I need to figure out what I want to take to get there and there is a Breckenridge shuttle airport firm that can take you there so I will probably go with them. There are some other things I probably want to do but I think I'm going to do that first. The other thing I like about the cold is that you can snuggle up and get under a blanket. It's so nice. Some people I think don't agree but they can think what they do. I am going to continue to like it because it's nice and it's really the thing that I enjoy. However, the other thing is that you can be inside and just kind of get that spirit of the weather and you don't have to really like doing stuff outside to enjoy it. So that is why I like it.
Deciding what to do can be kind of tough and that is why I think that I am going to do this and then if there is anything else that I ponder I might enjoy I will probably look into that. But for now this is what I want to do. There are a few other things that I like about all of this but I don't want to get into those because I will just get distracted and talk about things that my readers might not enjoy. So for now I am going to just leave it at this and say that I think going there would be a lot of excitement and probably is the main thing that I am planning on doing when it gets to be the right deal and stuff so I can get everything that I think would be good.
New TV Shows
The company that I currently have my TV service through is going to have to change. I am not really interested in a lot of the stuff that is available because I really only watch some channels and all of the crazy stuff you can get isn't really what I am looking for, however I am going to be seeing if there is something else I can do because I don't really like the things that are going on now. My cable company kind of get sunder mys kin and I've been thinking that I'm going to need to find something else. There are a few other choices but I'm not really sure which I should go with. I mean there is obviously the choice is just renting the shows that I want to see but that isn't really the best way to do it and the other thing that I was thinking was checking out another business. There is ATT and they have a few different offerings I think which include Uverse and that is something I think I am going to look at in more scrutiny. There should be some thing available that I might want to do that will be a better deal for me since I am not really going to want to keep doing it the way I have been. So I'm thinking that I'm going to have to look for what is available and see if there is anything I can do with that. I think I might have to find some att coupon codes Uverse and see if there are any that might be the thing that will be best. Perhaps I will be able to get some input or something form a friend who has another service but really everyone I know has the same thing that I have because that's the well known service and that is what I have seen when I am looking around but really it's just that I think there are probably some choices that would be better around here. Should I find something that works I will be happy to call and get everything set up so that I can do it that and not have to keep seeing what is out there and really the only thing I have been thinking about as far as this goes ifs if there is going to be something that will give me what I want and that will be the thing I do for my service because I am not really liking the business I have now. So as soon as I am able to get one to of those, if I do, I will get everything so I can do it for the shows that I want to watch and everything else that I do with TV so that's really what I"m thinking will work.
A Garden
The thing that my cousin really enjoys is gardening. Probably that is why I keep asking him questions about all of that since I have become interested in learning more about it. He was giving me some reasons for why he grows what he does, and all these different bits of intelligence he has gotten from doing so and although it was really interesting to me I didn't really get much of it because it's something that I am very new to. But I have been really wanting to create my own garden and I think that I will have to get some more suggestions from him as to what I should do.
The main reason I want a garden, though, sis so I can get some cool metal garden furniture and have like a whole little place where you can go and just do whatever you want ain that type of setting. Having never had a garden I just think it would be a pretty interesting thing to do. And I you are going to invite over people or whatever you would have something to do there as well.
My cousin is the opposite, though. His is basically just for testing function and he doesn't really have it as part of his decor or anything. It's just a bunch of plants that are growing and I guess that's a good way to do it if that is your goal, but for me it would have to be something that provides even better purpose for doing it. I mean it's like another association that people are going to have when they think about your condo or whatever so why wouldn't you want it to be helping improve the overall scene? I would, although I understand why other people wouldn't. But that's mostly the reason I wt to be able to do it and of course if I can get some other things from it in the process then that would be even more desirable. Probably I should see if anyone else in my city that I know would be able to do anything to point me in the right direction as I'm sure there are probably some people that know about this. The other thing is that I am going to see exactly what I will have to do because it seems that it's probably not quite as easy as just planting some seeds and then watering them and letting them show up, or is it?
Camera Talk
As most of you know, I like to take pictures. That should be pretty clear to anyone who has read my blog because I talk about it all the time, but if you didn't know that, now you do. Anyway, I have a few cameras, and I'm not even talking about the one on my cell phone (which is probably the one I use more than the rest, although that's a convenience factor). And speaking of cell phones, I saw a commercial for a new phone that has a 43 megapixel camera on it. Crazy.
Alright, so one of the things I look for in a camera is the ability to take good photos from a distance. You need to be able to zoom in and get a good shot while not necessarily getting too close to whatever it is you're capturing. It's best if you can do this without losing much image quality which is something I don't want to worry regarding, even though i can usually touch up any weird spots in an photo editing program after I get all my photographs taken. An issue I face with cameras is dealing with getting enough light in the photos. I was reading a Nikon D7100 review and it seems like this camera has some features that I would like to see, including snapping 6 photos per second for up to 600 pictures. I bet you could get some really cool pictures with that. It's also got wireless capability so you can upload your photos to your computer without having to actually connect it, which might not always be something you need, but is definitely a cool feature. I think this one may be a bit better than the previous model, based on what I've heard, and I am interested in trying one out for myself. Of course, I don't know if that's going to be the next one that I get, but it's fun to look online at all the new ones that are coming out and see if there are any that can do the things I'm looking for and if there are any new features I haven't even thought of and take a look at what they claim. Of course, I'm the kind of person who likes to read about stuff online, and I'll also post about it which is part of the reason I blog here on this site.
