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As I showed Chloe my treasure, she said "It's just a penny, Woody. "Sure, pennies are important, but I don't understand why you think it's a treasure."
"Well," I replied, "Haven't you heard Mom say finding a penny brings good luck? I found this penny when I needed luck the most – 250 feet above ground on a Ferris wheel. Now I'm on the ground with lunch still in my tummy."
As I tried to make my point, Dad studied the penny and said, "Wow, this is special, Woody. The date on this penny is 1909, almost 100 years old."
Chloe's eyes grew big. For a second, I felt a "told you so," coming on, but settled for "Really?" The rest of the family caught my enthusiasm.
"I'm not sure when pennies first made their mark in history," Dad said, "but we need to find out."
My heart was racing. Could I have one of the oldest pennies in history?
I began to imagine the places this penny had been the past 99 years. Had it traveled through all 50 states or journeyed across the continents? Was it in the palm of a famous actor or in the pocket of a president? Had it been on the top of the Empire State Building, the deck of a ship sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, or in a family's piggy bank while they saved for something special? I was deep in thought when Chloe broke in,
"Let's research and see when the first penny was made, Woody," she said.
With that, we bid farewell to the ferris wheel and funnel cakes and walked toward home.
As soon as we returned, we logged on to the Internet to search for sites about the penny. The Web sites we found, along with the books we checked out at the library on our way home from the fair, gave us useful information. We learned the penny got its name from Britain. Though the British penny dates back to 790 A.D., it didn't appear in America until almost 1,000 years later.
I read about how the first U.S. penny was minted in 1787. Mom explained that mint means to make money from metal, meaning the first U.S. penny was made in 1787. A few years later, in 1793, President George Washington realized the United States was trying to establish itself as a nation and knew they needed a stable system of money.
The first penny was designed by Ben Franklin and featured the design of a chain and was pressed in copper. Though the penny went through changes over the next 70 years, it always was worth one cent. In 1864, the government passed the Coinage Act and made the penny a legal form of money.
Also, instead of being 100 percent copper like previous pennies, it would contain 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc.
"If there hadn't been money, how did people pay for dog food?" I asked.
Mom explained people used items such as tea, coffee, pigs, and other goods or animals to pay for things they needed. It was called bartering. I wanted to know more about bartering, like could I trade the neighbor's cat for a new Scooby watch, but Chloe interrupted my thoughts.
"Listen, Woody." Chloe said. "It says that President Abraham Lincoln was the first president to appear on a coin. The government put Lincoln on the penny to honor his 100th birthday. Guess what year that was?"
"1909?" I asked, my voice quivering with excitement.
"Yes." Chloe said excitedly. "In 1909 the penny changed to include the face of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. It also would include the motto, In God We Trust."
This really was a treasure. After the excitement settled in, Chloe said, "What will we do now?"
"I guess we'll eat dinner." I replied.
"No Silly." Chloe laughed. "Now that you have this special coin, what will you do? Will you keep it in a safe, display it in a case, or sell it?" Chloe asked.
"Sell it?" I questioned. "Wouldn't I only make a penny?"
Dad explained that it would probably be worth more than one cent since it had a date of 1909, making it one of the first Lincoln pennies ever made.
Tough decisions. I held the penny tightly in my clumsy little paw and closed my eyes. I thought about the year of 1909. I pondered what, if anything, a penny could buy today. Most importantly, I secretly hoped something special would happen with my treasure. Then, I opened my eyes and was shocked ee
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Trans-California Ramble
Walking to Yosemite from San Francisco, just like John Muir.
Rivers of Light
Rivers of Light Hypnotic night-time helicopter shots, floating over downtown LA offices and highways. From Grass Collective. Flash interface, so find your way to the fifth column from the left ('free downloads'). [Large (91MB, 146MB) zipped QT files - a smaller (12MB) sample here]
"There it is. Take it."
Eighty years ago, William Mulholland completed his final project: the St. Francis Dam, which converted San Francisquito Canyon--about 5 miles northeast of what is now Santa Clarita, California--into a 38,000 acre-foot reservoir for Los Angeles/Owens River aqueduct water. You're probably familiar with Mulholland's name --he designed and built the Los Angeles Aqueduct and the beginning of the system with which Los Angeles is supplied water from the Central Valley--and as a gesture of gratitude, the city named its most scenic highway in his honor. Mulholland, the California Water Wars, the aqueduct, and the dam were also referenced and alluded to extensively in Roman Polanski's Chinatown. But the man who helped build an immense metropolis by bringing water to the desert has only a small fountain as a memorial to his legacy. Three minutes before midnight, on March 12, 1928...