The Design Is Already There
I am going to be talking about blogging today. I was talking to a friend about how I like to write and I post the stuff online and people can find it and read it if they want and he mentioned that was something he had been interested in to, but wasn't sure where to start. I guess it might not be clear for some people how to get started. I mean, I've been posting what I write online for so long that I forgot what it's like to start when you don't know how to do it. So my friend is going to set up his own blog, he said.
He was telling me how he wanted to have it set up but then said he was going to have to learn how to do all the programming himself. I said no way, you can use some template like the one you get from WordPress or whatever. Or you can just start writing and once you have a good number of posts then you can put them all online. It think that might be a bit better because you'll have the stuff written already and you won't be sitting there trying to come up with something to write. There are other things you can do with your site, too, as I'm sure you know from the number of sites online where people post pictures and all of that. But I think that my friend is probably going to be writing about the stuff that he is planning on learning. He's one of those guys who is always studying even though he isn't in school and I think he wants to document it on his site.
So he should go with some blog that is easy to set up or there's always blogs you can pay for or whatever if you want something a bit different. I think though that I'm going to wait and see what my friend does and I'm pretty sure his site will get pretty popular within the blogging community since he has a unique way of writing that usually makes me laugh. I'm not really into the whole aspect of writing and putting jokes everywhere, but my friend is able to do it in a way that I think is totally awesome and not irritating at all. You know like you'll be reading stuff and there are some jokes in it but they aren't actually funny and you're just like um, why is this even here? It's like the opposite of that when my friend writes. So now that I've gotten you all pumped up about it, we'll have to see if my friend goes and starts his own website for his writing.
The Extra Bedroom
My friend has been telling me that he snores. He said that his wife is getting pretty annoyed with him and made him go sleep on the couch the other night. I don't know what I would do if that happened to me, but I don't think I would go sleep on my couch. It's my bed and if someone didn't want to sleep in it with me they are more than welcome to go get on the couch. Having never had that happen though, I don't really know what I would do.
I told my friend he should just try sleeping another way but he didn't think that would work. He said he snores if he lays on his back but I think that he should try sleeping on his side. He said he can't sleep on his stomach, though, because it is uncomfortable. I can kind of agree with that because I don't like sleeping on my stomach, either.
Some of the other things that can cause snoring might be things that he doesn't have any control over. I asked him if his wife snores and he said no, so I guess he is the only one. He shoed me http://www.withoutsnoring.com/ and some info about different products that can help keep you from snoring but I don't know if if any of those actually work. I know that it's a pretty hot topic and there are people who are trying to come up with ways to stop snoring. I am not sure if any of them work for everyone though so I'll have to see what my friend does. I told him he can sleep at my place if he wants since I'm hard to disturb but I don't want anyone sleeping in my room with me. I have a second bedroom at the other end of the hall and if he's in there I wouldn't be able to hear him snoring, anyway. I think that he might actually take m e up on the offer, though, cuz he said his wife is pretty angry bout being woken up by him snoring. Of course, she might just be making the whole thing up but that would be crazy and I don't think she's actually crazy. Then again, maybe he just started snoring cuz he has some congestion or something. Does that even cause you to snore? I have no idea. I should see if I can find out anything for him.
Helping Someone Move
I helped my buddy move today. He lived in an old three-flat in the city but moved to the suburbs to be closer to his job–we joked and told him he was turning into a yuppie. The move was much more difficult than I expected because I developed a splitting headache not long after I woke up and now, over 15 hours later, it is still with me. I don't get headaches too often but man, today was a really bad day to get one. As a guy you're expected to be there for your friends and not back out of commitments with them, especially if it involves a major life change like a move. I didn't even wanna bring it up–all I did was take four ibuprofen and drink a lot of water and hope for the best. It didn't help though. Or rather, the ibuprofen and water did help the headache but the physical act of moving gigantic pieces of furniture down three flights of very narrow stairs made my headache worse, so it balanced out.
I know it probably isn't exactly fair to say, but in some ways women are lucky when they get headaches. It is usually a bit more socially acceptable for them to excuse themselves from needing to do things that may make headaches worse. Us guys are supposed to be tough and just deal with it. It doesn't help that men don't get very many headaches, outside of hangover-related ones, so people don't even really think about such a thing happening.
We did stop for something to eat in the middle of it all and that helped me feel a bit better. It also helps that my friends are funny and kept my mind off my unspoken misery, for the most part.
Either way, I can tell you I'm very happy to be home from helping my buddy move. He's all settled into his new place out in the 'burbs and I'm back at home with some Migralex stress headache relief that my friend told me to try (he said you can use it for other types of headaches we well) and an ice pack on my head, with a bad horror movie on the television. Getting a headache really sucks but knowing how mine are, after a good night's sleep I will wake up refreshed and headache-free. I just hope that next time one of my friends needs to move out of the top floor of a three-flat then I wake up that morning feeling 100%!