Through All the Lousy Luck
I first read "Ask the Dust" in 1971 when I was doing research for "Chinatown". I was concerned about the way people really sounded when they talked, and I was dissatisfied with everything else I had read that was written during the '30s. I wanted the real thing, as Henry James would say. When I picked up Fante's "Ask the Dust," I just knew that was the way those kids talked to each other—the rhythms, cadences, racism. Robert Towne on adapting John Fante's novel for the big screen. More inside.
A little fiefdom, like Valkenvania.
Vernon Shoo-Ins Shoo Outsiders. A little town in which 44,000 work, but only 93 live, fights against holding its first election in decades. [bugmenot for the LA Times]
Bling Bling In The Sun
This is great, California is going to be dropping some serious money on solar programs 3 BILLION!! dollars. Once you get past the idea that we spend about 6 billion A MONTH in Iraq, you will notice that this is a lot of money for a solar program. With 2005 being the hottest year on record worldwide, its about time someone (anyone) start doing something to get us off our oil addiction.
Tipsy Tow
AAA of Northern California will give you a ride home, and tow your car for free tonight. Good in Norcal, Utah and Nevada. Have a safe one all.
Christ in the Classroom
The Problem With Emily Dickenson "On August 25, six students, along with their school, Calvary Chapel Christian School in Murrieta, California and the Association of Christian Schools International filed a federal lawsuit against the University of California where, according to the LA Times (August 27), admissions officials have been accused of discriminating against high schools that teach creationism and other conservative Christian viewpoints." One of the textbooks used to teach literature has this to say about Mark Twain: "Twain's outlook was both self-centered and ultimately hopeless. Denying that he was created in the image of God, Twain was able to rid himself of feeling any responsibility to his Creator. "
What is the sound of a "No Hearing Hearing"?
California holds a "No Hearing Hearing" on Diebold certification. "In June, over 200 people traveled to Sacramento to voice their concerns at a public hearing before a panel of advisors to the Secretary of State on voting systems. Since then, every scheduled meeting of the Voting Systems Panel has been cancelled, and now the Secretary has simply disbanded the VSP without notice, without hearings, without any type of due process." This isn't the only jurisdiction in which Diebold is attempting to circumvent legal requirements - in North Carolina they filed for and received a broad exemption from new disclosure rules recently passed into law. The EFF are now suing to force Diebold to comply with the law. As if that wasn't enough, an official Certification Test (PDF) for Diebold's Optical Scan voting machines confirms an earlier threat analysis test (PDF) that the memory cards on these machines run uncertified and arbitrary executable code, a charge that Diebold has vigorously denied.
Guvenator loses
Newsfilter: All eight ballod initiatives in the California special election fail. $250 million down the drain. Were they all bad measures, or were voters just showing their displeasure with those in power?
The Grapes of Wrath
"A snapshot in time"
Looking back on the Golden State
The Online Archive of California brings together historical materials from a variety of state institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives. These materials include letters, legal documents, manuscripts, works of art, diaries, and historical photographs. Thousands of photographs.
From just the Bancroft Library at Berkeley: Artistic homes, 1887-1890, agricultural laborers, 1906-1911, the San Francisco earthquake and fire, construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Quentin Prison, and war relocation camps. And that's barely scratching the surface.
From just the Bancroft Library at Berkeley: Artistic homes, 1887-1890, agricultural laborers, 1906-1911, the San Francisco earthquake and fire, construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Quentin Prison, and war relocation camps. And that's barely scratching the surface.
From Skid Row to Disney Hall
"I haven't been in a concert hall in 4 billion years". Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, 54, had been excited about an invitation to see the Los Angeles Philharmonic in action at Disney Hall. "The anticipation is horrible". He'd started showering daily at a shelter, to gussy himself up as much as possible. Nathaniel was a music student more than 30 years ago at the Juilliard School when he suffered a breakdown. Today, as he continues to battle the schizophrenia that landed him on skid row, he plays violin and cello for hours each day in downtown Los Angeles, lifting his instruments out of an orange shopping cart on which he has written: "Little Walt Disney Concert Hall — Beethoven." After the Philharmonic's rehearsal, Ayers has played Disney Hall -- the real one, this time. Without the bow at first, picking the strings with his right hand, Bach's Cello Suite No. 1: Prelude. Several Philharmonic staffers heard the music and wandered over, peering in to see a man of the streets, tattered and elegant, close his eyes and drift into ecstasy.
Oil Prices, Giffen Goods, and the American Landscape
Running on Fumes -- a fascinating essay by the Nation's Sasha Abramsky on what rising gas prices will do to poor exurban communities.
The Anaheim Flood of 1938
New Orleans wasn't the first American city destroyed by flooding. In 1938, Orange County was devastated by over 15 feet of floodwater after two weeks of rain. 2000 were homeless in Anaheim alone after the Santa Ana river overflowed its banks. Most of those made homeless were Mexican immigrants and the flood was quickly forgotten.
An eyewitness description.
An eyewitness description.
The Chinese in California
The Chinese in California 1850-1925. The site is poorly designed. To get to the content click Essays & Galleries. To get to the photos, click on the (practically hidden) gallery link at the top right of each short essay.
California passes same-sex marriage bill
California passes same-sex marriage bill The California Assembly, on a mostly party-line vote, passed Assembly Bill 849, and the California Legislature becomes the first legislative body in the country to pass a same-sex marriage bill.
Modern housing
Contemporary buildings and interiors by Johnston Marklee & Associates, including The Sale House in Venice, CA, and The Hill House in Pacific Palisades
What's my bail for a WMD offense in California?
What's my bail for a WMD offense in California? If against a person, or water or food: $1 million. But for just $100k, you can use WMDs against animals, crops, or natural resources and be out free by dinnertime.
Californian Heritage Photos
San Joaquin Valley & Sierra Foothills Photo Heritage
Includes (among other things): portraits, workers, railways, disasters, group shots, parades , native Americans and some curios.
(nearly 3000 images accessible)
Includes (among other things): portraits, workers, railways, disasters, group shots, parades , native Americans and some curios.
(nearly 3000 images accessible)
Here Come The Sharks
Huntington Beach, California (Surf City, USA) is home to surfing's walk of fame and the International Surfing Museum. See the Duke with the Duke, other legends, pioneering photographers, and kings of the surf both local and international alongside other icons in the collection and exhibits.
"He suggests living is language".
The Language of Saxophones At 55, L.A. musician and poet Kamau Daáood is finally beginning to acknowledge the possibility of his own place in local letters with his debut book of poetry, The Language of Saxophones, a 30-plus-year retrospective published by City Lights. Though he's recorded a solo CD and read nationally and internationally, Daáood had never seen fit to collect his material in a book. Until now. "I never liked the idea of poetry sitting on a shelf somewhere, lost in all those book spines".
AB 1147: Good for Cali
What's Matt Smokin'? (In response to "Dumb as a Potted Plant.")
John Lautner's Chemosphere: part Jetsons, part Bond and vintage L.A. Modern.
The most modern home built in the world. "From the outside it looks like a spaceship you cannot enter. But if you go inside, it feels very cozy… very Zen and calming. Maybe because you are floating above the city, in the sky". John Lautner's Chemosphere residence is the product of a fortuitous union of architect, client, time and place. Leonard Malin was a young aerospace engineer in late-1950s L.A. whose father-in-law had just given him a plot north of Mulholland Drive, near Laurel Canyon. The only catch: at roughly 45 degrees, the slope was all but unbuildable. Lautner sketched a bold vertical line, a cross, and a curve above it. "Draw it up," he told his assistant. Now publisher Benedikt Taschen owns Chemosphere (NSFW), and after 20 years of neglect the house has been beautifully restored (.pdf) by Frank Escher.
Crop circles, minus the crops.
Sand circles. A group called Phidelity has been making sand art on the beaches of California with some string, a couple of rakes, and a trowel. Check out photos, and a time lapse video [.mov] of the team at work. Just make sure you check the tides before you start working. [via]
never get stuck on the 405 again? serving los angeles, san diego, san bernadino and riverside counties along with san francisco and miscellaneous cities throughout california, sigalert.com will give you up to the minute traffic information on almost any freeway in california, including average speeds, closed roads, detailed info re: traffic accidents, etc.
(if you're living in LA county, the only con is that it doesn't have information on the canyons...)
(if you're living in LA county, the only con is that it doesn't have information on the canyons...)
Tax by the mile?
Tax by the mile ? California lawmakers are considering this to make up for the loss of gas sales tax... due to the efficiency of hybrid automobiles.
"I'd rather play a maid than be one"
Call her Madame. Among the old-timers, the story went like this: a woman known to everyone as Madame came to California from Kentucky with her children and her husband. But once they were in the Gold Rush State, her husband left her. Desperate to find work, she introduced herself to a movie director named D. W. Griffith. He not only cast her in his movie, but the two became friends for life. And with this woman, called Madame Sul-Te-Wan, what we now call Black Hollywood began -- as a new book by historian Donald Bogle explains. (more inside)
Almost there
Quicktime virtual reality panoramas of thousands of picturesque places in the Western United States and Canada. Feast your eyes on The Grand Canyon, Death Valley, Yosemite, Mossbrae Falls, Monument Valley, a Ghost Town, the Cascades, Palm Canyon, Joshua Tree, Las Vegas, Redwood Forests, poppy fields, palm groves, and Bumpass Hell. (via Highways West) (previous Mefi appearance)
If at first you don't secede...