Five Years At My Other Job
As you know I'm a photographer in my heart, but I also have another job
For those of you that know me pretty well, today I celebrate a milestone. This is year number five of my (somewhat) lucrative career working as a mechanic. I had no idea I would end up doing this, considering I went to school for communications. Turns out my niche was on the complete opposite end of the spectrum.
How did it all start? Well, I got what I thought was my dream job right out of college, but found out quickly that I absolutely hate working in a cubicle. In fact, it only took a year for me to figure out that almost all of the jobs that I qualified for with my degree were jobs that I really couldn't see myself doing for a long period of time. Whoops, wish I would have figured that out earlier.
Well, a good friend of mine told me that his place was hiring a person to work on the large industrial machines in the factory he'd been working at since high school. These machines are massive…presses that are twenty feet tall, CNC machines that can cut about anything you could need, giant conveyors, robots, you name it. Well I didn't have a ton of experience but I had a good work ethic so they gave me a chance.
After about six months, I was finally in the full swing of things and discovered that I really liked getting my hands dirty. Something about fixing things just satisfies an innermost craving I have. I guess I could say it brings out my inner caveman. Either way, I had finally found something I loved, and knew I would stay here for a long period of time.
I love this job, and I definitely love the tools I get to play with on a daily basis. One of the coolest things I have at my disposal are hydraulic torque wrenches by TorqLite. This thing is pretty small compared to what it can do. I hook it up to a hydraulic power unit, hit a button, and this baby can drive a bolt with tens of thousands of pounds of torque. I think it's the fact that I have this kind of power at my disposal that makes me glad I work here. Like I said, this job brings out my inner caveman and every time I get to play with something as powerful as this, it's like I rediscover fire.


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It's the type of writing that makes one feel simultaneously depressed at how far one has fallen short and yet feel inspired to go out and "dent the universe".
The white paper is chock full of ideas but one critique he made about our profession that has been slowly resonating in me is that we are a "copy-and-paste profession".
Brian writes..
"A common strategy for innovation is the "copy-and paste" method-- see what others are doing and then follow suit. Alter the name or modify the template, but largely our ideas come from other libraries."
He then goes on to give examples on how libraries began to jump on band-wagons such as UX, Learning Commons without truly understanding what it was meant to do.
This gives me pause.
I wonder is one of the greatest strengths in our profession - the fact that we share freely what we do, turning into potentially at least a weakness?
Unlike say in the scientific field where often there is fear of being "scooped" or where the Apples of the world wage patent wars, we librarians are generally very open and sharing.
Librarians share their works in progress, some even from the time the idea popped in their minds in a tweet, to blogging on projects in progress. Most will generously share what they know if you ask, some even provide their work in creative commons licenses.
This is sometimes done to such an extent, that by the time the final paper is written or presented , the project can be well known to librarians who are hyper-connected.
On a personal level, when I look back at some of my most popular blog posts, I see a general pattern that the most popular ones tends to be "survey posts" or "summary posts" , long rambling blog posts comparing what different libraries have done in the same area. This is the same tradition as long "survey" type papers in library literature.
Some examples
- What are mobile friendly library sites offering? A survey.
- What are mobile friendly library databases offering? A survey
- How are libraries designing their search boxes? (I)
- Opensearch vs custom toolbar vs smart keyword vs bookmarklet (I)
- Branding library discovery services - what are libraries doing?
- Why you may need a "real" one-search box. More thoughts on a one-search box
In a time when we are doing more with less, such posts are no doubt useful and save people time, that's why I share them.
Unfortunately, perhaps this also helps promotes a "copy-and-paste-profession" as it makes it ever so easy to blindly copy a idea one read about or was shared at conferences or on blogs without pausing to think if it makes sense in one's context or if there is a better way.
If copying one idea is good, been able to "compare" several different options in the same area is better!
When all the hardwork is already done for you, does it limit thinking of new ideas? Or does it cause you to become lazy and just follow the first few leaders?
Do people (and I accuse myself too) create a list of options, features by looking at what other people are done, and then decide (with a committee of course) after some lazy superficial analysis the parts we want to use without truly understanding the context such decisions were made in other libraries?
Do we become the Samsungs of the world and miss out being the Microsoft of the world (at least with respect to Windows phone!)
I believe we should strike a balance between burying one's head in the sand and ignoring everything else and obsessively trying to play catchup at all costs on the latest trend or fad because of the fear of "falling behind".
Be aware of what others are doing but don't worry too much .... Work out a plan that truly plays to our strengths and weakness and applies to our unique situation and not anyone's else!
This is my advice to myself as I begin my 6th year in the profession today.
Addendum : I can't stress enough learning from others is critical, I have benefited tons from the experiences of other pioneer libraries in different areas, allowing me to anticipate issues when it was our turn to implement the solution. I just worry about going too far in the other direction.


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