Those OLD states are totally 2004. I should wait until Thursday, but: If you're fed up with the idea of living in America OR Canada, consider moving to The State of Jefferson, a county on the Cali/Oregon border with big dreams and a kickass flag. Of course, they haven't seceded yet, but when they do, it's only going to be a matter of time before we can all live in the utopian Republic of Cascadia, where, as Jefferson residents, we'll run on Metric Time and help strengthen Cascadia's southern border against Californian incursions.
And hey! Public radio!
And hey! Public radio!
Attack of the Giant Squid
Uh Oh! Giant Squids, not to be confused with your regular, everyday squids, are washing up by the hundreds on the beaches of Southern California. This may be because Giant Squids are taking over the world!
Go Barbara Boxer
Congressman Matsui (D-CA) Dies of Rare Disease
Congressman dies of rare disease Congressman Bob Matsui, who was recently elected to a 14th term in Congress, has died due to a rare stem cell disease. Matsui, who was one of the leading opponents of President Bush's plan to eliminate Social Security, was the ranking Democrat on the Congressional subcommittee on Social Security.
Thanks for the new living room, neighbor!
Thanks for the new living room, neighbor! In case you needed any further news about the earth moving, residents in Berkeley, CA have found themselves embroiled in a property-line quagmire as the result of the shifting earth. Small quakes and unstable ground have caused real property to slide as much as 20 feet in the last century, though property lines remain firmly fixed, in some cases causing bitter disputes between neighbors who find themselves with new and sometimes unwanted "improvements" relocated across into their survey area. Even in California where the earth moves all the time, the law still hasn't quite caught up to these trickle events.
Put out to pasture in a bombing range
Slab City, CA "is not so sinister as it is a strange, forlorn quarter of America. It is a town that is not really a town, a former training grounds with nothing left but the concrete slabs where the barracks stood. [...] The land belongs to the state, but the state, like the law, does not bother, and so the Slabs have become a place to park free. More than 3,000 elderly people settle in for the winter, in a pattern that dates back at least 20 years." [NYT Reg Req]
Declaration of Independence Banned at Calif School
Declaration of Independence Banned at Calif School? WTF? That's what I thought when I first read it. I read more and again I said: WTF? This can't be right! So, I looked around a bit and I realised some people had already a different perspective on this.
Promoting a candidate could get you thrown in jail
David Dreier doesn't like free speech. The California Congressman and the Republican Party have filed a felony federal complaint against one of their own, which could possibly lead to jail time, all for opposing the incumbent. Apparently, spending a million dollars wasn't enough. More coverage of Dreier here and here.
Won't Someone Think of the Poor Criminals?
Arnold Signs Prison Smoking Ban
By July 1, 2005, there will be no more cigarette smoking in California's prison system.
Makes sense, no smoking in our bars, no smoking behind our bars.
By July 1, 2005, there will be no more cigarette smoking in California's prison system.
Makes sense, no smoking in our bars, no smoking behind our bars.
Honey, did you feel the plane move?
This is an odd way to find out about an earthquake in California.
Life imitates Art
Pageant of the Masters : if the tableaux vivants presentation in the Olympics opening ceremony leaves you wanting for more, it's not too late to find your way to southern California this month. This is the 71st season of this famous and unique event in Laguna Beach. (More behind-the-scene stories here and here.)
California bill to ease move aways by custodial parents pulled.
California bill to ease "move aways" by custodial parents pulled. Until a recent CA Supreme Court decision, it was easy for custodial parents to move themselves and their children far from their ex-spouse. The Court reversed the old rule and held that the move could be blocked if the non-custodial parent could show that it would interfere with his/her relationship with the kids. Legislation to reimpose the old permissive standard passed through the State Senate, but has now been pulled off the legislative calendar after an outcry by father's rights groups.
Licenses Revoked
California Supreme Court voids all San Francisco same-sex marriages. Said the mayor overstepped his authority and that the city violated the state law.
California has banned large SUVs.
Take a vacation from your car
Having just returned to Paradise for a little visit, I am reminded just how cool this little place is (not that I needed much reminding *whimper*), and am looking for touristy things to do here without a car. While I was on my way up on the Pacific Surfliner train, a fellow rider told me about Santa Barbara Car Free. Awesome! Also props to CalTrans' alliance with Amtrak in California. The trains and service and overall quality of the passenger rail system is quite a bit different from what I've experienced thus far of the stuff handled by Amtrak alone.
Voices from the past
Getting back into the groove : In the corner of a California university laboratory, two men are battling against time to perfect a machine that will read old recordings - using special microscopes to scan the grooves - and software that can convert those shapes into sound. Their work could bring history to life.
More, more, still not satisfied.....
The Great American 'Garage Mahal' - cars, houses and garages of the American super-sized new affluent class grow ever larger : "three separate two-car garages attached to his $750,000 brick abode: one for his son Brandon, one for his wife, Janice, and one for him. His garages' many amenities include carpeting, cable TV, speakers wired to the home stereo system and a bathroom. "I've always liked garages and I don't think you can have enough of them," " Mr. Bernard said."
Total Rekall of the Scharzenegger doll
CNN reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger is threatening to sue Bosley Bobbers seeking to stop production of a charity bobblehead doll. The doll shows the former action-actor turned Governor of California posing in a business suit, ammo belt and assault rifle. Arnold is arguing that he owns the marketing rights to his likeness. The creators argue that he lost those rights when he became a political figure. However, this seems to be a repeat of Hustler v. Falwell. And courts lately have been skeptical of trademark rights trumping satire. On the other hand, there seems to be a fine line between editorial use and commercial exploitation.
Blistering attack on PBS
"Other channels do what PBS [does], with the added bonus of doing it better." On the 50th anniversary of San Francisco's KQED, the SF Chronicle's TV critic Tim Goodman levels a blistering attack on the station and on PBS, calling it "one of the worst-run, thoroughly backward media entities in the country."
Hubert Selby, Jr (1928-2004)
"Hubert Selby died often. But he always came back, smiling that beautiful smile of his, and those blue eyes of his... This time he will not be back. My saints have always come from hell, and now, with his passing, there are no more saints". Selby is the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn, (tried for obscenity in England and supported by, among many others, Samuel Beckett and Anthony Burgess), Requiem For a Dream, Song of the Silent Snow. He is being eulogized in the USA and UK, but also, massively (I've just watched a fantastic TV special) in France, where he is much more popular than in his native land (Selby's death was the cover story -- plus pages 2, 3 and 4 -- in the daily Libération today -- .pdf file): Dernière sortie vers la rédemption, L'extase de la dévastation. What makes all this kind of ironic -- in a very Selbyesque way -- is that Selby himself used to say, "I started to die 36 hours before I was born..." (more inside)

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Situated in Birmingham, this hotel is within 9 mi (15 km) of St. Vincent's Health System, University of Alabama Hospital, and Children's of Alabama.
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Groomsmen were Feddo Hazewindus of the Netherlands, William Mathis, brother of groom, of Flint, Mich., Andrew Mathis, nephew of groom, of Goodrich, Mich., Morgan Solem-Seiver of Billings, Gary Marlin Stevenson of Billings, Mont.


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Drawing "circles" ala Marvin Minsky…
In my re-reading of Levy's book Hackers, I was reminded of an interesting bit of programming lore regarding an early display hack that Marvin Minsky did for circle drawing. It's an interesting hack because the lore was that it was originally coded by mistake, and yet the result proved to be both interesting and even useful. I first learned of this years ago when Blinn did an article on different ways to draw a circle, but also learned that it was part of the MIT AI memo called "HAKMEM". Here's the basic idea:
One way that you can draw a circle is to take some point x, y on the circle, and then generate new points by rotating them around the center (let's say that's the origin for ease) and connecting them with lines. If you have a basic understanding of matrix math, it looks like this:
/ x' \ / cos theta sin theta \ / x \ | | = | | | | \ y' / \ - sin theta cos theta / \ y /
(I should learn how to use MathML, but you hopefully get the idea). The matrix with the cosine and sine terms in it is a rotation matrix which rotates a point around by the angle theta. Apparently Minsky tried to simplify this by noting that cos(theta) is very nearly one for small theta, and that sin(theta) can be approximated by theta (we can get this by truncating the Taylor series for both). Therefore, he thought that (I'm guessing here, but it seems logical) that we could simplify this as:
/ x' \ / 1 eps \ / x \ | | = | | | | \ y' / \ -eps 1 / \ y /
Okay, it's pretty obvious that this seems like a bad idea. For one thing, the "rotation" matrix isn't a pure rotation. It's determinant is
1 - eps^2 1 + eps^2, which means that points which are mapped move slowly toward away from the origin. Nevertheless, Minsky apparently thought that it might be interesting, so he went ahead an implemented the program. I'll express it here is pseudo-code:
newx = oldx - eps * oldy newy = oldy + eps * newx
Note: this program is "buggy". The second line should (for some definition of should) read "oldy + eps * oldx", but Minsky got it wrong. Interestingly though, this "bug" has an interesting side effect: it draws circles! If eps is a power of 2, you can even implement the entire thing in integer arithmetic, and you don't need square roots or floating point or anything. Here's an example of it drawing a circle of radius 1024:
Well, there is a catch: it doesn't really draw circles. It draws ellipses. But it's still a very interesting bit of code. The first thing to note is that if you actually write down the transformation matrix that the "wrong" equations implement, the determinant is one. That helps explain why the point doesn't spiral in. But there is another odd thing: if you implement this in integer based arithmetic, it's eventually periodic (it doesn't go out of control, all the round off errors eventually cancel out, and you return to the same point again and again and again). In HAKMEM, Schroeppel proclaims that the reason for the algorithm's stability was unclear. He notes that there are a finite number of distinct radii, which indicates that perhaps the iterative process will always eventually fill in the "band" of valid radii, but the details of that seem unclear to me as well. I'll have to ponder it some more.
Addendum: The real reason I was looking at this was because the chapter in Hackers which talks about Spacewar! also talks about the Minskytron whose official name was TRI-POS. It apparently uses some of this idea to draw curves in an interesting way. HAKMEM item #153 also suggests an interesting display hack:
ITEM 153 (Minsky):
To portray a 3-dimensional solid on a 2-dimensional display, we can use a single circle algorithm to compute orbits for the corners to follow. The (positive or negative) radius of each orbit is determined by the distance (forward or backward) from some origin to that corner. The solid will appear to wobble rigidly about the origin, instead of simply rotating.
Might be interesting to implement.
Addendum2: I goofed up the determinant above, it should be 1 + eps^2, not 1-eps^2. Corrected.
My Thoughts on The Acceleration of Addictiveness
Paul Graham has a interesting little missive over on his website on the increasing trend toward addictiveness in our society:
The Acceleration of Addictiveness.
I don't think it is bad as far as it goes, but I wonder why he didn't ask what I thought was the obvious question: "why are things becoming more addicting?"
Let's consider what we eat as an example. Hardly a day goes by when you can't find a story about the obesity epidemic that is going on here in the United States. We're getting fatter, and we are having fatter kids. And everyone is asking why this should be happening.
I think the answer is really quite simple: we are addicted to food. Well, not food precisely, but to things that we eat which sort of vaguely resemble food, but are engineered to be addicting.
No doubt some of you are tsk-tsking. You'll probably post a comment which says that what we eat is a personal choice, that we have control, and that we simply don't exercise enough and that we eat the wrong things. You probably will also look at the people you know who still smoke, and wonder why they simply don't quit.
I'm going to say that while you are right in a sense (nobody can get you to quit except you) but you are wrong in that it is simple or easy. Nobody really likes to be overweight, if it were easy to avoid being so, they would. If you examine the rate at which people successfully lose weight and keep the weight off, you'd find it was vanishingly small. In that respect, it seems very similar to drug and alcohol addiction. The actual effectiveness of even well accepted treatment options like AA is near zero, if not actually negative. But that's another posting...
If there is an acceleration in addictiveness, it seems to me that there is an increase in the number of suppliers of these addictive products. Let's call them what they really are: pushers. Pushers are willing to sell products to consumers which aren't really good for them. They are eager to reduce the cost of their product, to increase its availability, and to increase their potency. They may not start selling addictive products intentionally, but let's face it: it's much easier to sell products to addicts than to people who can take or leave your product.
Pushers will tell you that they are just filling a demand, and that their consumers are adults who are responsible for their own choices. At best this is denial. At worse, it's just a lie that attempts to shift responsibility to the addict.
It astonishes me that there are still people farming tobacco and making cigarrettes. Not because it should be illegal, but because it takes an inhuman lack of respect for others to profit from selling them products which are so dangerous. I've begun to feel the same way about many packaged food producers and fast food purveyors, who carefully market "food" which is sadly nutritionally deficient and which maximizes the use of things like HFCS and processed white flour to reduce costs and to unnaturally manipulate appetite. And perhaps we should begin to consider companies like Facebook to be in this realm as well: they are using games and social interaction as an enticement to reveal much of your private information, and this only works if they can entice you to return again and again.
If we are concerned about our increasingly addictive, impatient, immediate gratification based society, perhaps we should all be asking ourselves whether we are becoming pushers: purveyors of behaviours which are ultimately bad for us. If we are, perhaps we should consider forgoing the profits that dealing addiction can reap, and figure out how to apply our effort and ingenuity in more productive directions.


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Romney IS a communist you fucktard ,he VOTED FOR OBAMACARE AND MORE WARS.
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Romney is a STATE initiative, NOT a 2,000 page of unreadable Orwellian FEDERAL "tax" like Obama care. Romney made a compromise so that Democrats couldn't throw him out of office and then mopolize the Health-care reform ideas nation-wide --- if that were to happen, you would have communist NATIONALIZED healthcare by now. Much, much worse.
And no, Romney didn't get the best deal, but remember in Massachussets, 85% of legislature were ULTRA-Liberals --- and Romney had to make a deal that wasn't perfect, in fact showing impressive bi-partisanship. If elected President, he will have much few liberal influences & pressure on him than in Mass. Fact.
Otherwise.... acoording to your logic someone like Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon and the WW-2 hero Bob Dole all are "communists" --- because at various times they too offered sweeping Healthcare reform, before being shut down by real commies like Ted Kennedy and the unions, liberal MSM, Hollywood celebrities propaganda, etc.
If anything, Romney-care is MORE conservative than what even Richard Nixon was proposing back in the day. Are you kidding me???? Are you honestly this politically-ignorant if not outright STUPID?????
As for wars.... they are a fact of life in HUMAN HISTORY. Even when "America was America" we fought against British, against Napolion, against Berber pirates, against Ottoman Sultan, against Spain, against Mexico, against the Confederacy/Yankee North, against Germany TWICE, against Imperial Japan, against North Korea, against Vietkong, against Grenda and Nicaraqua and of course the grandaddy of them alll -- against the Totalitarian Superpower of Soviet Union....against Milosevic, too.
And America was still rightfully widely considered THE greatest, most free coutry in the history of Advanced Human Civilization!!!!! Imagine that, you bloody know-nothing Paul tard fool!!! LMAO!
Oh and......Obama has kept Bush war going for 3+ years, in fact he sent Biden to PROLONG Bush war, but was turned down by Maliki in early 2012. Obama actually TRIPPLED the Afganistan war effort. He is using drones 10 times more frequently than Bush did. Obama sent expeditionary forces to Mali, Uganda, Yemen. He started the Lybia war and if it were up to Obama Syrian war, too. And worse of all, Obama's perceived WEAKNESS will result in Iran being so bolden as to start an Iran War in the Persian Gulf.
Even Russia is sensing weakness and sending their submarines to our East coast just yesterday!
Romney had to appease the Tea Party clowns during the Primary and generally his base. But if anything, he's LESS likely to go to war with Iran because Iran knows --- one wrong move, and it's all over for them. That deterrence is what will PREVENT war, you dummy.
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Polk County man, 31, dies on Big Level Road project
Published: Thursday, January 22, 2004 at 4:30 a.m.
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SUNNYVIEW -- A state Department of Transportation worker died Tuesday afternoon when he fell under a piece of machinery during a road project on Big Level Road in Polk County.
Roger Bowling, 31, of Mill Spring, died shortly after 2 p.m. from injuries sustained when he fell beneath the wheel of a road-widening machine, said N.C. Highway Patrol Trooper T.S. Stiwinter. At the time of the accident, Bowling was working with a DOT crew to rebuild the shoulder on a stretch of Big Level Road less than one mile south of its intersection with Rock Springs Road, DOT officials said.
Bowling was standing on a low arm on the right side of a yellow Blaw-Knox road-widening machine, used to spread fill dirt along the shoulder of the road, when he stepped or slipped off and was dragged under the right rear wheel of the large, self-propelled vehicle, Stiwinter said. The wheel crushed Bowling's chest, he said.
Emergency workers performed CPR on Bowling to no avail. He was pronounced dead at the scene, DOT officials said.
The road-widening machine is so large that its driver initially was not aware that Bowling had been pulled under the wheel, Stiwinter said. No charges will be filed in connection with the accident, he said.
Bowling's death is under investigation, said Polk County maintenance engineer Jeff Moore said. Alcohol was not involved, he said.
Bowling, who has a son who turns 1 year old today, had worked for the department about three years, Moore said.
"He was eager and willing to learn," he said. "Just one of our family."
DOT crews had been working since 8 a.m. Tuesday to fill in the shoulder on one side of the road, which was raised a few inches above the shoulder when it was repaved last summer, Moore said. Yellow "low shoulder" signs are peppered along most of Big Level Road, where DOT workers have not yet made it level with the bordering strips of land.
A crew of five to 10 men, including three prison inmates, were working on the road near a junkyard when the accident occurred, DOT officials said. Big Level Road, which connects N.C. 9 with N.C. 108 in the northern part of Polk County, runs through a primarily rural area, where houses and farms are spread several acres apart.
To rebuild the shoulder of the road, DOT crews were using a dump truck to fill a bin on the front end of road-widening machine with red dirt, which the machine spread onto the shoulder. At the time of the accident, Bowling and another man were sifting rocks and clumps out of the dirt so that a grader could smooth and pack down the new shoulder, Stiwinter said.
Faded warning labels posted on the road-widening machine near the arm where Bowling had been standing read, "To avoid bodily injury due to lift cylinder movement, stay clear of this area."
Workers were subdued, talking in whispers, as DOT officials examined the scene of the accident Tuesday. DOT jobs usually are considered dangerous because workers perform tasks near moving vehicles, Moore said.
"It's just a tragic accident," he said of Bowling's death. "It's one of those things nobody saw coming."
Members of the DOT crew working with Bowling at the time of the accident were "taking it pretty hard," Moore said. "We just need everyone's prayers."
DOT officials and a Polk County Sheriff's Department chaplain spoke with workers Tuesday after the accident, Moore said. DOT crews likely would not resume work on the section of Big Level Road today, he said.
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I actually made this recipe roughly 2 weeks ago however; my review got lost somewhere in Cyber Space. I will start off by telling you that I had some very disappointed kids when they found out I was not making our normal nachos. When my oldest daughter read that there was corn in the recipe she stated she was not having dinner that night.
I made a few minor changes to the recipe that I will note here. First off, I omitted the red kidney beans and doubled the black beans so that my husband would eat it. I do not own a microwave, so I placed all ingredients as directed in my large covered pan and heated it on the stove top. That method was working so well, that I layered the last ingredients placed the cover on top and continued cooking it on top of the stove. When it was finished cooking, I removed the dish from the heat and uncovered the pan to keep it from building up steam.
I placed chips on everyone's plates, spooned the casserole mixture over them. I then topped it all off with the sliced olives, chopped tomato, shredded lettuce, fresh cilantro and a dollop of sour cream. My daughter who was skipping dinner for the night came into the kitchen and asked what the delicious smell was. She even went back for seconds. My other kids all agreed that the corn though quite surprising was such a nice addition. I personally loved the contrast it added to the dish...the hint of sweetness that shown through the spices, and the crisp texture was just wonderful. As for my husband, he did not care for the change from his old stand by of refried beans, ground beef and cheese, so I will be making this recipe on nights when he has to work a late shift. Made and reviewed for Spring PAC 2012.


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Clippers coach Doc Rivers already had planned on resting Redick, but the decision to give Griffin the night off was essentially taken out of his hands Tuesday night when Griffin picked up his 16th technical foul in the first half against the Denver Nuggets, drawing a league-mandated one-game suspension.
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Sandwiched between the Roman Forum and the Circo Massimo, the Palatino (Palatine Hill) is an atmospheric area of towering pine trees, majestic ruins and memorable views. It was here that Romulus supposedly founded the city in 753 BC and Rome's emperors lived in unabashed luxury. Look out for the stadio (stadium), the ruins of the Domus Flavia (imperial palace), and grandstand views over the Roman Forum from the Orti Farnesiani .
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On entering the complex from Via di San Gregorio, head uphill until you come to the first recognisable construction, the stadio . This sunken area, which was part of the main imperial palace, was probably used by the emperors for private games and events. To the southeast of the stadium are the remains of a complex built by Septimius Severus, comprising baths (the Terme di Settimio Severo ) and a palace (the Domus Severiana ) where, if they're open, you can visit the Arcate Severiane , a series of arches built to facilitate further development.
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The grey building next to the Domus Augustana houses the Museo Palatino , a small museum dedicated to the history of the area. Archaeological artefacts on show include a beautiful 1st-century bronze, the Erma di Canefora, and a celebrated 3rd-century graffito depicting a man with a donkey's head on the cross.
North of the museum is the Domus Flavia , the public part of the palace complex. This was centred on a grand columned peristyle – the grassy area you see with the base of an octagonal fountain – off which the main halls led. To the north was the emperor's throne room; to the west, a second big hall that the emperor used to meet his advisers; and to the south, a large banqueting hall, the triclinium .
Near the Domus, the Casa di Augusto , Augustus' private residence, features some superb frescoes in vivid reds, yellows and blues. Further illustrations adorn the Casa di Livia , the separate home of Augustus' wife Livia. Built around an atrium leading onto what were once reception rooms, the Casa is frescoed with depictions of mythological scenes, landscapes, fruits and flowers.
Behind the Casa di Augusto are the Capanne Romulee , where it's thought Romulus and Remus were brought up by a local shepherd called Faustulus.
Northeast of the Casa di Livia lies the criptoportico , a 128m tunnel where Caligula was thought to have been murdered, and which Nero later used to connect his Domus Aurea with the Palatino. Lit by a series of windows, it's now used to stage temporary exhibitions.
The area west of this was once Tiberius' palace, the Domus Tiberiana, but is now the site of the 16th-century Orti Farnesiani , one of Europe's earliest botanical gardens. A viewing balcony at the northern end of the garden commands breathtaking views over the Roman Forum.


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I turned 35 today. Naturally, I had some goals when I got here. I've hit them in almost every single category.
I wanted to be more healthy than I was at 25. While it's much harder to be healthy now, I can say without a doubt that I've achieved this.
Comparing my career at 25 or 30 to what I have now, it's clear that things have mostly settled in. I work for a brilliant company building things I'm truly proud of. Things just keep getting better on the work front.
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